European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Nixon Washington up a defiant Rich Ard Nixon said wednesday he considered rejecting Gerald Ford s Pardon As an unjustified admission of guilt and accept ing the agony of a trial some of his critics trash and describing his enforced retirement As a Fate worse than death Nixon said he accepted the Pardon Only because he was physically and emotionally beaten and could not have received a fair trial on the false charges against him. Nixon battling to the end concluded his former president says he considered rejecting Pardon facing agony of trial fourth interview with David Frost with the words i Don t know what the future brings but whatever it brings i la still be Nixon also suggested Spiro Agnew committed no intentional crime and merely was following common practice in accepting kickbacks but was forced to resign the vice presidency because an ambitious attorney general Elliot Rich Ardson wanted his neck and his Job. The former president also disclosed he originally promised to Pardon his topsides h. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlich Man if they got a bad rap and were convicted of watergate offences. That Promise he said was nullified be cause his own resignation preceded their trial and he rejected their last minute pleas for pardons before he left office. Alternating Between emotional Highland lows in this appearance. Nixon referred to Washington Post watergate re porters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein As trash and said he has nothing but utter contempt for their Best Selling Book on his downfall the final suggested a Reading of that Book might have contributed to the stroke suffered last year and concluded i will never forgive them. also said Public figures slandered by the press As he claims to have been ought to come Back and crack pm righting the and he said 11 was Henry Kissinger not himself who first broke continue Dan Page 28.col, ii swipes authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces vol. 36, no. 39 us thursday May 26, 1977 if 21855 a gunmen display three blindfolded hostages on track food drink refused by hijackers duty h army troops help take food an drink off a rail cart As it was returned wednesday from a hijacked train be tween Assen and Groningen. Molleca terrorists on the train refused he sup plies and a policeman said they just shouted at our men that they did twant the hijackers Are holding Pas sengers and Crew hostage. A paper links Jackie with Rich Prince Hamburg up does Jackie love Germany s richest Prince the Bild Zei lung asked in a headline newspaper which has the biggest circulation in West Germany said Jacque line Onassis has set her Cap for Prince Johannes von thurn und taxis 46-year-old Bachelor with a Fortune of at least 500 Mil lion Marks $211 46-year-old Jackie is reported to be trying to Hook the richest German the newspaper new York they Are the no. 1 topic at parties. Good friends report Jackie was enchanted when she made the acquaintance of the tanned and very fresh continued i pal i 2. Col 41 Hanoi won t halt search for mias Washington up Vietnam said wednesday it will continue looking for american soldiers missing in action de spite the Carter administration s abrogation of former president Richard s Promise for postwar reconstruction Aid. The Hanoi regime rejected the . Action As unilateral abrogation of the agree ment by the United states has no vietnamese government said in a report by Hanoi International service monitored wednesday at the state depart United states and Vietnam will resume on june 2 their Paris talks seeking to normalize relations the Carter administration already has indicated it will sup port Hanoi s United nations membership but will not pay any War reparations. Nixon in a feb. 1, 1973, message re leased in Washington last week Promise Vietnam postwar reconstruction and other forms of Aid totalling about 4.75 billion. But he recently told a congressman the Promise was no longer valid because Hanoi violated the terms of the Paris peace agreement signed Jan. 27,1973. The unattributed commentary by Hanoi International service dated wednesday said the . Rejection of the Aid Promise is a pretext used by the United states to evade its obligation and responsibility to contribute to Healing the wounds of War , Netherlands a South moluccan gunmen holding the Hijack train in the North of the Netherlands thrust three bound and blindfolded hostages out onto the track wednesday night and later hauled them in again apparently in announcement of the display of hos tages came from a Justice ministry spokes Man Here after nearly two hours of official delay while the drama unwound. Earlier official spokesmen had denied there were any developments at the train or the occupied Village school at Bove Smilde 15 Miles terrorists Are holding at least 160 hostages at both locations. The three hos tages were put out of the train with ropes around their necks the spokesman said the ropes were held inside the train throw fish doors jammed almost shut. They were put out in two stage first a Man and a woman dressed in r confirmed i Page 2�. Col i starry picked for 4th Star new station Washington sets preside Tcarter has named u. Gen. Donn a. Starry commander of v corps in Frankfurt for assignment As commander of the training and doctrine come Radocay , va., and has approved his Nomi nation for appointment to general defense Secretary Harold Brown said is to succeed Gen. William e. Dupuy who is scheduled to retire after More than 35 years of service. Brown said it. Gen. Sidney b. Berry superintendent of the . Military Academy at West Point will succeed starry at v corps no dates were announced for the changes of , who will be 52 next tuesday be comes one of the youngest four Star Gener als in the . Army. He is a member of the 1948 West Point graduating was promoted to lieutenant Gen eral on feb 6. 1976, and formally assume command of v corps on feb. 17. Before taking his v corps assignment. Starry was commander of the army Armor Center and it Knox and commandant of the . Army Armor school at it. Knox joined the . Army on aug 13,
