to—The Daily Collegian Thursday, December 5,1974
Alixon's
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SAN CIEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) Former
Preside t ,Richard Nixon's phlebitis con
dition has improved and he will soon be able
to gradually increase his physics' activity,
his doctor said yesterday.
However, the report also indicated no
change in the long period of convalescence
which prevents Nixon from testifying in the
Watergate" trial in Washington.
Dr. Flack( B. Hickman, who attended the
former President during both of his stays at
Long Beach Memorial Hospital, issued a
favorable statement on Nixon's condition
after an afternoon visit at his seaside estate.
- I am pleased that Mr. Nixon is making
satisfactory progress, although he clearly
remains in a period of convaiWscence," Hick
man said.
"Mr. Nixon has not regained his normal
weight and tires easily. There are no in
dications of additional complications at this
time."
Hickman said the former president left his deposition.
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JOHANNESBURG, South The South African press it w/ts not known whether
Africa (AP) A historic reported widely that the first South African officials would
summit meeting between step toward settling the be present at the talks to
leaders of black- and white- impasse between the white break the Rhodesian
ruled Africa appeared minority and the black deadlock which has been the
yesterday to be imminent majority in Rhodesia may be : biggest barrier to cooperation
amid speculation that detente taken in Lusaka, Zambia. between Pretoria and black
in southern Africa is near. The Johannesburg Star said Africa.
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compound yesterday morptrig for the first
time since being released from the hospital
on Nov. 14, to undergo chest X-ray
examinations at the nearby Marine Corps
Hospital clinic at Camp Pendleton.
Hickman said 'the X-rays `'indicate
clearing of the left plural effusion ikthe area
of right pneumonitis," a complication that
developed after Nixon underwent surgery for
his blood clots.
"I have advised gradual increase in
limited activity, frequent monitoring of blood
pressure, continued use of an elastic stocking
and periodic examinations," the doctor said.
Hickman said anti -coagulation treatment
with coumadin to tiin Nixon's blood was
being maintained at effective levels.
The physician echoed the findings of . a
team of doctors appointed by Watergate trial
Judge• John J. Sirica that Nixon was still too
ill to testify at the trial, even by written
deposition, until January.
"Because he (Nixon) is still in a period of
convalescence, requiring controlled activity
and monitoring, I see no medical indication
to advise at this - time any change in the
estimated period of disability and avoidance
of stressful activity as outlined by Dr. John
C. Lungren at the time of Mr. Nixon's
discharge from the hospital on Nov. 14,"
Hickman said.
In Washington, meanwhile, Sirica took
under advisTnent motions asking that the
Watergate hearings be delayed beyond
Christmas-Ne Year's until Nixon can give a
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Nixon offered money to aides
WASHINGTON (AP) Former President
Richard M. Nixon offered to make $200,000 or
$300,000 available to H.R. Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman for legal and family expenses when
they were t leaving the White House, the Watergate
cover-up jury was told yesterday.
"No strain," Nixon said The money, "doesn't
come outta me."
Assistant Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste
disclosed the offer and asked:whether the money
could'somehow be "provided by persons who were
given favored treatment over the years."
"I can recall a general conversation like that,"
Haldeman said.-
In a transcript 'of the tape recorded conversation,
Nixon says "I never intended to use the money at
all."
He said he had told his friend Charles G. "Bebe"
Rebozo to "be sure that people ... who have con
tributed money over the contributing years are
favored ... and he's used it for the purpose of getting
things out, paid for in check and all that sort of
thing."
The "it" in that conversation apparently referred
to the fund Nixon had mentioned.
Haldeman and Ehrlichman, both defendants in
the Watergate cover-up trial,i resigned as, Nixon's
top aides on April 30, 1973. The first conversation
about money was on April 17 that year, with Nixon
saying:
"I know the problems with families and all the
rest. Just let me handle it."
Haldeman, still on the witness stand after four
days, admitted the offer was made several times
but said he and Ehrlichman didn't accept it. He said
he resented the implication that was being left with
the jury.
Kidnappers free Italian victim
MILAN, Italy (UPI)
Kidnappers yesterday freed
the 11-year-old daughter of a
Milan jewel dealer who said
.he would have to work all his
life to repay the money he
borrowed to pay her ransom.
But on the island of Sar
dinia, a 19-year-old student
kidnaped 109 days ago sent
word his captors planned to
kill him because his father did
not pay enough.
Police said Nicoletta Di
Nardi, kidnaped Nov. 16 as
she walked to school with
her sister, was cold and
frightened when whe Was
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Ben-Veniste then read from a transcript of the
April 17 conversation, part of it inaudible. The jury
had not heard the tape of that conversation and it
had not been made public previously.
"Let me ask you this," Nixon said. "Legal fees
will be substantial... but there is a way we can get it
to you and two or three hundred thousand
dollars... I know the problems with families and all
the rest. Just let me handle it."
Ehrlichman replied, "Let's wait and see if it's
necessary," but Nixon persisted:
"You will find that you have to do it in cash
you got a civic, you got a government duty."
Eight days later, on April 25, Nixon raised the
point again.
"Let me ask you this," he said in a conversation
with Haldeman and Ehrlichman. "Is there anyway
you can use cash?"
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Ehrlichman: "I don't think so."
Haldeman: "I don't think so."
Nixon then said there was "as much, I think as 200
thousand dollars there's available in '74 campaign
already."
The cross-examination wiltbe finished today, and
Ehrlichman's lawyers will begin to put on their
defense.
Ben-Veniste said he had brought up the money
offer to the two men because it "tends to show there
was an agreement" that Nixon, Haldeman and
Ehrlichman would all protect each other. Nixon is
an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
Questioned by U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica
about the materiality of bringing up that con
versation, Ben-Veniste said that under the
agreement "Haldeman went up to the Senate Select
(Watergate) committee and continued the cover
up."
released but apparently
unharmed.
They said her abductors
freed her in the countryside
near the village of lambrugo,
barefoot and still wearing her
school gym uniform!
"The bandits we r e bad,"
the dark-haired child told a
woman who gave her shelter
after her release. Bid. police
said she seemed to remember
little of her experience, ex
cept that she was held in an
old house near a little church.
Mario Di Nardi, the girl's
father, told newsmen he left a
ransom payment at a pickup
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place Tuesday. He would not
specify the amount but said
he had to borrow money to
pay the kidnapers.
"To earn such a sum I will
have to work a lifetime," he
said.
Unconfirmed reports said
the kidnapers originally
demanded $1.5 million but
eventually settled for less
than one-third of that amount.
In Sardinia, 19-year-old
Luigi Daga wrote to, a
newspaper that he had been
Mining control bill set
WASHINGTON (AP) Sponsors of a bill
to'regulate coal strip mining moved
yesterday to bring it to a speedy House
floor vote and predicted passage in both
houses by sometime next week.
They said quick action is essential to give
the recessing 93rd Congress enough time to
vote to override in case President Ford vetos
the bill.
The legislation was readied for final action
on Tuesday when a House-Senate conference
committee broke a four-month deadlock and
reached final agreement on a compromise
He said it tended to show that Haldeman and
Ehrlichman knew Nixon would "help them finan
cially if they needed it."
It brought protests from both defendants' lawyers
and Ben-Veniste said "I never said it was ac
cepted...they all understood it in this context."
At that point Haldeman said that "it seems to me
a highly unsavory connotation" had been raised.
He said the offer was in a conversation two days
after Nixon had been told by Asst. Atty. Gen. Henry
E. Petersen that the Justice Department felt it had
"information embarrassing to Mr. Ehrlichman and
me it came out." •
"The President did discuss that with us and as a
result suggested we retain legal counsel,"
Haldeman said.
Haldeman said the offer of help for legal fees
came after he and Ehrlichman hired lawyers the
same day.
The trial was in its 46th day and Haldeman was
expected to leave the witness stand after three days
of cross-examination_
He and Ehrlichman are charged along with John
N. Mitchell, Kenneth W. Parkinson and Robert C.
Mardian with a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the
Watergate investigation.
Judge Sirica said he will probably rule today on
whether written questions can be submitted to
Nixon, who is considered by doctors too ill to testify
in person until Jan. 6.
Mardian and Parkinson have told the judge they
oppose releasing the jury over the Christmas
holidays to delay the trial in order to get Nixon's
testimony.
The suggestion for the recess was advanced by
Ehrlichman's lawyers, who subpoenaed the former
President.
"sentenced to death" by his
kidnapers because his father
failed to pay all the money
they demanded.
The young man, kidnaped
in Oristano Aug. 17, said the
kidnapers granted his "last
wish" to say goodbye to his
family and girl friend in his
letter.
Luigi's father, landowner
Benigno Daga, told newsmen
in a broken voice he had
already paid $38,000 ransom
in three instalments and was
version
HoweVer. opponents have threatened to
challenge the measure in the House Rules
Committee in an attempt to block a floor
vote.
The House must act on the legislation
before it can go to the Senate.
House sponsors said House Speaker Carl
Albert promised to urge the Rules committee
to Rive the bill the highest priority. They said
the committee might act on the bill as early
as today so it can be positioned for a floor,,
vote early next week.
doing his best to find more
money.
"I beseech those holding
my son not to harm him and
to wait a bit longer," he said.
"I'll try to find more money."
There have. been 39 kid
napings in Italy this year and
seven people are still being
held.. The highest ransom
reportedly paid was more
than $lO million for Giuseppe
Lucchini,22, son of a Brescia
steel magnate.