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■\ Tax plan vote today. For polling places see page 4. Tuesday, May 1, 197:$ Richardson new A. G. Nixon accepts blame ASHINGTON (UPI) — Vowing there be “no whitewash at the White ue ” president Nixon Monday night onally accepted responsibility for the ging of Democratic Party marters last year. an emotional 27-minute radio and ision speech, just a few hours after pting the resignations of Attorney iral Richard Kleindienst and three of closest White House aides. Nixon said d been misled by advisers about high involvement in the Watergate affair. President said he was turning full lority in the continuing Watergate tigation over to Elliot Richardson, defense secretary, whom he named ier in the day to replace Richard indienst as attorney general, ialling Richardson a man of uestioned integrity, he said the new imey general has the authority to lint a special prosecutor to handle the [ergate scandal, if he deems it issary ixon continuously has rejected lestions that he should name a special iecutor in the Watergate matter, as iv have urged lust before Nixon spoke, Gordon chan, a former principal assistant to Ideman and his liaison man with the ion campaign last year, announced his gnation as general counsel to the ted States Information Agency — iging to seven the number of men who e quit government in the wake of the Itergate scandal since last Thursday. News of the high-level shakeup caused Irp reaction on the stock market. On the F York Stock Exchange, the key Dow (es Industrial average bounced back b a showing of minus 8.21 at noon — M the time of the announcement — to a t of 0.75 within an hour. Although the Dow advanced, declines 1 led advances, 781 to 517, among the tissues on the tape. Standard & Poor’s stock index lost 0.21 to 107.02. racing the history of the Watergate sir the President said he first learned tun June 17 — the day of the break-in at mocratic national headquarters in the r!^ale ln Washington — while he was Florida, resting from his summit ehng in Moscow. I was appalled,” Nixon said, “at this ®®; 'Hegal act.” He said he was ocked that employes of the Com 'et 111 Re-Elect the President had been t]108e guilty” of the break-in and •tripled bugging But, he continued, he “repeatedly” asked if any member of his administration was involved and was “repeatedly” assured none was. Nixon said that after he learned of the original break-in, he immediately ordered an investigation. That probe was con ducted by Dean, although the President did not say so specifically in his broadcast. “I believed the reports I was getting .1 discounted the stories in the press that tended to implicate members of my ad ministration,” he said. As a consequence of those assurances, Nixon said, he “discounted stories in the press” con tradicting the assurances he was given. “Until March of this year 1 remained convinced that the denials were true,” he said, and that the charges of involvement and of a cover-up by high officials were false. The President called for faith in the judicial process to rectify events related to this scandal. Denying the Watergate in cident implied “the bankruptcy of the American political system,” he said, “It was the system that brought the facts to light.” Nixon declared that those who per petuated the crime — and those seeking to cover it up — must be punished. Although he insisted that the officials whose resignations he has accepted had been convicted of no crime, he left little doubt that they were now under serious scrutiny. Nixon said Kleindienst had “no in volvement in this affair whatsoever.” As for John Ehrlichman — his chief domestic adviser, and Haldeman — his White House chief of staff, he said, “I mean to leave no implication whatsoever of personal wrongdoing ” But he said the resignations were ac cepted out of a desire to have “rigorous legal and ethical standards” at the White House, and he said he was confident these standards would be “observed and en forced ” Accepting the resignations, Nixon said, was “one of the most difficult decisions I have had in the White House.” “I wanted to be fair,” he said. “But I knew that in the final analysis that faith in this office, and faith in the personal in tegrity of this office, should take precedence ” He said the resignations were “necessary to restore confidence” in the White House (Continued on Page 8) ASUO elections continue ah_r, L.°veys, ASUO vice-president, ibutes the turn-out of over 800 as on the first day of the primary ttTf'0n !° the “far>tastic weather" and act that the candidates had a little 6|''onger to campaign ” a-\ voting will continue, and h "8 b'K)ths W'H go to the Greek anri ?,s'Ibe College Inn, the Law School dnd Westmoreland. EMtaUmary ba,lot boxes will be at the Co-°P- on 13th in front of and u°nVViealth an(i m front of Carson "J Hamilton dormitories. 'Uers are being asked to fill out a survey concerning the use of roving boxes On Wednesday, Loveys will announce the result of the survey and how it will affect his policy on the general election Loveys has posted the revised Election Rules on the candidates’ notice board and copies are available in 308 EMU. The Elections Court will meet at 7 p m tonight to consider any violations of the rules. Loveys said that, should any violation have a bearing on the results of the election, he will withhold the final vote count Walter Wentz of the Millrace Development Committee slogs through the mud of the drained channel towards its bank. Clean Photo by Norman Choi up workers spent Sunday finding a variety of objects on the Millrace floor. Bikes, beds and bottles pulled from Millrace mud By LEE SIEGEL Of the Emerald What started out as a cleanup of the Millrace ended with the appearance of a potential White Elephant sale. Actually, a brown elephant sale would probably seem more appropriate to the fifty people who spent Sunday wallowing in knee deep mud while retrieving the discarded remnants of modern civilization. Those who participated in the cleanup— which was sponsored by the Survival Center, the Druids and the Committee for Millrace Development—found a vast array of interesting items, most of which were preserved intact by the thick bottom deposit of Millrace silt. Among the articles pulled from the mud were three bicycles, a tape recorder, a go cart frame, three pairs of eyeglasses still intact, a bedframe, a camera tripod, a bowling ball, a shotput, and of course, the inevitable hundreds upon hundreds of beer bottles and cans. Also found, according to Mike Dotten, director of the Survival Center, were numerous pots and pans, and enough knives, forks, spoons and plates to “make a complete service for twelve.” Perhaps the most interesting discoveries of the Millrace cleanup were two news paper boxes with their coinboxes broken open, and a bank deposit pouch containing several uncancelled checks. Dotten said the Eugene police were contacted and that they reported the pouch was stolen in a January, 1973 burglary. No cash was found. Dotten said that there were one and one half feet of water still standing in the Millrace Sunday, despite the fact that it had been drained. The culvert which drains the Millrace into the Willamette River is badly plugged “The Millrace is really polluted and in bad shape,” said Dotten, indicating that it could easily become a health hazard. If this happened the city would have to do something, quite possibly filling in the Millrace. One of the sponsors of the cleanup, the Committee for Millrace Development, published a proposal in 1970 which calls for a cleanup of all solid waste in the Millrace, and the eventual assignment of all property easements along it to the city so that dumping and filling could be stopped The city ordinance against dumping is ineffective due to the difficulty of en forcement. Presently, the committee is approaching fraternities and sororities along the Millrace asking them to turn over their easements. Most of the land along the Millrace is privately owned; only a small portion belongs to the city or the University. The committee intends to eventually turn over the easements it acquires to the city.
