Panic' at the White House over pard WASHINGTON l_ PI -- President Ford yesterday issued new explanations of the Watergate pardon policy that pro \oked bitter protest Tuesday, saying he will only consider individual clemency pleas and not blanket pardons for all the defendants \ presidential-, aide, who declined to be identified for pubhiulion. said panic" had set in at the White House when I ■ u'd s pardon o! Richard ,M \ixon caused a public outcry and Hie li'llou op promise to study further Watergate pardons u ha\ e been a trial balloon." too hastiK floated I-"id relaxed the clarifications through White House aides Hid Republican congressional leaders in an apparent attempt i mil ihe-controversy stirred by the Nixon pardon and ii doubled bv Tuesday's announcement that possible pardons loi all Watergate defendants were "under study " I licit- is no study going on." said Senate Republican I coder Hugh Scott, who read Ford's brief restatement of pardon policy.after he and other Republican congressmen had iiuiieried wjth the President tor nearly two hours. lb p .Inin! Anderson. R-111 . said the congressmen had 'imply n< (|iiainled the President vv ith the fact that in both the Ib'iiM' .oid the Senate there was intense opposition to anv blnnket potion It was direct . There was no pussyfooting " l ot .lohn • W llushen. the deputy White House press l-v.w*->'.t ■ > v ♦'i** 5 *- <t t '? * ~fifv '!4r " Ready for Stanford? I \1 I. I'IHOI MK\\S loolliulls at Heat er Stadium ami e\ en here ill front of West Halls CRATS findings Its n \\ f. SHAKKKK l ollegian Staff \\ l iter The Centre Kegion Area Trans imrtatum Studs iCKATSI. which has been chugging along quietly behind the '•cene lor most o| the summer, is ex pected to release preluumary findings Minu'tmie next month Tin' CHATS fiti/ens Advisory Com nnlttv received tin 1 progress report last night .it the lirst meeting since early summer l.ntle action was taken, although committee members were asked to prepare tor ne\( month's meeting to review the findings The purpose ot CHATS is to determine how the (VnH ; o Region will grow in the ue\t J'i >ears and tind solutions to tran-porlalion problems created by hitthcr population 1..1.-! .lime tin- study selected two land use stratifies ulueh attempt to show Shapp subpoenaed by House HARRISBI'RG 1 API A House com mittee formally served Gov Shapp with a subpoena yesterday after he rejected a compromise that would;have given the panel access to his income tax records Shapp. claiming that the committee's proposal needed additional revision to protect his privacy, suggested that an in dependent auditor be selected to act as intermedian Kep Patrick Gleason, chairman of the committee looking into alleged irregularities in state contract practices, quickly rejected Shapp“s proposal V)ver five weeks have passed since this committee first asked for these materials.'' Gleason wrote in a letter to the governor. "We have attempted to ac commodate you in good faith, but we can wait no longer." Shapp has until Monday to comply with the subpoena by turning- over to the Republican-controlled committee all of his income tax records from 1970 to the present. The committee originally voted along ; Collegian patterns of growth under certain zoning and where the future population will live in the region. The strategies being tested are known as Modified Corridor and Present Trends. The Corridor. Strategy would create suburbs in agricultural areas on the outskirts of the borough. Present Trends implies development would continue under existing zoning regulations. Single-family homes would increase in present rural and forested areas and strip commercial zoning would continue along College Avenue and Atherton Street. The transportation and population trend testing is done by computer. The final output will be a complex series of figures on road use and the number of trips individuals make each day. Much controversy in the CRATS program is linked to the proposed State 'We have attempted to accommodate you in good faith, but we can wait party lines Aug. 19 to subpoena Shapp's records. Gleason. R-Cambria. said he delayed serving the subpoena when the governor agreed to have his attorneys meet with committee counsel to develop a compromise.! After negotiations, the attorneys came up with a list of alternatives. The com mittee voted last week to permit Shapp to retain control of the records as long as in vestigators could have unlimited-access to them. However, yesterday's subpoena demands that the records be turned over to the committee, though Gleason said he spokesman, later qualified Scott's remark on the "study" issue He said Ford is not studying specific Watergate pardons and has so far received no requests for any. but he has directed his staff to conduct several legal studies of his par doning powers "There was never any consideration of blanket amnesty or pardons" for the 48 persons so far jailed or indicted on Watergate charges. Hushen said. This seemed a direct contradiction of Hushen's statement 24 hours eqjher that "the entire matter of Watergate pardons is under study." Ford's statement, read by Scott, said in effect that the pardon ol Richard M. Nixon had been a one-shot affair that had no bearing on the fate of the other Watergate figures, including the six facing trial Sept. 30 on cover-up charges. "The announcement yesterday by Mr. Hushen concerning die study of the entire matter of presidential clemency and pardon was prompted by'inquiries to the White House press ollice concerning Mrs. Uohn Dean's reported statement in reference to pardoning hen husband. Nixon's former White House counsel and similar public statements in behalf of others." Ford said. | . "Such a study is. of qourse. made for any requests con cerning pardon of any individual. nearing College by-pass of Atherton Street. The question is whether to consider the by pass already built for the purposes of future transportation tests. , * At the meeting last night sylvania Department of Transportat on (PennDOTi officials and the Centre Citizens Council, which is opposed to the by-pass, debated the question but reached no compromise or solution. Other committees in the CRATS program liave been asked to test future transportation with and without con sideration of the by-pass. PennDOT which is financing the study claims it [would create additional costs which must be payed for by local funds. The reslution of the by-pass con troversv will determine its status in CRATS! no longer.' would still be willing to let Shapp main tain possession of the records as called for in the committee's compromise. "I am quite jwfting to accept a com promise concerninjpyour request for in formation which you believe is contained in my tax returns.'' Shapp wrote Gleason yesterday. But, Shapp added, he still cannot see what relevance the income tax records will have to the committee's inquiry. The governor said he was concerned about language in the committee’s proposal that'allowed investigators “as long as necessary” to study the tax data. CRATS is also considering how future "However, no inference should be drawn as to the outcome of such studies in anwcase. ; Nor is my.pardon of the former President under the unique circumstances stated by me in granting it. related to any other case which is or may be under study." At Tuesday’s briefing, Hushen told questioners the pardon "stud^’ had not been prompted by Mrs. Dean’s plea on behalf of her husband. Nixon’s chief Watergate accuser who is currently serving a prison sentence. 1 The presidential aide who described Tuesday’s pardon ’study statement as a possible "trial balloon” said Ford had consulted only Hushen and White House counsel Robert Hartmann before hastily formulating that statement. Congressional reaction Tuesday was swift and almost unanimously bitter. Republicans and Democrats alike, in cluding some who defended the Nixon pardon, opposed the prospect of quick pardons for the other Watergate defendants. The reaction appeared to finish Ford’s congressional "honeymoon'’ already worn thin by the Nixon issue and economic policy disagreements. j Some congressmen began organizing anti-pardon maneuvers yesterday. t ] Sens. Alan Cranston, D-dalif., Edward Brooke, R-Mass.; and Robert'Byrd, D-W.Va., said they would introduce "sense Haldeman tainted by WASHINGTON . (UPI) H.R. Haldeman charged yesterday that the "extraordinary event” of Richard Nixon’s pardon has only "added to massive publicity in the Watergate cover-up and further threatens prospects for a fair trial. The first of the six cover-up defend ants to react formally to President Ford's pardon of Nixon, Haldeman filed motions in federal court challenging lury selection procedures and the in tention of U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica to sequester jurors throughout the long trial to guard against the influence of publicity. Sirica meanwhile turned down another plea by Haldeman to delay the trial scheduled to begin Sept. 30, and rejected a plea trofn another defendant, Gordon Strachan.-.that charges against him be dropped because jof tainted evidence. "The tidal wave of prejudicial pretrial publicity that has been cascading down on these veniremen (prospective jurors) lor the past couple of years, and especially during the past two months, has been such that it seems doubtful that any jurors ultimately selected to hear this case could be further affected by the extrajudicial publicity that will flow out of this trial,” Haldeman’s lawyers said. "While the debate regarding the propriety of the grant of pardon to release roads will affect the appearance of the community. The Citizens Advisory Committee also approved a policy to preserve the borough’s open spaces and wooded areas when considering future transportation questions. At the next committee meeting citizens will have access to some of the pieliminary findings of the study. Present traffic problems and their resolution in terms of an over-all transportation scheme will be discussed. Weather Foggy this morning with considerable cloudiness and a chance of showers this afternoon. Foggy tomorrow morning, cloudy with a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs both days 80, low tonight 62. Also left vague, said Shapp, was the number of committee representatives that would see the records. Claiming that the committee had agreed to the.use of a third person to han dle 'mutually agreed upon questions, Shapp said he was willing to give the data to that person. He in turn would field questions from the committee and would state ..whether the information was con tained in the records. “Relevant” in formation would then be turned over to the committee, Shapp said. Gleason denied that the committee had ever accepted the use of a third person or auditor. Gleason has said he wants the tax data for information they may contain about loans made to Shapp campaign com mittees in 1970 and what profit he made on the sale of ■a, Williamsport cable television company. Shapp had said he made in excess of $l.B million on the sale of three cable television companies in 1971. of the Senate" resolutions urging Ford to grant no further Watergate pardons until the judicial process is completed in each case. In the House, Rep. Wayne Owens. D-Utah. said he would introduce a “sense of Congress" resolution to proceed with indictments against Nixon and make public any indictable evidence. Hushen said White House staffers are now studying several areas of presidential pardon authority, including his authority to pardon Nixon, his authority to grant amnesty to Vietnam War resisters and his right to pardon Watergate defendants Presidential counsel Philip Buchen is in charge of the over all Watergate pardon study, Hushen said. On Capitol Hill, chairman Peter W. Rodino of the House Judiciary Committee said he had directed his staff to “start a study of the entire question of presidential pardon “1 want to know about the-specificity of such pardons." Rodino said. "Can it be granted before specific charges have been made or can it just be general and in advance like this one, the Nixon pardon Rodino, D-N.J., also supported a proposal by Rep. Gilbert Gude, R-Md.. that Congress order the Watergate prosecutor to make public all evidence of wrongdoing his office has against Nixon. Ten Cents per copy Thursday. September 12, 1974 Vol. 75, No. 39j 14 pages University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of. The Pennsylvania State University charges trial Nixon pardon former President, Nixon likely will continue for the indefinite future, the veniremen have already been affected by this news and sequestration will not erase this "extraordinary event from their minds.” Haldeman asked as co-defendant John N. Mitchell had even before the Nixon pardon that the jurors not be locked up during the trial, due to start Sept. 30. He also complained about the preliminary screening procedures Sirica has used to select] the jury pool from which the cover-up jury will be chosen. He was following “an easy' excuse policy” and complained that defendants had had no voice in the process. ) On July 3, sent out question- Ipective jurors in the i asking if it would be iem' to serve on a naires to 1,000 pro: District of Columbi; a hardship for tf in a criminal case [rom three to four sequestered jury i expected to last* I months. The Sirica letter c Watergate Coverup charged Sirica’s de lid not say it was the case, but Haldeman icription of it “could the minds of those •ied” what he was leave no doubt-in persons being quei talking about. » Haldeman’s brief said Sirica received 764 responses arid excused, 318 persons who said they could inot serve because of pressing family, health or business problems. He also said Sirica arbitrarily stopped processing returns when he obtained 400 available jurors. lation fight inf WASHINGTON (AP) The nation’s top lqbor leaders told President Ford yesterday the government’s anti-inflation policies aren't working and threaten to plunge the country into a severe recession with high unemployment. ipse meeting in ad . 27-28 conference on announced he is 85,000 new public :hr' At a White Ho vance of the Sept, inflation. Ford moving to create jobs to ease unemployment. At the same time, state public utility commissioners were meeting with federal officials on rate increases for electric companies that might drive electric bills up. Ford told the labor leaders he will speed up spending of $415 million in funds already set aside for jobs to be created in state and local govern ments. f Another $1.3 billion will be available to local governments for manpower programs, he 'Said. Ford said his administration will watch unemployment now about 5.4 per cent pf the labor force and "act with compass on” if it gets out of hand. “We well not permit the burden of necessary economic restraint to fall on those members of society least able to bear the costs,” Ford said. But George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO. said labfrr leaders are very concerned that the administration’s anti-inflation policies will worsen what he called the country’s recession. “We’ve been going downhill for 5*2 years under the present economic policies we have right at this It's not aimed at this pardon but the study is a result of it Of those, Haldeman said, exactly half are non-wage earners either unem ployed. retired, or nonworking housewives. He said this is an unrepresentative pool and that all 400 should be excused so that jury selection could begin from scratch. I|e said the procedures followed by Sirica, plus the fact that lawyers for the defendants had no part in considering the excuses submitted, “irrevocably tainted the selection process.” Meanwhile, lawyers for the six former presidential aides, accused of conspiring to hush up the bugging scandal, were preparing to seek dismissal of the in dictments on grounds their clients should not be punished now that Nixon has been pardoned. Formal filing of those motions with Sirica was while defense at torneys, waited for further signals from the White House concerning possible clemency now that Ford'has pardoned Nixon. Nixon's chief of staff, contends Congress had no authority to extend the life of a Watergate grand jury beyond its scheduled termination last December and thus the coverup in dictments returned March 1 are illegal. Both Sirica and a federal appeals court have rejected that argument and the case is now awaiting action in the Supreme Court which is in recess until October. Silica said Haldemans position is '‘without merit" in refusing to delay the trial. or protests minute." said Meany. who is head of the 13.5-million-member union. "We believe that budget cuts, high interest rates and tight money supply are not going to work in today's in tlation," he added. Meany. who sat directly across lrom Ford at a table in the White House East Hoorn, complimented the President for being willing to listen and called for “new thinking, new ideas and new directions" in government economic policies. "Labor will join and cooperate in any program that is equitable," Meany said. Ford, who sat with the labor leaders for nearly three hours, said he needed labor's advice on what to do about inflation. He called for both labor and in dustry to use restraint in future wage and price increases. The administration, he said, has prepared contingency plans which it will send to Congress to ease unemployment if it appears the jobless rafe will rise to “substantially higher levels.” He said, "We cer tainly can not be complacent about any American lacking work.’’ The labor leaders were nearly unanimous in calling for a reversal of the government's tight money policies, which have led to record high interest rates, and they Earned against plans to cut federal spending. Chairman Arthur F. Burns of the Federal Reserve Board, who was at the conference along with other government economic experts, said he would take' the labor leaders’ views on tight money and high in terest rates into consideration.
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