Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, May 25, 1977 Nixon to talk about Agnew WASHINGTON IP) - Richard Nixon says that when he learn- ed in 1973 about the investiga- tions involving Spiro T. Agnew, "there wasn't any question . . . that he was, frankly, going to get it.' In an interview to be shown on television tonight, Nixon dis- cusses for the first time what happened inside the White House in the weeks preceding the Oct. 10, 1973 resignation of Agnew. He describes his handl- ing of the matter as "prag- matic." NIXON ALSO talks ahout sug- gestions that he pardon him- self; his final days in office; his thoughts as he left the White House for the last time as president; his offer of legal fees to former aides H. R. Halde- man and John Ehrlichman and why he didn't pardon them. He also tells why he accept- ed the pardon issued by his suc- cessor, Gerald Ford, one month after Nixon left office, and his thoughts about the press. Despite his own Watergate problems, then bad and getting worse, Nixon said he treated Agnew's troubles as political, rather than putting himself in a position of judge. THE FORMER president said he called Agnew into his office on Sept. 25, 1973, and asked point blank whether the vice president was maintaining his innocence. Agnew, according to Nixon, said he was. But Henry Petersen, head of the Justice Department's cri- minal division, told him the case against Agnew was strong, Nixon said. The department had made a 40-page statement de- tailing kickback payments from engineering firms to Agnew. 'The vice president later was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge of tax evasion and placed on three years pro- bation. "I was very pragmatic," Nixon said of the conflict be- tween what he was told by Ag- new and by Petersen. "In my view, it didn'threally make any difference. There wasn't any question after hearing Peter- sen and his version that he (Agnew) was frankly going to get it." HE SAID Agnew told him he preferred to undergo impeac ment rather than indictme and trial. At the time, Agne was saying the same thing pu licly. He swore, in a speech few days before his resignatio to fight the allegations again him. The interview with Dav Frost is the fourth and lastw the current series. Frost tape 29 hours with Nixon and the contract giving Nixon $600,0 plus a share of the profits a lows one more one-hour shoe probably to be televised in tI fall. Frost opens the program c ing American efforts in 19701 prevent Marxist Salvador A lende from coming to poweri Chile. Frost asks what kindi threat Nixon perceived there. NIXON RECALLS a war ing from an unnamed Italia businessman that with a Cor munist government in Cuba at a Marxist at the top in Chit "what you will, in effect, hav in Latin America is a red san wich and eventually it will b all red." Thefaormer presidenthal talks about the legal fees he o: I HAD CANCER AND I LIVED. h- fered Haldeman and Ehrlich- but testimony quoted Nixon as nt man when he asked for their saying they were held by his w resignation in late April 1973. friend, Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, b- At the Watergate cover-up to "be sure that people,. a trial, the two men testified who have contributed money n, Nixon said he could make $200,- over the contributing years are st 000 to $300,000 available for favored." legal and family expenses and Ehrlichman and Haldeman id that it was "no strain . . . the testified they refused the offer. of money doesn't come outta me." Just before Nixon stepped ed THE SOURCE of the funds down, both men made unsuc- ir was not disclosed at the time, cessful bids for pardons. 00 al- -'o heN.Y. u eostridkers k from unemployment relief in of NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge ruled yesterday that it is unconstitutional for striking workers to collect unemploy- n- ment pay. m U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen ruled on a suit brought n- by New York Telephone and other utility companies complaining id that the state law authorizing such payments unfairly compelled ve employers to finance their own striking employes. d- "The New York labor law, to the extent it provides for the be payment of unemployment compensation to strikers, is strike in- tervention on behalf *of the strikers, causes an employer to fi- so nance its own strikers, is in conflict with federal labor law policy, and is therefore unconstitutional and void under the supremacy clause of the United States Constitution," Owen ruled in a 37-page opinion. THE SUIT, FILED IN 1973, stemmed from a strike two years earlier against the Bell System. It complained that the employers had to pay the state's Com- pensation Fund $40 million for $49 million of benefits given to the strikers before the labor dispute ended. In New York, the walkout lasted seven months, and 38,000 strikers each became eligible for unemployment compensation of up to $95 a week, tax free, after eight weeks. IT WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY KNOWN how the ruling would affect other states. Owen said he believed that unemployment compensation had an impact on strikes. "Free collective bargaining is premised on the concept of government noninterference and neutrality," he said. "The right to collective bargaining clearly contemplates economic warfare and does not entail any right to insist on one position free from economic disadvantage." The striking members of the Local 1103 of the Communica- tions Workers of America received an average of $75 weekly, Owen noted, observing that the union said afterward it "didn't know where we would be right now" without unemployment compensation. A spokesman for the telephone company commented, "By i declaring unconstitutional the payment of unemployment insur- ance benefits by employers to striking employes, federal Judge Richard Owen has restored an equilibrium to collective bargain- ing. That is why we brought the case...". FBI agent who led Hearst hunt retires Gene Littler It's possible to go into an annual checkup feeling terrific. And come out knowing something's wrong. It happened to me. The doctor found what I couldn't even feel ...a little lump under my arm. If I had put off the appointment for one reason or another, I probably wouldn't be here today. Because that little lump I couldn't feel was a melanoma, a highly aggressive form of cancer that spreads very quickly. It's curable--but only if found in time. So when I tell you, "Get a checkup," you know it's from my heart. It can save your life. I know. It saved mine. Have aegularcheckup. It can save your American Cancer Soce.. . I*%SPAF C Tst 'j&# 5 > le P A p{o c. U Pwalef-- SAN FRANCISCO (P) - Charles Bates, the FBI agent who led the 19-month search for Patricia Hearst, announced his retirement yesterday and said he was joining a security firm that once guarded the 'famous heiress. Bates, 57, said his decision to leave the FBI on June 17 was not due to a recent heart at- tack. He was hospitalized for a month after being stricken in THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXVII, Na. se-a Wednesday, May 25, 1977 Is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Miehgan 41109. Published. daily Tuesday through Sunday morning during the Uiver- ally year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor. Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 Sept. thru April (2 semes- ters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tues- day through saturday morning. Subscription rates:' $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7.50 by mal outsiade Ann Arbor. his office on Feb. 4, and re- turned to work on May 2. THE VETERAN agent said he had accepted a corporate position with Burns Internation- al Security Service and would work out of its Pacific region headquarters in Oakland. Burns security guards were hired to protect Miss Hearst after she was freed on $1.25 million bail last November. Burns' senior vice president George King said yesterday that the firm was replaced by a Boston security agency sev- eral weeks later. "To leave the FBI after 35% years was the most difficult decision of many that I have made in that time," Boles told a news conference. "MY CAREER has been filled with many gratifying accom- plishments. I have had oppor- tunities few in the FBI ever had . . . Being in the FBI is not a job, it's a way of life and I am proud of my part in it."