322   2102pt 04-29
 Pentagon Papers 2nd NL 350
By LINDA DEUTSCH
Associated Press Writer
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Defense attorneys in the Pentagon papers
trial said Sunday they will give the judge an affidavit in
which Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, tells about an office
break-in that has been linked to the Watergate Case.
    The psychiatrist was identified Sunday by Time magazine
as Dr. Lewis Fielding of Beverly Hills, Calif.
    A spokesman for Ellsberg said the sworn affidavit would be
filed early Monday morning with U.S. District Court Judge
Matt Byrne.
    Byrne has disclosed that  convicted Watergate conspirators E.
Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy may have burglarized
the psychiatrist's office to get records of Ellsberg's treatment.
    Fielding, could not be reached Sunday but he relayed a message
through his answering service that he had no comment on the
matter.
    Ellsberg's doctor told him that his file cabinets had been
rifled during the break-in in the summer of 1971, and that
files containing Ellsberg's records had been opened, an Ellsberg
spokesman said. The doctor said it appeared that nothing was taken.
    But Robert Sachs, a spokesman for Ellsberg, said, ''We have
no way of knowing what might have been copied.''
    According to Time and the New York Daily News, a janitor
told police he had encountered two Spanish-speaking men who
seemed to be Cubans trying to get into the building housing
Fielding's office.
    The News also said the break-in occurred some time after Fielding
refused to give FBI investigators any material from Ellsberg's
records.
    Sachs said attorneys for Ellsberg and Anthony Russo were
meeting Sunday night to decide what motions they will file
in court Monday. He said they were seriously considering another
motion to dismiss the indictment on espionage, conspiracy
and theft charges.
    Previous: 7th graf a225-32
    
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314   2008pt 04-29
 Jackson-FBI 220
    HOUSTON (AP) - Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., said Sunday that
President Nixon erred in naming William D. Ruckelshaus,
Environmental Protection Agency administrator, as acting FBI
director because of Ruckelshaus' close ties to former Atty. Gen.
John Mitchell.
    ''Everything I know about him (Ruckelshaus) indicates he is a man
of good character and integrity,'' Jackson said, ''but I think he's
been put at a disadvantage.
    ''Mr. Ruckelshaus has some problems. He was appointed by Mr.
Mitchell as assistant attorney general. And I understand he had
Mr. Mitchell's help in getting the EPA appointment.''
    Mitchell, who resigned to head the Committee to Re-elect the
President, has been named in reports as being involved in the
Watergate bugging case. Mitchell has denied the reports.
    ''I think the President would have been better advised to have
selected the ranking FBI man,'' Jackson said.
    The senator said he has introduced legislation which would require
whoever is appointed head of the FBI to have had at least 10 years
experience in the bureau.
    The bill, he said, calls for the director to be appointed to a
nonrenewable 15-year term.
    Jackson was here to speak at the Israel Expo '73 celebration
sponsored by local Jewish groups.
    
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311   1958pt 04-29
 Ripon
    NEW YORK (AP) - The Ripon Society, the liberal Republican
organization, accused President Nixon Sunday of ''profound
betrayal of the trust in the office of the president,'' and called
on him to dissolve the Committee for the Re-election of the
President and distribute its assets to Republican state committees.
    The group also called for a special prosecutor to be named
to investigate the Watergate scandal.
    The society's national governing board issued the statement
as it ended its annual meeting.
    ''The legal and ethical foundations of the American republic
are threatened by the Nixon administration's basic philosophy
toward the Watergate crime, its cover-up, and related incidents
of sabotage, spying, and financial concealment,'' the society said.
    ''This philosophy has led to a profound betrayal of the trust in
the office of the president by the electorate, and especially by
those Republican workers and supporters who relied on the
President's original assurances that there was no White House
complicity.''
    
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305   1913pt 04-29
 With Pentagon Papers-Fielding 380
    NEW YORK (AP) - Time magazine Sunday identified Daniel Ellsberg's
psychiatrist, whose office allegedly was burglarized by two
Watergate figures, as Lewis Fielding.
    The magazine said G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, later
convicted as Watergate conspirators, burglarized Fielding's
office Sept. 3, 1971 while on the White House payroll - Liddy
as liaison between the White House and the FBI, and Hunt as
a consultant.
    ''Known as 'the plumbers,' they had been hired to trace the
leak of the Pentagon papers,'' the magazine said.
    ''Receiving all the FBI reports in what was called a 'superspecial'
investigation, they were informed that Ellsberg's psychiatrist,
Lewis Fielding, had refused to divulge any information in
his files on the grounds that they were privileged.''
    In Los Angeles Sunday, Ellsberg's psychiatrist confirmed
through a spokesman for Ellsberg that his office was broken into in
the summer of 1971 and files were ransacked. The psychiatrist
had, however, chosen to remain anonymous - as he had been since
last week, when Liddy's and Hunt's names were mentioned at
the Pentagon papers trial as two who may have committed the
burglary.
    Both Time and the New York Daily News said a janitor told
police of talking with two Spanish-speaking men on the night
of the burglary. The News said in its Monday morning editions
that they ''wanted entry into the building.'' Time described
them as being in Fielding's waiting room.
    The News also said the break-in occurred after Ellsberg's
psychiatrist refused to be interviewed by the FBI about Ellsberg.
It said that information was in an affidavit to be filed Monday
by lawyers for Ellsberg and codefendant Anthony Russo Jr.
    The Time account said: ''On the night of the break-in
a janitor reported that he had found two men who spoke Cuban-style
Spanish, dressed as mailmen, in Fielding's waiting room.''
    The two men told the janitor they were leaving a suitcase
for Fielding and departed, the magazine said. But Fielding
later told police ''that the suitcase, which had disapperared,
did not belong to him.''
    Time said: ''The Justice Department also believes it
is possible that the pair paid a nocturnal visit to the office
of a Manhattan psychotherapist, Robert Akeret, who had treated
Ellsberg's wife Patricia.
    ''If they did, Akeret is not aware of it,'' the magazine said.
''Besides, he adds, they would not have learned anything useful.''
    
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307   1925pt 04-29
 With Pentagon Papers-Fielding add
    NEW YORK-with Pentagon Papers-Fielding a305 add: useful.''
    Reached by telephone at his home, Akeret said two FBI agents
questioned him the morning after the first installment of
the Pentagon papers was printed in the New York Times.
    ''They came in and kind of implied, 'Well, you know why we
are here,' '' Akeret said. ''They made it quite clear'' that
they suspected Ellsberg of having leaked the papers, he said.
    Akeret said the questions they asked were about Ellsberg's
personality, but he told them ''nothing - it's a privileged
communication.'' Akeret said he did tell the agents that he
knew Ellsberg had a copy of the Pentagon papers.
    ''It didn't make much sense that they would come here,''
he said. ''I was puzzled how they had my name.''
    
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296   1806pt 04-29
Watergate at a Glance 230
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Here, in brief, are Sunday's developments in the
Watergate case:
    Nixon-President Nixon remained secluded at his Camp
David, Md., retreat and was joined by his personal secretary,
Miss Rose Mary Woods. Her presence increased speculation that
Nixon may be preparing a major statement about Watergate.
    DEMOCRATS-Democratic national Chairman Robert
Strauss told the Democratic governors' conference that the
party should buy television time to call for disclosure of the
full Watergate story.
    REPUBLICANS-Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois said he will
introduce a resolution Monday calling on Nixon to appoint an
independent prosecutor in the Watergate case.
    Vice President Spiro T. ANIGHTED INTERVIEW IN
U.S. News & World Report that the GOP could be damaged
unless the Watergate case is cleared up before the 1974
elections. He suggested the Senate committee probing the
Watergate interrupt its investigation until after a federal grand
jury completes its own probe.
    ELLSBERG-A spokesman for Daniel Ellsberg, who is on trial in
the Pentagon papers case, confirmed that the office of
Ellsberg's psychiatrist was ransacked in 1971. The trial was
interrupted Friday after it was disclosed that two Watergate
defendants may have burglarized the office.
    
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290   1722pt 04-29
 Democratic Governors Lead 230
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
AP Political Writer
    HURON, Ohio (AP) - Democratic national Chairman Robert F. Strauss
is proposing that the party buy national television time to discuss
the need for full disclosure of all aspects of the Watergate case.
    Strauss made the proposal Sunday night to Democratic governors,
several of whom earlier in the day joined his call for an
independent prosecutor in the case on grounds that Nixon
administration agencies are too compromised by the spreading
political-spy scandal to conduct an impartial probe.
    Strauss told the Democratic governors' conference at a private
dinner that 15 minutes of prime television time would cost $70,000
and that the national committee is prepared to raise that sum.
    Under his proposal, a party spokesman, perhaps one of the governors,
would speak to the nation ''to let the public know that they're
going to see the bottom line of the Watergate affair.''
    At the same time, Strauss indicated he believes the party will be
able to raise enough money to press $6.4 million in civil lawsuits
against President Nixon's campaign committee. Several of the
governors had offered to raise funds in their states for
prosecution of the suits.
    Several governors reported increasing public reaction to reports
that Nixon's top advisers were involved in the bugging of
Democratic party headquarters in the Watergate building in
Washington and alleged efforts to hush it up.
    Gov. John etc., 3rd graf A264, deleting Strauss' first name in
6th graf.
    
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264   1452pt 04-29
Democratic Governors 450
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF
AP Political Writer
    HURON, Ohio (AP) - Several Democratic governors called Sunday for
appointment of an independent prosecutor in the Watergate case.
    They reported increasing public reaction to the reports that
President Nixon's top adviers were involved in both the bugging
last year of the Democratic Party's Watergate headquarters
and alleged efforts to hush it up.
    Gov. John J. Gilligan of Ohio, host for the two-day conference,
termed the Watergate revelation ''one of the most shattering
experiences the American people have gone through in 200 years.''
    The governors conceded that the Watergate case and its
political impact was likely to overshadow the stated purpose of
the meetings at this Lake Erie resort: A strategy for challenging
President Nixon's cut in funds for many domestic federal
programs.
    The governors planned to approve at a business session Monday
several resolutions dealing with the cuts and President Nixon's
impoundment of funds. These will be presented at the bipartisan
National Governors Conference in Lake Tahoe, Nev., in early June.
    In calling for an independent prosecutor, a position taken earlier
by Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss, Gilligan
said it was necessary because ''the FBI has been compromised,
the Department of Justice has been compromised, the entire
White House staff from top to bottom has been compromised.''
    ''It is absolutely imperative that the President turn to some
outside, disinterested party,'' Gilligan said.
    Gov. Wendell Ford of Kentucky suggested that either Justice
Warren E. Burger, a Republican, or the American Bar Association,
select an independent prosecutor to conduct a Watergate probe,
which is proceeding under Justice Department direction before a
grand jury in Washington.
    Gov. Cecil Andrus of Idaho said he thought it would be
''extremely hard to get anyone independent'' but added ''it
certainly shouldn't be handled by the Justice Department.''
    When Strauss arrived, he also stressed the need for ''a fair
and an independent prosecutor.'' When asked if he had anyone in
mind, he repeated Ford's suggestion that Burger or the ABA
name someone.
    ''We've got to keep this out of partisan politics,'' the
Democratic chairman said.
    Gilligan and Ford both pledged support to an effort planned by
Gov. Marvin Mandel of Maryland to mobilize support for continued
prosecution by the Democratic National Committee of some
$6.4 million in civil lawssuits against the Committee For
the Re-election of the President and top Nixon campaign
officials.
    Strauss indicated earlier this month he was considering
a Republican offer to settle the suit, and $7.5 million in
GOP countersuits, for $525,000. Both sides backed away from the
reported settlement plan after Strauss said he would consider
it a GOP admission of guilt.
    Only about half of the 31 Democratic governors are expected to
attend the meeting, which began with a dinner Sunday night.
Several others have sent representatives.
    
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280   1548pt 04-29
Democratic Governors Correction
HURON, Ohio Democratic Governors A264, to identify conference,
read 3rd graf: Gov. John J. Gilligan of Ohio, host for the
two-day Democratic governors' conference, termed etc.
    
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286   1634pt 04-29
Democratic Governors Insert
HURON, Ohio Democratic Governors A264, insert after 3rd
graf from end: chairman said.
    The only mention of a resolution dealing with Watergate came
from Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia, who said he will introduce
a statement asking the governors to couch their criticism
of the matter in terms of potential damage to the country.
    Carter told reporters he wants to avoid any partisan criticism
of the administration's problems with the Watergate case.
He added the resolution will stress that the country's interest
comes ahead of any possible benefits to the Democratic party.
    Gilligan etc., 2vd graf from end A264.
    
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236   1231pt 04-29
 Ash 360
    NEW YORK (AP) - Roy L. Ash, director of the federal Office of
Management and Budget, said Sunday some tightening of controls might
be necessary to restrain inflation under the Phase 3 economic
program.
    But he said on CBS's ''Face the Nation'' program that he
did not expect that there would be ''anything that would be
described as a 'Phase 4' or even a 'Phase 3 1/2.'''
    ''Phase 3 has itself a fairly substantial club in the closet to be
used against those who may violate the limitations,'' he said,
adding ''a more visible club probably can have a greater effect on
the economy.''
    Everyone agrees that ''prices are going up at a level that should
be restrained,'' he said. Realistic alternatives to meet the
problem ''deal with some degree of tightening of
controls under Phase 3,'' he added.
    Ash said a ''key determinant'' in President Nixon's action will be
the legislation that Congress passes to extend the President's
authority to impose economic controls. The old legislation expires
midnight Monday.
    On the Watergate scandal, Ash said there had been some effect in
the executive branch on day-to-day business because ''some of the
time of some of the people has been taken with Watergate matters.''
    ''Yesterday I was in all day, on Saturday, and the only people I
saw in the halls of the West Wing of the White House were the
painters,'' Ash said. Normally many of the staff would
be working, he said.
    He named presidential aides John D. Ehrlichman and H. R.
Haldeman as among those spending much of their time on Watergate.
But he said ''others are filling in so things can go on.''
    On another subject, Ash conceded that a recent article under his
name that appeared on the op-ed page of the New York Times was
''written by the White House writing staff'' and used an erroneous
figure on the inflation rate. He said he had written the Times a
correction.
    ''Probably that's one horse that got out of the barn before
I could fully saddle it,'' he said of the article, ''and I'll
go back to writing my own again.''
    
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225   1124pt 04-29
 Urgent
    Pentagon Papers
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist has confirmed
that his office was broken into in the summer of 1971 and files
including those on Ellsberg were ransacked, a spokesman for Ellsberg
said Sunday.
    The report came in connection with statements at the Pentagon
papers trial Friday that Watergate conspirators E. Howard
Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy may have burglarized the psychiatrist's
office to get Ellsberg's psychiatric records.
    Still declining to identify the psychiatrist by name, Ellsberg's
spokesman, Robert Sachs, said the defense team will file a sworn
affidavit with the judge in the trial Monday morning. He said the
affidavit, based on the information from the doctor, will tell the
judge about the break-in. 
    
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232   1208pt 04-29
 URGENT
Pentagon Papers ADD
    LOS ANGELES Pentagon Papers a225 add: break-in.
    The doctor told Ellsberg that in the summer of 1971 he found
someone had entered his office and forced open file cabinets,
including some which contained Ellsberg's records, the spokesman
said. The doctor reported that some files were thrown around the
office, but that nothing appeared to have been taken.
    ''We have no way of knowing what might have been copied,'' said
Sachs.
    He said that attorneys for Ellsberg and codefendant Anthony Russo
were meeting Sunday to decide what motions they will file with the
court on Monday. Sachs added they were seriously considering another
motion to dismiss the indictment on espionage, conspiracy and
theft charges.
    Previous motions for dimissal have been denied, and Ellsberg has
said he doesn't want to move for a mistrial because of the
possibility the government could try him and Russo again.
    U.S. Dist. Court Judge Matt Byrne warned parties in the case
Friday that if the Liddy-Hunt theft occured, it could indicate
a ''taint of evidence'' in the four-month old trial. He has
launched an investigation to find out whether government prosecutors
might have been given the psychiatric records and whether
they were used in any way in prosecuting the defendants.
    Ellsberg, 42, and Russo, 36, both former researchers on government
projects, are on trial for copying the top secret Pentagon
study of the Vietnam war. The trial, which began last
January, is in the stage of government rebuttal, but attorneys
said Sunday it was likely that further testimony by government
witnesses might be delayed Monday morning because of defense
motions concerning the link to Watergate.
    The government prosecutor has expressed hopes that the case
would go forward without interruption.
    It had appeared possible that jurors would be asked to reach
a verdict within a few weeks. But with the injection of the
Watergate issue, the question was raised whether the trial
will go to the jury at all.
    ----
By LINDA DEUTSCH
Associated Press Writer
    
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260   1432pt 04-29
 Pentagon Papers ADD 240
    LOS ANGELES, Pentagon Papers a225-232 2nd add: at all.
    If the judge finds that evidence in the case was truly ''tainted,''
he would have to take some action. However, attorneys note that to
make such a finding, the judge probably would have to establish with
certainty that the psychiatric records were directly used in the
prosecution.
    The government has been asked to report back to the judge
speedily any information it has been able to discover with
regard to the alleged Liddy-Hunt burglary. The judge told the
prosecutors he would accept their reports in chambers, but indicated
he would not keep them secret from the defense team.
    The report of the burglary attempt was made public Friday when
Byrne read in open court a Justice Department memorandum saying that
an unidentified source had revealed information alleging that Liddy
and Hunt broke into the office.
    Newsweek reported Sunday that the source of the report was
presidential counsel John Dean III, whose name has been linked to
an alleged cover-up of the Watergate affair by White House staff
members.
    The magazine, without naming its source, said Dean provided the
Justice Department with a tip about the alleged break-in but
could not provide the date. The Justice Department, Newsweek
reported, waited 10 days before providing Byrne with the report.
    Ellsberg has said he underwent psychoanalysis in Los Angeles
in 1968, 1969 and f 19 he was then a researcher at
the Rand Corp. ''think tank'' in Santa Monica. He said he
was not treated for any ''current symptom or emergency,''
but because ''it was something I had always wanted to do.''
    
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316   2017pt 04-29
 Telegraph Editors
    A lead on the Los Angeles Pentagon Papers a225 is in the works
and should move within a half-hour.
    The AP
    
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217   1039pt 04-29
 Nixon 230
    CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) - His privacy protected by Marine sentries
and a White House news blackout, President Nixon remained secluded
Sunday at his mountaintop retreat as pressure grew for action
on the Watergate case.
    Reliable sources said Nixon was no longer alone at the camp
75 miles northwest of Washington-that he had been joined by a
small cadre of advisers. But the White House refused to divulge
any information on Nixon's activities.
    ''The President is spending a private weekend at Camp David
and I cannot provide information at this time,'' said deputy
White House press secretary Gerald L. Warren.
    The compound in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains is surrounded by a
double barbed-wire fence and is guarded by Marine sentries.
    The President abruptly cancelled a weekend White House meeting
with his chief economic advisers and flew by helicopter Friday
night to Camp David, accompanied only by such support personnel
as his military aide, his physician and Secret Service
agents.
    He did bring along his Irish setter, King Timahoe.
    The chief executive apparently spent most of a rainy Saturday
alone, but sources indicated he was joined by unidentified
advisers on Sunday, a warm, sunny spring day.
    White House spokesmen said that by mid-day Sunday Nixon had
not indicated when he would return  to the White House.
    
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292   1739pt 04-29
Nixon Lead A217 210
    CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) - His privacy protected by Marine sentries
and a White House news blackout, President Nixon extended his
stay at this mountaintop retreat Sunday night, and indications he
was preparing a statement on the swirling Watergate scandal.
    The White House refused to provide any information on Nixon's
activities, but it was learned that his personal secretary,
Miss Rose Mary Woods, had joined him at the wooded compound
75 miles northwest of Washington.
    The presence of Miss Woods usually indicates Nixon is at
working dictating his thoughts for a speech or statement. He has
been under increasing pressure to take steps to defuse what ha


    The presence of Miss Woods usually indicates Nixon is at
work dictating his thoughts for a speech or statement. He has
been under increasing pressure to take steps to defuse what has
become the most serious crisis of his political career.
    The New York Daily News reported that Atty. Gen. Richard
G. Kleindienst had helicoptered to Camp David on Sunday,
but White House spokesmen and other sources could provide no
confirmation.
    Nixon decided late Sunday to stay overnight again in his comfortable
Aspen Lodge. The spokesmen said he probably will return to the
White House Monday.
    The compound etc., 4th graf A217, deleting last graf:
White House xxx White House.
    
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306   1921pt 04-29
Nixon 2nd Lead A292, A217 170
    CAMP DAVID, Md (AP) - President Nixon reportedly called
Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst to this mountaintop retreat
Sunday, amid indications the President was preparing a statement
on the swirling Watergate scandal.
    The New York Daily News reported that Kleindienst had helicoptered
to Camp David, but White House spokesmen and other sources
would provide no confirmation.
    It was learned that Nixon's personal secretary, Miss Rose
Mary Woods, had joined him at the wooded compound 75
miles northwest of Washington.
    Her presence usually indicates Nixon is at work dictating
his thoughts for a speech or statement. He has been under
increasing pressure to take steps to defuse what many are calling
the most serious crisis of his political career. White House
spokesmef refused to provide any information on the President's
activities.
    Nixon decided late Sunday to stay overnight again in his
comfortable Aspen Lodge. The spokesmen said he probably will
return to the White House Monday.
    The compound etc., 4th graf A217.
    
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208   0939pt 04-29
 Watergate Reaction Bjt 420, 2 Takes Total 690
By PETER ARNETT
AP Special Correspondent
    NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. (AP) - The breakfast regulars at Danny's
Diner on Ridge Street put aside the sports pages one day last week
and for the first time in the memory of Mary, the waitress, they
discussed the Watergate affair.
    Much of what was mumbled over the coffee and Danish by the
bleary-eyed clientele was lost to history. But the significance was
not so much what was said about Watergate, but that it was discussed
at all.
    North Arlington is a borough of neat brick houses across the
Passaic River from Newark, N.J. It is predominantly white, middle
class and prosperous.
    The residents have a lot on their minds, ''like real estate taxes,
education costs, safety on the streets,'' said Harry Handrack, a
certified public accountant.
    They relate personally to events. ''Around here if a neighbor dumps
leaves on his backyard a person gets more excited than if he hears
the government is falling tomorrow,'' laughed Beverly Murphy,
managing editor of the weekly North Arlington Leader, only half in
jest.
    A reporter who spent election day last November in the borough
found it solid Nixon territory. That day the voters shrugged off
questions about the Watergate affair as they went to the polling
places. It was too remote an issue, too impersonal.
    Today the people of North Arlington have stopped shrugging off
Watergate and are starting to face up to its implications. Everyone
contacted during two days of interviews last week said Watergate was
becoming a major topic of conversation.
    ''I must spend about a third of my time with my friends discussing
Watergate,'' said Lois Palaski, a young housewife with two children.
''The rest of the time we talk about the high food prices.''
    John O'Connell, a freight manager who voted Republican for the
first time last November, said: ''Watergate is a big issue when I'm
with my friends, and at work. We're concerned about it.''
    A men's clothing store owner, Philip De Angelis, said his friends
are concerned. ''It's all these headlines,'' he said. ''How can we
possibly ignore them?''
    Brother Clement, the principal of the Queen of Peace Boys High
School, said Watergate has come up in his social studies classes.
    Many North Arlington residents interviewed still have faith in
President Nixon. ''My view of the President has not changed with
Watergate,'' said Mrs. James Carchidi, wife of an accountant who
said she voted for Nixon last November. ''Watergate is like a web,
you don't know where it starts or ends,'' she said.

    MORE
    
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209   0947pt 04-29
 NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. Take 2 Watergate Reaction Bjt: said. 270

    Freight manager O'Connell said he still doesn't regret crossing
party lines to vote for Nixon. ''The President is just too big to
get involved in something like this. It's one of the biggest
scandals to hit the country, but he has to be above it.''
    But some of the President's supporters are concerned he may become
more deeply involved. ''If they could tie Nixon into this thing,
then I would say, 'Goddamn, it is bad,' '' said accountant Handrack.
    Clothing store proprietor De Angelis said, ''I would still have
voted for Nixon. But if this thing continues, it could hurt the
government seriously.''
    Advertising man Tony Cornell could scarcely contain his anger over
Watergate. ''I am a registered Republican, and I voted for Nixon
last November, but I say now they should take all of his staff and
hang them,'' Cornell said.
    ''And I know that Nixon had to know. No man should be untouchable.
Teddy Kennedy was ruined by Chappaquidick. Now Nixon has to face up
to his problem,'' the advertising man said.
    Cornell was the only voter encountered in North Arlington who
said he would now vote for George McGovern if he could do it all
over again. ''I would vote for McGovern, if only for his honesty,''
he said.
    But while Watergate is becoming topic No. 1 in conversation, the
people of North Arlington haven't figured out what they are going to
do about it.
    ''Many people around here think it is just an extra thing that has
gone wrong,'' said managing editor Murphy. ''Compared to local
issues, it is still remote. And faith has been shaken before. We can
bounce back.''
    
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207   0931pt 04-29
Ruckelshaus Bjt 400
By STAN BENJAMIN
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - William D. Ruckelshaus plans to take over as
acting FBI director Monday with the intention of pursuing all
leads turned up by the grand jury investigating the Watergate
bugging raid, an aide says.
    Press aide Jack Conmy told a newsman over the weekend that
Ruckelshaus ''is not simply going to be a caretaker director,''
although he told President Nixon that he would serve only
temporarily-perhaps for two months.
    Conmy said Ruckelshaus felt the FBI must ''run down all leads
turned up by the grand jury'' in the Watergate case, which led
to the abrupt resignatio last Friday of acting FBI Director
L. Patrick Gray III.
    Ruckelshaus, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, was
appointed to the post less than two hours after Gray's resignation.
    Asked whether Ruckelshaus would assume personal responsibility
for the Watergate investigation, Conmy answered:
    ''He will be up to his neck in it.''
    Ruckelshaus moved over the weekend to spke reports that he will
run for the U.S. Senate in his home state of Indiana next year.
There had been increasing speculation that Ruckelshaus would run
against old political foe Sen. Birch Bayh, who defeated him in a
1968 Senate race.
    Ruckelshaus said in a statement that he would not run because the
FBI ''must not in any way be compromised by political
ambitions . . .''
    It remained unsettled whether Ruckelshaus would be able to serve
for more than 30 days without Senate confirmation, as claimed by
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis.
    A Justice Department spokesman said that under federal statutes,
an acting director may not serve more than 30 days without
confirmation. But, he said, that technicality could be sidestepped
by naming Ruckelshaus an associate director, who may serve
indefinitely in that capacity without confirmation.
    Ruckelshaus had his legal counsel study whether he could keep
his title as EPA administrator while supervising the FBI
until a permanent FBI director is appointed.
    Conmy said the decision was up to Ruckelshaus, but he believed
he would resign to maintain complete independence.
    Conmy said he believed EPA deputy Administrator Robert Fri would
become acting director of the agency after Ruckelshaus concludes
a farewell staff meeting Monday morning.
    Conmy, who has been at Ruckelshaus' side throughout the sudden
transition, said he would go with him to the FBI. There were no
immediate plans for taking along any other Ruckelshaus aides.
    Ruckelshaus could not be reached personally.
    
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322   2102pt 04-28
 Document 270
    RYE, N.Y. (AP) - William Lambert, a former reporter for Life
magazine, said at his home here Saturday that he had been given a
copy of a document purporting to show the complicity of the Kennedy
administration in the 1963 murder of South Vietnamese President
Ngo Dinh Diem.
    ''I'm convinced the thing was a fake,'' Lambert said.
    Lambert declined to disclose who gave him the document and
permitted him to make an exact copy, but The New York Times reported
in its Saturday edition that it has learned it was E. Howard
Hunt Jr. who gave him the document. Hunt is one of five men who
pleaded guilty in the Watergate bugging and conspiracy case.
    Sen. Lowell P. Weicker, R-Conn., said Friday that L. Patrick Gray
III told him that while acting director of the FBI he had
destroyed two files given him by John Dean III, President Nixon's
counsel, and John Ehrlichmnan, Nixon's domestic adviser.
    Gray resigned Friday in the wake of reports of the burnings.
    Ehrlichman confirmed the materials were from Hunt's White House
safe, opened after Hunt became implicated in the burglary of the
Democratic National headquarters in Watergat
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312   1940pt 04-28
 URGENT
    Nixon-Watergate Bjt 2nd NL
    Precede Camp David, Md.
    WASHINGTON (AP) - As President Nixon secluded himself to decide on
his next steps in the Watergate scandal, there were fresh reports
Saturday that two of his top aides supervised a cover-up of
the bugging raid.
    The Washington Post reported in Sunday editions that
at least two high-level White House officials pinned the cover-up
squarely on presidential aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
    A third White House official, presidential lawyer John W. Dean
III, plans to swear under oath that he gave regular reports on the
cover-up to Haldeman and Ehrlichman at their direction, said the Post.
    According to one high-level White House source, said the Post, the
President and his top advisers are aware of Dean's plans and are
attempting to devise a strategy that would offset Dean's charges.
    The Post quoted its source as saying that the current state of
White House confusion and internal staff warfare is largely
attributable to what Dean has already told federal investigators-and
the fear that he will reveal more.
    The Post's sources said Dean has knowledge of illegal activities,
including wiretapping, by the Nixon administration dating back
to 1969.
    The Post quoted its sources as saying that Dean was directed by
Ehrlichman and Haldeman to insure the Watergate incident never be
linked to the presidential aides or to the re-election committee.
    Dean, said the Post sources, was directed by the two to prevent the
disclosure of other campaign espionage and sabotage activities.
    Previous reports have identified Dean as among those present when
the bugging was plotted. He issued a statement saying he would not
be made a ''scapegoat'' in the affair.
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303   1809pt 04-28
 Shriver-Watergate 200
    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - R. Sargent Shriver, 1972 Democratic
vice presidential nominee, called Saturday for President Nixon
to ask f would have jurisdiction over ''every aspect''
of the Watergate case.
    In a speech prepared for delivery at the annual Kennedy-
Johnson-King Dinner, Shriver suggested that former Chief Justice
Earl Warren, former justices Stanley Reid, Tom Clark, Charles
Whittaker and Arthur Goldberg serve on a panel that would
appoint the special prosecutor.
    ''The Watergate investigation must no longer be a family
affair,'' the former candidate said.
    Shriver said the prosecutor would be ''easy to describe,
but hard to find.''
    Earlier, in a speech in Birmingham, Shriver called Watergate
the ''biggest national tragedy'' he has ever known.
    ''I can't remember when the entient has been compromised by such a debacle,''
he said.'' It is not a simple thing of breaking and entering and
bugging, but it is the subsequent effort to cover up where top
officials are involved and attempting to buy people to shut up.''
    
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318   2030pt 04-28
 Telegraph Editors:
    The pharase ''prepared for delivery'' may be deleted from the
2nd graf of a303, Shriver-Watergate. The speech has been delivered.
    The AP
    
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