.t NIXON INQUIRY See Editorial Page Y L AWIt 4JUU Eighty-Three Years Of Editorial Freedom. &ti~li RELAX ING High-.76 Low-49 See Today for details 1, Vol. LXXXIV,.No. 42 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, October 24, 1973 Ten Cents Siy Pages ixon a rees to release in dramatic reversal of tapes polic IFYOIJ SEE NEWS HAPPEN CL. T-DAIY Deans sound off Outraged by President Nixon's defiant stance on the Watergate tapes and his firing of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox, Theodore St. Antoine, Univer- sity law school dean, and 16 other law school deans, have signed a petition asking Congress to create a committee to "consider the necessity". of impeaching Nixon. The petition;which will be sent to Congress when more deans can be reached for signatures, also calls for the creation of a new, independent Watergate prosecu.' tion office. Griffin proposal Sen. Robert Griffin (R-Mich.) has proposed a con- stitutional - amendment to abandon permanently the election of vice presidents and give Congress and the President joint power to select them. Griffin's amend- ment, which was to have been formally introduced in Congress yesterday, would extend the 25th Amendment procedure now being used to confirm a successor to deposed Vice President Spiro Agnew, to the selection of all vice presidents. In a recent statement, Griffin said that the cases of Agnew and Sen. Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.), who was forced to withdraw as Democratic vice presidential. candidate in 1972, "underscored the urgent 'need for meaningful reform of the traditional method of selecting the vice president." " Happenings . include a free "auto tune-up" class at 7:30 p.m. at 170 P&A Bldg. The first 30 people to sign up will get a free tune-up at a clinic to be held Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Auto Lab on North Campus .. . also included is a meeting of the undergraduate political science association at 8 tonight, 6602 Haven Hall . . a field trip to the University's Amphibian Facility leav- ing from the Chemistry parking lot at 2, 2:45, and 3:10 p.m. . . . a panel discussion on the Mideast war in Lec- ture Rm. 2, MLB . . . a lecture with films on U.S.- Turkey relations in the UGLI multi-purpose room at 8:30 p.m. . . . and a meeting of UFO enthusiasts at 8 p.m. in Anderson A of the Union. Nobel Prizes awarded Three scientists will share this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, the Swedish Academy of the Sciences announced yesterday. Half of the prize's approximately $120,000 will go to Dr. Leo Esaki, of the Thomas Watson Research Center in Yorktown, N.Y., and Norwegian-born Dr. Ivar.Giaevear, a researcher for General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. The other half of the prize goes to Dr. Brian Josephson, assistant director of research for Cambridge University's .physics department. The chemistry prize went to Prof. Ernst Otto Fisher of Munich and Prof. Geoffrey Wilkinson of London. Mean- While, Hanoi Politburo member Le Duc Tho rejected his share of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, but indicated he might accept it in the future when "peace is' really restored" in South Vietnam, according to a Hanoi radio broadcast. 9 Justices dissent Four Supreme Court Justices stated that the court has fashioned rules governing obscenity that are far too vague to follow. The accusation comes a few months after a new majority attemted to bring what it called more definitive standards to the controversy. An an- gry Justice William Douglas wrote, "Every author, every bookseller, every movie exhibitor, and perhaps, every librarian is now at the mercy of the local police force's conception of what appeals to the 'prurient in- terest' or is 'patently offensive'." Prostitute union Everybody needs an organization, and it appears that San Francisco prostitutes are no different. A prostitute's union called Coyote picketed the Hyatt Regency Hotel there for allegedly furnishing free rooms to vice police to trap ladies of the trade. Margo St. James, a former hooker who founded the union, said other hotels who co-operate with police would also be picketed. "We want the police to start issuing citations instead .of arresting girls at a cost of $250 per arrest. We want the cops to start making taxpayers their 'tricks'," she said, " On the inside . . Marnie Heyn writes about Kohoutek and King Rich. ard I on the Editorial Page . . . on the Arts Page, Joan Borus interviews guitarist B.B. King . . . and on the Sorts Page. Leha Hertz discusses the nset of th' Action could defuse impeachment efforts By DAN BIDDLE Special To The Daily WASHINGTON-President Nixon capitulated yesterday to an unprecedented groundswell of legal, Congressional, and public pressure by agreeing to surrender the Watergate tapes to U. S. District Judge John Sirica. White House lawyer Charles Allen Wright stated in the surprise announcement to Sirica that Nixon would release nine pivotal, White House recordings and related Presidential pap- ers for judicial review in belated compliance with an appeals court order. AT AN AFTERNOON hearing Wright told a stunned courtroom that the President's decision came only two hours earlier on a day that saw a snowballing of popular and Congressional pressure for impeachment- in the wake of the stunning events of the weekend. The White House announced later that Nixon will appear on nation- wide television at nine p.m. tonight to defend the firing Saturday of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox which prompted the pro- test resignation. of Attorney General Elliot Richardson.and his deputy William Ruckelshaus. The firing of Cox was prompted by the former prosecutor's defiance Daily Photo by JOHN UPTON JUNIOR DAVID BLANZ cups his ear to hear the sweet sounds of honking horns. Blanz stayed at his post at the corner of State and Huron for some five hours yesterday and claimed that between 60 and 70 per cent of the passing cars, including an ambulance and a police car, responded with a pro- impeachment honk. Mideast at- war of an order by Nixon to halt legal; and related memoranda. It came, deal under which White House "summaries" of the tapes - in- dependently verified - would be prvided to therorsecutor.ul b REFERRING TO THE. presi- dent's ill-fated compromise attempt Wright told Sirica, "we had hopes that this kind of solution would end the constitutional crises." "But events over the weekend," he continued, "made it very ap- parent that it would not." After the hearing, Wright told reporters "there would have been those who would have said the President was defying the' law. But this President does not defy the law." SIRICA PRONOUNCED himself. "Very happy" that Nixon had de- cided to comply with his original order to release the tapes. Judge Sirica ruled Aug. 29 that the tapes and memoranda sought by Cox be presented to him for a determination as to their relevance to the Watergate grand jury inves- tigation. Sirica's order was up- held by the U. S. Court of Appeals Oct. 12. Wright said. it would be only "a matter of a few days" before Sirn- ca could screen the tapes privately to decide if they should be present- ed to the Watergate Grand Jury. o SOME OBSERVERS H E R E, however, expressed the sentiment 1 that the tapes would not be particu- larly important. They suggested " that Nixon had fired Cox to prevent the prosecutor from "putting the heat on in other directions." e They pointed to memos and docu- , ments dealing with the ITT and n milk scandals of 1972. The White i House yesterday gave no indication [. that it planned to release such ma- terials to either - the judge or the - Senate Watergate Committee. 1- The announcement of Nixon's turnabout appeared. to dampen but e not drown growing efforts in the - H o u s e of Representatives to k prepare impeachment proceedings d against the President. e See NIXON, Page 3 des p it4 By AP and Reuter The Arab - Israeli war raged on yesterday as if the United Nations cease-fire never existed. Meanwhile, thedPentagon report- ed that it has reduced the pace of its airlift to Israel. A spokesman said it was understood the Soviet Union has also reduced its rate of delivery of arms and equipment to Syria and Egypt. THE STATE DEPARTMENT said that Secretary of'State Henry Kissinger has postponed his plan- ned trip to China because of the continuing Middle East fighting and that "intensive diplomatic ac- tivity" was under way to save the threatened truce. actions aimed at obtaining the tapes after Cox rejected a Nixon-initiated Richardson Nine tapes. may. still hold key e ceasef ire WASHINGTON (P-At the heart of the constitutional crisis which has rocked the government for the past five days are nine tape re- cordings. What do they contain? ATTEMPTS TO obtain an answer to that question have cost the United States an attorney gen- eral, his deputy and its special Watergate prosecutor and stirred serious talk about presidential im- peachment. The existence of the tapes was disclosed to a stunned Senate Watergate committee July 16 by a former White House aide Alex- ander Butterfield who said Presi- dent Nixon had bugged conversa- tions on his telephone and in his offices. The recordings were sought by former special prosecutor Archi- bald Cox in his investigation of wrongdoing during President Nix- on's re-election campaign 'last year. HERE IS WHAT Cox had told the . court he had hoped to ,earn by listening to them: -Extent of discussion of the Watergate break-in and cover-up among the President and former aides John Ehrlichman and H. R. Haldeman in the President's Old Executive Office Building office on June 20, 1972. The inference, Cox told the court, that Ehrlichrman and Haldeman "reported on Water- gate and may well have received instructions is almost irresistible. "The inference is confirmed by Ehrlichman's public testimony that the discussion . . . included- both Watergate and government wire- tapping." The tapes, Cox said, ."should show the extent of the knowledge of the illegal activity by the participants or any effort to conceal the truth from" the Presi- dent. -WHAT FORMER Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, the President's cam- paign manager ,told Nixon during a four-minute telephone conversa- tion later that evening. "This ap- parently was the first direct con- tact after the Watergate break-in between . . . the President and Mitchell," Cox said, "so that what Mitchell reported may be highly material." -What the President, Mitchell and Haldeman discussed for an hour and 15'minutes in the Presi- dent's Executive .Office Building office on June 30. "It . . strains credulity," Cox said, "to suppose that Watergate and how Watergate affected Mitchell and the campaign were. not topics of conversation." -What the President said during a meeting Sept. 15 with former White House counsel John Dean and Haldeman in the Oval Office. Dean told the Watergate commit- tee the President congratulated him on the "good job" he had done andsaid he was pleased that the Watergate case had "stooped with Liddy." DEAN SAID he had replied that all he had been able to do was to contain the case and "assist in keeping it out of the White House." Said Cox: "If this testi- mony is corroborated, it will tend to establish that a conspiracy to obstruct justice reached the high- est level of the government." -What the President told Dean at the White House on March 13. Dean told the Watergate commit- See TAPES, Page 3 The U. N. Security Council in New York was summoned into an emergency session at Egypt's re- quest and the Soviet Union pro- posed a renewal of the council's cease-fire appeal. The Soviet government in Mos- cow accused Israel of flouting Mon- day's U. N. truce and warned Is- rael that "continuation of its ag- gressive actions against Egypt and Syria" would bring "the gravest consequences." AS THE DIPLOMATIC develop- ments unfolded, Israeli warplanes and armor clashed in hard day- long fighting along the Suez front and the Syrian jets and cannons UN big powers OI( new cease fire bid tangled with Israeli air raiders t the north. "If the Egyptians want to contin ue the battle, they will find Israe ready, strong and determined, Premier Golda Meir told the Israe parliament in Jerusalem. Israel will not return to th frontiers it had before the 1967 war during which it seized the Golan Heights from Syria and the Sina peninsula from Egypt, Meir said SHE SAID THE lines existing be fore the 1967 war "give decisive ad vantages to an aggressor." "One of the prime tests of th cease-fire is the release of prison ers of war," Meir added. "We tool this matter up with the Unite States . . . I also spoke on the matter with Dr. Kissinger yester day, and we will stand on this de mand." The prisoner issue was believed prime topic during the five-hou visit to Israel Monday by Kissinger who flew to Tel Aviv from Moscow where he worked out the U. N cease-fire proposal with top So viet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. ISRAEL AND EGYPT issued ar angry string of accusations yester day that the other had violated th day-old cease fire, which both ac cepted Monday evening. Egypt de manded the Security Council hear its complaint that Israeli forces were trying to grab more territory in the Egyptian heartland. Syria last night accepted the UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (P" - The U. N. Security Council, meet- ing in an emergency session, ap- proved last night a new U. S.-So- viet call for a cease-fire in the Mid- dle East and the dispatch of U. N. observers to see that it is carrried out. The session broke up for about 20 minutes after e envoys of China and the Soviet Union clashed in argument over the new resolution. meeting, charging Israeli viola- \tions and of the failure of Syria to accept the cease-fire at all. IN THE NEW resolution, the Se- curity Council: -"Confirms its decision on an immediate cessation of all kinds of firing and of all military action, and urges that the forces be re- turned to the positions they oc- cupied at the moment the cease- fire became effective;" and r- ~r a r r, n e s e SPONSORS END SUPPORT UAC considers reform By CINDY HILL It's the price of success - the University Activities Center (UAC) has grown too big for its former sponsors, the U n i o n and the League, to handle. UAC, whose programs in recent years have broadened tremendous- ly in scope and, expense, is tem- porarily under the wing of the Office of Student Services (OSS) while a committee is being formed Student Services Tom Easthope who will chair the interim com- mittee, said that the move "isn't a ,case of Mr. University coming down with a strong fist, it's just that UAC has grown too big for this particular group (JCC) to handle." "Their scope is broadening each year. Wfien you fill Crisler Arena, that's a lot of money," Easthope said. THE DISSOLUTION of JCC was apparently not a heartbreak to either the members of the Union and League or the executive offi- cers of UAC. "Actually, we were quite happy," White said. "It was getting to the point where no one on JCC was satified with the arrangement. "We're looking forward to work- ing out something more tenable for UAC."