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    Trick-or-treat!
‘4l f: and the campus last night became ptipulated with the fantasy
ri (its d .1. 'fallow yen a ick-or-treaters roamed the streets front house to house col
lei tint; traditional freebie..
Nixon's condition still
LONG BEACH, Calif (AP) Former
President Richard
_M. Nixon's internal
bleeding apparently has stopped, but
"there are dangers lurking in the
background" and more blood trans
fusions %%ere started. Nixon's team of
doctors said yesterday.
Nixon probal?ly will remain on the
critical list for 1.'4 to 72 more hours, the
doctors said.
The doctors said they were still
working, to replace the blood Nixon lost in
internal hemorrhaging that followed his
phlehttis,surgery.
The farmer prident could have died
from the bleeding that sent him into
shock fotb,three hours after the operation
Tuesday. "if proper measures had not
been taken," said Dr. John C. Lungren.
Nixon's former press secretary, Ron
Ziegler, made a similar statement Wed
nesday
Lungren, Nixon's longtime doctor, and
t‘‘o surgeons who operated on Nixon. did
Israel refuses
with terrorist
F$ UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said
:.esterclay Israel will not negotiate with
Arab "terrorist - organizations under
an circumstances.
Chief of staff Lt. Gen. Mordachai Gur
said Israel is ready for war if the Arab
summit in Rabat should lead to an im
mediate resumption of hostilities in the
Easf.
Military sources in Tel Aviv said
Israeli artillery units in the north shelled
suspected Arab guerrilla concentrations
In southern Lebanon during the day. The
sources said the shelling.- the second
Israeli attack on southern. Lebanon in as
man\ days. was directed at an area
where guerrillas fired Katyusha rockets
at the Israeli town of Biranit earlier
esterday.
King Hassan II of Morocco warned
Israel and the United States Wednesday
that they must accept a role by the
Palestine Liberation Organization in
future peace negotiations or face the
threat of another military showdown.
- There will be no negotiations with the
terrorist organizations." Rabin told a
meeting of businessmen in Tel Aviv.
"There is nothing to speak about with
them If it is determined that Jordan is
not a partner in future peace
negotiations. there is no one to speak
%kith about peace on our eastern fron
tier
Rabin has repeatedly said the PPC led
by Passer Arafat is a gang of terrorists
and that the only place Israel will, deal
with it is on the battlefield.
Rabin said Israel's refusal to deal with
guerrilla organizations applied. "even
Weather
Partly to mostly sunny and unseasonably
warm today. high 75. Increasing
cloudiness and mild tonight. low 57.
Mostly cloudy with the chance of showers
tomorrow and Sunday, high both days 63-
67.
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not specify when the apparent letup in
bleeding took place.
The three held a 10tninute news con
ference at the hospital Where the 61-year
old former president is being treated.
Earlier in the day, Lungren and Dr.
Eldon Hickman said that becauSe of a
slight decrease in Nixon's hemoglobin
level they believed Nixon may have been
bleeding again.
The doctors said they would continue to
watch Nixon's condition to determine
whether it had stopped altogether.
Lungren said Nixon's vital - signs had
"pretty i'nuch returned to normal," but
he added, "There are dangers lurking in
the background, imminent dangers, real
dangers..."
Lungren did not say what the dangers
were.
Earlier in the day, Lungren and Hick
man said in a statement that Nixon's
vital signs blood pressure, pulse and
heart beat were stable. But the two
said a prognosis was not possible
talks
groups
when they are disguised in the costume
of Hussein." It was a reference to rumors
that Hussein might represent the PLO in
Geneva.
The reaffirmation of Israel's stand
came two days after, the Arab summit
announced support of the PLO in efforts
to set up a sovereign Palestinian state on
any occupied land given up by Israel.
Rabin said the only issues that in
terested Israel as a result of the Rabat
summit are, whether Egypt was still
ready to negoAate„a separate settlement
on the Sinai Desert front and if Jordan
would take an active pact in negotiations
over the Israeli-occupied West Bank of
Jordan.
At the same time, ignoring the Arab
irorld_'s
_recognition of the 'Palestine
Liberation Organization, Israel kept up
its battle against Arab guerrillas with a
naval attack in southern Lebanon and
said it expected an intensification of
guerrilla infiltration attempts.
The talk of renewed war and increased
guerrilla activity came as:
—French Foreign Minister Jean
Sauvagnargues met with Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister
Yigal Allon in Jerusalem on the first day
of a three-day official visit to Israel.
Sauvagnargues denied a report that he
was trying to mediate between PLO
leader Yasser Arafat and Israel. The
French minister met Arafat in Beirut
last week. "
—The e, Soviet weekly New... Times
criticiz Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissing il ts personal style of diplomacy
in the ddle East and said the only
Ig,(:)an
swer to e Arab-Israeli problem is a
resumpti n of the Geneva peace con
ference ith full participation of the
PLO. Isr el refuses to deal with the PLO.
—ln C . , Egyptian Premier Abdel
Aziz Hi • urged the nation's civil
defense ups to revise plans for civil
and nati nal defense in the event of
'renewed ighting against Israel. Air Mar
shal Hoisni Mubatak said Egypt
destroy • I 80 Israeli planes and 400 tanks
during th • 1973 October war.
because "the possibility still exists for
further complications."
However, Lungren seemed to indicate
Nixon had made some slight gains,
saying: "His spirits and mental attitude
are excellent. He is alert; oriented to
everything going on around him, and
cooperative."
At the news conference later, Hickman
said Nikon was "handling it well"
although he was "somewhat annoyed"
by the constant bedside monitoring of his
condition.
Lungren said the transfusions Nixon
was receiving would replace the post
surgical blood loss and combat the low
hemoglobin and lbw platelet counts. He
did not say how much blood Nixon would
receive.
Hemoglobin carries oxygen to the
tissues while platelets promote blood
clotting.
Hickman said the hemoglobin drop
was probably due to "hemodilution from(
increased urinary output."
Hemodilution, a shinning of the blood
from body fluids, is not unusual after an
operation, a hospital spokesman said. ,
Before the operation, Nixon had been
taking anticoagulants to fight the clotting
in his left leg induced by phlebitis, an in
flammation of the viens. The operation
was to place a clamp on a vein so that
blood could flow through but block poten
tially fatal clots from reaching his heart.
In announcing that Nixon would
remain on the critical list, Dr. James A.
Harper, a surgeon, told newsmen, "I'd
say as long as he continues this way, we
can expect a gradual improvement."
"It's a matter of monitoring for
several days. I know Dr. Lungren said
that he could turn sour on us at any time,
but we have no indication of that," he
said.
Magruder says Mitchell approved
WASHINGTON (UPI) Sticking to
his story under intense cross
examination, Jeb Stuart Magruder
testified yesterday that,John N. Mitchell
not only approved the Watergate bugging
but within a week okayed the initial . cash
outlay to pay for it.
He said Mitchell's' endorsement of the
plan to bug Democratic Party headquar
ters was a "throw-a Way decision," made
reluctantly and unenthusiastically but
nonetheless made —• at a political
strategy meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla..
on March 30, 1972. •
The next week, he said, Mitchell first
questioned but then approved funnelling
several thousand dollars in cash from
Nixon campaign coffers to Liddy to get
his project rolling.
The boyish-looking Magruder, ad
mittedly nervous during his second day
on the stand at the cover-up trial of Mit
chell and four other former aides tb
Richard Nixon, never wavered from his
story.
Attorneys for Mitchell and co
defendant H. R. Haldeman tried to paint
Magruder and John W. Dean 111 as the
arch villains of the cover-up plot, en
phasizing their roles from the beginning
to keep the truth from coming out.
Both Magruder and Dean have since
pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice
and are serving prison terms. They are
'now key prosecution witnesses.
Under questioning by Haldeman
critical
The doctors said they consulted with a
UCLA professor of thoractic medicine
and cardiology, Don Mulder, who ad
vised them to "follow a conservative
course of treatment." The phrase was
not explained.
• President Ford arrived in Los Angeles,
25 miles north of the hospital, for a
Republican campaign rally yesterday.
Spokesmen for the hospital and Ford said
the President had no plans to visit Nixon.
Press Secretary Ron Nissen said Ford
was watching Nixon's condition
carefully, however.
Lungren and Hickman said Nixon's
wife, Pat, and daughters Tricia and
Julie were spending most of the day and
night in Nixoh's suite, part of an in
tensive care ward at Memorial Hospital
Medical Center, and were visiting him
briefly every hour.
Nixon has received four blood trans
fusions, including one unit of "packed
red blood cells," on Wednesday, since he
went into shock for three hours from in
ternal bleeding shortly after phlebitis
surgery Tuesday.
Ron Ziegler, Nixon's former press
secretary and now his chief aide, said
Wednesday that 7 the 61-year-old president
almost died from the bleeding.
Sidestepping-whether Nixon's life was
endangered, Lungren said in a statement
Wednesday that he hoped that
hemorrhaging 44: been arrested. He
said the former piesident was receiving
medication for pain and occasional
nausea.
Nixon's wife, Pat, and daughters.
Trica and Julie, were spending most off,
the day and night in Nixon's suite, part of
an intensive care ward at Memorial
Hospital Medical Center of Long Beach,
and were visiting him briefly every hour,
,the doctors said. ,
lawyer Frank J. Strickler, Magruder
conceded that both the White House and
the 1972 Nixon campaign had been
worried about violent demonstrations
against the President and were in
terested in legal intelligence-gathering to
prevent trouble.
"Was the Democratic National Com
mittee one of the groups threatening to
disrupt the Republican convention?"
asked Assistant Special Prosecutor Jill
Volner when she got another chance.
"No, it was not," Magruder replied.
It was learned, meanwhile, that defen
dant Robert C. Mardian has asked to be
severed from the case since his chief at
torney has become ill.
U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica or
dered strict secrecy about the situation,
buit it was learned no decision was
reached about whether to continue Mar
dian in the case.
Stressing that Magruder lied
repeatedly under oath in the past, Mit
chell's lawyers repeatedly challenged his
testimony.
"No, I didn't say that," he said when
confronted with an FBI report from April
last year that said he told agents Mitchell
had not given his '"absolute approval"
for Watergate.
"They said that. That was their
paraphrase of what I said and I think that
should be made clear to the jury. I was
very nervous that day. It was a time of
stress.
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Pakistan arms
aid delayed
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI)
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
yesterday put off a final decision on
Pakistan's request for newPipments
of modern arms but Prirrfe Minister
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto declared himself
"very happy: after 2 1 2 hours of talks.
Kissinger and Bhutto announced in
a joint statement that the United
States would supply Pakistan with
about 100,000 tons of surplus wheat.
Kissinger, the statement said,
"would give careful consideration to
Pakistan's additional requirements."
Kissinger's spokesman, Robert 0.
Anderson, told newsmen that
Pakistan's request for missiles, ad
vanced aircraft and tanks arose "only
tangentially" in the talks.
Diplomatic observers said the
reference to "careful- consideration"
of Pakistan's additional requirements
was an indication the United States
has not entirely closed the door to
shipments of military spare parts and
possibly weapons which it feels would
not spark an arms race on the-Indian
subcontinent.
The statement said Kissinger and
Bhutto also agreed to join in efforts to
stop the spread of nuclear weapons
and Bhutto stressed the need of
"I tried to make it clear that he (Mit
chell) was not enthusiastic ... He was not
favorably inclined; none of us was
favorably inclined to the plan. But that
does not obscure the fact that in the end
he did approve the plan," Magruder said.
Magruder, Mitchell's deputy at the
1972 Nixon campaign, conceded that Mit
chell a week • later had called to ask him
why bugging mastermind G. Gordon Lid
dy needed so much money. He said he ex
plained the cash was needed for per
sonnel and equipment.
"So a week after this plan was ap
proved, Mitchell asked why Gordon.Lid
dy needed money?" demanded Mitchell
attorney Plato Cacheris.
"No, I didn't say that," Magruder
replied cooly. "He asked why he needed
that much money."
Nor did Magruder budge from his
testimony that Mitchell, two days after
the June 17, 1972, bugging arrests, told
him to "have a fire" to destroy wiretap
reports from Watergate known as the
Gemstone file.
"You did not tell the grand jury that
Mr. Mitchell suggestgikiyou have a fire,
did you?" Cacheris asral.
"That's correct," Magruder replied.
"You did not tell the Senate Watergate
committee that Mr. Mitchell told you to
have a fire, isn't that correct?"
"That's correct."
"As a matter of fact, the first time you
mentioned that was in December of 1973
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creating a nuclear-free zone in south
Asia.
Kissinger invited Bhutto to visit
Washington and Bhutto invited
President Ford to Pakistan in 1975.
At a lavish banquet on a manicured
lawn under a huge multicolored tent.
Bhutto first proposed a toast to
Kissinger's wife, Nancy, then com
pared the Secretary of State to the
19th century Austrian Foreign
Minister Baron Metternich. who
helped create post-Napoleonic
European order at the 1815 Congress
of Vienna.
"We admire you," Bhutto said.
"and we would like you to be Con
sidered as a modern Metternich. But
Metternich lost the war and came af
ter 'Napoleon. You are creating the
foreign policy of a great country
without war and your country is vic
torious."
Bhutto said his talks with Kissinger
had been "very useful discussions.
I'm very happy."
In possible allusion to the delayed
U.S. decision on furnishing further
arms. Bhutto said "Why should w•e
expect results immediately? We are
not going into a cafeteria just to order
a hamburger."
in an interview with the prosecutors
Wasn't it?"
"My memory was refreshed after I
testified at the Senate," Magruder said,
adding that he had "reviewed" the in
cident with another Mitchell aide. Fred
C. Laßue.
He said Mitchell's suggestion to burn
the Gemstone files came at a meeting at
Mitchell's apartment at the Watergate,
conceding he left the meeting early td
play tennis "with a man named Agnew"
in suburban Maryland.
- Struggling to keep from laughing, he
described how he left the files sitting on
the tennis court in a brief case while he
played and then went home and burned
them in his fireplace.
Magruder freely admitted, under a
barrage of questions from Cacheris
which the prosecution protested amount
ed to "Badgering the witness" —.that he
helped campaign aide Herbert L. Porter
Jr. commit perjury as part of the cover
up and had been coached in his own per
jury by Dean, then White House counsel.
He also admitted that Dean at one
point suggested that he destroy his
diaries
"And did John Wesley Dean :.. assure
you of White House and presidential sup
port for what you were doing?"
"Yes, sir."
"After the break-in, did you have any
conversations with John Wesley Dean
about the break-in and how it occurred?"
"Yes, sir."