VOLUME 16 NUMBER 56 STONY BROOK, N.Y. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1973 |As The Dorms Empty. .| * Delivery and installation of IRCs new equipmentf is delayed - w I Athletes Player of the Year Awards Stories on pages 12, 13 k%__________________.. _I News Briefs 1 The Watergate Open Hearings : , _ A Look Towards the Future... International By JONATHAN D. SALANT (WNET) wlo cary the aremdy esed before X While school is eading for aive. gand jury that be was present at Hanoi Tota Le Duc TM said he will refuse to meet with Dr. Stony Brook dents he Fired as White House counsd discussions rding the Hon Kiser it the U.S. continues bombg in Vietnam. Tho Wateigate investi bon is only on Ap4l 30, Dean is reportedy d bgng and when arrived in Pahs for talks that ae delived the ultimatum be beoning. The next few days ready to testify that Nixon knew that he turned tee plan down. scheduled to begoon ursday with i t Nixon"'s National will see the appointment of an of the Wateigte cover-up. He And Nixon himself might be Security Advisz. The was a d to discuss dains by idedent ppr, and the has offered to tell all he knows called to testify. He is not on the both sides of violations of- the Vietnam eefire. The Vietcong beginning of the open televised about the Afftir in retum for in South it of 20 wi elesed by charged last weekend that U.S. panes have bombed heaing of the Senate immunity, and will be granted Vietnam in violation of the eeasefwe aement. The U.S. denies the the Senate committe, but committee investigating limited immunity. Senator Howard Baker Watergate. M~itcel, fogmercairman of (R-Tennessee) said that Nixon Ever since the Watergate an ounce yesterday on the Committee for the would be invited to state his case The price of, gold went past 100 dollars Affair was Ulked to high White the Re-election of the President, has before the committee. European money markets. One major London dealer blames House officials, there has been a of the Watergate scandal. record gold prices on political implications growing demand for the President to appoint an ... and at the Present National i ndependent government Combined New Seriees prosecutor. Senator Charles In Watergate developments yesterday, Attorney Another anti-war vote took place in the Senate as two Senate Percy (R-Minois) put the Senate Genezal-designate Elliot Richadsn named his final four committees have drafted legislation to deny President Nixon funds on record as urging such an choices for the post of special Watergate prosecutor and a for U.S. military operations in Indochina. appointment, and when federal judge ordered the release of classified material in the The Senate Foreign Relations Committee okayed an amendment, President Nixon nominated possession of former Presidential counsel John Dean. 13-3, to force the U.S. out of Indochina. The amendment also Elliot Richardson as Attorney Richardson identified the four men as Judge William H. banned any further U.S. bombing. The Senate Defense General, he gave Richardson the the Pentagon transfer Erickson of Denver, Judge Harold R. Tyler, Jr. of New York, Appropriations Subcommittee refused to let power to appoint such an funds to pay for the war. former judge David H. Peck of New York, and Warren M. investigator. Christopher of Los Angeles. The names were given to reporters Acting F.B.I. Director William Ruckelshaus says that missing On Thursday, the Senate during a break in Richardson's confirmation hearings before records from F.B.. wiretaps conducted from 1969 to 1971 to stop Select Committee on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Richardson added that he foreign policy leaks were found at the White House during the Presidential Campaign Activities, may name the special prosecutor as early as today. weekend and returned. Ruckelshaus indicated that the records were chaired by Senator Sam Ervin Before he was fired by President Nixon on April 30, Dean sent to Presidential Advisor Henry Kissinger for review, but he is (D-North Carolina), will begin its took certain classified files from the White House. He put the uncertain whether Kissinger actually saw them. open hearings on the Watergate papers in a safety deposit box because of fear that they might Affair. Testifying under oath be lost or stolen. When the White House asked for the papers' Senator Stuart Symington (D46ssouri) said that President about the breaklin and bugging return and the Senate Watergate Committee and government Nixon's three former top aides were "deeply involved" in the spy of Democratic headquarters and attorneys wanted to look at them for information regarding campaign against Daniel Ellsberg. Symington said secret testimony the subsequent cover-up, will be Watergate, U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica ordered that has implicated H.R. Haldeman, John Dean and John Ehrlichman in people like former Presidential certified copies be given to both government prosecutors and the plot, which -included burglarizing the office of Ellsberg's counsel John Dean, former the Senate committee. Dean said that the papers are even more psychiatrist. Attorney General John Mitchell, classified than Top Secret and will shed new light on former acting FBI director L. Watergate. The Washington Post reported that The stock market, Jittery over the price of gold reaching 100 Patrick Gray, former White "reliable sources" said that former acting F.B.I. director L. Patrick Gray was warned dollars. an ounce in Europe and the widening Watergate House aides H.R. Haldeman and by bureau officials that a cover-up was going on within weeks investigations, closed at the lowest mark of the year, 909.69, off John Ehrliichman, and convicted of the attempted bugging attempt. has lost about 142 points since hitting the record Watergate defendants G. Gordon 1429.- The market In addition, Ite White House again denied that Nixon knew high of 1051 on January 11 of this year. a Liddy and James W. McCord. In the New York area, Channel 13 anything of Watergate or the cover-up. The Supreme Court has ruled that women in the armed forces are entitled to the same dependents' benefits as men. But on the more basic question of whether sex has the same protection against Astronauts' Blast-off Detained; discrimination as race, the Court was deadlocked, 4-4. Caused by Problems with Skylab A new charge in connection with a a financing, this one from Raymond Dirks, the stock analyst who once uncovered a CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) - Mission Control says Sunday's Ilaunch probably will be set for around financial scandal. He said that he has advised the New York Stock the three Skylab astronauts will be launched 11 a.m. The? three astronauts will fly to Houston Exchange that he was tipped by a journalist that International Sunday morning to rendezvous with their crippled today to takce part in the planning sessions on the Telephone and Telegraph had contributed $3,000,000 to the space station and carry out a curtailed mission. modificationis caused by the problems in Skylab. Committee for the Re-election of the President. Trouble aboard the earth orbiting Skylab has In additio»n to the failure of two solar wings, The New York Stock Exchange had no immediate comment. A forced a five-day delay of the launch of astronauts NASA officiiAls also report trouble with -a gyro that spokesman for I.T.T. said, '"We categorically deny Mr. Dirks' Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz and is used to ccontrol the attitude of the Skylab in charges. They're ridiculous." threatens to shorten the mission. relation to tthe earth and sun. However, they said Skylab Program Director Bill Schneider says the two gyros alboard the laboratory are operating and A Denver judge has ruled that the Atomic Energy Commission space agency has carefully examined all systems they don't expectl any problem with the Skylab may go ahead with its plan to use a nudear blast to release natural aboard the Skylab and that the malfunctions will "tumbling" iin space. gas deposits in western Colorado. Environmentalists had argued that cause no safety nazara for me unoee spacemen. radiation from the underground explosion could poison the However, the malfunctions will cause plenty of Colorado River, which provides drinking water for 27,000,000 problems. Southwest residents. Schneider says the failure of two wing-like solar This iis the final issue of power generators will force NASA to severely curtail-nearly all of the experiments planned for State the first crew mission. 'Me State Bar Association rated two of the six candidates for Schneider added there is a possibility the tatesman Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals as '"well qualified" and two as mission can go a full 28 days and that later Skylab "not qualified." crews can carry out 56-day missions as planned. or Spring '73 Found well qualified were Associate Appeals Judge Charles D. However, he said the new mission could be ESi Breitel (R-Liberal) and U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, a trimmed to between 16 and 21 days in the Skylab. candidate in the June 4 Democratic primary. He said controllers still can not say whether there Enj<yDy your vacation State Supreme Court Justice Irwin Brownstein and Jacob D. will be enough power for a 28-day mission as Fuchsberg, a Manhattan attorney, both of whom are seeking the originally planned. Democratic nomination, were found not qualified. Supreme Court Justice Francis T. Murphy, Jr., a fourth contender Front Page Photo Inside STATESMAN student newspaper of in the Democratic primary, was found ""qualified."' 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