European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 2 the stars and stripes january 1978 new watergate documents released several officials faced indictment continued Page it lived was a perjured was sitting As a Federal prosecutor Richard Davis who headed the watergate teams investigation of the itt said that prosecution of Griswold for untruthful Senate testimony was under Active consideration for the first three months of former solicitor general in the Justice was advised of his rights at one Point and retained a Davis said the prosecutors fell he had been More cooperative than the pre Cise reasons for their decision against prosecution were censored from the memo before its Griswold would not comment when contacted another part of the itt document de tailed the history of the Case against former attorney general Richard Klein Dick so and the decision by watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworsky not to seek his indictment for the document said Jaworsky reversed a decision to seek an eight count felony indictment against Kleindienst in March one Day before it was to be Jaworsky decided to accept a plea to a Misdemeanour after a highly charged meeting at which two Washington attorneys argued that Kleindienst deserved favourable consideration because he came Forward with information about White House involvement with the Docu ment staff prosecutors who attended the Catling the argument the document but Klein Dienst was permitted to plead to a Mise Meanor charge of not testifying fully before a congressional in the milk fund prosecutors memos show they did not consider that the bribery Laws had been violated when pres ident Richard Nixon ordered an increase in Dairy Price supports in despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars in Campaign donations which Dairy Farmer cooperatives sent to him Fri nominee meets reporters Federal Appeal judge William web Ster appears at a news conference in Louis with us family after be was named Ai the new Fri director by pres ident with Webster Are his Urusula and nil two Kate Rene right and Drusilla must be confirmed by the photo democratic panel adopts revision Likely to end crossover primaries Washington a the democratic party Rule writing committee adopted a revision saturday which is Likely to abolish the crossover presidential primaries that have allowed members of political parties to vote in each others the Rule writing unit also debated changes that could shorten the six month presidential primary season to 13 principally affected by the crossover re Striction would be Michigan and the last three states which held crossover primaries in the 1976 presidential the new which has to be approved by the full democratic National commit would require that participation in a presidential primary or caucus shall be restricted to democratic voters who publicly declare their party preference and have that preference publicly record the proposed change was adopted unanimously by us rules the real struggle came when party officials considered whether to close a loophole that had allowed the three states to escape a Les stringent restriction in with the Carter administrations sup porters strongly favouring a the committee voted 3412 in favor of re moving the the old Rule had frowned on crossovers but had allowed an escape valve for states in which primary rules were set by Law and the party was unable to have the Law whose Republican governor opposes the had been allowed a Good Faith exemption after democrats there failed to get the Law but in wis Consin a similar Pardon was Al though democrats control the state government and still did not change the Morley the Michigan state party chairman who also Heads the nation rules decision ably will mean Michigan will lose its presidential Montana democrats said during hear Ings which were held last fall that they probably would drop their presidential Pri Mary if the crossover restrictions were Don a committee member from declared he believes that to retain the exemption would Only encourage states to try to get away from it the supreme court has ruled that a National political party has the right to set the rules for selecting delegates to its National Andl hat these take precedent Over state this Means if for should continue to hold wide open the democrats could refuse to seat delegates elected in the new Rule adopted saturday provides if a party is unable because of state Law to comply with the closed primary re it should set up procedures for electing its delegates some other this would most Likely be a party run system of caucuses and the principal objection to the crossover primary has been that members of one party would vote in the other party Pri Mary for purposes of the Best example is that members of a party which does not have a seriously con tested primary would Cross Over and vote in the other primary in order to nominate the weakest candidate to face their own parlays they concluded that the big Gest had in fact been guilty of offering a bribe when its two top executives offered 2 million in Campaign donations to presidential assistant Charles Colson some time they said Colson and the two exec Harold Nelson and David also could be indicted for All three individuals pleaded guilty to other criminal and were not charged in the bribery asked about the report Satur noted that he had appeared As a government witness in the milk fund what is More i is that in the one who blew the he of cannot account for some of the internal meanderings of the prosecution Colson noted that it was on his recommendation that the Nixon Campaign stopped accepting Campaign contributions from an employee of Ampi in san who asked not to be Ridenti said saturday that neither Nelson nor Parr still worked for the the prosecutors tried to get which also had been prosecuted and fined for giving illegal Campaign Dona to make a second guilty plea in the bribery 16 million maximum Fine they said the maximum Fine would be 16 million and obviously the Coop would not willingly pay but the prosecutors did try to arrange an agreement to accept a Fine of or but Ampi refused to plead guilty to bribery and the prosecutors decided not to press the in part be cause the coops Farmer members would be the ones to pay any who succeeded Nelson As head of once swore to the Senate water Gate committee that he ordered an end to presidential Campaign donations after he took charge of the there later surfaced testimony from including Nixon fundraiser Herbert Kalm that Mehren had actually offered a Large gift to Nixon 1972 Campaign if Kalmbach could arrange a favourable settlement of an antitrust some can celled checks made out to the Nixon Campaign tended to support asked about the revelations contained in the jus released watergate general manager of said sat urday it surprises a lot of it sounds like Hogwash to but if the Justice department said it in not one to say any Dif capacity1 Howe said Mehren is now a Par time employee of the Coop and works in an advisory attempts to reach Mehren at his san Antonio Home were in prosecutors Charles Breyer and Philip bakes wrote a 15page memo Dis cussing a possible perjury Case against we believe the Case could go either they the exact reason for not prosecuting Mehren was censored from the other prosecution memos dealt with cases which were brought and tried in open one memo dealt with the celebrated is minute Gap in one of the Nixon White House but it shed no Light on who was suspected of causing temperatures a a it u u in ii is a a a a a u a u Culum Dan Var Omro l h ii a 41 St of Reimt ssssar1 u it u a 1 unit b Mung in