Richardson pledges
to name prosecutor
WASHINGTON (AP) Elliot L.
Richardson pledged yesterday to ap
point a special ouiside prosecutor to
investigate the Watergate scandal, if
confirmed as attorney general, and said
he will seek Senate approval of his
choice.
The White House, acting on President
Nixon's behalf and using language he
approved, issued a sweeping denial that
Nixon was involved in any way in the
Watergate affair or its cover-up.
"Any suggestion that the President
was aware of the Watergate operation is
untrue," deputy press secretary Gerald
L. Warren said in Key Biscayne, Fla., as
the President wound up a long weekend
there. "Any suggestion that the
President participated in any cover-up
activities is untrue."
Richardson called a news conference
to announce he will heed growing
demands for an independent prosecutor
once he is confirmed as attorney
general. He said he will seek approval
for the prosecutor from the Senate
Judiciary Committee and the full Senate
although such confirmation is not
required.
Warren said Nixon had not talked with
Richardson about such a special
prosecutor nor had the names of any
potential candidates been relayed to the
President. Richardson said he has not
yet found the right person for the probe.
His announcement met with approval
in the Senate, which voted last week to
urge such an appointment.
He made no estimate of when he will
be ready to name the prosecutor, but
said he will be given "all the in
dependence, authority and staff support
needed to carry out tasks entrusted to
him."
The prosecutor, Richardson said, will
report only to him as attorney general
implying President Nixon will have no
direct hand in the investigation.
In another development, a deputy co
Papers trial
Ehrlichman
LOS ANGELES (AP) White House
adviser John E. Ehrlichman
authorized "covert activity" in a probe
of Daniel Ellsberg, according to Pen
tagon papers trial disclosure yesterday.
It also was revealed that State
Department cables were forged to link
President John F. Kennedy to the
assassination of South Vietnamese
President Ngo Dinh Diem.
The disclosures were made in
testimony given before a Washington
grand jury by former White House aide
Egil Krogh and Watergate conspirator
E. Howard Hunt and released by the
papers trial judge.
Krogh said in the grand jury testimony
that he met with President Nixon, who
instructed him to investigate in
formation leaks.
Krogh did not implicate Nixon in a
burglary of the office of Ellsberg's
psychiatrist but said Ehrlichman knew
of the burglary.
The report of forged cablegrams was
made by Hunt. who said he doctored
them at the order of former White House
counsel Charles W. Colson.
Hunt said he forged two State
Department cables on Colson's orders to
make it appear that Kennedy had or
dered Diem's assassination.
Wounded Knee evacuation set;
Indians to give up town today
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) The
timetable for the evacuation of Wounded
Knee has been advanced 24 hours, with
Indian militants requesting they be
allowed to lay down their arms at 9 a.m.
EDT today.
An agreement reached Sunday had
called for the insurgents to quit the
village after 9 a.m. tomorrow. The oc
cupation is scheduled to end 70 days
after it began when about 200 Indian
militants swarmed into the hamlet and
claimed it as their own.
Thomas Oxendine, public information
office' for the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
said the Indians sent the request out of
the village shortly before noon Monday.
It was immediately accepted, he said.
Ramon Roubideaux, an attorney for
the American Indian Movement, spent
several hours in the village yesterday
and said afterward, "Everything is
working beautifully. The occupation is
ended."
Earlier, another government
spokesman had expressed disap
pointment with a list of weapons and
personnel turned over Sunday evening
by Indian leaders.
The list was the first phase of the
disarmament agreement. It was to be
used as a check against the arms turned
in at the teepee chapel when the disarm
ament takes effect.
Collegian
the
daily
former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell
appeared before the grand jury to testify
about a conversation with Watergate
conspirator G. Gordon Liddy after the
June 17 break-in.
Robert C. Mardian had claimed
lawyer-client privilege for the con
versation but was ordered to testify by a
federal judge. His lawyer, David Bress,
said Mardian "complied" with the
court's order.
Bress said Mardian answered all
questions and he also told newsmen that
he knew "of no basis by which he
(Mardian) would be indicted" by the
Watergate grand jury.
Mardian followed Mitchell from the
Justice Department to President
Nixon's re-election committee. He had
been assigned by campaign director
Mitchell to investigate the Watergate
affair.
The White House consistently has
refused in recent weeks to comment on
individual news reports on Watergate.
But it broke its silence in the wake of
news magazine stories that Nixon
personally congratulated ousted White
House Counsel John W. Dean 111 last
September for concealing ad
ministration connections to Watergate.
Time and Newsweek said Dean is
prepared to give such testimony.
Dean reportedly is trying to get im
munity from prosecution in return for
his testimony before the Senate Select
Committee on Watergate, which is
scheduled to begin hearings about
May 15.
The first such immunity was granted
last week by Chief U.S. Dist. Judge John
J. Sirica for E. Howard Hunt, one of the
seven convicted conspirators in the
burglary and bugging of Democratic
Party headquarters last June 17. The
immunity grant was revealed yester
day.
It was the second time that Hunt, who
pleaded guilty to the charges, was given
reveals
probe tie
The judge also released an affidavit by
Krogh saying former FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover was aware of a White
House investigation of Ellsberg and
approved it because of Hoover's close
friendship with Ellsberg's father-in-law.
In his testimony Hunt said the plot to
link Kennedy to the Diem assassination
was hatched as a result of his own
analysis of the Pentagon papers and
,State Department files •
Hunt said Colson wanted to hide direct
evidence of White House involvement,
calling the plan "too hot."
Hunt said he reported to Colson that
there were many gaps in the series of
State Department cables concerning the
Diem involvements in 1963.
But after the cables were complete,
Hunt said, he received a call from
Colson's office saying a newsman Bill
Lambert of Time-Life was being sent
over to see the cables. "I began to
believe that was the purpose Mr. Colson
had in mind," Hunt said. But Hunt said
he was advised, "Don't let them get out
of your hands."
Lambert arrived and was shown the
cables, Hunt said, and the newsman
"was quite exultant over the find." He
said Lambert copied the cables in
longhand.
Deputy Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen. Richard
Hellstern told a news briefing the list
included only a small-bore pistol and a
peace pipe. He said personnel listed
included two persons known to be under
federal indictment, 23 permanent village
residents and 13 persons who were
neither residents nor among those in
dicted.
Hellstern said, "We certainly know
there have been more weapons in the
village than are on the list." He said the
small-bore pistol could not have ac
counted for a 100-shot salute Sunday
afternoon at the burial of Lawrence
Lamonte, 31, a victim of the siege.
AIM leaders Carter Camp and
Leonard Crow Dog surrendered to
federal authorities af - a roadblock late
yesterday. They were immediately
taken to Rapid City for bond hearings.
Hellstern said the government
tightened its cordon of Wounded Knee
Sunday night in anticipation that some of
the occupants might try to escape. By
late yesterday about 20 persons had been
arrested some who were trying to
sneak out, others who surrendered at
roadblocks.
Chief U.S. Marshal Wayne Colburn
said the disarmament agreement was
necessary because the April 5 truce was
"too vague" in that respect.
The agreement signed Sunday im-
so-called "use immunity." He and the
six other conspirators in the case
received similar grants for their
testimony before a federal grand jury.
In Florida, Warren also denied an
account in the current issue' of
Newsweek that Hunt had been promised
executive clemency by John D. Ehrlich
man. cz;
"Any suggestion that the President
ever authorized the offering of clemency
to anyone in this case is . . . false," the
deputy press secretary said.
Newsweek reported that after the
December plane crash that killed Hunt's
wife, the Watergate defendant sent his
lawyer to the White House with the
message that "something had to be
done" to prevent a long jail sentence for
Hunt.
"Ehrlichman said, 'l'll check,' "
Newsweek reported. "He went in to see
the President. When Ehrlichman
returned, Dean said, he brought with
him what he said was Mr. Nixon's
promise of executive clemency for Hunt.
Ehrlichman allegedly told Charles W.
Colson, Ehrlichman's aide, to reassure
...that 'everything is okay' but not to be
'too specific.' "
For coverage
Washington Post wins Pulitzer
NEW YORK (AP) The Washington
Post won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for
meritorious public service for its
coverage of the Watergate scandal. The
newspaper's columnist, David S.
Broder, also won a separate award for
commentary.
The prize for national affairs reporting
went to Robert Boyd and Clark Hoyt of
the Knight Newspapers, whose
disclosure of the psychiatric background
of Sen. Thomas Eagleton, E-Mo., led to
his withdrawal as the Democratic vice
presidential candidate.
Associated Press photographer Nick
Ut, a 22-year-old Vietnamese, won the
spot news photography award for his
poignant picture of a 9-year-old Viet
namese girl running naked and
screaming from a napalm bombing.
It is the 11th time an AP photograph
has won a Pulitzer Prize and the fourth
time in the last five years.
In the arts, the trustees of Columbia
University named Jason Miller's "That
Championship Season" as the best
drama of the year. His first Broadway
play concerns a high school basketball
team's reunion with its coach.
Eudora Welty won the fiction award
for "The Optimist's Daughter," while
On-campus polling places approved
Precincts split
By CARL DiORIO
Collegian Staff Writer
Judge R. Paul Campbell yesterday
approved an application to split East
State College Precinct into three voting
areas with on-campus polling places for
two of the districts.
Also approved were splits of East
Central State College and North
plements most of the April 5 agreement
with a few exceptions, plus the specifics
for disarmament. It provides:
At 9 a.m. EDT today the govern
ment will remove all its armored per
sonnel carriers from Wounded Knee and
the insurgents will evacuate all bunkers,
roadblocks and fortifications and
assemble at the teepee chapel.
All Omens and weapons at the
chapel will be checked against a list
turned in to the government Sunday and
processing will begin by the Justice
Department.
The occupants will divide them
selves into three groups: those with
outstanding warrants against them,
permanent residents and all others.
Those with outstanding warrants and
any others subject to arrest will be
transported to Rapid City for arraign
ment, the permanent residents will be
escorted to their homes and all others
will be escorted from the reservation.
The bunkers will be covered over,
roadblocks dismantled and the area
searched for weapons by government
officers. A residual force of about 40
marshals will remain at a command
post in Wounded Knee from two to four
weeks, Colburn said.
At least five White House
representatives will begin meetings with
Indians.
Prize yesterday for this photo which shows terrified children fleeing a misplaced
Pulitzer Prize winner napalm strike June 8, 1972 near Trang Bang, South Vietnam. The girl at the center
suffered burns and ripped off her flaming clothing. Behind the youngsters. South
Vietnamese troops look on.
of Watergate scandal
the nonfiction prize was shared by
Frances Fitzgerald for "Fire in the
Lake: The Vietnamese and the
Americans in Vietnam," and Robert
Coles for Volumes H and 111 of "Children
of Crisis."
The annual awards were established
by the late publisher Joseph Pulitzer,
who died in 1911.
Winners are chosen by the Columbia
trustees on recommendation of a board
composed of distinguished American
newspapermen and the president of the
university.
The individual awards carry prizes of
$l.OOO each, and a gold medal goes to the
winner of the meritorious service award.
The first prizes were awarded in 1917.
The Post became the first Washington
newspaper to win the gold medal. The
newspaper's management gave major
credit for its Watergate investigation to
reporters Robert Woodward and Carl
Bernstein.
An anonymous telephone tip revealing
Eagleton's psychotherapy to the Detroit
Free Press, a Knight newspaper, led to
the national reporting award for Boyd
and Hoyt.
Ferguson precincts.
Area East 1 includes Beaver, Bigler,
Brumbaugh, Curtin, Fisher, Geary,
Hartranft, Heister, McElwain, McKean,
Mifflin, Nittany, Packer, Pennypacker,
Pinchot, Porter, Ritner, Shultz, Shunk,
Sproul, Tener, Wolf and Pollock.
Area 1 residents will vote in 118
Wagner.
East 2 includes Cooper, Cross,
Eastview Terrace, Ewing, Graduate
Circle, Haller, Hibbs, Hoyt, Lyons,
Simmons, Stephens, Bluebell and
Bellaire Avenue.
The East 2 polling place will be in
Materials Research Laboratory.
East 3 includes Keller, Sower, Pine,
High and Hetzel streets; S. Garner St.,
odd-numbered buildings to the 700 block,
E. College, E. Beaver, E. Foster, E.
Fairmont and E. Prospect avenues from
the 400 block on; and odd numbers on
University Drive to the 700 block.
Residents of East 3 will vote in the
Grace Lutheran Church social room.
East Central 1 includes Atherton,
Beam, Bram Dairy Research, Holmes,
Leete, Ritenour, Runkle and Poultry
Plant; 100-399 E. College Ave., 101-201 S.
Allen St., 100-200 S. Pugh St., McAllister
St., 100-200 Locust Lane, Calder Alley,
Heister St., E. Beaver Ave. odd numbers
from 101-399 and Glennland Apartments.
East Central 1 residents will vote at
Lebanese cease-fire shattered
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Fierce
fighting broke out again between army
troops and guerrillas last night, shat
tering a four-day-old cease-fire. Premier
Amin Hafez proclaimed a state of
emergency.
Beirut's international airport was
reported under attack, and fighting
flared at several Palestinian refugee
camps south and east of the capital.
A bomb thrown from a speeding car
caused some damage but no casualties
when it exploded at the entrance of the
plush Phoenicia Hotel.
Tuesday, May 8, 1973
University Park Pennsylvania Vol. 73, No. 144 8 pages
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER Nuynh Cong (Nick) Ut won a Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Prize for local reporting
went to the staff of the Chicago Tribune
for a voting frauds investigation under
the direction of George Bliss, an in
vestigative reporter who won the same
prize in 1962. Three persons have been
convicted in the aftermath and another
44 cases are pending.
The Sun Newspapers of Omaha, Neb.,
won the special local reporting prize for
an intensive study of the financial
background and the fund-raising ac
tivities of Boys Town, a nationally
renowned youth haven.
Max Frankel of the New York Times
won the international reporting prize for
his coverage of President Nixon's visit to
mainland China.
The prize for editorial writing went to
Roger B. Linscott of the Berkshire Eagle
of Pittsfield, Mass. There was no prize
this year for editorial cartooning.
The feature photography award was
won by Brian Lanker of the Topeka,
Kan., Capital-Journal for his series on
childbirth.
Ronald Powers of the Chicago Sun-
Times received the prize for criticism
for his television coverage.
into
voting areas
the Wesley Foundation.
East Central 2 includes even numbers
to 198 Garner St., even numbers on E.
Beaver Ave. from 100-398, E. Nittany
Ave. odd numbers from 101-201, E.
Foster Ave. from 100-298, and odd from
300-400, S. Allen St., 201-301 Highland
Ave. odd - numbers, even numbers from
200-398 on Locust Lane and Cedar
Apartments.
The Vets Club will house the East
Central 2 poll.
East Central 3 includes E. Hamilton
and E. Prospect avenues odd numbers
100-400, S. Pugh St. 400-600 blocks, S.
Garner St. even numbers 400-598, S.
Allen St. odd numbers 400-600, E.
Fairmont Avenue's 100-400 blocks, E.
Nittany Ave. even numbers 100 to 198,
Locust Lane from the 300-600 blocks,
Fraternity Row, and E. Foster Ave.
even numbers 300-398.
Residents of East Central 3 will vote in
the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
East State College Committeeman
John Mattern said there is
dissatisfaction with precinct polling
locations.
He said petitions requesting new sites
for two East State College polls and one
East Central State College poll will be
circulated at the polls next Tuesday.
Although no definite decisions have
been made, Mattern said, alternate
Telephone lines near the fighting were
reported out of order. Authorities
blacked out the city and the airport.
Earlier, leaders on both sides an
nounced agreement on a yet undisclosed
coexistence formula.
At the same time, guerrillas were seen
fortifying their positions in anticipation
of renewed fighting.
Factories near the Tel Zatar refugee
camp were ordered closed by the
guerrillas and residents saw about 400
armed men setting up fortifications in
neighboring olive groves.
Also in the arts, %V.A Swanberg's
"Luce and His Empire" won the prize
for biography. It explored the life of
Henry Luce, the late founder of Time,
Inc.
The history award went to Michael
Kammen for "People of Paradox: An
inquiry concerning the origin of
American civilization." James Thomas
Flexner received a special citation for
"George Washington, Volumes I through
IV,"
Maxine Kumin was the poetry prize
winner for "Up Country," and the music
award went to Elliott Carter for his
"String Quartet No. 3." Carter won a
Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for his "String
Quartet No. 2.-
Weather
Becoming cloudy this morning with a
chance of showers this afternoon
through tonight and showers likely
tomorrow morning. Mild with high of 70
today and tomorrow, low tonight 60.
Partial clearing tomorrow afternoon
and night.
future locations include Pollock Union
Building instead of Materials Research,
Findlay Union Building instead of
Wagner and Hub instead of the Wesley
Foundation.
North Ferguson Area 1 includes W.
College Ave. from 901 on, Madison and
Mcßath streets, Golfview Ave., Science
Park and Nixon roads, Whitehall Road
from 1120 on, Wheel, Nittany View and
Holly circles, Ash St., Pine Cliff Road,
Spruce Ave., Airport Road, Ridgeview
Road, Breezewood Drive, Westerly
Parkway from 1400 on, Widmann Circle,
Hot St., Muncy Road, Butz St., Osmond
St. to 220. N. Corl St. to 219 Erie St., Fir
Drive and N. Osmond St.
Area 1 Ferguson Township residents
will vote in Pine Hall Lutheran Church.
North Ferguson Township Area 2
includes Park Forest Villas 909-915, 950,
1000 and 1101, Circleville Road, Park Hill
Avenue, Knob Hill Trailer Park, Cherry
Lane, Cherry Hill Road, Princeton and
Oxford drives, 454-495 Park Lane,
Dogwood and Glenwood circles, Pierson
Drive, Cornwall Road from 778 on,
Devonshire Drive to 784, Penrose Lane,
Lynnwood and Greenwood circles,
Cambridge Drive and 691-814 Wiltshire
Drive.
Area 2 residents of North Ferguson
Township will vote at Radio Park
Elementary School.
Busloads of Palestinian women and
children were seen leaving several
refugee camps with all their belongings.
Several Lebanese families moved out of
neighboring residential areas in the
suburbs of Burj el Barajneh, Harat
Hreik and Ghoberi.
Lebanese troops were seen erecting
sandbagged bunkers around army
barracks, depots and key government
buildings in the city, Army roadblocks
enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew, but
traffic and pedestrians moved freely on
city streets during the daylight hours.