*Nixon Refuses to Obey Historic Ruling on Tapes
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*Nixon refuses to obey historic ruling on tapes SAN CLEMENTE, California (AP)-- White House spokesmen would not fidentiality of the Presidertcy. President Nixon will refuse to com- comment beyond the brief written Sirica called his course a mid- ply with a federal judge's order to statement, issued less than three dle ground between the two con- turn over tapes of White House con- hours after District Court Judge flicting claims-of the President versations for the judge's private John J. Sirica ruled that Nixon and of the inspection, the Western White House must "produce forthwith for the Watergate said yesterday. court's examination in camera" the prosecutors, tape recordings of Nixon's conver- who want to sations with key aides implicated examine the U. S. NAVAL BASE in the Watergate investigation. tapes in Sirica's decision, handed down their in- CUBA GUANTANAMO BAY, in Washington,:represented an in- vestigation itial defeat for the White House, of the Water- which had contended no court had gate affair. the power to issue such an order. He said The tapes at issue are of private that with- conversations between Nixon and as- out discred- sociates that investigators be- iting the lieve could show whether the Presi- strength of the dent knew of the Watergate cover- Watergate JOHN J. SIRICA up. grand jury's Sirica's order was the first time claim to . on middle ground in history that a judge has comman- the information ded a President to produce materials he could not "as matters now stand, over his objections. Nixon has rule that the present claim of priv- claimed that to disclose the docu- ilege is invalid." ments would be against separation Instead, Sirica said in a 23-page Thursday, August 30, 1973 of powers and would violate the con- (See TAPES, Page 2) Uncle Sam's influence in Latin America sinks to new low By WILLIAM L. RYAN dominating influence of the United nent, where more than 120 million AP Special Correspondent States. live under one or another brand of military government, is witness- With some surprise, Uncle Sam is The North Americans have been ing a yeasty ferment. Chile, Peru beginning to see his Latin Ameri- getting increasingly harsh criti- and Argentina has signaled a sharp can cousins in a new light, and cism, some from people usually con- swing leftward, while booming, there's a good deal for him to sidered friendly. On the other restless turmoil has sparked a worry about. hand, the Soviet Union gives every sudden behind-the-scenes army take- Powerful waves of turbulence bat- appearance of being alert to Latin over and a heavy-handed crackdown ter traditional structures and re- opportunities. Its cautious, go- on liberties. And in many areas, make the hemisphere's political slow approach seeks political gain new anti-Yankeeism seems rising map. Hispanic America, indeed, of- through trade, aid and diplomacy. swiftly. ten seems to astonish itself with Moscow cautions Communists to be The Yankees' difficulties can be frequent outbursts of boisterous, warily selective about the use of traced back a century or more, but blustery, defiance at the Yankee violence. briefly, the recent background is Colossus. In any case, today's Latin Amer- this: ica is not the Latin America of a Long accustomed to its own brands dozen years ago when the Alliance Before World War II, Washington of violence and confusion, much of for Progress was aborning, spawned proclaimed a "good neighbor" poli- Latin America now finds itself mov- by a fear shared by Washington and cy, but by and large the United ing steadily to the left by ballot, hemisphere governments of the in- States tended to regard the area military coup and evolution. fluence of Fidel Castro's Cuban as a somewhat comic aggregation of Much of it, too, has been dis- communism. banana receptacles for lucrative playing eagerness to shuck off the Today the South American conti- (See YANKEE, Page 4) Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Thursday, August 30, 1973 TAPES- GAZETTEER (Continued from Page 1) .a digest of late news opinion which accompanied his order for the tapes, "tThe court has attempted to walk the middle ground between a failure to decide the question of privilege at one ex- treme, and a wholesale delivery of tapes to the grand jury at the other." MIAMI, Fla. (AP)-Romanian President Nicolai Ceausescu Meanwhile, Sen. Sam Ervin Jr., chairman of the Senate' and his wife were greeted by a 21-gun salute as they ar- Watergate committee, applauded Sirica's demand for the rived in Cuba yesterday from Bucharest. In a broadcast Watergate related tapes, calling the ruling yesterday monitored in Miami, Radio Havana said Ceausescu and a "a great victory for the search for truth." delegation from the Romanian Communist Party were met The special panel headed by the North Carolina Demo- at the Havana airport by Prime Minister Fidel Castro, crat has filed suit for the same tapes that Sirica or- President Osvaldo Dorticos and Raul Castro, the prime dered President Nixon to surrender to the court. minister's younger brother and head of the Cuban armed forces. The broadcast said Ceausescu's party was "It gives me hope the committee will hear them," Ervin "warmly applauded by crowds gathered at the airport." said in New Orleans. "I think we are entitled to the tapes just as much as the courts because we have a constitutional power to conduct the investigation." MADRID (UPI)-A four-engine jet transport of the U.S. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn, vice chairman of Military Airlift Command crashed and burst into flames the committee, issued a statement through his Washing- on a landing approach to Torrejon Air Base near Madrid, ton office saying the ruling in the Cox case "was a killing all but one of the 25 persons aboard, the U.S. wise decision (that) places adequate safeguards on Air Force said yesterday. The sole survivor, 1st Lt. national security and the seperation of powers issues" William H. Ray, 25, of McGuire Air Force Base, was raised by the historic conflict. thrown clear on impact and suffered multiple fractures of his left leg and contusions. The C141 Starlifter "Judge Sirica clearly took jurisdiction of the matter crashed Tuesday night near the Village of Huera in a and exercised the inherent power of a judge to hear flat area dotted with oak and olive trees 22 miles from evidence before it is made a part of the official rec- Torrejon and caught fire. Wreckage was strewn over ord," Baker said. more than a mile. Witnesses reported that several wo- The judge ordered Nixon to turn the tapes over to him men and children were among the dead. The Air Force, for private examination, leaving it to the court to de- meanwhile, said the plane carried 17 passengers and cide whether the tapes should be used as evidence. eight crew members and almost nine tons of cargo. Cox issued a brief statement following the ruling saying, "Naturally, we are very pleased by Judge Sirica's RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP)--U.S. embassy officials decision. If appelate review is sought, we will do said yesterday they knew "absolutely nothing" about a everything possible to expidite the proceedings." reported threat to kill Susan Agnew, Vice President The White House,'in-a statement issued in San Cle- Spiro T. Agnew's daughter, who was working on the mente, Calif., said the President's next step was under hospital ship "Hope" in Brazil. The vice president's study by his lawyers but that he would not comply office announced that Miss Agnew had been flown secret- with the judge's ruling. ly to the United States on Monday because of threats against her life. fA U.S. diplomat here said he had a Two other members of the Watergate committee, Sens. long talk last Thursday with Dr. William Walsh, founder Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, and Lowell P. Weicker Jr., and director of Project Hope, "And he told me Susan was said they would have no comment on the ruling but ex- doing a great job and that everything was fine." pected the case to go to the Supreme Court. Relations between Brazil and the United States are con- sidered excellent; there has been little open anti- Americanism in Brazil in recent years. * Gunanamo Water status Local Forecast Water figures for Tuesday Partly cloudy. Visibility un- S..a .t .t. and yesterday: restricted. Winds light & vari- able becoming southerly 8 to 12 t.a.S.~t?.Oot. t.i~.i. WATER PRODUCED: 1,823,300 knots durning the afternoon. -Oi. - . Maximum temperature 91, minmum 74 g- tt a Ji. .b. i WATER CONSUMED: 2,302,090 Bay conditions 1-3 feet. High tide 1122/2323 Low 0530/1820 WATER LOSS: 479,000 fl Oit.iwat. It p.Lb~bbd.isd- tt b ti. i .ii ti 6.bptdi.t. ~ Pp. t.ib.di itbiiO P-5 a" id b WATER IN STORAGE: 14,228,000 tida .t tt t. f.tttS a. fti. a iS.i~?5i b smY. Thursday, August 30, 1973 Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL NEWS--Page 3 It's back to school for Gitmo students It's back to school this week for some 1,060 students enrolled in the W.T. Sampson schools here. This figure breaks down into 125 kindergarten students, 625 in first through sixth grades and 310 in grades 7-12. Among the new additions to the schools are teachers who come from all over the world. The kindergar- ten now has three teachers; first through sixth grades have 23 and seventh through twelfth grades have 21.