THE Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXIV, No. 25-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, June 12, 1974 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Judge asks separate trial for Ehrlichman Says defendant denied legal rights Tornado damage? Collapse sets in at the Women's Athletic Building on Washtenaw near Stockwell Hall. The University is tearing down the facility to construct a new multimillion dollar athletics center. From this view, however, it looks as though sports en- thusiasts will have a wait ahead of them before the new facility opens its doors. New Morning disclaims connection to Newsreel WASHINGTON (' - A federal judge yesterday ordered a seperate trial for John Ehrlichman in the "plumbers" case because of per- sistent refusal by President Nixon to permit Ehrlichman unlimited access to his White House files. Three other defendants are to go on trial next Monday, but there were indications that Ehrlichman's trial, if held at all, would be delay- ed beyond the impeachment pro- ceedings in Congress. After two weeks of struggle on the White House files issue, U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell said con- ditions laid down by Nixon would deny Ehrlinhman his right to make full use of a lawyer and therefore to a fair trial. NTXON IAS repeatedly asserted that only the President may finally determine what White IHinse materials should be- core evidence in Gesell's court. Gesell said yesterday: "The President flatly refuses to make documents avail- able to the court in camera-at a closed hearing- and thns makes it impossible for the court to properly perform its duty." Of sever,nten originally indicted in the plumbers case, only three are now schediled to stand trial starting Monday on charges that they conspired to bur- glarize the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971. The three are Gor- don Liddy, Bernard Barker, and Eugenio Martinez. AT ISSUE IN the pretrial proceedings has been the insistence of Ehrlichman's lawyers that they must accompany the former domestic affairs adviser while he reviews 28 months of hand-written notes he left behind in White House files. Under White House rules, Ehrlichman may review the notes alone, without taking notes or making any reproduc- tions. Under the most recent compromise offered -by the White Hottse, Ehrlich- man's lawyers wotuld have been per- mitted to sit in a rooti adjacent to the vault, but Nixon would have remained the final arbiter over which material could be released. "THE PROPOSAL is unacceptable," Gesell said yesterday. "It denies the right of counsel to Ehrlichman." Assistant special Watergate prosecutor William Merrill said after the hearing it is possible the Ehrlichman trial might be delayed beyond the end of the year. Despite the continuing stalemate be- tween Gesell and the White House, presi- dential counsel Fred Buzhardt said, how- ever, "I think the case will ultimately go forward." MERRILL AND Buzhardt agreed with the argument that Ehrlichman's sub- poenas are too broad.' "The President is willing to respond to any specific request for documents but not a blanket request," Buzhardt said. By DAVID BLOMQUIST The Student Organizations Board in- vestigation into the financial affairs of the student film group Friends of News- reel turned last night to allegations by one movie distributor that Newsreel and the New Morning media cooperative were fiscally connected. Elliot Chikofsky, chairman of the board, which is a unit of Student Govern- ment Council, read a telegram from a representative of the New Line Cinema Co. charging that Newsreel treasurer Glen Allvord "has been dealing with us in the name of New Morning." NEW LINE further .laimed that sev- eral of the films for which bills remain- ed unpaid had been booked by George DePue, who is a senior member of the New Morning collective. New Morning, or Community Media Projects, Inc., is a non-'profit organiza- tion which operates a downtown book-. store and publishes the Michigan Free Press. DePue vigorously denied the New Line allegations. "I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of Friends of Newsreel," he stated, adding that "you can find any fool to say anything at any time." "DO YOU have any specific com- plaint?" DePue asked the board. "We're not out to find Newsreel guilty," replied Calvin Luker, director of student organizations. In a related action, Newserel lawyer Robert Powell asked the board to end its ban prohibiting the group from rent- ing University facilities after June 30. "We view this action as a serious one in that it is seriously affecting the ability of this student organization to function," Powell maintained. THE BOARD agreed to pass on through the University's scheduling procedure most of Newsreel's summer program, but reserved judgment on dates in con- flict with showings proposed by other groups. The remainder of the meeting cen- tered on a list of 23 procedural questions about Newsreel financial operations that the board had prepared and presented to the organization last week. Allvord consented to give the board complete records of debts presently out- standing, but requested that he be allow- ed to do so in closed session to protect distributor-exhibitor relationships. The board agreed. Allvord stated, however, that he would be unable to provide the hoard with a list of bills unpaid on Dec. 31 of last year, as it had also requested. "We have no way of knowing how much we owed somebody at any past date and time," he explained.