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The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 17

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Judge Bars Commercial Use Of Nixon Watergate Tapes WASHINGTON (AP) The White House tapes played at the Watergate cover-up trial cannot be made available for broadcasting and home recordings at this time, a federal juoge ruled wedne U.S. Dislrirl A. Gesell said appl laneti to come up with a plan make the tapes public tha would prevent com 8H0P AT 8EARS AND 8AVE SatujacitoA QuanMtti or Your Money mercialization or undigniliedj use. The three television net-' works, the Public Broadcasting System and a record firm' had been told by the judge last Dec. 5 to come up with a plan "which does not permit over-commercialization of the evidence." In response, they submitted plans recently.

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mm 1958 BRIDGEPORT Lafayette Plaza ORANGE tiAM, aoaawx and 00. Boston fost Kd. At Issue are 28 White House ecordings played at the recently concluded trial of John Mitcneti, m.k. tiameman. John D.

Ehrlichman, Robert C. Mardian and Kenneth W. Park inson. Former President Richard M. Nixon is one of the participants in all the conversa- Gesell had ruled iri December that while the applicants no constitutional right to the tapes, they had "come into the public domain and the' public should have the opportunity to near tnem.

But he warned at the time that before the tapes could be released certain obstacles had to be overcome, such as remov ing material that was excluded from the iurv. Anticipating a heavy demand for copies, he said the -court clerk's office was not equipped SAVJEM GUARANTEED 3-WAYS Regular GUARANTEED 5-WAYS Regular 1-Coat Latex Flat Paint 24-Colors HAMDEN 2301 Dixwell Ave. MANCHESTER Shopping Parkade 5 99 7 Gallon 1-Coat Latex Fashion Flat 99 Gallon Interior Paint Guarantee I I Spot I Mm No. Rftirt.nl 90005 5-Yra. 86005 EASTFIELD MALL Springfield 90 Wall St with trained personnel and suggested the applicants suggest a "satisfactory mechanism and procedure." In his order Wednesday, Gesell said the applicants "sug gest no responsible agency or person io aaminister tne.

pi and merely undertake to pla all of these problems back the court which is not equipped witn necessary lunds, tech nology or manpower." 0 0000 0 -r wmilllll HI I HI MB 111 II HI II 1 HBSSn 1 BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, Thursday, January 9, 1975 ell denied all pending ap plications for the tapes "with out prejudice" meaning the matter can be raised again transferred the case back to U.S. District John J. Sirica, who was unable to handle the tapes applicat at the time they were warded because he was busy with the cover-up In their response to judge's original request, networks had said they tapes Involved. The Watergate special prosecutor's office has estimated the length of playing time at about 15 hours. mated there were 18-22 hours of a day YOU SAVE MONEY AT SEARS OIL OUTPUT DOWN CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Venezuela's dally crude oil production for 1974 averaged barrels a day through Dec.

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WATERBURY Naugatuck Valley Mall ANBURY 1M Main St. 4 Claims Filed Against the City On Damaged Cars Four more claims of damaee done to private autos as a result of city employe action or official neglect have been taken under study by the Common'Council as part of a hew batch of damage claims received this week. ne, Richard Drury of 298 William street is claiming damages as a result of a policeman ordering his car towed away from where.it was situated on Frank street, and it being conn ed in a junk yard. Mr. Drury says the car was worth $750, and the policeman failed to try Hard enough to find who owned It.

James L. Braswell of Marina Village is claiming $450 for damage done to his parked car when hit in the rear by a police car in front of his home. Mrs. John Clarkson of 30 Clarkson street asked for $101 for damage done to her parked car when it was hit by a city garbage truck. Mrs.

Caryl G. Morgan of 26 Sims street asked for $352 to pay for damage done to her car in a collision blamed on a defective traffic light. It was driven by her son-in-law, Rohert another kind of case, Mario Guerrerra, of 219 Folino drive, asked for $200 to cover the cost of replacing a defectively in stalled city sewer line. All of the requests were assigned by the Council for study by its Claims committee, headed by Alderman Joseph Mas-tronardi R-133rd. UofH to Increase Tuition for '75-76 WEST HARTFORD (UP1).

Citing "severe inflationary pressures," the University? of Hartford announced Wednesday increase in tuition rates ifor the 1975-76 academic year. University President Woodruff, said, however; full time students -who during the current school year will face no tuition increase next school year. With the exception of a $100 increase at Samuel I. 'Ward Technical collcee, all other returning full time students who enrolled prior to the 1974-75 year will face a 5150 increase in their tuitions which currently 'range Irom Incoming freshmen for the 1975-76 academic year, plus transfer students, will be assessed next year $250 above the current full time rate in the areas of arts business, and engineering. 1 he scnool also lntroaueea a tuition-credit plan 1 for 1975-76 year.

Full time students, enrolling for the first time, -may earn credits of $50 a semester Uor semester college, credit, which would involve emesters all told, would be ed to the senior, year's tui tion in the amount1 of $300. Democrats Elect, Speaker in Vermont MONTPF.UER, Vt. fUPI) Democrats overcame' a Republican majority in the Ver- House or Representatives Wednesday and elected the first Democratic speaker since tne Republican party was formed in .1858. nmotny 0. eonnor, ot urat-tleboro, defeated Republican candidate Emory.

A. Glover, by a vote of- 77-63. Ten write-in votes went to Orrin Beattie, of Manchester, a liberal Republican who had lost the party's nomination to Glover. Gov. Thomas P.

Salmon, a Democrat, said O'Connor's vic tory showed "the Democratic party in Vermont has come of Democrats elected their first U.S. senator in the tra-dionally Republican state last November. O'Connor promised to run the house, which has a small Republican majority, in a non-partisan manner and' in dicated Republicans would probably continue to have 'he ma- TOUGH TIMES ATLANTA (UP1) Newspapermen in the South suf fered along with the rest of the population aunng tne early aays ot Reconstruction. The editor of the Athens Watchman, a weekly, complained in print that he not only had to be his own. printer, proofreader, pressman and printer's devil, but he also had to rush out at noon and borrow a quarter for his lunch.

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