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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and St Lopes thursday june 18,1987 Harf plans return to . Politics As citizen advocate Washington not Gary Hart is plan Ning a return to Public life As a Man of ideas but not As a candidate he has Lold aides. Han who withdrew from the presidential race on May 8 amid allegations of extramarital relationships has conducted a series of meetings with former Campaign aides to plan his re Emer gence from the Rocky Mountain seclusion prob ably this fait. "11 has been implied that it is a political operation and Hal is just not the Case said Kevin Sweeney Hart s Campaign press Secretary. Swee Ney is among those who have been knee log Withhart to plan his re Emir Gynce As a citizen advocate Tor the ideas he espoused As a contender. Since his withdrawal. Hart has spent Many hours with his family at their House West of Denver said Bill Shore a Campaign aide who has continued to assist Hart this has been the toughest thing they have Ever had to go through Shore said. I think they re doing  Shore added that Hart s wife. Lee has been unbelievably  other aides who asked not be named said that although the Cou ple had experienced  and Downs in their marriage mrs. Hart had accepted his conduct and would stand by her husband. Hart has two children a son John 21, and a daughter Andrea 23. Andrea Han left Denver this week for a three week visit to the soviet Union where she was invited when Hart met last year with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Watergate to hum at first but then. Washington apr fifteen years ago wednes Day police officers were summoned by a guard to Lite modernistic watergate office building next to the Potomac River. They arrested five men in business suits who were wearing surgical gloves As they rifled the files in a sixth floor office. The Story was mildly interesting to newspapers be cause the arrests were made in the offices of the demo cratic Matron Al committee and because the men were carrying Walkie talkies and had bugging  Nixon then running for a second term As president was spending that Day in grand Cay a bahamian Island owned by his Friend Bob Abplanalp. He recalled in his Memoir thai he returned the following Day to his House in key Biscayne and saw a Small Story on the front Page of the Miami Herald under the headline Miru tans held in . Try to Bug demo  on monday Nixon s press Secretary Ron Zieglr gave the administration s reaction. He called the break in a third rate  with that Small Start began the big Gest political scandal in american history. In the ensuing years its fallout would cause the first resignation of a president the coincidental first resignation of a vice president and the trials and jailing of Many of the lop administration officials including the attorney general the White House chief of staff the head of the president s Domestic counsel and his while House lawyer. The watergate scandal went far beyond that Bur  White House tried to hide its Rote in the affair and payoffs were made to the burglars to buy their silence. The coverup efforts it was teamed late in the game were sanctioned by Nixon  25 men were convicted. As a result of watergate the nation Learned about a while House led burglary of a psychiatrist s office in Beverly Hill Calif. The reason it might yield secrets about Daniel Ellis org who had embarrassed the administration by leaking a secret study of the Vietnam War. Revealed were bribes paid to the burglars to buy their silence the existence ofe Emiti lists in the while House a Campaign of dirty tricks against Nixon i opponent. George mag ovum and a White House taping system that recorded All presidential conversations. Former attorney general John n. Mitchell had phrase for these and other transgressions he called them the White House  John Dean the White House counsel who is involved in the planning of a political espionage Effort tried to Tell Nixon How deeply mired the White haute had become referring to the cancer on the Prendean  when it became apparent that prosecutors were closing in Dean told the Story to them. Prosecution wanted Ninon s papers. The Prendean fought in the court and finally lost in the supreme court. A special Senate watergate committee Learned about the taping system and that set off another court Battle which Nixon lost. A watergate grand jury named Nixon a criminal co conspirator but did not indict him. The House judiciary committee held hearings to decide whether to recommend that Nixon be impeached and voted yes on three of five charges. Then came the final blow among the tape recording Nixon had to release we a conversation on june 23, 1972, when he approved a plan to Block an Fri investigation into the burglary. Thai was the smoking gun prosecutors had looked for to link Nixon to the cover up. Finally Nixon told the nation he bad lost his Politi Cal base. He resigned As of noon on aug. 9,1974. All s fare in taxicab War a Battle of new Orleans Metairie la. Apr Jefferson Parish is in a taxicab War with new or leans and its deputies will arrest cab driven from the City if they pick up fares on the wrong Side of the City line the sheriff said tuesday. Sheriff Harry Lee said it was a defensive Man Euver because new Orleans arrested Jefferson cabbies first. A new Orleans official denied any arrests had been made but said that would change now. "1 think it s very stupid for me to be doing this Lee said at a news Confer ence in this suburb of new Orleans As he announced his decision to begin enforcing a 27-year-old ordinance. Lee said he had no Choice after the taxi Drivers association of Jefferson complained hat members of their ranks were being arrested in new Orleans for picking up fares in the City. It s ridiculous to be subject to being put in jail for making a living Lee said. If that s the Way new Orleans wants it that s the Way new Orleans will have  both new Orleans and Jefferson Par ish have had i finances Uncan forced for years restricting oui of Parish taxis from picking up customers within their Bor Ders. With new Orleans and Jefferson Par ish official unable to resolve their differences a gentlemen s agreement Lone elect the rules was dissolved. Lee said he Hopes that arrests of non Jefferson taxi Drivers picking up clients in the Parish will Lead new Orleans cab Bies to pressure City officials to suspend enforcement of that City s 1952 Law. Jose Sierra director of the new or leans department of utilities said there has been no Clampdown on Jeffer son cabbies but there will be me now. No arrests have been made in the last year As far As the taxicab Bureau is concerned Sierra said. We have stopped some cabs and told them to move  now that Jefferson Parish has decided to make arrests its cabbies can expect new Orleans to retaliate in kind. Sierra said we re going to Start cracking  despite Sierra s denial John d. Patin president of the 200-member Jefferson cabbies group said new Orleans police have arrested or issued citations to about 20 Jefferson Parish cab driven in the past six months. Economist Heller is dead Minneapolis a economist Waller Heller who advised presidents Kennedy and Johnson and crafted the unprecedented 1964 tax pm that stimulated a lagging Economy died monday of a heart attack. He was 71. Heller was chairman of the president s Council of economic advisers from 1961-64. He persuaded Kennedy to push Tor an unprecedented tax Cut. Under Johnson although there was a deficit Congress passed a $ 14 billion income lax Cut known As the great tax Cut of 1964" that was credited with stimulating the Economy. When Heller left his Post with the Council of economic advisers in 1964, he was regarded As one of the most influential economists in history because of his dose relationships to Kennedy and Johnson. Heller was Well known As an author writing Montoy is. Fiscal pol icy if 1969 with Milton Friedman and the Economy in 1976. Graduation message App on Shadona Bryson giggles As her pre school Doss Nuich Gabriels Lima shouts message to her tuesday. They Are tenant graduates of the Cuy Aboga Community College Early childhood l ing Crater in Cleveland  
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