Nixon, Tapes Rekindle Watergate's Scandals Howard Hearings Set On
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The VOL. 99 NO 252 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY MAY 2, 1977 15 CENTS Nixon, tapes rekindle Watergate's scandals NEW YORK (AP) - One thousand days after his resigna- tion, Richard M. Nixon, Watergate and secret tapes are be- fore the American public again for a revival of the scandals. Transcripts of unpublished tapes, showing Nixon's in- volvement in the scandal and In hush money payments earlier than was known before., blossomed yesterday in two leading newspapers and two weekly news magazines The new accounts added only small pebbles to the Water- gate rockslide that forced Nixon's resignation in August, 1974. But they served to focus interest in his first television inter- view on the subject since then. The interview, paid for and conducted by television per- sonality David Frost, airs Wednesday over 145 stations Nixon reportedly received $600,000 plus a share of the profits for his participation. The same tape transcripts that surfaced In the New York Times, the Washington Post. Time and Newsweek magazines were used by Frost when the interviews were taped last month in California. Nixon expressed surprise that Frost had them. "It hasn't been published yet?" Nixon asked when Frost quoted from one taped conversation. Frost replies "I think It's available to anybody _Jfsthv.. ;>"«infr.' Time magazine. In a lengthy account of the nearly 29 hours Nixon answered Frost's questions, quotes the former President as saying his immediate actions after the burglary June 17. 1972. at the Watergate offices of the Democratic par- Rtf tlttf pft*1* ky OM L*r«l ty were designed "not to try to cover up a criminal action" THEY LIKE IT HERE - A pair of Canada geese, creasing number of geese, probably feral descen- but to contain the scandal for political reasons .„ named for the Far North country where they nor- dants of local domestic flocks, have been breeding "We weren't going to allow people In the White House, mally nest, graces a farm pond off Newman and raising their young in Monmouth County. people in lhe reelection committee at the highest levels who Springs Road, Holmdel. In recent years, an In- were not'involved to be smeared by the whole thing." Nixon is quoted. ' Time concedes "some brief crucial moments of this tap- ing have been kept in strictest secrecy by Frost." Indeed, one question surely asked — why Nixon didn't destroy those dam- aging tapes — is mentioned nowhere in the magazine's ac- NIXON TALKS FOR TV INTERVIEW - Former Howard hearings set count ' President Richard Nixon gestures during a recent The interview, first of four to be aired in succeeding Interview with David Frost for a series of tele- weeks, is sure to regenerate some Watergate passions. News- vision specials, the first of which will be televised week, which also devoted this week's cover story to Nixon- Wednesday night. Frost - but apparently not with the same access to the tap- ing sessions as Time — announced former Watergate prose- Charles W Colson. on June 20. 1972. three days after the Wa- on broad transit plan 1 cutor Leon Jaworski has agreed to write a "factual response" tergate burglar) By JIM OSTROFF first hearing is slated for to- The Howard plan, which penditures average 17 9 bil- in next week's issue "It doesn't sound like a skillful job." Nixon told Colson WASHINGTON - Rep. morrow, with a second on has not been drafted into bill lion annually. The newly published tapes were prepared by the Water- "II we didn't know better. 1 would have thought it was deliber- James J. Howard. D-N.J., Wednesday, then May 11. 11, form, would establish a mass The Highway Trust Fund gate prosecution team for the 1974 cover-up trial of Nixon in- ately botched " wit to hold i press confer- 17, II, M and 25. and June 7 transit trust fund to make was established by Congress timates John N Mitchell. It K Haldeman and John D Eh- That was on the same day that Nixon talked about Water ence today to announce that and I. available $1 billion a year for in the mid 1950s to permit rliclftnan They were routinely supplied to defense lawyers, gate with Haldeman — a conversation lost because of a IK'-j House Speaker Thomas J. Meanwhile, the Senate pay-as-you-go transit project, construction and maintenance but not used at trial because similar material was found in minute erasure O'Neill has assigned him to Banking Committee will re- specifically for construction of the vast system of inter- olher tapes Frosts people and the current Watergate prose- Haldeman's notes of that vanished conversation had said develop the nation's first total view tomorrow a 111 5 billion and new equipment state highways that now link cutor deny making them public "what is our counterattack? PR offensive to top this." Nixon surface transportation pro mass transit construction and the nation's cities. One tape is of a conversation Nixon had with top aide gram. operating bill sponsored by Mr. Howard, whose com- mittee has responsibility for Under the Howard plan, When completed, the pro- Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., House transit and highway two cents would be tacked gram is supposed to raise $5 D-N.J. legislation, has contended onto the federal gasoline tax billion over present alloca- This proposed legislation in- that a three to four cent per to pay for a $2 billion bridge- tions tor highway and mass cludes a $9.1 billion package gallon Increase in the federal replacement program on transportation projects, for construction of new or im- Busy session in prospect gasoline tax is needed to highways across the country, mainly through new gasoline proved mass transit facilities, meet the costs of spiraling and one cent for $1 billion In and about W00.000 for oper- highway repair and safety improvements to insure Mr. Howard, chairman of ating assistance. costs safety on non-interstate toe House Public Works Sur- These funds would be added roads. face Transportation Subcom- to $31 billion In construction He noted the present four- for state mittee, has scheduled 10 hear- money and $2 5 billion for op- cenf-a-gallon tax only raises Mr. Howard has placed the ings on road and rail trans- erating assistance funds $6.7 billion a year for the total costs of repairing an es- TRENTON (AP) - The Any person who obtains location agents to refund any make it a misdemeanor for over $1,000 in welfare benefits portation to elicit public and available through the Urban Highway Trust Fund, while timated 100,000 unsafe bridges proposed state budget, wel- charges to clients over $10 if crimes involving corruption under false pretenses would government opinions. Ths Mass Transportation Act. repair and construction ex- See Transit, page 2 fare fraud, rental location a suitable apartment is not by public officials involving agents, correspondence face up to seven years in Jail found less than $200 For amounts schools and penalties for and a fine of up to $5,000 un- The Senate is to vote on a involving over $200. possible crimes by public officials der a bill set for a vote in the bill that would authorize stu- fines for those convicted were among the topics sched- Assembly. dents in correspondence would increase from $2,000 to 800 demonstrators jailed uled for legislative action The bill, sponsored by As- schools to recover damages $100,000 today. semblyman Ernest Schuck. If they are defrauded A bi|l that would remove Final legislative action on D-Camden, would classify Sen Alexander Menza. 1) the $3,001) limit on annual the $4 billion state Budget for each six-month period of re- Union, the sponsor of the bill, dues by county boards of 1*77-78 is scheduled in the As- ceiving illegal welfare benfits said young persons have been *frH3iMUnaumw Association' in protest of nuclear plant sembly as separate offenses defrauded for years by un of Chosen Freeholders is set The Senate passed the State licenses would be scrupulous representative* "I for final legislative action In. SEABKOOK, N.H. (AP) - crowd of about 2.000 protes- The arrests came as a sur- arraignments that lasted into budget bill last week without required for persons who private correspondence the Assembly At least 840 demonstrators, ters and slowly and methodi- prise to many of the demon- early today. changing the revisions made charge a fee to find an apart- schools His bill would author- The association is a lobby most of them in their 20s, cally began making arrests. strators who earlier in the The demonstrators — orga- by the legislature's Joint Ap- ment for a prospective renter ize the students to recover organization for the freehol- were being held in Jails and Some of the protesters, day were debating whether to nized by the Clamshell Al- propriations Committee. under a bill scheduled for As- three times the tuition of the der boards that publishes a crmories In this seacoast area many of them wearing back- block the entrance to the en- liance, a coalition of North- If the Assembly approves sembly action. correspondence school if they magazine, holds an annual today after they were ar- packs containing bed rolls closed compound, forcing a east groups opposed to nucle- the budget bill. It would be The bill, sponsored by As- are victimized by fraud convention and informs free- rested for refusing to end a and camping equipment, fell direct confrontation. ar power — converged on the forwarded to Gov. Brendan T. semblyman John Spizzin.