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WASHINGTON (AP) - H.R.
Haldeman, whose storied loyalty to
Richard M. Nixon shattered in the
backlash of Watergate, will be paroled
from prison on Dec. 20 after serving 18
months of a four-year sentence for ob-
struction of justice and perjury.
The U.S. Parole Commission set the
release date yesterday, acting on the
recommendation of examiners who in-
terviewed Haldeman at the Lompoc,
Calif., minimum security prison last
month.
The commission had the option of
paroling the former White House chief
of staff aniy time after June 20. There
was no explanation why it did not
release him after he had served the
minimum time since by all reports he
has been a model prisoner.
HALDEMAN entered Lompoc on
June 21 last year after the Supreme
Court refused to accept the appeal of
his Watergate conviction. In a petition
later, he said imprisonment made him
"useless to the world, a burden on
society . . . living a totally wasted life
at this time."
As chief of staff to Nixon in his first
term, and the President's closest con-
fidant, Haldeman wielded enormous
power. But their friendship turned sour
when Nixon refused to pardon
Haldeman as a final presidential act
and when he later alluded to
Haldeman's guilt.
In his book, "The Ends of Power,"
Haldeman made the final break with
the former President, characterizing
Nixon as being behind the Watergate
cover-up "from Day One." Nixon
ignored the charge in his own memoirs.
Haldeman, now 51, was convicted af-
ter a three-month trial of conspiring to
obstruct justice, obstructing justice and
three counts of perjury. His co-
defendants, John Erlichman and John
Mitchell, were convicted of similar
charges.
ALL WERE sentenced by U.S.+Y
District Judge John Sirica to serve 21
to 8 years in prison. After hearing taped
statements of contrition, Sirica cut the
terms to one-to-four.
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it's caused to many, many people and to
our own governmental system,"
Haldeman told Sirica.
Ehrlichman, the former Nixon
domestic counselor who was convicted
both in the Watergate cover-up and
Ellsberg break-in cases, was released
from the federal prison camp at Saf-
ford, Ariz., on April 27 after also ser-
ving 18 months.
Mitchell began his imprisonment at
the Maxwell, Ala., Air'Force Base a
day after Haldeman surrendered at
Lompoc. But the former attorney
general missed his preliminary parole
interview because he was free at the
time on a medical furlough that kept
him out of prison for five months. The
interview is scheduled for early July.
paroled
IN PRISON, Haldeman has worked
seven-hour days, seven days a week as
a lab chemist in the sewage processing
plant.
"He is making no contribution to
society or to himself," his lawyers said
in a petition. "He is just trying to exist
and stay out of trouble.. . he has ex-
perienced the indignity, shame, horror,
fear, disgust and all the other over-
whelming emotion that assail a
thinking man who is required to enter
prison.
"He has been punished. Society has
had its retribution."
Haldeman's book, completed while
he was at Lompoc, made the best seller
lists. An industry source said he earned
at least a half million dollars in
royalties.
Dec. 20
Haldeman
Franjieh
ZACHARTA, Lebanon (AP) - Ex-
President Suleiman Franjieh, backed
by 20,000 mourners, buried his slain son
yesterday in this northern town after
vowing "revenge in our traditional
style and at the proper time" against
rival Christians. Syrian troops
blanketed the north to head off a ven-
detta,
About 20,000 Franjieh followers mar-
ched in the mass funeral for Tony Fran-
jieh, his wife, daughter, and 42 other
supporters. They died Tuesday when
troops of the rival Phalangist Party at-
tacked the nearby town of Ehden in the
worst clash of Christian clans since
Syrian forces crushed the 18-month
Lebanese civil war November 1976.
THE ELDER Franjieh, silver-haired
leader of his own private rightist
militia, walked grim-faced at the head
of the two-mile-long procession. Beside
him was Ealim el Hoss, Lebanon's
Moslem premier.
In Beirut, meanwhile, the crisis-
plagued government of President Elis
Sarkis faced possible problems on its
southern flank, where Israeli troops
ended a 91-day occupation Tuesday and
turned the border region over to rightist
Christian forces instead of U.N.
peacekeeping forces.
The government, fearing a confron-
tation threatened by Palestinian
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vows to take revenge
guerrilla radicals in the south, ordered The march at Zagharta was
the Christians to turn over their ominously quiet, without chants or
positions to U.N. forces and confine other emotional outbursts that mark
themselves to barracks. mourning in the Arab world.
IN NEW YORK, U.N. Secretary- VASEUP Dwihlusekr
General Kurt Waldheim criticized hVANS EQUIPPED with loudspeakers
Israel for its reluctance to turn over the had toured Zagharta and neighboring
border positions to U.N. troops. villages before the funeral, blaring or-
Waldheim's criticism came in a letter ders from Franjieh for his followers to
to Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe maintain strict discipline, but
Dayan, who wrote Waldheim Tuesday promising vengeance.
complaining that "hundreds of As the funeral got underway, Syrian
Palestinian terrorists" have filtered troops stormed the village of Deir el
through U.N. lines into southern Amman. Phalangists sources in Beirut
Lebanon and are secretly moving arms said the Syrians rounded up 15
ibnto the area militiamen suspected of taking part in
Waldheim said he was "surprised by Tuesday's massacre at Enden, 15%2
Dayan's allegatins." However, in a miles to the northwest.
report to the Security Council on the Police said the Syrians fired on the
Israeli withdrawal, he acknowledged town, killing a Lebanese corporal and
U.N. troops were allowing delivery of wounding six militiamen, after residen-
"food, water and medicine to limited ts refused orders to surrender the
Palestinian groups."
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ill probablycome next week. Redmond ruled each anti-ERA tactic
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a House committee and put it the 'Land of Lincoln,'" hollered Rep.
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