Questioned after news conference
Carter savs Nixon violated laws
—World at a glance—v
From Associated Press reports
Middle East talks ‘moving’
MADRID, Spain — Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said
Wednesday he sees "some signs of movement” in Middle East
talks that show a “better understanding among the parties” of
what each requires in a permanent peace.
“Don’t let me exaggerate this...there’s no major movement
at this point,” Vance told reporters en route to Madrid to meet
with the Spanish king. “But I see some signs of movement
among the parties...."
Omnibus farm bill adopted
WASHINGTON — The House Agriculture Committee
adopted a package of new and revised farm programs Thursday
that would increase price supports for major crops beyond levels
Pres. Carter sought.
The 165-page omnibus measure carries a price tag for the
farm sections of about $3.3 billion, compared to the $2.8 billion
Carter has said he would accept as the average annual max
imum cost.
Renewal of the Food for Peace program and food stamps
also is covered by the bill.
Defense budget increase eyed
ATLANTA — Defense Secretary Harold Brown said Wed
nesday that a deadlock in strategic nuclear arms limitations talks
coupled with continued Soviet weapons buildup may require an
increase in the U.S. defense budget.
“An increase on the order of $1 billion difference per year
may be needed if no SALT agreement is made and if the Soviet
Union continues its steady large buildup,” he told a news con
ference.
Surprise: coffee prices drop
NEW YORK — Procter & Gamble Co., the nation s second
largest coffee roaster, cut the wholesale price of its Folger coffee
by 25 cents a pound Thursday, the company’s first reduction
since last July.
A spokesman for Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble said
the cut in ground coffee prices to $4.18 was due to "declines in
green coffee prices in recent weeks.”
Blood alcohol level bill dies
SALEM — A bill to lower the amount alcohol in a person’s
blood as proof of driving under the influence of intoxicants was
killed Thursday by the Oregon House Judiaary Committee.
The measure, SB265, was passed by the Senate a month
ago. It would lower the blood alcohol level from .10 per cent to
.08 per cent.
Based on charts distributed by the Oregon Traffic Safety
Commission, it would take a 160-pound person five drinks of
liquor in an hour to reach the .10 level.
Brigade claim bank explosion
V
HfcUMUNU, wasn. —
The George Jackson Brigade, a
local revolutionary group, claimed
credit. Thursday for an afternoon
bomb explosion which damaged
the safety deposit vault of a
Rainier Bank branch in this sub
urban community east of Seattle,
the FBI said.
The blast came after several
telephoned threats from persons
indentifying themselves as
brigade members forced evacua
tion of the building, the FBI said.
There were no injuries reported.
The callers threatened bomb
blasts at both the Overlake Park
branch, where the vault was
damaged, and at the Midlake
branch of Rainier Bank.
No blast was reported at the
Midlake branch, although the FBI
said a search was continuing
there.
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Bank corp., Fred Holtz, said the
Overtake Park blast ripped plas
ter walls within the vault and
damaged some equipment.
Several Seattle-area radio sta
tions which received copies of a
communique from the brigade
said the document explained the
reason for the blast.
A spokesman at KRAB radio
said the communique expressed
sympathy for prisoners at the
Washington State Penitentiary in
Walla Walla. Maximum security
prisoners there have been locked
in their cells for weeks following
an outbreak of violence.
The communique said Rainier
Bank was picked because of “its
links to the Seattle Times, a
bourgeois newspaper.. .which
has led propaganda
attacks .. .against the prisoners
in Walla Walla."
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Carter expressed a personal
belief Thursday that Richard
Nixon “did violate the law” In
handling the Watergate scandal,
but suggested the former
president has convinced himself
he was innocent.
Following a formal television
radio news conference, Carter
House blocks Cuban trade
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Counteracting Senate committee
action, the House voted Thursday
to prohibit U.S. trade with or aid
to Cuba.
The House voted 288-119 to
Senate gets
voters bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Out
numbered Republicans on the
Senate Rules Committee gave up
their fight Thursday against the
Carter Administration’s election
day voter registration Nil but
vowed to renew the battle on the
Senate floor.
The committee passed the
measure by a 5-4 vote after Sen.
Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., the
ranking minority member, said it
was obvious that administration
foroes were in control and that to
continue offering amendments
was an exercise in futility.
“The sooner we can carry our
case to the floor and to the
public, the tatter,” he said.
The only Democratic com
mittee member to vote against
the Nil was Sen. James Allen of
Alabama. He had joined the GOP
members in saying the legislation
would open the way for
widespread election frauds.
The Nil, which would require
states to permit election day
registration at the polls for
persons seeking to vote in
congressional and presidential
elections, was approved on a
straight party-line vote last week
by the House Administration
Committee.
prohibit aid or trade with either
Cuba or Vietnam.
The position was urged by Rep.
John Ashbrook, R-Ohio, who
said the House should
specifically take a stand on the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee vote Tuesday to lift
part of the U.S. trade embargo
against Cuba.
The Senate Committee voted
10-7 to approve a proposal by
Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D.,
to permit Cuba to buy American
medicines, food, and agricultural
supplies but not to permit any
U.S. purchases of Cuban sugar or
other goods.
Ignoring the tradition against
criticizing fellow congressmen by
name, Ashbrook said the House
should not allow McGovern to set
U.S. foreign policy.
The House action was taken on
a $1.7 billion authorization for
U.S. economic aid around the
world during the fiscal year
starting next Oct. 1.
After adding the amendment
barring trade with Cuba and
Vietnam, the House approved the
bill, 252 to 158, and sent it to the
Senate.
The bill includes $1.1 billion for
U.S. assistance for food
development, population
planning and other human
resources programs. The balance
is primarily for U.S. contributions
for international organizations.
The House also rejected an
effort to prohibit any of the
foreign aid money for sterilization
but approved by a 30-11 standing
vote a prevision that no U.S.
money may be used for forced
sterilization programs.
was surrounded by reporters
seeking his reaction to the initial
Nixon interview on Watergate
with David Frost, broadcast last
“It didn’t change my opinion
atoout Pres. Nixon," said Carter,
adding that he watched only “a
small part” of the interview.
Carter amplified:
“I personally think that he did
violate the law, and I think he did
commit impeachable offenses. I
think he doesn’t think he did....I
think he has rationalized in his
own mind that he did all these
. .For the story on the Nixon
Frost interview and highlights of
the broadcast, please turn to
Page 20. ,
things for the benefit of his staff
members and so forth, and that
he didn’t have any criminal intent.
I think he’s mistaken.”
The President, at the news
conference, said his participation
in London summits with the
leaders of other major democratic
nations helped spark “a quiet
sense that we have justified
reasons for confidence.”
He said the leaders he met with
there came away with “a renewed
spirit of hope and confidence”
that they can compete suc
cessfully with the Soviet Union
and its Warsaw Pact allies.
On other topics, Carter said:
Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D.,
the 1972 Democratic presidential
candidate, was “mistaken” in
arguing last weekend that Car
ter’s economic policies doeeiy
resemble those of former
Republican Pres. Gerald Ford.
Carter cited a variety of social
welfare plans he has proposed,
ranging from more public works
to special efforts to combat youth
unemployment.
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