Thursday, October 18, 1973
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Thursday, October 18, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Companies charged
with
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Nixon campaign donation
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By AP and Reuter of American Airlines, G e o r ?, e ies have come forward but that
WASHINGTON - American Air- Spater, was not named in t h e Cox has left it to them to decide
lines and two other firms - along charges because he was the first if they want to announce their
with two of their top executives - person to publicly admit maKing action.
were fined today for making il- illegal contributions. After his ad- The maximum fine on the charg-
legal financial contributions to mission, the other firms admitted es levelled today was $5,000 tar
President Nixon's 1972 re-election contributions. corporations and $1,000, or one
campaign. year in prison, or both for the
SPATER said last July 6, when executives.
000A erican Airlis r ietourt i he told of the contribution, that Cox said in his policy statementI
Washington. The airline had given he was pressured into donating the that firms which do not voluntar-
$55,000to Nixon's campaign. moneyby Nixon's personal lawyer, ily admit making illegal contribu-
$5,0Go Nx n d bbpin.H ret m ah tions could be charged with felon-
oodyear Tire and Rubber Co. A spokesman for Cox said that ies, making the company execu-
was fiened $5,000 and its chief exe- additional charges would be tives subject to fines of up to $10,-
cutive officer, Russell De Young, brought against firms which made '000 and prison terms of up to
Cut Gooedy$e, a contribute Ohiillegal campaign contributions. two years, or both.
Court. Goodyear contributed $40,- Among those already admitting to
000 to the Nixon campaign. such contributions, but not y C t S I M I L A R L Y tough charges
MINNESOTA MINING and Man- charged, are Phills Cu1 would be brought against firms
Co. Gulf Oil Co., Ashland OilC.,weetre eeincaosth
ufacturing Co. was fined $3,000Co, heetreweincaoste
and its board carman $3,0r0 and Braniff Airways. donations were given with the in-
Heltzer, was fined $500 in a court Braniff has said that the money tent of influencing government de-
in St. Paul, Minnesota. Minnesota was loaned to the executives who cisions or if it was shown the ex-
gmade the contributions and that ecutives tried to hide evidence of
Mining gave $30,000 to Nixons ^^
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campaign.
The three firms and the two exe-
cutives pleaded guilty to the charg-
es brought by special Watergatef
prosecutor Archibald Cox.
TI he companies and their exec.-
tives were chrged with violating
federal law which prohibits cam-
paign contributions from corporate
funds.
the loains nave been repla.
A SPOKESMAN for the prose-
cutor's office said other compan-
other tederai crimes.
In St. Paul, Heltzer admitted in
court that "we did wrong and we
are paying the price."
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Buddhist monks in Bangkok, on their traditional morning visit to
homes and shops to beg for food, walk past a charred vehicle -
a reminder of recent rioting by students which led to the fall of
the military government in Thailand.
JURISDICTION IN DOUBT:
Ervin's tapes suit
dismissed byjdge
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WASHINGTON (,P) - A fed-
eral judge yesterday dismissed
the Senate Watergate commit-
tee's suit against President Nix-
on, ruling the court had no juris-
diction in the matter.
The committee had asked U.S.
District Court Judge John Sir-
ica to uphold the legality of its
subpoena demanding the tape re-
cordings of five presidential con-
versations about the Watergate
scandal.
A committee spokesperson said
the decision would probably be
appealed.
IN A BRIEF ORDER, Sirica
said the court lacked jurisdic-
tion in the tapes suit, an argu-
ment made by the White House
in its oposition to the commit-
tee's civil action.
"No' jurisdictional statute
known to the court, including the
four which plaintiffs name, war-
rants an assumption of jurisdic-
tion, and the court is therefore
left with no alternative here but
to dismiss the action," Sirica
said.
Sirica said that having con-
cluded that he had no jurisdic-
tion'he did not consider the con-
stitutional issues raised in t h e
case.
THE JUDGE pointed out that
federal law required the com-
mittee to have congressional au-
thorization to file a suit and that
it failed to seek it.
"Whether such jurisdiction
ought to be conferred is the pre-
rogative of the Congress," Sirica
said.
Committee chief counsel Sam-
uel Dash was not in Washington
and could not be reached by tele-
phone. However, deputy chief
counsel Rufus Edmisten said he
expects the committee to appeal
the decision.
"SEN. SAM Ervin and t h e
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members of the committee have
not had time to read the decision
yet but the committee more than
likely will appeal," Edmisten
said. "That's all I can say at this
time."
In an 18-page opinion Sirica
rejected point by point the com-
mittee's arguments contending
that the court had jurisdiction.
Sirica's decision followed by
less than a week the U.S. Court
of Appeals ruling upholding his
earlier order in the -case involv-
ing nine tapes subpoened by spec-
ial Watergate prosecutor Archi-
bald Cox.
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