Grapes . . .
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Some farm workers tried to tip
over sheriffs' cars. Willmirth
said, but were frightened away
by deputies armed with shotguns
“After about two weeks of this,
vour nerves are a little bit tight,”
he said. “So far our people have
kept their cool and conducted
themselves extremely well.”
The arrests began last Wed
nesday when the UFW launched
its latest tactic in its fight with
the giant Teamsters Union for
representation of field hands. 'Hie
labor dispute started when grape
growers in Southern California
switched work contracts from the
UFW to the Teamsters in April,
and has moved northward along
with staggered harvest season.
The jails of neighboring Kern
County were so filled with
arrested farm workers by late
last week, that Superior Judge
John Nairn waived bail
requirements so the cells could
be emptied.
At a rally later in the day in
Lodi. 130 miles north of Fresno,
Chavez called for an in
vestigation by U.S. Attorney
General Elliott Richardson into
allegations that a group of
sheriff s deputies had beaten nine
men they singled out as leaders.
He said the prisoners were
beaten after a Fire was started by
other inmates in the jail. Among
those injured, he said, was Mike
Drake, a Los Angeles-based labor
organizer for the Com
munications Workers of
America
Sheriff W'illmirth said there
was a small fire but it was in an
area of the jail well away from
where farm workers were locked
up
He strongly denied any
prisoners were beaten,
describing the charge as “gar
bage" designed to incite trouble.
WTillmirth said that a union
designated physician examined
inmates Sunday morning and
found no evidence of ill
treatment.
Nixon won 9t release tapes,
plans Watergate offensive
CAMP DAVID. Md (UPI) — President Nixon,
described as deeply concerned that the Watergate
scandal had eroded public confidence in his
leadership, met again Sunday with two of his aides
to discuss strategy for dealing with the crisis.
Nixon’s chief of staff, Alexander Haig Jr., and
Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler flew here by
helicopter early in the afternoon and met with the
President for just over two and a half hours to
discuss Watergate and other issues, a spokesman
said.
White House officials said the President was
angry about the conduct of the televised Senate
hearings on Watergate He was said to believe the
hearings had degenerated from a legitimate
legislative inquiry' into wrong-doing to character
assassination erf his former associates and a
political attack on him personally
They said the series of meetings he has held
since his release from the hospital Friday were to
develop a strategy few seizing the initiative on the
issue which, despite public protestations to the
contrary, they privately concede has virtually
paralyzed the administration for the past several
weeks
He met with all his top aides in the White House
Friday and on Saturday held an hour and a half
session here with Haig. Ziegler and his two main
Watergate lawyers. Fred Buzhardt and Leonard
Garment.
This concern about dwindling of public con
fidence in the President appeared well founded. A
Gallup poll published bunaay snoweo a s-pomi drop
from a month ago in public approval of the way he is
handling his job.
The most immediate problem he faces, ac
cording to the sources, is convincing the public that
his decision not to furnish tapes of his conversations
with Watergate suspects is based on his con
stitutional duty to protect the authority of the
presidency and not an effort to cover up any per
sonal involvement.
Nixon is scheduled to send a letter Monday to
Sen Sam Ervin, head of the Senate Watergate
Committee, declining the committee’s request for
access to the tapes
The President was spending the weekend here
regaining his strength after an eight-day bout with
viral pneumonia With him were his wife Pat, their
friend C.G “Bebe” Rebozo, and the two White
House doctors. Walter Tkach and William Lukash.
The Nixons' daughter, Julie, and her husband,
David Eisenhower, were invited to Sunday dinner.
According to a presidential spokesman, the
doctors examined Nixon both Saturday and Sunday
and found “no signs of fatigue.”
Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said the
President and Mrs. Nixon have taken leisurely
walks through the woods around their rustic retreat
despite rainy, overcast weather.
Nixon is scheduled to resume a normal White
House workload Monday. The only requirement
from his doctors is to take hour-long rest periods
morning and afternoon
Congress continues investigations
of alleged administration violations
WASHINGTON fUPI) —
Congress, in an increasingly
testy anti-administration mood,
returns this week to continue its
investigations of alleged
deceptions and wrong-doing on
the part of the administration.
High on the agenda is Sen.
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Henry Jackson’s investigation of
last year's multi-billion-dollar
grain deal with the Soviet Union.
Jackson's subcommittee has
called Agriculture Secretary
Earl Butz and Assistant
Secretary Carroll Brunthaver to
explain exactly how much they
knew about the deal before it was
completed and whether there was
any mismanagement in its
operation
A Senate armed forces sub
committee. angry over deceptive
information provided it by the
Defense Department, plans to
continue its investigation of the
secret bombing of Cambodia at a
time when the administration
publicly was saying the United
States had no military in
volvement there.
.And yet another Nixon ap
pointee — William Colby. his
nominee as director of the
Central Intelligence Agency — is
in trouble as the Senate in
vestigates Colby’s and the
agency's relationship to domestic
intelligence-gathering operations
Butz, appearing in a television
interview Sunday, called the flap
over the grain deal “a red
herring played up out of all
proportion to its importance.”
Even after several grain
companies had advised the
Agriculture Department that
negotiations were under way, he
said, "we didn’t have any idea
about the magnitude of the sale.”
Butz also defended the trans
action as “a tremendously good
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sale” that helped to lessen the
U S balance of payments deficit.
Aiming for an Aug. 3 start on
another vacation, both the House
and Senate have a full agenda of
controversial items to iron out
first — with the knowledge their
time off could be rudely in
terrupted, either by the President
seeking to extend his authority to
continue bombing Cambodia or
by their own leadership, which
promised it will not hesitate to
call them back if necessary to
attempt to override a
Presidential veto.
One bill almost certain to face a
veto is the war powers bill which
was unlikely to be ironed out by
conferees and given final ap
proval by both houses 10 days
before they adjourn. The House
version requires congressional
approval of war after 120 days,
'he Senate’s, 30 days.
Also to be battled in conference
was the farm bill which the House
spent almost all of the past two
weeks writing.
While the conferees are busy,
the House has set aside almost
the entire week to discuss ways of
controlling President Nixon’s
power to impound appropriations
and setting a ceiling on how much
the administration can spend.
The Senate, aside from another
full week of Watergate hearings,
will concern itself on the floor
with ways of limiting and con
trolling campaign spending.
On the House side, the Interior
Committee is writing a bill to
direct the interior secretary to
allow the controversial trans
Alaska pipeline to be built
without further delay.
Proponents want that acted on
before the recess and hope to
complete the bill-writing process
by Tuesday.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee wants to inquire
whether the State Department
misrepresented the Canadian
government’s position on a
Canadian alternative to the
t rang-Alaska pipeline.