Monday, August 5, 1914 From Washington •....... From Calcutta .•.•..•..• From Cowes England .•... comes today's news. Good Evening Everybody. T.his is Lowell Tlaomas. President Nixon acknowledged today tlaal, two year• ago, lie laad ordered the F B I to curtail ils Watergate l•v•sllgalion - reall,iing ll1at ii would ltide the ••volve•••I of s e v er al t, er s on s co" n e c t e d w It I, ,. is re - el e c II o ,. co,,. ,,. I II e, I• aN,aouncing t"is, t•e President said •e witll-lteltl 1111• l•formatloN not ONiy from t•e House Judiciary Committee but also from his own cou•sel James St. Clair.. As a conseque•ce, t•e PresideNt continued - 11e is today turnl111 over to the Judiciary Committee tl,e traNscrlt,ts of tliree tat,es - conversations lie laad with former W11ite House altle H. R. Haldeman in June of Nineteen Seventy-Two - oN11 sis tla . ys after tire Watergate burglary. T"e President furt11er WATERGATE- 2 says he's convinced the record - in its entirety - "does not jllstify the extreme step of impeachment." Explaining further how he said he didn't realize at the lime, two years ago, the implications tire three conversations'""" Haldema,a might have. ''As a res "lt , " th e Pre s id en t co,. t ht u e d "those arguing and passing Judgement on my case did so •Ill ht/or ma ti on th a t was inc om pl et e and, in s on, e resp e c Is , erroneous. This was a serious act of omissioN /or ••icli I take full t"esponsibility and which I deeply regt"et." A,ad he added: "I also t"ecognize that this additional maller I am NONI /Ut"Nlsltbag may fut"thet" damage my case - especially because attention will be dt"alDN to its setu,rately, t"ather than to the evidence in its entirety." In acknowledging tllat a House vote of impeaclune · 11I I• "vlt"tually a /ot"egone conclusion," ,,,e Pt"esldent also said he would t,t"ouide the Senate with evet"ylhing from Ille sisly- fout" tat,es Pt"evlously sub1'oenaed by the Walet"gate t,,rosecutot"s. DEFENSE President Nixon today signed into law a measure providing twenty-two billion for de/erase project - also funds to provide mNt military aircruft for South Vietnam. l::ven so, tlae Presideral says he has "serious reservatioras" abo"t o,ae section which, apparently, gives Cor,gress tlae author · ity to over-rule ..,,. Presidential 11:••rr decisloraa to export certain goods arad tecl&Rology to other cour,tries - such as ,..,clear technology to Israel arad Egypt. PHONES Altlro,,gh the nationwide strike of Bell Telet,ltone emt,loyees was called off just before tire deadli,se as you may lrave lreard rnore than fifty tlaousa,sd Westef"N Electf"IC wof"kers did walk off tlaeir jobs ,,. a contf"act dist,Mte - wof"kef"s iflvolved ,,. tire ma,sufactur,,.g e,ctl of tlae telet,lao,a• system . CYPRUS Turkey and Greece today reached a te11tative agreeme11t on cease-fire lines - ·· • - -· .. ~ ~-tf~ ~ U N a1111ou11cement >,. coming after t aoo days of laelicot,I• surveys 6y officers from boll& sides. A11d, US B,avoy Arthur Harlma,i arrived i11 Nicosia to l&•lJ> J>••la ,aegolialio•• alo•g. BOMBS In Italy - a right wing extremist gro•t, calling itself the "black order" -- claims responsibility for yesterday's bo•b explosio,a ~ . aboard a trla in - whiclt killed t welve1 -""J11ri,ag forty-eigltt otlaers. T1re sa•e group t,reviously clai• ed credit for bo• bhags ha Mila• a,ad otlaer ltalia,a cities. l• Brussels - a • • • series of for,r lo•& perso•s - tlae largest blast co•i•g i,a fro•t of ,,.. Spat1isla l&eria airli,aes office. Otlaer 6 I t larg•I• itacl•ded two spa,aisla ba•ks where terrorist 1'11•1>lalel• were foa,ad scattered i,a tlae streets. CABBIES Two San Francisco taxi cab drivers are in tlte eighth 1tJeek of a hunger strike tn prtso,a at Calcutta, India - afld vow tlaey'll starve tlte•selves to dealla unless theyJre given a trial oa spyiflg charges. Riclaard Harcos - tweJtty-seve• - aJtd Ala• Fletclaer - thirty - ,.ave bee• loclted •P for more than a year - clearged willa s•s!(do! of .. espionage. Tlaey admit comi,ag to ladia to •••ggle leasleish back to tlae U S - but defty a,ay co•••cllo• "'itla espionage. SAILOR -~ An Irish sailor ~treaked in pla i n view of Bri t ish Royalty w ith mixed results. As the yachts lifted up to start a race at Cowes, E,cgla,cd, the streaker appeared on Ille deck of the lrisla yacht ,cear a boat carr · yhtg Priflce Philil> arad ~ Prhacess Alexa,cdra. The Prince . . . obvio11sly,,ca••••d -- the Prirace11 . _ . a/)/)arent~ot. F.,.__...-' ~ ~ ""'~ f~4. ,~~~ ~ ~ r~ -~ 1l, - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~-J . l.t"._:. \T -c. ~ - CHURCH The little brown _£hurch in the .Y!_ildwood still stands among the towering pines i• the vale at Nashua, Iowa. And two hundred twenty couple• came back from many states to attend the a,u,ual reu,aion of those who, over the years - were married there. The amall frame churclt first ope,aed ,,. eiglateen sisty-fou.r.- A&ralaam Lh,col,a's pict•re , 8'" 'I is o,a tlae wall. 111111111 Jince "51 . some fifty tlao••••tl c o•Ples ltave taken the vows before its altar. The twe•ty-eiglath pastor to serve - Revere•tl Marslaall Hi•ds - says tlaat as ma,ay as sistee• weddi,ags are ofte11 laeld o,a a? - abo11t seve,a l110,dred a year/\at tlae •~1t11rcla i• tlae £_alley of the ~ildwootl - no lovelier spot '" tlae dale. " , . - ' .