Friday, September 21, 1973
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Strauss
urges unity
for
WASHINGTON (IP) -1D
tic National Chairman
Strauss appealed yestet
compromise between war
tions as a party reform
sion prepared to map r
rewriting controversial 1
gate selection guidelines.
Strauss' appeal cam
speech to the Women's
Democratic Club on the
Friday's meeting of th
headed by Baltimore
woman Barbara Mikulsk
ed with drafting change
McGovern reform guide
The American people,
rewriting
)emocra- said, "are sick and tired of those
Robert on either side of the political
rday for spectrum who would create ill-
rring fac- will where there is none."
commis- He said the changes to be
plans for written by the commission should
972 dele- include scrapping of controver-
sial "quota" rules, a greater role
e in a for elected officials and limits
National on the extent to which propor-
e eve of tional representation is applied.
he panel Strauss also made clear that
Council- the national committee itself will
i, charg- take charge of monitoring the
-s in the way in which the rule changes
dines. are carried out between their
lines. expected final adoption inhearly
Strauss 1974 and the 1976 election.
Bombing in London
renews old fears
rules'
Meanwhile, his aides worked
behind the scenes to head off an
effort by labor-backed members
of the Mikulski Commission to
get the panel to approve a plan
asking Strauss to double its size
to give party regulars a greater
voice in its deliberations.
Strauss said at a breakfast
meeting with reporters, that he
thinks the move "comes too late
in the day and is a mistake."
The Mikulski commission, most
of whose members were named
by former Chairwoman Jean
Westwood while supporters of
Sen. George McGovern controlled
the party apparatus, has until
Jan. 1 to report to the national
committee on what changes
should be made.
Most of the guidelines that
made the nominating procedures
more open and democratic are
expected to be kept, but changes
are likely to be proposed in
those dealing with selection of
slates, proxy voting and the role
of elected officials.
Some members of the commis-
sion reportedly claim that the
DNC has no power to alter its
proposals, but Strauss has re-
quested a legal opinion by Chi-
cago attorney Newton Minow, the
former chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission.
It is expected to say that the
DNC does have authority to make
the final decison on the rules
and also that the 1972 rules have
ceased to exist so that an en-
tirely new set must be enacted.
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Jean Renoir's
Rules of the Game
This 1939 satire of French social and sexuil
mores and the decadent leisure class that held
them close to its breast was banned a few
day after its release. It has gone on to be
one of Renoir's greatest and most popular
works-its only competition being his other
masterpiece Grand Illusion.
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LONDON (Reuter) - A bomb
rocked the walls of the Duke of
York's Barracks in London's
fashionable Chelsea district yes-
terday.
The explosion injured five
people and scattered debris
around the barracks which is
used as a headquarters by a
part-time parachute regiment.
The bomb was placed in a
parked land rover. Experts said
it contained about 20 pounds of
explosives-which would make it
the biggest bomb set off in the
current round of attacks on Lon-
don. Fears arose that royalty
might be one of the next targets.
The fearscentered on 23-year-
old Princess Anne who in two
months time is due to marry
army captain Mark Phillips.
Security experts decided that
the house chosen for the royal
newlyweds might be too open to
bomb throwers.
Military authorities admitted
they are now considering whether
Anne might be better off starting
married life in the confines of
nearby Windsor Castle.
London tensed itself for other
explosions during the day fol-
lowing a Scotland Yard warning
that more letter bombs might be
on the way.
The warning produced some
150 alarm calls about suspicious
packets. By afternoon all had
been proved harmless. A Scot-
land Yard spokesman admitted
the warning might have been
misplaced.
In Northern Ireland there was
a large explosion which wrecked
a hotel in the town of Strabane.
An army announcement in Bel-
fast said British forces were be-
ing equipped with a sonic weapon
which, delivered from a helicop-
ter or a ground vehicle, could
effectively blot out from a dis-
tance all sound among a riot
mob-thereby making it hard for
ringleaders to retain control.
The army stressed that the
system produced no lasting ill
effects.
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WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The
White House and special Water-
gate prosecutor Archibald Cox
today announced they had failed
to reach an out-of-court settle-
ment over President Nixon's re-
fusal to surrender tapes .of White
House conversations on the bug-
ging affair.
The seven judges of the Court
of Appeal, which asked the two
sides to try to reach an out of
court agreement to avoid a con-
stitutional confrontation, will now
announce their own decision in
the case after what most ob-
servers expect will be weeks of
deliberation.
And, whatever the court de-
cides, the affair is certain to
come before the Supreme Court,
the highest judicial body, for the
final decision.
President Nixon has refused
Cox's request to hand over the
tapes-of White House conversa-
tions on Watergate matters se-
cretly recorded with Nixon's
knowledge-on the grounds that
to do so would contravene the
confidentiality of White House
conversations.
Cox and also the Senate Water-
gate Committee want to hear the
tapes in the hope they will sup-
port or refute claims by ousted
White House counsel John Dean
that Nixon knew as long ago as
last September of the high-level
attempt to cover up the bugging
of the Democratic Party Head-
quarters in the Watergate office
complex here.
The appeals court suggested on
September 13 that a court de-
cision in the case might not be
necessary if Cox were permitted
to listen to the tapes with Presi-
dent Nixon's legal advisers to
see whether there was anything
in them the prosecutor needed to
prepare criminal charges in the
Watergate investigation.
"I regret to advise the court
that these sincere efforts were
not fruitful," Charles Wright,
representing Mr. Nixon in the
controversy, and Cox said in al-
mostidentical lettersdthey de-
livered to the court today.
They said they had met three
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times this week in an attempt to
comply with the court's proposal.
The appeals court became in-
volved in the affair after U.S.
District Judge John Sirica or-
dered Nixon to hand over the
tapes with the understanding that
the judge would audit them pri-
vately. The White House asked
the appeals court to overturn
this ruling
Failure today to reach an out-
of-court- settlement apparently
means Nixon intends to make the
matter of surrendering the tapes
a constitutional issue.
In other Watergate develop-
ments:
-Watergate conspirator G.
Gordon Liddy pleaded innocent
Thursday in Los Angelesato state
charges of conspiracy and bur-
glary in connection with the 1971
break-in at the office of Daniel
Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
A public defender was appoint-
ed to represent Liddy after he
told the court he had no money
to retain a lawyer. Liddy is serv-
ing a federal prison term for his
part in the June 17, 1972, break-
in at Democratic National Com-
mittee headquarters.
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