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_ ..OREGON daily emerald World News & Sports Supplement .. — . ^ 75, No.a —^_Monday, July 9, 1973 Watergate member urges Nixon to testify WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Herman Talmadge(D-Ga.),a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, urged Sunday that President Nixon relent and appear before the panel to dispel “this cloud that’s hanging over the White House.” “If he has nothing to hide, why does he refuse to appear?” Talmadge said of Nixon’s letter to the committee declaring he would not appear personally “under any circumstances” and would not permit inspection of any presidential papers. Sen. Edward Gurney of Florida, one of three Republicans on the committee, and Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the assistant Democratic leader, also urged the President to publicly answer charges against him by former White House counsel John Dean III, but to do so in a news conference format. Nixon, in stating his position Saturday, said he thought he would violate his con stitutional duty to the independence of the presidency and to the doctrine of separation of powers if he were to testify before the committee. The President advised the Senate committee, however, that “at an ap propriate time during your hearings, I intend to address publicly the subjects you are considering.” Attorney General Elliot Richardson hinted that Nixon was considering the news conference format. Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, the GOP national chairman at the time of Watergate, said in Kansas City he did not think the President should be expected to comment after every appearance by a witness before the committee. “It’s sort of the public trial of Richard Nixon,” said Dole. “If he had to comment on every statement of every witness, I don’t know where this thing would end.” The calls for a presidential statement on the subject came as the Watergate com mittee headed by Sen. Sam Ervin Jr. (D N.C.) prepared to resume televised hearings Tuesday with John Mitchell, the former attorney general and Nixon re election campaign manager, as the next witness. In other developments: — The Washington Star-News quoted its sources as saying Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon’s personal lawyer and the next scheduled witness after Mitchell, is ready to name Mitchell, Dean and former presidential adviser John Ehrlichman as those who had him arrange cash payments to the Watergate suspects. Kalmbach was No more 1Greetings! ’ but... By WILLIAM CLAIBORNE <C) 1973, The Washington Post WASHINGTON — At midnight June 30, the President lost his authority to induct men into the armed services. For the first time in nearly a third of a century — and after more than 18 million Americans have been conscripted into uniform — the draft has officially been ended. Gone are the Selective Service system’s fearful “greetings” letters and the assembly line induction centers where reluctant young draftees took (me step forward and were suddenly transformed into soldiers, somehow mystically motivated to defend their country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Also gone from the federal bureaucracy are hundreds of dusty draft board offices in old post office buildings, and impersonal clerks whose relentlessly-pounding rubber (Continued on Page 6) reported to have finally balked at any further connection with the payments. — James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author and professor of political science, said impeachment is the “only alternative” if other witnesses corroborate Dean’s testimony that the President had knowledge of a cover-up. Talmadge and Gurney were interviewed together on ABC’s Issues and Answers and Byard appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation. Mitchell to claim innocence for himself and President NEW YORK (UPI) — Former Attorney General John Mitchell will deny he ap proved of the Watergate wiretap and will insist President Nixon knew nothing of the plans or the subsequent cover-up when he testifies this week before the Senate Watergate Committee, Time magazine reported Sunday. Time said Mitchell will tell the Com mittee, in testimony beginning Tuesday, that he attended two meetings at which the wiretap plans were presented, but will “deny flatly” he later approved the plans. The magazine said Mitchell also is ready to “insist adamantly” that President Nixon knew nothing of the plans in ad vance and nothing about the cover-up until last March 21, when the President claims to have begun a new investigation of his own. The anticipated testimony flatly con tradicts last week’s statements by John Dean that the President was aware of the cover-up and earlier evidence by Jeb Stuart Magruder that Mitchell approved of the wiretap plans. “He did indeed attend the two celebrated meetings at which G. Gordon Liddy, the former White House ‘plumber’ and Nixon committee counsel, presented his fantastic and illegal political in telligence-gathering plans,” Time said. “But Mitchell was prepared to deny flatly that he approved the plans at a third meeting, as claimed by Magruder,” the magazine reported. Time said Mitchell also will deny ever having seen any of the so-called “Gem stone” reports based on conversations overheard at Democratic national headquarters. He also will contend he still does not know who finally approved the wiretapping plans. In this issue WORLD NEWS • Adult-movie-motels in L.A. have respectable clientele (page 7). • Gen. William Westmoreland explains why he fears plana for an all- \ volunteer army won’t work (page 6). • China and American industries are negotiating for oil rights (page 9) • A special type of wool from Kashmir is so fine that seven yards can be pulled j through a finger ring. SPORTS • Sherwood Stewart swept through a field of 63 tennis players to win Eugene’s pro tourney (page 12). • The L.A. Dodgers are on top in the National League’s West Division and they may just stay there (page 11).
