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HOME NEWS 5 KEW BBCTtSWICK. N.J.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1972 Shuns Plea for Special Bug emocrats rosecutor ixon JUST 3 MORE DAYS TO SAVE DURING over from the 1968 election when Stans was also Nixon's chief fund raiser, the GAO said. Included in the $350,000 is $114,000 that has been traced to the bank account of one of the Watergate suspects, Bernard L. Barker.

Barker and the other four suspects arrested at the Watergate on June 17 are being sued for damages of $1 million by the Democrats in a separate civil action stemming from the incident. chief Republican fund-raiser, Maurice H. Stans. In addition, the President said a sixth investigation has been conducted and completed by John Dean, special counsel to the President. "I can say categorically that his investigation indicates that no one in the White House staff, no one in this administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident," the President said.

Nixon continued: "What really hurts in matters of this sort is not the fact that they occur, because overzealous people in campaigns do things that are wrong. "What really hurts is if you try to cover it up," he said. Nixon administration's justice department to conduct an impartial investigation of the June 17 Watergate nocident. They have asked the President three times for a special prosecutor, and each time the request has been denied. Yesterday, the President went on to acknowledge that his re-election committee has probably made some "technical violations," of the new campaign finance disclosure law.

He said any of these violations would be corrected, but added that he beleived the Democrats have made similar errors. Nixon was responding for the first time to the GAO report the cited his re-election committee for possible violations involving $350,000 of his campaign funds. ence to an independent investigation being conducted by Richard P. Gerstein, the state's attorney of Dade County in Florida, where four of the five Watergate suspects live. Those linked to the incident who were on the White House staff but are no longer "presently employed" there are E.

Howard Hunt, a former White House consultant, and G. Gordon Liddy, a former staffer who was fired as the finance counsel to the Nixon re-election committee. In addition, the former head of the entire Nixon re-election campaign, former attorney general John N. Mitchell, and the former secretary of commerce, Stans, are no longer in the administration. The Democrats have charged that it is impossible for the has called the GAO report "inaccurate" and "incomplete," but the President made no such charge yesterday.

In a related matter, it was learned yesterday, Stans has agreed to discuss the GAO report with the staff of the House Banking and Currency Committee, which is also inves-tigatiing the Watergate incident. A spokesman for Wright Pat-man, chairman of the committee, said Stans was asked for an "informal interview" to go over his objections to the GAO report. The GAO said that 11 separate possible violations of the campaign finance disclosure act center on $350,000 thnt Stans once had in his safe the money may have been left i Washington Post-LA Timet News Service Washington President Nixon yesterday again rejected the the Democrats' request that a special prosecutor' be appointed to investigate the Watergate bugging case. In a press conference at the western White House in San Clemente, the President noted that there are now no less than five separate investigations of the Watergate bugging and his campaign finances stemming from it. "Now, with all of these investigations that are being conducted, I don't believe that adding another special prosecutor would serve any useful purpose," he said.

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"When they finally got down to it, it took them only 1 hours to read the 100 pages and pronounce it declassified. The documents should never have been classified' in the first place," Ervin charged, "and certainly not after the program was condemned by the Congress, the Secretary of Defense and the American people." An Army spokesman, asked yesterday if there was any response to the staff report, said there would be no comment until the Army had read the report. The Justice Department, after consulting with the Army and the Defense Department, did provide the sub-committee staff with a number of documents such as "mug books" containing pictures and biographical information, briefing reports, microfilmed incident reports for use in the analysis. One copy of these documents was allowed to be exempted from the overall destruction order for purposes of pending litigation in the courts. Washington Post-LA Times News Service WASHINGTON Sen Sam J.

Ervin, said yesterday that a new, year-long analysis of Army records shows1 that military surveillance of private citizens was carried out to a "far greater" extent than was apparent even during two years of intensive Senate investigators and public hearings in 1970 and 71. "At Fort Sam Houston, alone," Ervin said, "there were 120,000 file cards on 'personalities of interest' and at Ft. Holabird (Md.) 113,250 entries on organizations and 152,000 records on individuals." The Army, 'the Senator said, maintained more than 350 separate file centers "one in virtually every major stateside unit." Ervin, chairman of the Senate's constitutional rights' subcommittee that followed up disclosures of military surveillance in the past, made his remarks yesterday in releasing the analysis by the sub-committee staff. While Ervin says that civilian officials in the Army and the department of defense "have worked hard to re estab-. lish civilian control" over these activities and to see that such unauthorized surveillance is stopped, both the senator's statement and the staff report reflect continuing uncertainty about Pentagon policies.

"Many of the records undoubtedly have been destroyed" Ervin said, as the Pentagon ordered last year in the wake of the public disclosures. But, he added, "many others undoubtedly have been hidden away "For the moment, however, it would appear that the systematic monitoring has ceased." Committee staffers said yesterday that they did not have any evidence to indicate that the surveillance had not been stopped. But that there were still reports of incidents that made them skeptical. Ervin said his sub committee must now decide whether the current cessation of surveillance administered by the Pentagon is sufficient, or whether Shirts Mach REG. TO 9.00 REG.

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16 letter of resignation to President Nixon that the Paris climate has aggravated his asthma condition, a spokesman said yesterday. The former IBM executive, who has held the key diplomatic post since April 16, 1970, asked that his resignation be made effective soon after Labor Day. Nixon granted his wish, but did not say when he would appoint a successor, the spokesman said. "You have been a superb representative to our oldest ally and friend, bringing to your position an uncommon understanding and profound appreciation for the importance of ties between the two countries," the President said in a letter to Watson. In a column last March, Anderson charged that Watson got "gloriously drunk" on a transatlantic flight from Washington to Paris shortly after he was REG.

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