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TAD NDIANAPOL Sec. WEATHER TODAY Chance Of Shower High, 82; Low, Ii2 Yesterday High, 84; Low, 54 JJL JL JUL ,11 "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, SUNDAY, A A there is liberty" 11 Cor. 3:17 JUNE 3, 1973 Coy VOL. 70, NO. 3G3 Cnew Of Of 0 4 US AC Moves Quickly In Quest For Discussed Watergate With Many Times, Says Former Wings To Be Clipped, Fuel Loads Reduced, Starting With Pocono By RAY MARQUETTE The United States Auto Club, stung by criticism and concerned about safety, made one of the quickest moves in its history yesterday by implementing measures designed to help make its racing safer.

Quicksand! By CARL BERNSTEIN AND BOB WOODWARD (c) The Washington Post Washington Former Presidential Counsel John W. Dean III has told Senate investigators and Federal prosecutors that he discussed aspects of the Watergate cover-up with President Nixon on at least 35 occasions between January and April of this year, according to reliable sources. Dean plans to testify under oath at the Senate's Watergate hearings, regardless of whether he is granted full immunity from prosecution, and he will allege that President Nixon was deeply involved in the cover-up, the sources said. Dean has told investigators that Mr. Nixon, had prior knowledge of payments used to buy the silence of the Watergate conspirators and of offers of executive clemency extended in his name, the sources said.

DEAN HAS little or no documentary evidence to support his charges against the President and most of his allegations are based on his own recollection of purported conversations with Mr. Nixon, the sources said. Dean, the sources reported, claims that Mr. Nixon's former principal deputies, H.R. Haldeman and John D.

Ehrlichman, were also present at many meetings in which the cover-up was discussed in the presence of the President. Dean's statements to investigators have the effect of pitting him alone against the President and Haldeman and Ehrlichman, all of whom have denied involvement in the Watergate bugging or any subsequent cover-up. THE WHITE HOUSE, as well as Haldeman and Ehrlichman, has pictured Dean as the principal figure in the Watergate cover-up. Justice Department sources say there is ample evidence to indict Dean in the case and that the former presidential counsel appears to have been more than just a reluctant participant in the Watergate cover-up. In contrast, Dean and his associates have pictured the former counsel as a loyal White House aide who was only following orders in the Watergate cover-up and who, as time went on, ago ixniMAPOus Ex-imps stmiy 40c 33c Ctrrltr smut Safety Him Aide nized over what Watergate was doing to Mr.

Nixon. Dean is still seeking full immunity from prosecution, seeking to stay out of jail and hoping to keep his law license. But Senate and Justice Department sources said Dean's charges against the President are unrelated to the question of whether he is granted such immunity and thus are not necessarily self-serving. Dean's decision to break ranks with the White House and tell his story to the prosecutors, beginning on April 6, directly led to President Nixon's decision to fire Dean and reluctantly ask for the resignation of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, the sources said. President Nixon's three recent statements on Watergate on April 17, announcing "major developments" in the case; on April 30, announcing the Haldeman and Ehrlichman resignations Turn To Page 23, Column 1 The Weather Joe Crow Says: Old Dad calls his to il, mato plants "Watergate" because they're bugged.

Indianapolis Cloudy and warm today and tonight with 50 per cent chance of showers and thunderstorms again tomorrow with a high around 85. Indiana Cloudy and warm today through tomorrow with showers and thunderstorms likely; highs today 80-85; lows tonight 60-62. is to destroy the President. We categorically deny the assertions and implications of this story." On May 22, the President said in a written statement: "I took no part in, nor was I aware of, any subsequent efforts that may have been made to cover up Watergate. At no time did I authorize any offer of executive clemency for the Watergate defendants, nor did I know of any such offer." News and president of the joint park board since its formation in 19(6, says: "The judge owns the tavern, 'le's told me so and complained several times about the assessment on it.

It's common knowledge he's the owner." Deckard says he knows he'll no longer be on the board when his term expires next year. "He won't reappoint me," says Deckard, also a Democrat. THE JUDGE candidly acknowledges he plans to replace the four members Turn To Page 27, Column I Totlaif'tt Prayer Thank You, Lord, for bringing into my life a few persons with whom I can talk freely and comfortably. They understand what am thinking and what I am talking about. Amen.

Watergate Blamed On Plan Switch Wings will be "clipped" on the championship cars reducing their maximum width from 64 to 55 inches and fuel supplies will be reduced both in the cars and in the pit tanks for 500-mile races. New -standards also were adopted for pit crewmen who man the outer wall at all race tracks. The new rules go into effect June 18 with the opening of practice for the Pocono 500. What GoesOn! Whila Popsicle-munching undoubtedly is one of those eagerly anticipated joys of the first really hot day of th season, it does not explain the bemused pose struck here by our halter-topped young lady. The answer to the riddle may be found on Page 1, Section 2.

(Star Photo) TODAY'S CHUCKLE The only person who listens to both sides of an argument Is the woman in the apartment next door. Ensidv Today" Star News Summary On Page 3 Star Telephone Numbers Main Office 633-1240 Circulation 633-921 1 Want Ads 633-1212 Scores After 4:30 p.m. 633-1 200 CORPOKATE Oi ICFKS IIAVK Thirty-one members of USAC, ranging from mechanics to drivers to car owners, huddled for most of the afternoon, discussing the changes that could be made. Then Reynold C. Mac-Donald, USAC president, conducted a telephone poll with the remainder of the board of directors to finalize the rules modifications.

FUEL ALLOWED on board will be limited to 40 gallons (from the current 75-gallon figure) and it all must be carried on the left side of the car, except for a pickup tank with a maximum capacity of 2V4 gallons. Drivers attending the meeting said that in most accidents it is the right-side fuel tanks which have been ignited. As a further safety measure, the area formerly occupied by the right-side tank must be filled with an energy-absorbing material. There were no objections to changing the fuel bladders around or filling the right side with energy-absorbing material. IN ADDITION, the USAC board agreed that the total fuel gallonage allowed the 500-mile races at Pocono (Pa.) International Raceway July 1 and Ontario (Calif.

Motor Speedway Sept. 2 will be reduced from 375 gallons to 340. The new figure Is only 10 gallons less than the maximum allowed at Indianapolis this year, but it was felt the reduction will force mechanics to detune their engines for greater fuel economy and thus help reduce speed. There were no serious cries for engine reductions by the cross-section panel who attended yesterday's meeting. They felt that cutting the width of the wing and reducing the fuel would, in themselves, help cut down the speeds.

SINCE NO ONE is quite certain how much of an effect on the race car the new wings will have, it was agreed that a further study will be conducted after Pocono. One rule modification made yesterday will go into effect with the Rex Mays 150 at Milwaukee next Sunday. Starting with that race, only one crew member for each car will be permitted to go to the outer wall of the pit area. He must remain there until the race is concluded or his car is withdrawn from competition. If, for any other reason, he returns to the working side of the pits, he will be subject to an automatic $500 fine.

THIS MOVE, of course, is to help prevent any further accidents such as the one which claimed the life of STP crewman Armando Teran in last Turn To Page 20, Column 6 TIKS WITH JUKIST CORPORATE records show and which does business here as the Oasis Tavern, is headed by William A. Shar-um, a brother-in-law of the newly elected Democratic judge, the only judicial officer for Martin and Dubois counties. Judge O'Brien, a Loogootee lawyer, a former deputy prosecutor and former city attorney until he defeated Republican incumbent Howard King last November, has far-flung business interests which, say some, could cause legal conflicts of interest with his judicial post. As the sole court in the two counties, he presides over all cases criminal, civil, juvenile and domestic. AND LEASES the building in which the tavern Is housed, hth atop a hill north of Loogootee on Ind.

45, from Loogootee Investment Corporation, whose principal officers are Judge O'Brien, his wife, Elsie, and Sharum and his wife. A James Christopher O'Brien re 1 Cover-Up Story Assailed In White House Statement (c) The Washington Tost Washington The White House issued the following statement through deputy White House press secretary Gerald Warren in response to the Washington Post story that John W. Dean III allegedly deeply implicates President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up: "This story and a similar story carried in the New York Times appear to be part of a careful, co-ordinated strategy by an individual or individuals determined to prosecute a case against the President in the press using innuendo, distortion nf fact and outright falsehood. "This manipulation of the press involves an unprecedented assault on judicial and administrative due process. Its objective, stated in the simplest terms, By WILLIAM CLAIBORNE (C) The Washington Post The White House's 1970 domestic intelligence plan for illegal surveillance and surreptitious entry was aimed almost exclusively at the Black Panthers and the militantly antiwar according to a principal architect of the plan.

Tom Charles Huston, of Indianapolis, the 32-year-old former presidential aide whose signature is on the still-top-secret plan, said other militant groups were sources of concern, but he said that "we were not considering them in terms of extraordinary surveillance techniques." HUSTON SAID the plan, which was approved by President Nixon in July, 1970, did not include specific "widespread uses of illegal acts." Bather, he said, it called for the lifting of restrictions against such techniques as illegal wiretaps, mail intercepts and breaking and entering so that a newly created domestic intelligence operating board could "evaluate each individual ease on its own merits." cently became and R's majority stockholder, with 600 shares, according to a stock transfer approved March 28 by the ABC. Judge O'Brien has a brother, the Rev. James Christopher O'Brien, a Catholic priest whose parish is located in the East, sources said. James Christopher O'Brien, say official documents, bought the shares A-mvnd To That! Helena, Mont. (AP) Members of the Montana Legislature have directed staff members to rewrite in understandable terms the following standing joint rule: "An amendment to a motion may be amended, but an amendment to an amendment to a motion may not be amended.

However, a substitute for an amendment to an amendment to a motion may be adopted and the substitute may be amended." Circuit Judge In ABC Probe Tavern Ownership HUSTON The opening of mail, Huston said, was explicitly limited to cases of suspected foreign espionage. Moreover, Huston claimed, surveillance activity in the United States was to be limited to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, except in cases of suspected conspiracies against military installations, in which case military counterintelligence agencies were to be used. THE PLANS called for the Central Turn To Page 20, Column 1 Of Martin from a previous tavern owner and major stockholder, Mrs. Lucille Hunt of Loogootee. ABC PAPEKS SHOW Chris O'Brien," the new controlling stockholder, to be a resident of 107 Queen Street at Loogootee.

That Is the address of the Sharums, is the old O'Brien family home and say folks in this Southern Indiana town Father O'Brien doesn't live there any more, just visits. Sims notes that the big question the ABC' will want answers to is whether Judge O'Brien, who is obligated to enforce ABC laws, has any personal interest in the tavern operation. Stale law forbids a judicial officer from having any financial involvement, in a tavern. SIMS SAID if the ABC finds Judge O'Brien has a conflict of interest in the tavern operation the permittee (Sharum) "could lose his license." Judge O'Brien's name appears on numerous records in the ABC file as By CAROLYN PICKERING Star Staff Reporter (First of Two Articles) Loogootee, Ind. A close look at the ownership of a local tavern whose corporate officers have blood and business ties with controversial Martin-Dubois Circuit Judge John M.

O'Brien was i se yesterday by Alcoholic Beverage i i Chairman James D. Sims. Sims said the commission will Investigate to determine whether there has been "false ownership" reported to I he O'Brien ABC in the licensing of It and Tavern Inc. to sell beer and wine. i attorney for the tavern corporation, dating back to September, 19SS, when he prepared a bill of sale for a change of ownership.

None of the legal documents bears his name, or that of any attorney, since he went on the bench last Jan. 1. O'BRIEN, who has clashed wiih members of the joint Martin-Daviess County Park Board over his development of a trailer park and campground, threatened suit in forcing a Lion's Club ski show io be canceled and aroused Federal Soil Conservation and sanitation officials, denies any interest in the tavern. "I have no interest in any tavern," says the Democratic judge. The local gentry, from the service station attendant next door to the tavern to the president of the joint park board, say differently.

SANFOKD DECKARI), the quiet, elderly editor-owner of the Shoals.