New York Former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, foreground, is surrounded by
police and newsmen as he leaves the U.S. Court House in downtown Manhattan
after testifying before a federal grand jury.
Clemency offers
denied by staff
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) The
Florida White House yesterday denied
any involvement by President Nixon in
reported offers of executive clemency
for defendants in the Watergate break-in
conspiracy.
The reaction came to questions raised
by grand jury testimony allegedly made
by convicted Watergate conspirator
James W. McCord that he was offered
money and executive clemency to
remain silent.
"The President has not made such an
offer nor have there been any
discussions with the president about
executive clemency," deputy press
secretary Gerald L. Warren said.
McCord reportedly tOtified the idea
that the defendants keep silence and
perhaps go to jail with the understanding
they would get a presidential reprieve
later.
Warren was asked: "If such an offer
was made, was it made without Nixon's
knowledge?" He replied: "Absolutely."
The Watergate matter continued to
occupy Nixon, along with foreign affairs,
as he prepared to end his four-day
Easter stay in Florida.
He was to return to Washington last
night.
House drug pusher action
Life sentence
HARRISBURG (AP) The House
voted tentatively yesterday to make
drug pushers subject to life im
prisonment if their sales lead to a drug
user's death.
An amendment classifying the offense
as second degree murder was approved
101 to 90 and inserted in a bill restoring
the death penalty for certain crimes.
A final vote on the bill is expected
today.
Original language of the capital
punishment bill, drafted by the House
Law and Justice Committee, would have
required the death penalty for those
furnishing drugs responsible for a death.
An amendment offered by Rep. James
Knepper, R-Allegheny, eliminated the
drug dealing section entirely. Knepper's
change wat adopted 137 to 53.
Rep. Thomas J. Maloney, R-
Northampton, countered with the
proposal to make the offense second
degree murder. The amendment was
adopted after lengthy debate.
"I have no sympathy for drug
pushers," said Rep. Milton Berkes, D-
Bucks. "But what does concern me is
that the greatest amount of drug use
occurs among young people who receive
the drugs not from some pusher in a
trench coat but from kids their own age.
"The majority of people that can be
arrested today for selling drugs are not
the professional pushers," Berkes
continued. "They could be our kids."
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Warren declined to give any report on
the work Nixon was doing regarding his
Watergate investigation.
But, Warren disclosed, in response to
questions, that Nixon had made
telephone calls to H.R. Haldeman, John
D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean 111,
three top staff men who have come
under fire in the Watergate probe.
Beyond saying that Nixon called "to
wish them well on Easter," Warren
declined to discuss the conversations,
nor comment on a New York Times
report that Nixon told Dean: "You're
still my counsel." Warren reiterated
that there still has been no change in the
status of any White House staff member.
Haldeman and Ehrlichman were at
work at the White House yesterday,
Warren reported.
'ln one development Warren disclosed
Nixon had met for an hour Thursday in
his Washington Executive Office
building hideaway with John Wilson, the
attorney hired by Haldeman and
Ehrlichman.
Asked if Wilson was going to be
Nixon's lawyer, too, Warren replied that
Wilson now is retained by Haldeman and
Ehrlichman "and that's where it
stands."
Rep. Patricia Crawford, R-Chester,
urged support of Maloney's amendment
as a sanction against drug dealing.
"This type of law on our books would be
a further deterrent for anyone to think
twice before jeopardizing someone's
life," she said.
Of 15 amendments offered, the
changes in the drug dealing section were
the only significant ones approved.
Proposals voted down included
A bid by Rep. Edward Early, D-
Allegheny, to force a public referendum
on the capital punishment issue,
defeated 142 to 42.
An amendment by Rep. Samuel
Morris, D-Chester, to substitute life
imprisonment without parole for the
death penalty, turned back 148 to 31.
An attempt to exclude accomplices
from provisions of the bill requiring
death for murder committed during a
robbery, burglary or other felony,
defeated 133 to 51.
Amendments offered by Rep. Bill
Shane, D-Indiana, to permit a "suicide
option" for Death Row occupants and to
require legislators voting in favor of
capital punishment to draw lots to
determine which one would initiate a
given execution.
Rep. Joseph Rhodes, D-Allegheny,
offered an amendment that would
require death by public hanging instead
of the gas chamber provided for in the
measure.
ABC reports White House request
Rogers probing Watergate?
WASHINGTON (AP) ABC News
reported yesterday that President Nixon
has called on Secretary of State William
P. Rogers to deal with White House
problems stemming from the Watergate
case. A presidential spokesman denied
the report.
ABC correspondent Bill Gill said
Nixon wants Rogers to help restore "an
impeccable integrity" to the White
House operation.
Talking with reporters en route to
Washington from Key Biscayne, Fla.,
last night, White House Press Secretary
~Ronald L. Ziegler said there was "no
discussion at all along that line" in a
telephone conversation between Nixon
and-Rogers.
Ziegler also said Nixon "has made no
decision at all regarding staff
resignations" that might arise from
Watergate.
Gill, who reported that he had been
told Rogers conferred secretly with
Nixon in Florida over the weekend, later
said their conversation was by
telephone.
A State Department spokesman said
Rogers spent the weekend in Williams
burg, Va.
Gill quoted White House sources as
saying they expect the President to
announce that Rogers will direct an
overhaul of the President's staff.
Another administration official said he
talked to Rogers by telephone and the
secretary told him he hadn't been asked
to play such a role in the Watergate
aftermath.
A spokesman for the State Depart
ment would not comment yesterday on
the report that Rogers had been tapped
for an administration housecleaning,
which followed rumors that Nixon
planned such a move. Others mentioned
in speculation were John B. Connally
and Melvin R. Laird, members of the
Nixon cabinet in his first term.
Meanwhile, Presidential aide John D.
Ehrlichman and former Nixon cam
paign chief Clark MacGregor disagreed
yesterday over whether an internal
investigation was made in the campaign
organization last August when the affair
began to unfold.
Ehrlichman said he proposed then
"the fullest disclosure" to MacGregor
and to the whole planning group, but the
investigation was not made. His corn
ments were reported in the Washington
Star-News, then confirmed by the White
House.
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MacGregor said no such investigation
was proposed to him.
Deputy press secretary Gerald L.
Warren confirmed in Florida that John
J. Wilson, the lawyer for Ehrlichman
and White House chief of staff H.R.
Haldeman, met with President Nixon
Thursday at the White House.
He also said Nixon made Easter
Sunday telephone calls to Haldeman,
Ehrlichman and presidential counsel
John W. Dean 111 to "wish them well on
Easter."
Wilson was spotted by newsmen at the
White House again yesterday, while the
President was still in Florida. Later he
showed up at the federal courthouse
where the Watergate grand jury was
meeting, but said the visit was in con
nection with another case.
DeVan Shumway, spokesman for the
Committee for the Re-election of the
President, also was at the courthouse
meeting with prosecutor Earl J. Silbert.
Asked if he felt deceived into issuing
his post denials that staff members of
the Nixon campaign were involved in the
affair, Shumway said, "I think I was not
fully told the truth at all times."
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"The death penalty isn't any deterrent
to crime," Rhodes said. "But for you
people who think it is, don't hide behind
what you're really doing. If you really
want a deterrent, hang them. Let the
people see the quivering flesh."
The amendment was defeated 165 to
A bid to eliminate a controversial
felony-murder action, requiring the
death penalty for any murder com
mitted during perpetration of a felony,
was turned back by a 124-61 vote.
Proponents of the change pointed to
situations where a murder could occur
accidentally during a robbery or
burglary.
The theory of the pending legislation is
to require death for specific crimes,
eliminating the possibility of
discrimination by juries or judges.
One of the justices in the Supreme
Court's 5 to 4 decision against capital
punishment said that discriminatory
applicatiortof the death penalty was his
major objection.
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MacGregor issued a statement in
response to Ehrlichman's assertion that
he had wanted an in-house investigation
of the re-election committee.
"At no time during the month of
August 1972 did any Nixon ad
ministration official request MacGregor
to conduct any Watergate in
vestigation," he said.
The differing accounts provided
another example of the growing splits
developing among top administration
officials in connection with the
Watergate case.
The Florida White House said
yesterday Nixon was not involved in
making an offer of executive clemency
which Watergate burglar James Mc-
Cord Jr. testified he received through
intermediaries.
"The President has not made such an
offer, nor have there been any
discussions with the president about
executive clemency," Warren said.
Transcripts of grand jury testimony
quote McCord as saying the offer came
from the wife of co-conspirator E.
Howard Hunt and McCord believed it
originated with lawyers for the Nixon
campaign.
U.S. charges violations
WASHINGTON (AP) The United
States yesterday formally accused
North Vietnam of an illegal troop and
supply buildup as well as assassinations
and kidnappings in South Vietnam in
violation of the Paris cease-fire accord.
In a note to 10 other nations that
agreed to guarantee the Jan. 27 pact, the
United States said: "It is abundantly
clear that the main obstruction to peace
consists of the military activities carried
out by the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam and forces under its control in
South Vietnam."
Specifically, the State Department
charged Hanoi with infiltrating more
than 30,000 Army personnel into South
Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia,
sending in anti-aircraft artillery units
and ringing the Khe Sanh air field with
SA-2 missiles and the clandestine
shipment of more than 400 tanks and
armored vehicles.
Of particular concern, the note said,
was North Vietnam's failure to provide
full information about Americans
missing in action in Indochina or known
to have died there.
Earlier this month, Hanoi and the Viet
Cong accused Washington and South
Vietnam of grave• violations of the
agreement. The U.S. reply called those
charges "utterly groundless."
Meanwhile, in other developments:
The State Department confirmed
that some 300 Cambodian military
personnel are being trained by the
United States in Thailand in aviation
techniques such as maintenance and
radar.
UDIS helps instructors
Editor's note: following is the third of a
four-part study of course improvement
at the University.
By PAT HUNKELE
Collegian Staff Writer
One of the University's projects for
course improvement is• the University
Division of Instructional Services,
designed to assist faculty members in
redeveloping courses and designing new
instructional systems.
Located in the Mitchell Instructional
Services Building, UDIS provides in
structional graphics, motion pictures,
still photography and instructional
television to faculty members. The
service also assists professors in
evaluating courses and planning
examination procedures.
According to Lester Greenhill,
assistant vice president for academic
services, "UDIS was initiated in the mid
50's as a research organization but now
it concentrates on service to the
University."
UDIS's instructional graphics service
provides assistance to faculty members
on all campuses in the preparation of
visual material. Staffed by professional
artists, the service produces
illustrations, charts, diagrams and
transparencies for overhead projectors.
The motion picture service supplies
teaching, research and informational
films and is equipped to produce syn
chronous, sound, silent, high speed, time
lapse and animation films.
During the past year, the service
helped courses such as plant pathology,
theatre arts, mining engineering and
music education.
The instructional television service
provides videotdpe recording and closed
circuit television facilities. UDIS
production specialists work with faculty
members in developing and adapting
courses for television presentation.
The still photography service assists
faculty members in developing creative
photographic materials for educational
use.
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In other developments yesterday:
A lawyer for the Nixon campaign
said a second batch of tardy finance
records was being prepared for delivery
to court officials. Delivery had been
promised last November, but lawyer
Daniel Webster Coon said Nixon cam
paign deputy Frederick C. Laßue told
him by letter Monday 10 more manila
envelopes, labeled "bank records," had
turned up in a bottom file drawer.
Common Cause lawyers have asked that
Nixon finance officials be cited for
contempt for the delayed delivery.
Lawyers for Common Cause sub
poenaed the chief of U.S. Archives for
more records of secret Nixon campaign
finances they.believe have been hidden
there. A government spokesman said the
subpoena was being studied.
Lawyer Peter H. Wolf, acting under
an order from Federal Judge John J.
Sirica, told the Watergate grand jury the
name of a client who is alleged to have
received bugging plans and other
documents from the White House
complex on the day after the Watergate
burglary. But Wolf wouldn't tell
newsmen the identity of the client, who
he said was a low-ranking employe of the
Saigon offered to release 750 civilian
prisoners and the Viet Cong renewed an
offer to release 637 civilians they are
holding.
In Cambodia, waves of U.S. 852
bombers made their heaviest attacks in
weeks around Phnom Penh in an effort
to reduce Communist pressure on the
capital.
In Laos, the Pathet Lao accused the
Laotian government of delaying the
formation of a new provisional govern-
Legislators
$2,500
HARRISBURG (AP) The federal
Cost of Living Council yesterday ap
proved a $2,500 expense increase for
legislators that a lower U.S. Panel
turned down in February.
A spokesman for the council, Erick
Kanter, said the original Pay Board
decision was reversed because of new
evidence submitted by the legislature in
its appeal. The key information was a
comparison showing state lawmakers
were paid less than those of some other
states, he said.
A second $2,500 expense increase was
left an open question by the decision,
Kanter said.
With the first $2,500 approved, rank
and-file legislators now will earn $15,600
The staff of the UDIS examination
service consults with faculty members
on construction, revision, scoring and
interpretation of all types of
examinations including essay and ob
jective tests.
The instructional evaluation division
was instrumental in revising 10 courses
in seven departments during the past
year. This service assists the faculty in
the design and development of
evaluation instruments used in planning
and evaluating courses.
The newest service offered to the
faculty by UDIS is Project Inform.
Initiated this term, the service gathers
information on course innovations and
disseminates it to each University
department.
According to Robert Dunham, vice
president for undergraduate studies, the
Local TV station possible
Affiliation approved
Local apartment magnate Alex
Woskob has received the nod from the
American Broadcasting Company for
his proposed State College television
station to receive affiliation.
Richard Beesmyer, vice president of
ABC's affiliate relations department,
said the decision was made about 10
days ago.
"We've agreed to give them af
filiation, now they have to decide if
they're going to build a station,"
Beesmyer said.
According to Thomas J. Riley,
business adviser to the WTIE project, a
contract will not be signed for several
weeks.
Riley said the financial feasibility of
the project still is being investigated but
refused to specify his concerns for the
station.
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Nixon campaign
Wolf at first declined to tell the name
even to the grand jury, claiming lawyer
client privilege.
Rumors circulated in Washington
that Nixon was preparing to recall two
trusted associates, John B. Connally and
Melvin R. Laird to government service,
possibly in anticipation that some aides
may be forced to leave the ad
ministration. Connally is the former
secretary of the treasury and Laird the
former secretary of defense. Both have
re-entered private life.
In New York City, former Atty.
Gen. John N. Mitchell testified before a
grand jury looking into financier Robert
L. Vesco's $250,000 contribution to the
Nixon campaign. Afterward Mitchell
denied he ever met Vesco, whose
financial dealings were the subject of a
Securities and Exchange Commission
probe at the time he made his campaign
gift.
"I answered all questions of the grand
jury fully, frankly and freely. That's
about all I can tell you at the moment,"
Mitchell told newsmen after appearing
before the grand jury.
merit by making unreasonable demands
The U.S. note was sent to the Soviet
Union, China, Britain, France and all
other participants of the International
Conference on Vietnam except the Viet
Cong.
In defending its own behavior, the
United States said it has scrupulously
observed the agreement by withdrawing
its own military forces from Vietnam
and not participating in any hostilities
there.
receive
increase
in salary plus the new accountable ex
penses a total of $lB,OOO annually.
Kanter said the council has the right to
challenge the second 52,500 but no
decision has been made to do so.
The original increase was ,due to
become effective last December and the
second in January. The initial payback
decision allowed legislators to collect an
extra $9OO in expenses a 5.5 per cent
increase.
William Woodside, counsel to the
Senate Republicans and a former Pay
Board counsel, said "I would think
probably the most persuasive thing was
that the amount requested was less than
all state employes have gotten since the
beginning of the stabilization program
a 14.9 per cent increase."
purpose of Project Inform is to eliminate
over-lapping within the University.
Greenhill said, "There aren't many
universities that have services as
comprehensive and as organized as
ours."
But, according to Terry Novak, co
author of "Penn State in Transition," a
document which outlines the Univer
sity's academic needs, "UDIS is a very
passive organization."
Novak said, "UDIS waits until the
faculty comes to them. It's okay if you're
a faculty member and know what you
need but it is difficult for faculty
members to improve courses on their
own, since much of their time is spent
teaching and researching."
According to Novak, UDIS does not
have enough personnel but "does a fine
job within its limits."
Riley said although he expects the
station to operate in the red during the
first year, he expects it eventually to
become a substantial money-maker.
A $200,000 loan from Mellon Bank of
Pittsburgh and a $400,000 loan from
Woskob to Television Networks, his front
organization, were obtained to fund the
project. •
Riley said no contract would be signed
that states the station must be built.
ABC has agreed to pay the station for
carrying network programming and
commercials but no specific amount has
been allocated yet, Riley said.
Route 322 near Boalsburg, downtown
State College or somewhere on the
Benner Pike are possible locations for
the station.
The station will be aired on channel 29
and produce a million watt power out
put.