FORMER PRESIDE \ .MDES R. R. Haldeman (left. shown with his wife Jo i The trial begins and John D. Khrlichman lea% e the Federal District Court in Washington during a break in the Watergate co% erup trial. nhich began esterda . Will book hurt Rocky's hopes? 11 Islll7\t;TtiN, !louse tialiciai% Committee members said %este! ihe Rockeleller family's hackini_; of a derogatory 1971) campaign as the most damaging t Menee inicmered in an FBI in .. est iga t ion of tee presidential nominee \ ekon 'l. Rocketeller But Bop Edward MezvinSky. I)-Iowa. Ihe members contacted by UPI, , a Id the cominit(ee's confirmation Ilea! tow, on the Rockefeller nomination \,ould boxy to probe the deeper question I 15 Nether !here tat a pattern - tothat and othei acti% Ines by all of the I;,,c6otelters tflograpli, m que'stion was written .(to"to lornier Supreme Court Justice \ rtlitir .1 Goldherg and published with llockcteller funding while Goldberg and Rockefeller were op ponents in the 1970 New York governor's ace Rocketeller has also come tinder fire tor gills and loans totaling more than $2 million he acknowledged giving to political associates, aides and friends het ‘‘ een 1957 and 1974 killm nim that it's not enough to aist take a look at Mr. Nelson Rockefeller.' Mezvinsky said in a 'eleph,tne totemeo "We'll have to take look at the ‘N hole family -- at the effect ot the lamtly and its money on public odic and gin ernmental decisions. The tact that a person has great \‘.ealth is not a (actor It's ‘‘hat he doe.S . \‘itli - Israel, US vote against invitation PLO to take part t N }TEO NATtoNS. N.‘" (AP) -- The Rilestine Liberati c on Organization. \‘hleh coordinates this" activitiesof Arab cue rilla groups. Won an oven% helrning %Me (.-:terdi* to take part in the debate t'.ilestine hn the U.N. General \ssembh. The assembly voted 105-4 with 20 ahstenttons to smite the PLO to take p.nt in the coming debate as the representative of the Palestinian people - Israel the Untted States. Bolivia Ford vetoes measure cutting aid to Turkey WASHINGTON (AP In his first major confrontation with Congress, President Ford vetoed a measure cs.sterda to cut off U S arms aid to l'urke. declaring the ban would dash hopes tor a prits peace settlement. House leaders arranged a vote today on a move to override the veto. The measure had been enacted by a lopsided rote, but Democratic leaders acknowledged chances of overriding the President's action were slim. A two thirds vote is necessary to override a %et° The Turkish aid cutoff amendment JS attached to a resolution continuing the funding of such major government operations as foreign aid and health and housing programs. while Congress decides on the agencies' annual ap propriat ions. The amendment would cut off U.S. aid to Turkey until Ford can certify sub stantial progress toward a settlement on reduction or withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus. The President also Would have to certify that the invasion of Cyprus did not violate U.S. foreign aid laws. Because a - the thieatened veto, Congress delayed the scheduled start Friday of its month-long recess.. Unless the dispute is settled, some government Collegian the daily Rep Charles B. Rangel. D-N.Y., said extensive investigation of Rockefeller 1) the FBI had turned up nothing more damaging than the Goldberg biography. Mezvinsky agreed. but said other less serious items which he was not free to disclose also had been found. In Las Vegas. Goldberg said yesterday the biography was "a dirty business" and "a hatchet job." He said he had °tiered to testify before the Senate Rules committee if it reopens hearings on the nomination. ' "This offer is not personal or political in any wa3T• Goldberg told a news conference. "There are more overriding questions involved, and that is whether in not a person named for the second highest office in the land should be confirmed." , Mezvinsky's call for an examination of the influence of the entire Rockefeller family m(as the broadest suggested yet by members of the House Judiciary and Senate Rules committees, both of which must vote on confirmation of the vice presidential nomination. _ But many members feel, in light of disclosures about the biography and the gifts, that Rockefeller must be subjected to a tougher and more far-reaching investigation than that originally en visioned. Mezvinsky. contacted by telephone while ,campaigning in his home state, said lowans had expressed increasing concern about the Rockefeller nomination. and the Dominican Republic voted against the resolution tendering the invitation. The United States said before the vote it "presents some very serious problems." Arab sources said PLO chief Yasir Arafat would be joined by many Arab foreign ministers at the Palestinian debate, expected to begin Nov. 7 and last about two weeks. Jordan voted for the resolution but was not among the 71 sponsors, most of which were Communist or Third World agOncies could be without funds to meet their payrolls Nov. 1. It v.as Ford's sixth veto since assuming the presidency Aug. 9, but the first on major legislation. In a written message to the House, the President declared that if the measure became Jaw "we would inevitably be forced from the Cyprus negotiations because the Congress would have taken from us the tools we need to affect the outcome." He added that the amendment would ' , imperil our relationships with our Turkish. ally and weaken us in the crucial eastern Mediterranean. It directly jeopardizes the NATO alli ance." In a separate statement he read for television cameras and radio microphones, Ford said he vetoed the resolution "in the interest of preserving the ability of the United States to assist the governments of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus to negotiate a peaceful settlement..." Ford said the amendment "in no way helps the Greek people or the people of Cyprus who have suffered so much in the past month. In fact. by dashing hopes for negotiations. it prolongs their suf-' tering." - Before. it was viewed s cut and ; dried we were simply goin to confirm the recommendation of thei President. But these revelations of the past few days have raised questions in my mind and in the minds of others. I "The climate has changed, and it's changed to such a degree that unless the answers are frank and candid Mr. Rockefeller could find his nomination in real jeapordy." The Judiciary Committee is likely to be tough on Rockefeller, Mezvinsky said, because it "has just come out of an investigation of dirty tricks 1972" and the latest disclosures on Rockefeller "makes one feel we're now going baCk to dirty tricks 1970." Rangel said perhaps the most damaging aspect of the 1970 Goldberg biography was not its publication but the reports of Rockefeller first denying and later, acknowledging he had known in advance of the publication plans. Others close to the Judiciary Com mittee and to the Senate Rules Com mittee, both of which must vote on confirmation of the vice presidential nomination, similarly stressed Rockefeller's conflicting statements on the Goldberg biography ,as the most troublesome problem he now faces. "A lot of people are very disturbed," one source said. "This thing about the book, raises questions in terms of his candor." Details of the book incident were uncovered by the FBl,which has com in UN debate countries. King Hussein has declined to recognize the PLO as representative of Palestinians .under Jordanian juris diction, though he recogni l es its author ity elsewhere. Israeli Ambassador YOsef Tekoah called the vote "the surrender of the United. Nations to murder and bar barism." "Israel will have no part in this surrender." he said. seeming to imply a boycott of the Palestinian debate. "The resolution," Tekoah said in a statement of journalists, "sabotages the peace-making endeavors which are being made at this very moment in the Middle East." . The PLO. which (believes the land of Israel belongs to the Palestinians, began operations against the Jewish state in Leftists urge cartel to protect Mexico oil United Press International' Two leftist political parties urged yesterday that Mexico not only join the Middle East oil cartel but also help establish a separate Latin American cartel to protect Mexico's new oil find against U.S. "imperialism." The call for Mexico's efitry into the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries collided with reported U.S. plans to negotiate directly with Mexico on the new oil discovery in hopes of breaking the world oil cartel's leverage with the United States. The Popular Socialist Party, one of Mexico's four legal parties and the newly formed Mexican Party of Workers, said that in addition to joining OPEC a "parallel Latin American organizaton of oil producing nations should be -created in defense of our interests against the aggressive position of imperialism." Their demand came amidst continuing estimates that the newly , discovered fields in southeastern Mexico contain so Case sta 'most siowerful men' WASHINGTON (AP) Asst. Special Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste laid out his case against the five Watergate cover-up defendants yesterday, declaring he gill prove an illegal con spiracy among "the most powerful men in the government of the United States." lie said the plan to cover up the break in at Democratic National Committee headquarters more than two years ago "involved the participation of even the President himself." The 31-year-old dark-haired prosecutor, speaking from a lectern only a few feet from the jury box, said former President Richard M. Nixon was willing to sacrifice a close aide to save himself and closer associates when the cover-up was unraveling. Quoting from an April 19, 1973, White House tape, Ben-Veniste said Nixon believed that if former White House Counsel John W. Dean were turned over to Watergate prosecutors, they might not try and make a case against AP wirephoto pleted its primary investigation of Rockefeller, sources said. They said a report on Rockefeller's taxes, prepared by Congress' Joint Committee on In ternal Revenue and Taxation, is ex pected to be presented to the Judiciary Committee this week. The biography about Goldberg, who opposed Rockefeller in the 1970 New York governor's race, was written by columnist Victor Lasky and published by Arlington House. It was backed by a $60,000 investment by Rockefeller's brother Laurance. Sen. James B. Allen, a member of the Rules Committee, yesterday urged that the new hearings be expanded to include those involved in publication of the Goldberg book, rather than Rockefeller alone, Allen said that Nelson Rockefeller, Laurance Rockefeller, Goldberg, Lasky and officials of Arlington House publishers all,should be summoned as witnesses. He also said the committee should hear testimony from recipients of the $2 million in gifts and forgiven loans Rockefeller said Friday he gave to public officials, aides and friends be tween 1957 and 1974. In a televised appearance in Washington yesterday on WTTG-TV's Panorama. Lasky said he did not know when he wrote the book that Rockefeller money had backed it. 1965 and grew to become the umbrella organization for 14 'Palestinian groups. However, Arafat's recent agreement to work with the Egyptian and Syrian governments for a political settlement with Israel led to dissension. The Popular Front, for the Liberation of 'Palestine, a Marxist group, withdrew from the PLO and vowed to continue the "armed struggle." Two smaller guerrilla groups said they agreed with the Popular Front but would not quit the PLO council. , Arafat, who was in Budapest setting up a PLO office yesterday said his movement's goal is "a democratic state of Palestine where Moslems, Jews and Christians4.can live together in peace." He did not give the boundaries of such a state. much petroleum the total may not only outstrip the Venezuela oil fields but even the richest of those in the Middle East. Elsewhere on the world oil front, President Ferdinand E. Marcos Monday welcomed the first shipment of Chinese crude oil to the Philippines. China has agreed to ship the Philip pines a million tons of oil a year, roughly a tenth of the island republic's yearly consumption. In Tripoli, Libya's National Oil Cor poration and the French oil company "Total" signed a production-sharing and oil exploration agreement Sunday, Libya's official Arab Revolution News Agency said. Mostly cloudy and cool with° periods of rain through tonight. Clearing tomorrow. High today, 62. Low tonight, 46. High to morrow, 56. Ten cents per copy Tuesday. October 15 Vol 75. No. 61 8 p Published by Studen Weather ages University Part. Pennsylvania Is of The Pennsylvania State University ed against presidential aides H. R. Haldeman and John D. EhrliChman or Nixon himself. -On the tape, Nixon said Haldeman and Ehrlichman should "give the in vestigators an hors d'oeuvres iDean). maybe they wbn't come back for the main course," the prosecutor said. Ben-Veniste said that in mid-April 1973, Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlichman "considered a strategy of pushing Dean outside the circle of wagons around the White House." On April 19, Dean issued a statement saying he would not allow himself to become a scapegoat. He was fired by Nixon on April 30, after months of handling the White House response to the various Watergate investigations. Dean will be the first prosecution witness today once three of the defense lawyers have made their own opening statements in ;the trial, which is ex pected to last three or four months. Ben-Veniste, presented the now familiar story r of the coverup in a courtroom jammed with reporters, about 35 specttors and some relatives of the defendants . He spoke for just more than three hous, describing the cover up in short, sim le sentences, describing hundreds of m etings, phone calls and actions which c mprise the complicated conspiracy case. Among the feyv new developments was the assertion that former White House aide Richard Moore, who attended one of the crucial meetings of the cover-up, was pressured to forget what he remembered about how some payoffs to the original Watergate defendants were handled. Ben-Veniste, quoted Haldeman as telling Nixon that Moore's memory on the February 1973 meeting at La Costa, Calif., "has become feeble beyond measure." Nijon, according to the prosecutor, sai later he was "gratified that Moore's recollection had dimmed a lot." Earlier, Ben-i/eniste said Moore had been prepared, to back up Dean's testimony on the meeting. Another new element disclosed in the alleged conspiracy was $25,000 Ben- Veniste said was obtained from Nixon's friend, Charles iG. "Bebe" Rebozo, for use in paying the original Watergate burglars. In his opening statement to the jury, Ben-Veniste said defendant and former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell dispatched an emissary to Florida to pick up $50,000 in cash from Rebozo. The prosecutor said the money was picked up by Nixon - re-election com mittee official Frederick Laßue on Oct. 12, 1973. Half went to the original seven Watergate defendants and half went to ::::::::::::::::::::S:::::::::::::;::::::::::::. USG Senate votes Mast support, funds By SHEILA MCCAULEI Collegian Staff Writer The Undergraduate Student Government Senate last night of ficially endorsed Yates Mast, local candidate for the U.S. Congress. The Senate also approved a $250 contribution to Mast's campaign. The endorsement praised Mast for his activities as student legal adviser and said he had "continually benefited the students" at the Uniirsity. T Senate also passed a bill to for an ad hoc committee to research the possibility of having a student lawyer on campus. The bill called for "a student lawyer ... to help either USG or any other chartered student organization take test cases to court." Supporters of the bill had argued that the present student legal adviser is limited in activity because he is ii,s sponsored by 1 the University and 4 cannot represent students in court. Five other 1 committees were formed by Senate vote last night. ~ The first of those committees will study USG. Constitution and Standing ?:,. Rules reform. The Senate bill which g• created the committee called for reform becatise of "ambiguities and inconsistencies" in the Constitution P., and Standing , Rules. Another ad hoc - committee will investigate political candidates for the Nov. 5 elections and recommend !. candidates. The Senate voted not to investigate Congressional candidates because it 4 already had endorSed Yates Mast for Congress. an unnamed gubernatorial candidate. he \said. It \\*as not clear if Reborn knevi him the money m.as to be used For more than a dear. the prosecutor told the jury. the defendants illegally tried to write off the original Watergate burglars as men "oft on a lark of their own - Ile said they laded bemuse too many of those running the cover-up knew about the plan for illegal m,tretapping and burglary in advance Ben-Vemste told the jury "The %turd conspiracy is not a. difficult one an agreement among Iwo or more persons to ‘iolate the laws " Ile said the prosecution will prove that the defendants and 19 unindicted co conspirators. including former President Nixon. spent $400,000 and attempted to thwart the FBI to keep the investigation away from themselves. "We yy ill prove to you in the curse of this trial," Ben-Vertiste said. "that at tempts of legitimate law enforcement agencies of the United States to ascer tain the facts which led to this Watergate break-m, yhcluding those who authorized and paid' for the illegal burglary and bugging of Democratic national offices. were niet by an effort to cover up the facts and obstruct the investigation by the most powerful men in the govern ment of the United States in•a conspiracy that involved the participation of even the President himself." ' The trial, in its 10th day, was delayed for two hours when a juror, Lucille Plunkett, asked to be excused, saying she did not understand what sequestration meant. For the length of the trial, jurors are living in a motel about two miles from the U.S District Courthouse and are not permitted to travel to their homes or jobs. U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica allowed Mrs. Plunkett to leave. She was replaced by Helen D. Pratt. Ben-Veniste cautioned the jury about the hundreds of hours of White House tape recordings to be admitted as evi dence. Saying many of the tapes are hard to hear, the prosecutor also warned. "The language used is sometimes vul gar and coarse." He said the jury should accept that men in high office use obscenities and not allow that to distract them from the substance of the conversations. Besides Mitchell, former White House chief of staff Haldeman and former White House domestic affairs chief Ehrlichman, the other defendants in the case are two 1972 re-election committee officials, Kenneth W. Parkinson and Robert C. Mardian. An Audit Committee also was : f fii lormed at the behest of student Trustee Dion Stewart Sponsor's of the bill to form the committee said Stewart requested a committee to i* define USq's audit policy The bill's sponsors called for the policy definition so that Stewart could tell _the University's Board of Trustees . exactly what USG wanted from its audit requests. The Senate also formed an ad hoc gi committee to review the University's discipline system and to recommend changes to the Senate. Sponsors of the bill to form the discipline system committee said the current system raises serious ti questions as to presentation of evidence at hearings and selection *; : ii processes of the Student Standards : Boards and Appeal Boards. The sixth committee the Senate formed will "research, recommend, and aid in the implementation of a program to solve the problems of handicapped individuals on campus." sg The bill which 'formed the corn- mittee said facilities for handicapped :§ people at the University were >l%' inadequate. The bill also provided §3 that the committee would work closely with a similar committee : 5 1 under University President John W. Oswald. In other action last night, the Senate approved acting Parlia- V. mentarian Dave Perlman as per- i::: manent Parliamentarian. The Sen ate also approved Greg Lynch as USG Treasurer. 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