WATERGATE Republicau leaders across the natio,i - were couliuuiug lo choose up sides today; for - and against - I he Presi den l. Sen a to r Sch w e i k er of Pe" n s y l van i a - u rg in g the President to . . . resign now; on the grounds tl,al liis Watergate transcripts - will inevitably dest'Y'oy his capacity to lead the nation. Senator Young of North Dakota - url(ing the President to step aside till his name is cleared. Jt Earlier tliough, the President dr~w- a measure of s11pport from Governor Reagan of California and former Governor Rockefeller of New York. He also y~~- met today with ~e: a"' Ford; who later reaffirmed his faitli in the Chief Executive. The Vice President saying: WATERGATE - 2 "I don't k,iow any area - whe1'e there is a sharp disllgreemenl be/ween me and the President." The White House/urt1,er hzsisting that the President himse If - still "stands firm." Spokesman Gerald lVarre,i saying:. "6'he facts are - there is a,i impeachment lnqr,iry under way;" but "we don't think - the PYesident will be impeached." WASHINGTON Co,zvicted Wate,·gate master-mind G Gordon Liddy Has fou11d guilly 1 oday on two counts of contempt of Co" gr es s ; f o r r e f II s in g to t e s ti f y b e fore a H 0 u s e sub-committee - i11 co11nectio11 with the Watergate md Ellsberg break-ins. aa wL Bur /1,-e was tlien given a suspended sentence. The Judge taking into account - the fact that Liddy ls already servh1g time on a number of previous co,ivictions. HO U SING M e an fl!'h i l e , th e bus in es s o .f ,: o t e r 11 m e n t g o e s ou. P1• e std e nl Nixon today providi11g t e n bilUon - to h e lP spur tlie c o" s t ru c /i.on of u e w homes for moderate a,id JI« middl e i11com e famili e s. Tlii s including for the first lim e i,, US liisto,·) ' - tlze subs-idization of conventional mortgages. Housing anti Urban Developme,et Secretary James Lynn saying: "E v eryone who has an ..,. interest In housing - ought to be pleased." JERUSALEM After three days of tallls with Arab leaders - :::~ir~is singer today rel urned 011ce again lo Jerusalem; there cot1/e1·ring with Israeli leaders - for more than an hou,·: ,,sing maps of the Gola,i Heights - to ill11slra . te his latest peace offensive. Dr. Kissinger later_,.. saying - "some progress is being made." Adding, however, as yet - "we ca,inot talk about an agreement." BELFAST ,,.,,.J- Go v erntJl!IP security forces in Northern Ireland A. today raided the alleged headquarters of the ,re~lile• I R A in Belfast. They also seized a man - said to be the ,.PUtllllll Belfast commander; along "11th g1111s, am munition, a,ad bomb- maklflg • 4 ILl eq uipmeflt as well as maps, plans and documents. TIiis - In tAe words of a goverflment spokesman - "the most Important seizure we've ever made." And now the latest - two J ICu om po Uc emen (J_n Belfast) gunned down at point blank raflg~ -"on the outskirts of a welt-known I R A strongAold. NEIV YORK America's "mother of th e year" for Nineteefl Se v enty-Four - Mrs. Russell Marriott of Kensington, Maryland; so nam e d today - at a,.. luncheon In New ™,.,.~ York City; for outstanding work with theA.Churc1a) f/Jf Je1w1 s,,,,,r at :r.c1,r .nu, 8sl•w - the .B•SI• Boy Scouts 1 .,.. the parent teachers Association and the - Le agMe of Republican Women. I n • the same vei,e, a report today that Americafls have mailed out this week - about t•o hundred million mother's day cards. And stlll tlae ...,_ most popular we are told - the cards bearh1g a reproduction of Whistler's Mother; whUe l,eslde ~ ,«.,~~\ ~ verse from Oliver Wendell Holmes:11,60 1 ■1111 Youth fades, love droops The leat J es of friendship fall But a mother's hope Outli v es them all. MIAMI America 's "movie of II, e ye a r" - a fl l m call e d "The Sting" all about - an incredible con job. Now - at Miami - the real thing, only moreso. A youn ;.. chap by lite .,.. name of J Allan Gokey - posi,ig as J. Allan Durham the Third, supposedly tlae last heir to a North CaroUna tobacco fortune; thereby p11lling off - a series of "super-sHngs;" over tlae past two years - allegedly running up a series of tabs ~ totalling more than four million. J. Alla,a Gokey sayi,ag today - he's not sorry, Just relieved It's all over." Why? Because - said he - It's an awful lot of pres s u re b e Ing r i c II Uk e th a t - and b es l ties , you meet l~. f. such_. tacky people." ~ ,,.J