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Ribicoff Watergate Hearings Resumed Criticizes MICKEY FINN BY HANK LEONARD Drug Effort HARTFORD (AP) - U.S. Hunt Implicates Sen. Abraham Ribicoff said t^ay the federal government has been so concerned with stopping heroin traffic that it has failed to combat even more Colson In Scheme ^-xt widespread abuse of other » mmNI»I..T. M Ml drugs. Ribicoff's comments came in WASHINGTON (AP) - E. former Nixon campaign deputy grounds he might incriminate CAPTAIN EASY BY CROOKS & LAWRENCE a morning news conference Howard Hunt Jr. testified today Jeb Stuart Magruder and himself. following the release of a that Charles W. Colson was ousted White House counsel Hunt, a 21-year veteran of the Senate subcommittee report on among those approving the John W. Dean III. Central Intelligence Agency, the results of a nine month “Gemstone” intelligence “Later I learned that Charles said Colson recommended him study of federal drug control ef scheme that included the W. „Colson, special counsel to for a job on the White House forts. Ribicoff is chairman of Watergate wiretapping. the President, had approved it, staff in 1971 because there was PRISCILLA’S POP BY AL VERMEER the subcommitee. Hunt, in a statement too,” Hunt said. a need for his skills as a spy. “Present drug enforcement prepared for the Senate’s Colson has denied any ad He said he and G. Gordon Lid- priorities and strategies are resumed Watergate hearings, vance knowledge of the dy arranged a . break-in at the overwhelmingly weighted said he understood the Watergate wiretapping. In a 2 office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psy toward the suppression of Gemstone counter-intelligence private session with the Senate chiatrist in September of that heroin as the nation’s number- plan was requested by former Watergate committee, Colson year because “of the belief that one drug menace,’’ Ribicoff Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell, refused to answer questions on Dr. Ellsberg or his associates said. were providing classified infor But according to a recent sur mation to the Soviet Union.” vey by the National Commis He said former White House sion on Marijuana and Drug aide Egil Krogh approved that Abuse, other drugs are misused Public Hearing break-in. STEVE CANYON BY MILTON CANIFF 17 times as frequently as Later, after Liddy moved heroin, he added. from the White House staff to Nevertheless, the Bureau of President Nixon’s re-election Narcotics and Dangerous Tuesday On campaign, Hunt said he and Drugs has assigned only 240 of Liddy designed a budget for a THE BORN LOSER BY ART SANSOM its 1,600 agents to full-time duty large-scale counter-intelligence combating “the diversion of Laurel Lake program requested by Mitchell, legally manufactured pills into who became director of the re- the illicit market,” Ribicoff SOL R. COHEN election campaign. Church Youth Paint House Hunt said the Watergate said. (Herald Reporter) “One element of the drug pic The young people’s group of Emanuel Lutheran Church burglary grew out of the coordinator), Carol Bensen and Martin Johnson. Not A public hearing on a proposed ordinance to purchase the Gemstone intelligence scheme. ture appears unchanged. Teen spent Saturday, despite chilling temperatures, giving the agers are among the principal shown were: The Rev. Ronald Fournier, Stephanie and 110-acre U urel Lake for $449,400 is scheduled for 8 p.m. Hunt, who pleaded guilty to abusers and schools are a prin home of Rudy Swanson at 437 Summit St. a new "coat of Beverly Fuss, Karen Johnson, Terry Downing, Becky Tuesday in the Manchester Municipal Building. wiretapping, burglary and con cipal marketplace and arena of paint. From left are: Swanson, a double-leg amputee; Mar Revter, Rebecca Doordvin and Sandy Gustafson. (Herald Although the voters on March 13 approved a $1,391,000 spiracy in the Watergate case, abuse,” he said. ta Schaffer, Kevin Schaffer, David Moyer (church youth photo by Larson) appropriation for purchasing the property and for making is seeking to have his guilty Ribicoff said the federal site iniprovements thereon, the actual purchase must be plea set aside and all charges government has failed to act as against him dropped. Among k' by ordinance, as spelled out in the town charter. other things, he says he thought effectively as it could to curtail The proposed ordinance is THE FLINTSTONES BY HANA-BARBERA the wiretapping was legal. organized crime’s role in illicit one of three items on Tuesday’s the land since 1881 went into drug traffic. One reason has Democrats Y ote I News Capsules 1 “I thought it was an unwise Board of Directors agenda. 'The receivership. The property was operation, but I viewed it as been the failure to involve the second is a proposed resolution conveyed to Horace J. legal,” Hunt said. He said Lid FBI in federal drug-law en for issuing $1,391,000 in bonds Wickham, then to the Wickham forcement, he added. Rationing Plan Perons Win dy told him there was reason to ...THie IS youR Tuesday In —$449,409 for the purchase and Mfg. Co., then to Case & believe the Democrats were WASHINGTON (AP) - The $941,600 for the improvements; TRAFFIC REPORTER,' BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Marshall Inc., then to Case getting money from the Com and a proposed resolution for UIGHWAV 85, LEAP Nixon administration has gone (AP) — Thousands of Argen Bros., and then, on Dec. 12, munist government of Cuba. ING TO THE B E A C H , nearly three-quarters of the issuing $1,391,000 in temporary tinians danced, sang and 1967, to Robert Case Dennison “I deeply regret that I had IS A MESS// Albert Three Towns way toward rationing under its notes, pending the bond issue. shouted in the streets through and Wells Case Dennison, the any part in this affair. I think it fuel-shortage contingency plan, the night in celebration of Juan When the directors By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS present owners. was an unfortunate use of saving actual rationing as a last D, I’eron’B ,election to the authorized the March 13 The responsibility for ob executive power and 1 am sorry Defends Three incumbent mayors who failed to win their party’s referendum, they specified it resort. The plan, not released presidency from which the taining a clear title was the that I did not have the wisdom endorsement for re-election in ttelr respective towns will officially, has four stages, star military ousted him 18 years was subject to three subsequent seller’s. On Aug. 10 in Hartford to withdraw,” Hunt said. be fighting in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for a spot on ting with voluntary public ago. Official returns from Sun affirmative actions — getting County Superior Court, at Hunt said his part in the Congress state approval of sanitary- the November ballot. restraint and working up past day’s balloting gave the 77- torneys for the Dennisons ob cover-up of the Watergate af price increases and priority year-old former dictator 61 per landfill plans, obtaining a clear WASHINGTON (AP) - tained a “Quiet Title” judge- fair seemed natural to him The Shelton Democratic party is backing Board of ■lists to rationing. cent of the vote. Peron’s run title to the property, and mertl — thus obtaining clear ti M