Friday, July 20, 1973 t .. Page !Mine THE SUMMER DAILY Fridy, uly 0, 973THE UMMR DILY ageN, n Phone hoax confuses committee Continued from Page 3) reply to the committee's request know when it would be compleed. At a meeting in LaRue's apart- "Yes, I believe that was told to The committee, the President for the tapes over the weekend. In the course of the hearings yes- ment, Liddy told not only of the me by Mr. Magruder at the Air- and the attorney general immedi- Ziegler told reporters at Bethesda terday former Asst. Atty. Gen. Watergate wiretapping but about porter Hotel," said Mardian. ately asked the FBI to investigate Naval Hospital, where the Presi- Robert Mardian, a re-election com- his involvement in the 1971 break- HE SAID at first he didn't even the phony call. dent is winding up a week's stay, mittee campaign aide, testified that in at the office of Daniel Ells- know what the term "black ad- And so the whole controversy that the President told him the John Mitchell rejected an early re- berg's psychiatrist and his alleged vance" meant. over the tapes, which have been tapes had never been transcribed quest to supply bail money to the role in getting ITT lobbyist Dita "I assumed when they told me it automatically recording conversa- and said the White House counsel's o r i g i n a I Watergate defendants. Beard into hiding. was a black advance man," he tion in Nixon's office for more than office indicated to him their content Mardian said he was told within Mardian said Liddy told him that said. "They told me it was activi- two years, remained to be settled. is not being reviewed. hours after the Watergate break-in President Nixon had given approv- ties carried on to disrupt the ad- EXISTENCE of the tape record- THE TAPES could prove or dis- that Mitchell had approved a bud- al for the Ellsberg break-in, an vance schedule of the opposition." ings was disclosed publicly Mon- prove conversation that former get for dirty tricks and that Mit- allegation later denied by Nixon Mitchell has steadfastly denied. day in surprise testimony by Alex- presidential counsel John Dean said chell didn't deny it. and others involved in the crime. Mitphedhasbgt e at on. ander Butterfield, a former White he had with the President which MARDIAN TOLD the committee MARDIAN RELATED in detail he approved any bugging operation. House aide who now heads the indicated to him Nixon knew about that G. Gordon Liddy, the leader of how he first learned of the break- LaRue, another campaign aide, Federal Aviation Administration. the cover-up of the Watergate the bugging crew, confessed his in while he was in California with wound up his second day of testi- White House Press Secretary scandal. involvement to Mardian and cam- Mitchell, Jeb Magruder and others. mony before Mardian took the Ronald Ziegler had said before the Asked if the Nixon letter would paign aide Frederick LaRue within Mardian was asked if there was stand and again recounted how at hoax call that Nixon was going to be made public Monday, the White a few days after the break-in on discussion that afternoon about a a meeting in Florida March 30, Camp David to work on a written House spokesman said he did not June 17, 1972. budget Mitchell had approved for Mitchell deferred action on the -- "dirty tricks and black advance." bugging plan. 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Some classical training desired for further information, phone 224-1 198 Rehearsals conducted by the Rod Rodgers Dance Company ande, the auspices at the 0etrait Metrapolitan Dance Project, Inc. with the support of New De- troit, Inc. and National Endowment for the Arts Prosecution opens its testimony against Pun (continued from Page 3) be quiet. You're lucky the man didn't come up and break both your arms and both your legs." Asked by The Daily yesterday why a hard drug dealer like Wag- ner would go to the police unless he was in fear of his safety, Plamondon replied, "I think he was righteously paranoid because he had burned so many people." THE DEFENSE will try to discredit Wagner as a witness by providing he dealt in hard drugs, was dishonest in those dealings, and perhaps made a deal with the police to escape threats of violence, according to Fenton. At one point during cross ex- amination by defense counsel Hugh "Buck" Davis, Wagner ap- peared to contradict himself on the question of whether he had dealt in opium. The sparsely attended trial is being held in the Wexford County Courthouse before Circuit Court Judge William Peterson (no rela- tion to Bruce). Only about 15 people attended yesterday's pro- ceedings. BECAUSE OF what Davis call- ed the "subtle fears and pre- judices" of the Cadillac citizens, made evident during jury selec- tion earlier this week, the de- fense haswaived the right to a jutry trial. The court also heard Wagner teestify yesterday concerning his contacts with State Police which led to the arrests of Plamondon and Blazier. Corroborated by undercover agent Ro b er tWard;Wagner stated he helped make two tape recorded telephone calls to Pla- mondon in which he attempted to entrap the defendant. THOSE TAPES wdre played in court and included such ex- changes as: Wagner: I mean you know, man, I can't even be seen in the streets any more. Plamondon: Hey man, look, I don't want to hear it, man. You know what the deal was when we left and the deal is still on . . . You get the shit when we get the shit. Everything is cool, dig? Wagner then described how he was"wired up for sound" by the police, given $3,500 in cash, and dispatched with an undercover agent to trap Plamondon at the Arborland S h o p p i n g Center, where Wagner was to pay off the debt and receive his belongings. WAGNER IDENTIFIED several exhibits introduced by the prose- cution as those belongings. Throughout the legal proceed- ings, the Rainbow People have contended the prosecution of Plamondon and Blazier has been politically motivated as an effort to discredit the party. The prosecution is not concern- ed with winning the case, accord- ing to Plamondon. 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