European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 4,1977 the stars and stripes Page 23 Nixon ordered most tapes destroyed continued from Page 1 Martha when Nixon s Campaign leaders drafted a political intelligence plan that came to grief in the watergate offices of the democratic party on june 17,1972. He was practically out of his mind about Martha in the Spring of 1972," Nixon said of Mitchell. The former president added that he was not blaming mrs. Mitch Ell who died last year for watergate. Other things might have brought it on he said. Who knows similarly Nixon insisted in the final telecast that he had no responsibility or explanation for the ibis minute Gap in a recording of a watergate discussion be tween Nixon and Haldeman three Days after the 1972 break in. Never touched tape i never touched it he said of the potentially Pivotal tape noting that he had sworn As much under oath to a Federal grand jury in june 1975. He said he was confident any role Rosemary Woods his personal Secretary May have had in Caus ing the erasures was accidental. Although the lingering puzzles of the watergate tapes dominate the program it lacks the Central theme of the four Previ Ous instalments in the series from which Nixon and Frost were each expected to earn about $1 million. The Potpourri of the final telecast includes the following significant elements Nixon disclosed that he tilted toward a proposal to bomb several North korean military airfields in april 1969 to retaliate for the Downing of an unarmed american reconnaissance plane but was persuaded to be restrained in the interest of then secret diplomatic overtures to China and to avoid a possible new korean War. Concedes mistake the former president conceded it had been a mistake to try to push through the nomination of g. Harrold Carswell to the supreme court in 1970. He said the former Federal judge had shown no hint of racism in any of his decisions however and that it had been unfair for critics to attack Carswell for a racist speech he had made 22 years earlier which Nixon said he should have made which most southerners were making at that  declaring that the greatest concentration of Power in the United states was not in the White House the Congress or the supreme court Nixon said the major East Ern news Media organizations television networks news magazines and newspapers such As the new York times and the Washington Post had driven Lyndon Johnson from the White House Over Viet Nam. He said if any president including president Carter does not take his Case to the people Over the Heads of the Media if necessary he is going to be shot Down by Media pressures. The telecast screened Here saturday afternoon for reporters contained flashes of mordant humor. Nixon recalled that the so called Black Box containing the communication equipment enabling the presi Dent to order a nuclear attack was aboard his air Force plane As it carried him Home to California the Day Nixon resigned. What might have happened Frost won dered if Nixon had tried to use the equip ment to pick up the phone in effect one minute after his resignation took effect of Nixon replied they would have answered and said wrong number " from the nearly 29 hours of videotaped conversation from which the five telecasts were drawn Frost saved until now the 27 minute answer to this first question Why did t you Burn the tapes the former president said in part i did not Only consider but i even suggested and i believe directed that or. Haldeman take the taping system out not take it out but go through the tapes and As i put it to him to make the search that would be necessary to retain All those that had historical value and to destroy Carter studies secret plan concorde might land in Loe Fra . Cities Washington up president Carter is considering a secret plan that would allow the concorde supersonic air liner to land in 10 cities besides new York and Washington a White House spokes Man confirmed saturday. The 12 cities have the Only airports at which the giant aircraft is physically Able to land in the ., the spokesman said. He would not say whether the president is leaning toward approving the cities for concorde landings. Plans for increasing supersonic flights to the cities Are contained in an options memorandum on the controversial con Corde Issue circulating at the White House and the transportation department. The memorandum sets out All options on the concorde from total approval of the aircraft to allowing it to land at certain air ports to total disapproval the spokesman said. He said details of the plan Are secret. David Jewell a spokesman for the transportation department said the plan must be kept confidential for National Security reasons. Under a concorde test agreement signed under former president Gerald r. Ford the government May Rule on permanent Landing rights for the Anglo French con Corde on sept. 24, the last Day of a 16 month test at Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia. The Federal aviation administration is complying with a court order and drawing up an environmental Impact statement of possible effects including noise pollution if the concorde landed in the 12 cities. Jewell described this As a hypothetical  the Faa also is preparing rules and Reg British dockers Union to Call strike of 28,000 members London up representatives of Britain s 28,000 dockers said saturday they have decided to Call a nationwide strike for a 20 per cent wage increase and leaders of other powerful unions announced plans that further threatened the labor govern ment s embattled anti inflation policy. The 20 per cent sought by the dockers was double the 10 per cent ceiling Laid Down by the government in its continuing Campaign to head off a wages explosion living underground called Energy Saver Geneva a living and working under the ground could Cut Energy costs by up to 75 per cent a report published by the United nations economic commission for Europe Ece suggests. The report said that underground development could become commonplace for Many business and Industrial personnel. This fall after two years of voluntary restraint. The decision to Call out the dockers Over pay for the first time in seven years was announced by Ted Gates chairman of the dockers shop stewards committee. Gates said the shop stewards were confident of at least 80 per cent support and would announce the Date when they were ready. The decision came As leaders of the pow Erful engineering and Coal mining unions took official stands against the govern ment s 10 per cent ceiling and the so called 12-month Rule restricting pay raises to one a year. The unions were gearing for this week s annual conference of the trades Union Congress grouping Britain s 10 million unionized workers. The Tuc has so far gone reluctantly along with government policy but it was certain to come under fierce attack from the militants. Lations for supersonic aircraft focusing on problems of noise pollution. Asked if the regulations which officials plan to publish in the Federal Register Are an indication the administration will approve the concorde the White House spokesman said Don t jump to  the other 10 cities being considered for concorde Landing approval include Ancho rage Alaska Boston Chicago Dallas Honolulu Houston los Angeles Miami san Francisco and Seattle. Pakistan arrests Bhutto As result of murder probe Karachi Pakistan a deposed pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was arrested saturday today at his suburban Karachi residence in connection with the murder of a political opponent s father official Pakistan radio said. The arrest came after an inquiry into the death of Nawab Mohammad Ahmad Khan that was ordered by a court in Lahore Pakistan s second City 650 Miles Northeast of  son former member of parliament Ahmad Raza Kasuri complained to police that his father was murdered by Federal Security officers at Bhutto s orders last  matter Lay dormant until Bhutto was ousted two months ago in a bloodless military coup. Kasuri then asked the High court to take up the Case and Pakistan s Federal investigating Agency arrested the officers allegedly involved. They reportedly confessed that Bhutto directed them to kill  49-year-old Bhutto is the target of several court cases stemming from alleged abuses during his 5vz years in office. The Day before his arrest martial Law authorities seized the books of a Trust he chaired in an investigation of misappropriation of funds. It was not immediately known where the former prime minister was taken after he was driven away from his House in the suburb of Clifton in an army jeep. Soviet made Materiel being shed by Egypt Beirut up Egypt has Given up Hope of getting spare parts for its soviet made weapons from the soviet Union and has begun Selling parts of its weaponry to Somalia and other african states a news paper reported. The undated report said Egypt gave China two mig23s and a number of soviet made ground to air missiles in Exchange for chinese made weapons. The those that had no historical value those that involved the family those that involved political or other friends and so Forth and so on those that should t be in the Public , who is serving a prison term of 2vz to 8 years in the Federal correctional institution in Lompoc calif., was not Avail Able to explain Why by Nixon s account he had never fulfilled the request. He and John d. Ehrlichman Nixon s senior Domestic adviser both resigned at the end of april 1973. The former president said his recollection was that Haldeman was to destroy everything save tapes with major significance from a policy standpoint but that Haldeman had later said he could not recall an explicit order to that effect. Concerned about Dean at the time of the april 1973 discussions the White House was beginning to be concerned that John w. Dean Iii then the president s Legal counsel would disclose his knowledge of the watergate affair to government prosecutors. Nixon said Haldeman had once theorized that perhaps he did t move on the instructions because the tapes could pro vide a record in the event that somebody says something and it proves to be  the existence of the White House taping system was disclosed to Senate investigators in july 1973 by Alexander p. Butter Field who had been privy to the secret As Nixon s appointments Secretary. While it is doubtful on the basis of Legal precedent that Nixon could have been held criminally liable for destroying the tapes before investigators Learned of their exis tence he would have been subject to almost certain prosecution for obstruction of Justice had he destroyed them after they were subpoenaed by Congress and the courts. Open admission Nixon said he had preserved them in the initial belief they contained nothing Detri mental to me because in All Candor i did t believe that they were going to come out and because it would have been an open admission of a cover up to de stroy them once their existence was Public knowledge. He bristled repeatedly when Frost pointed out that Nixon in a late 1973 Effort to avoid turning Over subpoenaed recordings to prosecutors and congressional investigators had asked sen. John c. Stennis d miss., to authenticate White House Tran scripts that Nixon proposed to substitute for the tapes. Frost called Stennis a Man who alas is partially deaf and very  while not disputing the description of the 72-year-old senator Nixon insisted that the recorder volume could be turned High and after All there has been an invention called hearing  we Brucken airman Dies in Auto crash we Brucken Germany an airman died in a single car Accident on a two Lane Highway 2 Miles North of Here Friday night according to an air Force spokesman. The body of the Accident victim was identified at the Lan Stuhl army medical Center saturday morning As airman . Antonio Paramo jr., 2143rd comm so we Brucken a the spokesman said. Paramo s vehicle apparently went out of control on a curve flipped Over and burst into flames. Two passengers in the car from Paramo s unit but not identified were Able to escape serious injury through the vehicle s windows. A German fireman extinguished the Blaze. Paramo an administrative specialist is survived by his widow Denise a. 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