11 HITE HO E Good I ning. th nate Wat r ate Mo n d a · ' , J" I ) 2 3 ' 1 9 7 3 Dallas To, n end Pre id nt ixon a "no" - no to om milt e e - and no to Special Water gate , Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The Pre ident refusing to provide ither - "ith tap of Presidential cont ersations dealing 11ilh the Watergate ca e. Th Pre ident explaining that he himself -had listened to some of the tapes. Obser f,zg that they were "entirely consist1..nt with u hat 1 know to be the truth - and what 1 have staled to be th truth." Further noting that full disclosure might ser e the public interest - if the tapes would settle the "central issues at hand;" except that such a disclostlre - would constitute a clear violation of the "separation of Powers. " In addition - the President ontinued - there are practical considerations. "As in any erbatim recording of i,formal con ersations" - said he - "they contain n HITE HO E - 2 comm 111 · fl,a/ /J r on u ith diff r nt pe1 " p Ii es and 11 oli1 alio11 - uould in t 1 ilab1, , int ,pre/ in differ nt uays." ''£1 1 11 nor important" - he u nt on - "the tape could accur1l ly b und r food - onlv bJ 1"eference to other docum nl or lap " and thus would begin "an endless P r o c e s of d i c I o s u ,. e a 11 d exp l a n a ti on - of p r i a t e Presid ntial r cords tntall. unrelated to Watergate." "According[ '" - said the President - "the tapes - uhich hate been under my p rsonal control - till remain so; none has been transcribed 01" 1 ade public - and none will be." The President, ne ertheless repeating his pledge to discuss the Watergate matter publicly - "at an appropriate lime dttring the llearings. '' But how or when - he didn't say. RE TION FOLLOW l HITE HO SE fl Lhi - drau ing P d) r a lio,z - a might be xpe t d . PYo ecutor ox a e ,,.tin![ that th Pr sidenl 's Yefusal to fr the I ap - 1 a "without l al foundation." "It th re/ore b com s m) dut " - aid h - ''/)romptl to seek subpoenas and oth r I gal procedures - for obtaining the idence for th g and jur)." Cox' subpoena was handed late today to special White House Counsel J. Fred Buzlzardt. The subpoena named Mr. Nixon. The Watergate Committee - meeting briefly in executive session also oting unanimollsly to subpoena th e tap e s · a de c is i on an n o it n c e d j o in t l y - by C o m m i t t e e Chairman Sam Er1 in and Vice Chairman Howard Bake, ... Er · it1 accu ed tlie President of failing to pro ide moral leadership . .. and he described Watergate as the nation's greatest tra ed) - surpassing the Civil War. The l;attle lines for a Constitutional confrontation now clear!, drau n. STRAWN FOIJLOW REACTION The Watergate hearings continue - with Gordon Strat n a ain in the hot-seat today. Much of his testimony - deali,ig t ith hi one-time boss, former White Hor,se Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman. Strawn saying that Haldeman knew a political intelligence operation was underway - at least ten weeks in ad ance of the Watergate break-in. Adding that Haldeman then ordered a r,i,rge of White House files - to make sllre they were ''clean." ZURI H One of the great figures in the histor of aviation - 11 as died a t Zurich , S w it z er land . Captain Eddie Rickenbacker - an early race-car drivn , ho later becam America's "Ace of Aces'' in World War 0,re. He then headed Eastern Airlines helping to make it the second biggest c . rrier in all the world. Along the way, si,r iving twenty-four days in a lifeboat in the Pacific - dttring World War Two. Observing once that he had already cheated the g1· i m -,, ea per - at le as t seven times that 11 e kn e"' of. And now - a fatal heart attack. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker - age eighty-two. HI-JACKING Th e hi j acked Japan Airline Jumbo jet - w i th about one-hundred-fort y People still aboard - took off from Dubai in the Arabia,i Peninsula late this afternoon . Cairo sources and a French radio broadcast say the plane has landed at Baghdad. Capital of Iraq. because of technical problems . This has not been confirmed . Before departi,ag from Dubai. the hijackers permitted an elderly Japanese couple to leave the plane. All the other hostages - still aboard. PAPEETE The death toll in that Pan 4merican jet crash off Tahiti now set at Se ' enty-eiglit. The lone survivor .. w are told - a Canadian indentified as James Campbell." The plane bound from Tahiti to Los Angeles - when it turned back with a shattered windshield. But why it then plunged into the sea - still a mystery. NUCLEAR Fr e nch g o r11ment spokesman today confirmed the first detonation - in France's latest nu . clear test series. A y m a r A c h i I I e - F o II Id of t Ii e Fr e n c h Minis try of Arm i es m a king his anno11n mcnt - following a flight from the nearby M11r11roa Atoll test site. Saying ''Tire test was carried out to the satisfaction of all ; " just as the New 7.ealand protest Friga . te Otago - had earlier reported. Achille-Fould warned, however: "It is not wise to accord too much faith to reports gi en by the Otago - concerning the energy and power of the bomb." With regard to future tests - adding: "Tire t,ositton of the government is to be silent i n such matters" - but "the hypothesis of ,.j- others' tests is not excluded." BELFAST At Belfast in Northern lreland--"Ot,eraUon Sealed City ; " with eight thousand British soldiers --patrolling ~ the streets; bringing a r,lrl ■ •l halt--to more than three years of violence there. TRIPOLI-BE NGHA Z 1-CAIR O Thousand of Libyans staged Protest demonstrations today - in tile streets of Tripoli and Benghazi; demanding tltat Colonel Moammar Khadafy withdraw his resignation as head of tlie Libyan military government. In Cairo Egypt's President Sadat 10as also urging Khadaf_v - to remain in office. Sadat refused, however, to yield on the i stte - that prompted Khadafy's resignation; re/ttsing to agree to an immediate merger - between Libya and Egypt. Some hours later. though, Kadafy withdrew his resignation, as many had e:cpec ted. SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE "FATHER ROSS" And now it's time for Lowell Thomas - with another tale from Stone Age New Guinea. Lowell. ... FATHER RO One of th e most dedicated, the most courageous men I ei er met - impress; e too u ith his long white beard Father William Ro s of New G11Jnea, b ., a mcm er of the Divine Hord missiona, , ord er - missionar , , among Cannibals. Fathe1' Ross was first as igned to "the land that time forgot" - wa back in Nineteen-Twenty-Nine; helping to open 11p the Central Highlands of New Guinea - where Stone Age ca . n,iibalism i as then a way of life; and in many places still is. During the early period of his ministry - Father Ross al ways k e p t his right hand ins id e h is ca s s o ck . He was holding a gun - just in case. But he spread the Gospel witlr such compassion - along with medical and economic aid that he 1.1Jas soon recognized as a friend and spiritual guide. His "c on gr e g a ti on " in rec en t y ea rs - to ta l in g n, ore than a quarter of a million ex-headhunters. Bttt, not all ex! Father Ross also had a most r,nusual hobby. By means of short wave radio - keeping close track of major league FATHER ROSS - 2 baseball here in the U.S. There in the jllngle - in the midst of Stone Age can,iibals - he could go on and on qlloting team sta11dings, battilig a erages, pitching records and so on. It u as h is u a y of fJ 1· e t e n d i n g , I g u s s - h e w a s s t il l k e e P in g in tollch t ith his homeland. The Re erend Father William Ross - of The Dioine lVord order. SUGGESTED FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPE "FATHER ROSS" Thank ou, Lowell. A final story--in a moment. D ICE 4 final not - on the Wafe ' rga t e affair: which today has been commanding the attention of almost everyone. Witness Gordon Strawn itndergoing cross -exam ·nation by Senator Montoya of New Mexico. "Many young people are 1 ri ting to us - and to the comm it tee told Mon to,, a - expressing consternation" - "they are greatly disturbed' - he continued. Adding: "What ad ice would yott have for these young people?" Strawn replying: "It may not be the type of advice that you could look back and want to ;;1 ·~ ;" but ''my advice" said Gordon St r a w n - "word d be to s ta Y a to a Y • " Dallas Townsend saying Good Night.