Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 3-1-1974 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1974). Winona Daily News. 1313. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1313 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Mostly tloudy B yy-yy-rjnd. rnild W^K through Saturday t^|8^*TJ^§^iai|^)i^ five o^heFs^irTdicted V DONALD M. ROTHBERG —Haldeman, one count of prison and fine? ranging from sponsible for , ^participated Vin , President everything he. knew :' 'WASHINGTON (AP ) . - H'. -: R.: conspiracy to obstruct justice $2,000 for perjury to $10;O0O- for and bad knowledge of the activ- about Watergate and that after Haldeman and John D. EhrUch- and three counts of perjury ; lying to a; grand jury or court.. ities .which were the subject : of two meetings with Nixon that : ^ , man, once President Nixon's : 7-*-Mitcheli, one; count of con- Sirica 7 scheduled , . arraign- the investigation arid trial " 7 day he .was convinced . '.'that.the top White House aides, iand for- spiracy . to' obstruct: justice, two ments for March 9, a Saturday, 7 The . grand jury alleged that cover-up: as far as he White mer. Atty. Gen. John N; Mit- 'd House was concerned was go- counts of lying to a grand jury when Mitchell's trial. in : New HaldeTman .He to the . eSriate ' ¦;¦' ¦ chell were indicted today 7:by a or court, one count; of perjiiy York : on - separate charges Watergate committee on , July ing to continue." ; , . federal grand jury on charges and. one .count of lying to FBI stemming from a contribution 30, . 1973, when he said that The conspiracy count against they tried, to block: the Wafers agents; V - :- . to President Nixon's ,1972 re- President . Nixon had : said it the . seven : defendants charged gate: investigation. * • '/* 7 election caft -paign^would not be would .- be; Wroijg to meet de- that "it . was a part of the con- 7 Colson, Mardian and Park- .'. All told, the Watergate, grand iri session. 7 V* mands from the Watergate de- spiracy that the conspirators inson, one count each7 of con- fendants for $1 million. ; ; would; corruptly, influence, . ob- jury returned 24 . indictments ' "': . against seven men ,, includirig spiracy to obstruct justice; . * - Tlie indictment- charged that struct; and impede, the due^ ad- r-^Strachan, one count of. con- ' The . indictment -quoted*. Halde- Charles W. Colson, who had the .sevei* defendants * made ministration of. justice." . spiracy to obstruct justice arid original man 's testimony to the com- served as. a White House spe- Cash payments to the ' asked Ajnong the means . the in- one count of lying to. a grand Watergate defendants "for the mittee when he ; was cial counsel . * . - - '¦ ¦ ;¦¦ about a meeting in; the Presi- dictment alleged .were used , to V BETS ON OtJTCqiVIE^. Mark jury or court. 7 . ' - . .. :: purpose . of concealing and caus- Richards bottom. .Betting on this general election has dent's office on the morning - of carry , out the conspiracy were British¦¦' The others indicted , were for- ¦:. Each charge carries a max- ing to be concealed the . identi- ' crayons in .the final betting odds on the • been the heaviest ever with leading ; book- . Asst. Atty. Gen. Robert C. were re- March 21, .1973. X to "remove, conceal, alter and . general election at the' Joe Coral betting shop, •: makers clalniing that more . than a million mer7 ; imum penalty . of five years in ties of ; the persons Who destroy . Mardian; former president7iiai The indictment quoted Halde- .. document, papers, . London. He also did the line drawings at left : pounds has been staked; (AP -Photofax). records and objects , ¦ '.' . aide Gordon. C, .Strachan; and man as telling ; the committee v_ WOsoh, Heath and 7 Thorpe, from top to , for- "The . conspirators would Kenneth W.: Parkinson, an at- that the President asked torney for President Nixon's re- mer White House counsel John make and cause to be made of- election, finance 7 committee. W. Dean III how much * money fers 7 of leniency, .executive cle- mency:; and other benefits to; E. The . indictments climaxed a the defendants were demanding and that Dean replied - pirobabl Howard . Hunt Jr., : G. Gordon 20-mohth : investigation, . and , y a.imlllipn dollars'.' . '" ' Liddy, James W. McCord Jr., . along . with therri, the 7grand arid Jeb Magruder. jury delivered a sealed report Haldeman quoted Nixon as "The conspirators would . at- to U.S. Dist. .Court Judge. John replying,' "There, is no problem ¦ ¦ ; tempt to .obtain CIA .financial; J. Sirica. ¦ ' ¦:¦ V-: ' '7 in raising a million dollars. We assistance for persons who are can , do that, but .it would -be subjects of the investigation." . There¦ have been, reports that . such :. '¦• ': secret presentment wrong." ' :. ' li . a . The indictment, alleged Mit- might contain grand jury find- The next day Haldeman was ' chell, lied when he said:: . Byk^^ JOSEPH W. GRIGG \X :M 2 P,m.: (fl 7 . a.m7 CDT),j Britain back to7 a •¦full - woi47 ings involving President* Nixon. asked again if he was positive : —That, he had no 7 knowledge LONDON' ,;' (UPIK -7Labor ' party standings in' the election ! week; from the three-day Week In addition , the grand jury that, the President. said it would party leader ;Haro.d imposed ; .on industry. two of: the; break-in; other than what • Wilson j to the 635-seat ' House of j * gave the judge two black suit- be wrong to raise the money he had read in the . newspapers; emerged ; today 7 as 7 the likely months ago to save fuel stocks cases containing Watergate evi- arid he replied, 'T am absolute- , | Commons . .were Conservatives 7 ; ¦ ¦ ¦ —That he would have shut off upset victor in Britain's cliff- . in the coal crisis. 7 7 dence. • ' ¦ ;. ¦;'- ly positive-.".; "' " 278 seats, Labor 289, Liberal:9, j ^ any ..program for illegal surveil- nanjing general election but 7 independents1 11, with 48 seats.\ Sirica told the panel It may . The grand jury said Haider ¦ The last time Britain had a lance of . ^Democratic " candU with only: a . minority govern- l Undecided.1 • • ..;¦[ , face further , proceedings in the man's statements 7"were false;'' ' ' i . minority Labor party : govern- dates;;;; • .> • '-'" . V ment to try tb solve the nation 's. 7 Puffing his pipe, grinnihg and| • Liberal 7support was "Watergate case. He said the ju- The 7 prosecutors, 7 have the greatest economic crisis since ; ment With ¦ * wavijtig to crowds , of supporters',*!' . in 1929 under Labor's Jamef rors 7wefe not dismissed, and White House tape of that meet- The indictment alleged that :World War H. V may be called upon to resume ing. :. " Ehrlichman lied when he said: Wilson returned to his -London j Raixisay MacbonaW. their secret deliberations in two —That he: .could not 7 recall Labpr and Prime Minister home * from* Liverpool and atl . But7the MacDohald govern- ¦¦:¦ ¦ ¦ Dean had told the Senate Wa- once 'called a meeting7of his ' weeks;*- 7 ' '"• ' ' : - giving former presidential -law- Edward Heath's Conservatives ; ment was overwhelmed by the tergate committee that he 'be- Herbert W. Kalmbach his were racing to a probable photo ; Labor party shadow cabinet*— : 192? world economic crisis and . ', ' was yer . 7 The charges were: SMILE FROM STANS ... Former Commerce Secretary lieved.. that. * the President approval to raise funds secretly finish, and. everythirtg indicated ; the . men who would form; the fell after only two years.: It was aware of the cover-up . before ~Ehrlichman—one count pf Maurice Stans smiles Thursday as he leaves; federal court for the original Watergate . de- Wilson wpuld have to form , a ['government if Labor were ¦in replaced , in 1931 by,a coalition conspiracy to obstruct justice, March 21, the date Nixon, said ; P0wer, ' ' • ¦- .' - I in New York. Stans and former ^tty, John Mitchell are feridants. 7 government that would depend V" . "National" government domi- cine count of lying to. FBI . .Ge^:. he first learned of jt7 ' ' ;least ¦ ' 'He n&w ' being tried on charges of perjiii^ conspiracy and obstruction ' " ' Strachan was . charged with on. * . at . tacit; support from . said a government nated -by-the Conservatives. agents and ,two . counts of lying In ". - . addition, Dean testified lying to the grand jury. the moderate Liberal party. must , be formed at once to get of justice. Their jury was selected Thursday.. (AP Photofax) 21 he bid . the J Britons caught up in their to the grand jury or the court;_ that on March greatest economie crisis since World War Il7 were in no doubt about the; serious political crisis ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ • Of: . new' . * ¦ " : * :¦ • • indictment' • ¦ *:- ¦ • . •. - . ' . ¦ ' ' .' •» X- . ¦ ¦ ¦: ¦ X. .* •- ' .. * • ¦. " they now 7 faced. There were Inside Mideast s/ruf/fe such newspaper headlines 'as: ?'Who T le Democrats "D e a dl o c k Feared," RaiMAC ' Rules Britain Now?'' UCillOS are ' meeting." to ' , ; . patch 7 up some disputes on The; London stock . market akes Jemso/e/ri plummeted nearly 30 points in -1976 . convention plans, in- w MitchM ^ cluding abandonment of the' the first - two. ' hours . after NEW YORK (UPI) 7- John grand jury in Washington Peter Fleming Jr., for installer... a. Western Union quota system — story , page . opening. On the foreign ex- messenger ¦ ¦ N. Mitchell, once President handed up an indictirient Mitchell, and Walter J. Bonner, ... a bank teller.7. a ¦ '4.- . ; " ' " xyX'-Xx change market the pound Nixon's chief law enforcement for Stans, were , the defense woman apartment hou'e supe- . slop f or ' charging : Mitchell in connection d0ails slipped two cents against the officer; went on7 trial here today opening speakers scheduled for rintendent..