European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Eternal Liddy saturday september 10,1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 Washington a g. Gordon buddy in his first interview since leaving prison said thursday that if a president asked him to repeat the work he performed in the watergate break in he would answer yes thy will be buddy said it dramatically in latin Liddy thinner by 30 pounds than when he first went into prison for burglary wire tapping and conspiracy in january 1973, asked a Small group of reporters to meet with him in his first full Day of Freedom. Liddy was released wednesday from the Federal prison in Danbury conn., after serving More than 52 months for his role inthe watergate scandal. His meeting thursday turned into a full size news conference with an unusual touch. A Man threw an Apple pie into Liddy s face As he entered the room. A reporter asked Liddy if the presi Dent of the United states asked you to do that kind of work again what would you say there was no hesitation. When the Prince approaches his lieutenant the proper response of the lieutenant to the Prince is Fiat Voluntad Tua " does he regard himself As a lieutenant yes said Liddy often described As twin probes pouring out space data Pasadena Calif. Up the twin voyager space probes sent Back scientific data thursday As they rushed through space on their journeys toward the outer planets of the solar system. Scientists at the Jet propulsion Labora tory reported no major difficulties on either voyager 1, launched monday from Cape canaveral fla., or voyager 2, sent aloft last month. Voyager 1 took a faster course and was expected to overtake sister ship four months before their rendezvous with Jupi ter in Early 1979. Scientists tracking the two Craft said they would Send out a variety of com mands for the rest of the week to keep the Craft on course Check their scientific experiments and perform general House keeping chores. Voyager 1 is also scheduled to undergo a two part trajectory correction Man Euver similar to Maneu vers performed earlier by voyager 2, next sunday and tuesday. Would do it All again should a president ask him watergate Mastermind assures the Mastermind of the watergate would not rank myself As a was there any indication that Richard Nixon wanted watergate done. I have no comment said fact he would not talk about water Gate at said he had asked the reporters there because he wanted to discuss conditions that had led to his participation in a food Boycott at Allenwood pa., Federal prison. And he wanted to relate secondhand what he had been told happened during a fire at the Danbury prison where five men had died earlier this year. Q. Any remorse for watergate a. No. Q. Why not a. Just no. Q. Can you Tell us Why you went into watergate a. I can but i won t. Q. Can you Tell us what you were looking for a. I could but i will not. Q. Why won t you a. I choose not to. At one Point Liddy said i do not re proach myself for his the 45-minute conference Liddy s five teen aged children stood behind him. His wife a schoolteacher sat in a chair said he had no plans at present to write a watergate Book although he said he had tried working on nonfiction without much Success. I Don t want to appear to be quixotic in these refusals to discus water Gate and so i will say this Liddy said almost apologetically after a rapid fire series of questions. There were a substantial number of different reasons Why five years ago i opted for silence. One of them is that if Idon t want you to know something i simply will not speak about it to you. If i say something to you i will Tell you the As Liddy said it his deep sunken Brown eyes burned with Fervour As they did when he stood trial for the burglary with James w. Mccordjr. In january 1973. Buddy did not testify then. Nor would he talk under immunity to the watergate grand jury. As a result his watergate prison term already the longest of any handed Down in the scandal s aftermath was extended by 18 months for contempt. One reason he did t talk Liddy said was because he might have been required tender scene John Travolta tvs Barbarino plants a kiss on singing Star Olivia Newton John rehearsing a scene for the movie version of the Long running Broadway show they re on location in los Angeles. A photo panel hears air bag testimony is it Yesav no or unproved ? Washington a automakers and Federal officials made conflicting claims thursday Over the safety of air bags As Congress began considering whether to overrule an administration decision to require new safety devices in cars. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams argued for his plan to require either air bags or automatic safety belts. We have too Long ignored a lifesaving system of technical Merit and proven potential he said. This View was disputed by executives of the big four automakers who told a Senate Commerce subcommittee that the devices have not been proven effective. The automakers urged delay of the Adams proposal for More tests primarily on airbags. Congress has until Early october to Passa Resolution keeping the Adams plan from becoming Law. Resolutions have been introduced in each chamber and House hearings on the Issue begin Friday. Under the proposal june 30 by Adams automakers would be required to build the safety systems into Large cars beginning with 1982 models and All cars by 1984. In addition to air bags the proposal would allow seat belts that wrap around passengers automatically without having to be buckled by passengers. Adams said current seat belts Are buckled by Only about 20 per cent of the motoring Public. Since automatic safety belts now Are feasible Only for bucket seats air bags Are expected to be in wider use under the Adams , the Auto Industry witnesses said current data makes it impossible to say whether air bags would be More effective than the current seat belts. Adams decision is based largely on subjective judgments and on Overly optimistic expectations of the number of lives to be saved with air cushions said David Potter vice president of general motors supported by other Industry spokesmen. But Adams maintained that too Many people have been needlessly injured or killed in crashes where passive restraints could have saved them or lessened their he said that air bags have been in development for eight years and in Good con science we can no longer be party to further he said that millions of dollars have been spent on testing during those years to the Point where we can now go Forward with Confidence that while passive restraints May not be the ultimate Safe guard they will be a major Force in saving lives and retarding he said that an average of 125 persons Are killed per Day in traffic accidents and at present trends that figure will Rise to 183 by 1990. We can Cut those losses by the simple expedient of requiring passive restraint systems in our motorcars Adams said. To testify at retrial of John n. Mitchell . Haldeman and John d. Ehrlichman had the supreme court not refused to hear their Appeal. And because i Don t testify against my colleagues i would have declined Andi d probably be doing another 18 months in jail he Are still some reasons which obtain he said and for those reasons which i do not care to disclose i continue to maintain my said it s possible some Day the Rea sons for his silence will disappear and out of an obligation to history. It could come did he consider himself a fall Guy be cause he served 20 months longer than any of the other 24 men imprisoned As a result of watergate and related matters slaps at Sirica i was Given a larger sentence than the others Liddy said without emotion first of All in an attempt to cow the others int submitting to judge John Sirica s prose tutorial urges As distinguished from Judi Cial temperament and second i would say out of personal Sirica has made no attempt to hide his displeasure at Liddy s refusal to cooperate with investigators. He sentenced Liddy to &-20 years then refused to Cut it saying that Liddy had shown no remorse. Liddy said he has Many Job offers but has t decided which to take. He said he has not been asked to lecture except to partake in a Yale University project on rehabilitating the watergate burglary was the Start of the sequence that toppled Nixon from office Liddy was asked if he accepts any of the responsibility. So far uns Mappable i Don t know that one can Lay the blame on a particular link in a Chain unless that link has snapped he said. I submit to you that i have yet to reminded that Many of the others have profited from watergate by writing about it or testifying to gain Shorter prison sentences Liddy said to responsible Only for George Gordon Liddy not of the lives of others. I have lived As i believed i ought to a bearded Young Man who had been waiting with reporters smashed a pie against Liddy s forehead As he entered rented hotel room. The Young Man later identified himself As Aron Kay of new York and said he had thrown pies in the faces of sen. Daniel p. Moynihan d-n.y., new York mayor Abra Ham Beame and columnist William f. Buckley or. It s a Way to deflate the dignity of these people who violate the rights of others Kay said. Of time sept. 10, 1947 More than 400 British paratroopers infantrymen and military police forcibly landed the last of the exodus 1947 jewish refugees at Hamburg Germany. Sept. 10, 1957 in Chicago a Balti More surgeon reported that the replace ment of a damaged heart May be within the realm of reality. He and two associates performed a heart replacement operation from one dog to another. Sept. A 1%7 Michigan gov. George Romney accused preside Jok Oson of keeping the facts of the Vietnam War from the american people by a systematic continuation of inaccurate reports predictions and withholding of
