Watergate probe broadens
Mitchell
WASHINGTON (AP) Former Atty.
Gen. John N. Mitchell approved and
helped plan the Watergate bugging
operation, a former high-level Nixon
aide has told federal prosecutors, the
Washington Post reported.
Jeb Stuart Magruder, former deputy
campaign manager for Nixon's re
election committee, also said White
House counsel John W. Dean HI ap
proved and planned the bugging of
Democratic national headquarters, the
Post said in today's edition.
The paper quoted sources in the White
House and the Committee for the Re
election of the .President as saying
Magruder implicated Mitchell, former
chairman of the Nixon campaign, and
Dean in statements to federal
prosecutors Saturday.
It also quoted one source as saying
Magruder's statements, expected to be
repeated today before the federal grand
jury probing the case, are expected to
result in the criminal indictments of both
Mitchell and Dean.
The paper said one unnamed source
reported that Mitchell and Dean later
arranged to buy the silence of the seven
convicted Watergate conspirators.
It quoted the sources as saying Dean's
resignation is imminent.
The paper also said that sources "in
the executive branch" said yesterday
that White House chief of staff H. R.
"Bob" Haldeman also may resign as a
result of recent Watergate disclosures,
though there is no known evidence
linking him to criminal involvement.
Magruder, now director of policy
planning for the Commerce Depart
ment, "chose to talk because he felt the
walls were coming in on him," the Post
quoted one source as saying.
Magruder will not be granted im-
Initial poll turnout light;
weather affects voting
By MITCH CHERNOFF
Collegian Senior Reporter
Voter turnout was light as Un
dergraduate Student Government
elections got underway yesterday.
Drizzle and threatening skies may
have kept people away from the polls,
especially in the morning. Assistant
Elections Commissioner Rich Muka,
supervising fraternity voting at the
HUB, reported at 1:30 p.m. that turnout
was poor.
"It's the bad weather," Muka said.
"There's just not a lot of people around."
Two polling places did not open
because of the weather. Outdoor booths
Voting booths for town students will be
open at the foot of the mall and across
the street from McLanahan's on E.
College Avenue today, weather per
mitting. Polls also will be open in the
HUB. ,
were to have been set up for town voters
at the corners of College Avenue and
Allen Street and College Avenue and
Garner Street. Voting will take place at
these locations today, weather per
mitting.
Town students turnout at the HUB was
good, according to Diane Murphy, town
elections commissioner. She reported
about 300 people had voted by early
afternoon.
Head Elections Commissioner Rick
Wheeler said the fact that the other two
polling places could not open may have
had an effect on the 458 town students
who had voted when the polls closed.
Some USG presidential and vice
presidential candidates checked polling
places yesterday to see how voting was
going. Several agreed the result would
be a close vote.
Jim Trask, campaign manager of
incumbent USG president Mark Jinks,
said he was concerned by what he called
a "slow turnout" at the HUB. "It's
partially the weather," he said, "but it's
also student apathy. There's more this
year than I've ever seen before."
Wheeler predicted voting totals would
fall short of last year's, when 8,331 votes
were cast, a USG election record. He
said he thought no more than 7,000 votes
would be cast this year.
Turnout yesterday seemed to be
heaviest in the residence halls. In North,
443 students voted, over 30 per cent of the
eligible voters in that area.
Steven Carnes,.elections supervisor in
charge of West, North and East Halls,
Collegian
the
daily
implicated
munity from prosecution, but hopes to
receive some sort of favorable treat
ment, the paper quoted the sources as
saying.
James J. Bierbower, identified as
Magruder's lawyer, said Magruder
"will testify before the grand jury when
called. I know he's going to testify.
There's no subpoena."
He would not confirm that Magruder
had been interviewed by federal in
vestigators.
The Post report comes two days after
President Nixon reported he had
initiated a second White House probe
which turned up "major developments"
concerning the bugging and break-in last
June 17.
It was Dean who was in charge of the
first investigation for Nixon.
The Post said Magruder provided the
prosecutors with a first-hand account of
a February 1972 meeting in then Atty.
Gen. Mitchell's office to discuss and
approve the illegal electronic
eavesdropping operation at the
Watergate.
Those who attended were Mitchell,
Dean, Magruder and G. Gordon Liddy,
one of those convicted in the Watergate
trial and a former White House aide, the
Post said.
Sources also said the prosecutors have
received statements from other persons
who can testify that Mitchell and Dean
were involved in the arrangements to
pay off the seven Watergate con
spirators for their silencg.
Liddy, and James W. McCord Jr., a
former Nixon campaign security chief,
were convicted for their part in planning
the bugging. Five others, including four
Miami men, and E. Howard Hunt, a
former White House consultant, pleaded
guilty at the trial.
In other Watergate developments:
predicted voting would be even heavier
today. "More kids are at classes on
Wednesday," he said.
Carnes said he thought this is a bad
week for the elections because many
students are leaving early for Easter
weekend.
Voting in Pollock was heavy in the
morning. The count at the end of the day
was 637. Three hundred-ninety-eight
voters turned out in South. "For South I
think it's a pretty heavy turnout," Bob
Coberly, South elections commissioner
said in mid-afternoon. "The weather
doesn't matter here, since walks are
enclosed."
Coberly said voting was heaviest
during lunch hours and between classes.
Nine hundred seventy two students
voted in East where machines were set
up only at Johnston. Wheeler said
machines will be open only in Findlay
today to compensate.
Assistant Elections Commissioner
Gary Smith described voting in West as
light. Foui-hundred-ten voters turned
out in this area.
Meany hits takeover
of farmers'
WASHINGTON (AP)—AFL-CIO
President George Meany accused the
Teamsters of "union busting" in taking
over California field worker contracts
and pledged full support yesterday to
Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers
union.
Meany said the Teamsters, in
collusion with the growers, were trying
to wipe out Chavez' rival AFL-CIO
affiliated union.
"The Teamsters' union busting drive
would be absolutely disgraceful under
any circumstances," Meany complained
in a statement. "But for the nation's
largest union to seek to destroy this
smaller union representing some of the
most exploited workers in the nation is
intolerable."
The AFL-CIO leader joined Chavez'
plea for a congressional investigation of
alleged illegal payoffs to the Teamsters
and said he was sending the federation's
top organizer back to California "to give
the farm-workers all the assistance we
can provide."
The alleged payoffs are from growers
Democratic chairman Robert S.
Strauss said Republicans are indicating
guilt in the Watergate case by offering a
reported $525,000 to settle a multi
million-dollar package of lawsuits
arising from the wiretapping. A
spokesman for the campaign
organization said negotiations were
under way with the Democrats but
wouldn't confirm that any money offer
had been made. He said any offer would
not necessarily indicate guilt.
The former finance chairman for
Nixon's campaign, Maurice Stans,
arranged a meeting with lawyers for
Common Cause, a nonpartisan citizens'
group suing Stans and the Nixon cam
paign for full disclosure of finances.
Common Cause lawyer Mitchell Rogovin
said he wanted all financial records of
Nixon's campaign.
Democratic lawyers requested that
Martha Mitchell, wife of the former
attorney general, appear May 3 to give
sworn testimony in Watergate lawsuits.
She was requested to bring any records
or documents she may possess that bear
on the Watergate burglary or on James
McCord, wiretapper who once served as'
bodyguard to the Mitchell family.
The Democratic National Com
mittee began packing to move out of the
Watergate building, scene of the raid 10
months ago. The party will move to a
different building Friday.
The Senate Watergate investigating
committee issued formal guidelines
governing testimony by all witnesses,
including administration officials or
White House aides. They provide that
sworn testimony may be taken
preliminarily in secret "if the com
mittee would otherwise be unable to
ascertain whether the witness knows
anything relevant . . " The rules allow
live television coverage but forbid
photography once a witness has begun to
testify.
Five hundred sixty three voters
turned out in Centre where machines
were set up in McElwain and Simmons.
Fraternity voters numbered one
hundred eighty seven.
,
Voting for USG presidential and
senatorial candidates continues today.
The polls will remain open until 7 p.m.
N. Viet:
SAIGON (AP) Despite planned
reforms in the Cambodian government,
North Vietnam made clear in a Radio
Hanoi broadcast yesterday that there
can be no progress to peace until
President Lon Nol steps down.
Official Washington sources remained
optimistic that the reorganization might
encourage cease-fire talks, but ob
servers in Phnom Penh tended to sup
port the Hanoi position.
Commenting on Lon Nol's announced
plans to form a new government that
would include members of opposition
contracts
to Teamsters, inducing the Teamsters to
organize in competition with the UFW.
The bitter inter-union dispute will be
brought before the AFL-CIO executive
council next month to discuss what
further measures can be taken, Meany
said.
Teamsters President Frank Fitz
simmons branded the payoff charges
"absolutely ridiculous and unfounded."
The battle lines were drawn Sunday
when the Teamsters announced they had
signed contracts with grape growers in
California's Coachella Valley covering
5,500 workers whose contract with the
UFW expired.
Weather
Cloudy and humid with a few periods
of rain today and tonight. High today 66,
low tonight 56. Partly cloudy, warm and
humid tomorrow, high 72. Mild weather
continuing through Sunday.
Going fishing WHIPPLE'S DAM is populated with fish, fisherman, worms and bookworms
OTIS knocks Woskob
for lease renewal policy
By ED DINGER
Collegian Staff Writer
The Organization of Town In
dependent Students has charged
apartment owner, Alex Woskob, with
lack of cooperation concerning the
automatic extension of some tenants'
leases.
OTIS received complaints last week
from Woskob tenants who had their
leases renewed without realizing it. The
automatic lease renewal clause requires
tenants to submit a certified letter 90
days before the expiration of the lease if
they plan to terminate it. If no notice is
received, the tenant is obligated for
another year.
The apartments involved are Beaver
Hill, Cedarbrook, Fairmount Hills,
Garden Court, Logan House, Park Hill,
Parkway Plaza and Penn Tower.
Robert Lenny, Woskob apartments
general manager, said students were
offered ample time to comply. "We
made a point of putting notices under
doors, on elevators and by the
mailboxes," he said.
The OTIS statement says, "The 90 day
notice required by their lease came at a
very awkward time in the school year
and has evidently caught several
Woskob tenants -by surprise. It seems
curious that only Woskob places are
Lon Nol blocks peace
parties, Radio Hanoi said the
reorganization "is aimed at settling
internal conflicts of the Lon Nol puppet
government which is deteriorating while
confronted with greater and greater
military and political defeats.
"Under American pressure," Radio
Hanoi continued, "Lon Nol has been
forced to introduce a number of so-called
opposition eitments into his cabinet so
that it ma have a broader political
base.
"However reformed it may be, the Lon
Nol puppet government still remains an
instrument of U.S. imperialists," Radio
Hanoi said.
The Radio Hanoi statements indicated
that Cambodian insurgents would
continue a military drive in hopes of
forcing Lon Nol out.
The Cambodian situation appeared to
be a playback of Vietnam. The Com-
Ellsberg's testimony continues
LOS ANGELES (AP) Daniel
Ellsberg told jurors yesterday that the
Pentagon papers reveal possible
American "war crimes" in Vietnam,
"some of which, I regret to say, I par
ticipated in myself."
Ellsberg said high U.S. officials
planned to break the Geneva peace
accords of 1954 and probably committed
"a crime against the peace . . . under the
Nuremberg principles, as I understand
them."
Asst. U.S. Atty. David Nissen raised
the "war crimes" question after U.S.
District Judge Matt Byrne barred
asking Ellsberg whether he believed he
had broken the law when he copied the
Pentagon study.
Ellsberg said there - are about 1,000
pages of "evidence" of crimes in the
topsecret Pentagon study of the Vietnam
war. He said he copied the documents in
Thursday, April 19, 1973
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involved. Woskob is not the only landlord
who has leases which run out in June."
"This is not true," Lenny said. "I don't
see how they could be caught by sur
prise. We are dealing with intelligent
people, they should be aware of what
they're signing."
OTIS requested an extension on the
deadline, in an attempt to reach unin
formed students, but Lenny refused. "It
wouldn't have been that much to give us
a week's grace," OTIS President Kelly
said.
Kelly said Lenny decided to return
security deposits to tenants who sublet
their apartments. "However in
formation obtained in Harrisburg in
dicates that a landlord with a lease
running over one year can only hold one
month's security- deposit," he said.
"If there is such a law, I don't know of
it," Lenny said. "T. would have to check
with our lawyers."
OTIS also has questioned the legality
of the automatic lease renewal clause.
OTIS said most renewal clauses only
obligate tenants for a month at a time
and they only are responsible for the
apartment until another tenant is found.
"It is quite legal," Lenny said. "We
can check with our attorneys.
OTIS also contends that tenants whose
original lease was only three to six
months have had their contracts ex
munists had accused the United States of
continuing to "Vietnamize" the war. For
nearly five years the peace talks
remained stalled because they refused
to deal with the Saigon regime of
President Nguyen Van Thieu.
Like the Thieu government, the Lon
Nol regime has been criticized for being
distant from the people, corrupt and
oppressive.
U.S. sources said the United States
pressured Lon Nol into agreeing to form
a new government to include opposition
elements. President Nixon was reported
to have sent word that this was his wish
with special emissary, Gen. Alexander
M. Haig Jr. Haig visited Phnom Penh
last week and conferred with Lon Nol.
Lon Nol said in a radio address
Tuesday night that he will choose a new
prime minister and would appoint 11
permanent political figures from his
hc, as they would alert Congress to the
need to end the war.
Nissen referred to "war crimes" after
being barred by U.S. District Court
Judge Matt Byrne from asking whether
Ellsberg believed he was breaking the
law when he copied the Pentagon study.
The prosecutor apparently was
seeking to show that Ellsberg did not
support the policies of his own country
and acted against the country's best
interests when he copied the papers.
Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo are
charged with espionage, conspiracy and
theft in connection with the copying and
distribution of the Pentagon papers.
Ellsberg, 42, once an adviser to
government officials, stressed that the
men making war decisions probably
were "patriots" who meant only the best
for their country but ended by doing the
worst.
tended for a full year.
"The lease that they sign states that
they will be obligated for a year," Lenny
said.
"We are not trying to rip people off,"
he added. "If we were, why would we
post notices?"
"We're looking into the possibilities of
legal action," Kelly said. He said several
tenants have expressed willingness to go
to court.
"I don't know if they are planning
suits," Lenny said. "All we can do is go
to court and abide by whatever decision
is handed down,"
OTIS is attempting to help find
subletters for those tenants affected. A
list is posted in the OTIS office for
anyone interested in the apartments.
Kelly said at the beginning of the
school year OTIS sent letters to all
downtown landlords. "Alex Woskob was
one who sent a reply indiciating a
willingness to cooperate with OTIS.
Throughout the year we have been in
constant touch with their office and have
generally found them very unwilling to
compromise on a number of problems
we have received," he said.
"This is just their opinion," Lenny
said. "I think we have been very
cooperative. If we don't do what they
suggest, they call us unwilling. We can't
always comply with their requests."
party and two opposition parties to a new
council of political advisers.
Informed sources said yesterday that
Lon Nol postponed formation of a new
government because he was having
trouble finding qualified members of two
opposition parties, Republicans and
Democrats, who are willing to accept
posts.
On the battlefields, Cambodian troops
drove back an attack on a garrison at
Tram Khnar, 37 miles south of Phnom
Penh, the military command reported.
Several other scattered attacks were
reported in the southern sector of
Cambodia.
In South Vietnam, the Saigon com
mand reported 120 more violations of the
cease-fire, but most appeared to be
shelling attacks and small-scale skir
mishes.
"I knew all the time," he said, "that
the people I worked for and with were
patriotic men, sometimes the best of this
country."
Segments of the Pentagon papers read
to jurors showed that U.S. agents helped
plan a 1963 coup against South Viet
namese President Ngo Dinh Diem, who
was assassinated.
"In the 1964-65 period," Ellsberg said,
speaking directly to jurors, "the plan
ning documents are evidence of direct
operations against North Vietnam, a
country not at war with us." He called
this illegal intervention.
"There seems to be the evidence of
clear planning to conduct war in
violation of our commitments to the
United Nations and in violation of in
ternational law," he concluded.
The defense announced yesterday it
would call one more witness.
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