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.
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rain through tonight. Clearing tomorrow.
High today, 62. Low tonight, 46. High to
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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
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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. Lynch replaced
Craig McClain, who resigned several
weeks ago
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