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Part I FrL, Nov. 8, 1 974 ILosSlnqtltH tlfmnjP Pleads Guilty LA. Lawyer Social Program Cuts May Be Needed-Ash Ford's Commitment to Balanced Budget for 76 Weakening, Director Says Papers Tax Case Mini pw iwnwMwgwwwB 4 if-1 ij, gin wEafegrwaj 'i: ::) i if ft- 1 ll I ij', 1- fji 3- jy 1 1 x(y i I 1 l' 2 -y4 RMk "tifeV. She ENOUGH! Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy appeals to cameramen to end picture session at London reception to launch her autobiography, "Times to Remember." The mother of former President is 84. in Nixon Sirica to Name 3 Doctors to Examine Nixon WASHINGTON UP) U.S.

Dist. Judge John J. Sirica said today he Swill appoint a team of three doctors to examine Richard M. Nixon and recommend whether the former President will be healthy enough to testify at the Watergate coverup tri- fitll. The judge said he hoped to choose panel, including a heart specialist and an internal medicine specialist, by next week.

Sirica acted on a formal motion from lawyers for defendant John D. Ehrlichman, who have subpoenaed rMr. Nixon. One of the Ehrlichman lawyers, William Frates, said Sirica already vhas a list of "really great doctors who have all agreed to do this." On Thursday, Mr. Nixon's lawyer, Herbert J.

Miller reported to Sir-t ica that Mr. Nixon would be unable to do anything as strenuous as answer questions in a criminal trial for least two to three months. Asked by Sirica to comment on "'the plan for an independent medical inquiry into Mr. Nixon's health, associate special prosecutor James F. Neal said that while he would not resist, the prosecution does not re-squire the former President's testi- mony.

"We don't even concede that Mr. Nixon is a necessary witness for any of the defendants," Neal said. In another Watergate action the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis- "trict of Columbia has upheld the "A conviction of G. Gordon Liddy for conspiracy, burglary and wiretap- ping in the original break-in.

The Appeals Court decision today -marked the first test of the original Watergate convictions. A unanimous seven-judge appeals court generally praised Sirica's han-i dllng of the trial which began Jan. 8. 1973. "Judge Sirica's palpable search for truth in such a trial was not only permissible, it was in the highest (r! tradition of his office as a federal "judge," the appeals court said.

The judges said where the 70-year-, old Sirica made mistakes, "it must i be ranked as harmless rather than prejudicial error." Ouster of GOP's House Leader Urged WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep. Peter Peyser, a two-term Republican from New York, said today John "Rhodes must be replaced as House minority leader if the GOP is going to survive Tuesday's Democratic election victory. "It's time for a change. New leadership is needed," Peyser told a news conference. "The party needs to take hold in a different way if it is going to survive.

It must represent urban as well as rural Americans and relate to problems such as the mass transit' crisis in big cities." Rhodes of Arizona was elected to the post Dec. 8, 1973, after Gerald R. Ford became Vice President. Rhodes was not immediately available for comment. Rep.

John B. Anderson (R-Ill.) had considered challenging Rhodes a year ago. He is considered moderate. Anderson said today, however, that he had urged Peyser not to inject his name in a drive to oust Rhodes. U.S.

OFFICERS Wife of Earl Savagely Beaten in London, Children's Nanny Slain Morgan Admits Back-Dating of Gift Deduction WASHINGTON (UPI) Former White House Edward" L. Morgan pleaded guilty today to conspiracy in connection with the back dating of President Nixon's tax deductible gift of his public papers to the government in 1969. Chief U.S. Judge George L. Hart Jr.

placed Morgan, 36, of Los Angeles, in the custody of his attorney pending a presentence investigation. He could receive up to five years imprisonment and a $10,000 1 Morgan was charged with "willfully and knowingly" preparing and signing in March or April, 1970, affidavits dated one year earlier deeding Mr. Nixon's Vice presidential pa- pers to the government. Mr. Nixon used the gift to claim a $376,000 tax deduction.

Such deductions were abolished effective July 26, 1969, by a tax reform bill passed that year. The affidavits were, all dated prior to that date. Morgan waived indictment by a grand jury and a trial. He later refused to answer reporters' questions, saying "it would be inappropriate to make any comment." According to the information, Morgan, as White House deputy counsel, was assigned to handle the transfer of Mr. Nixon's papers to the General Services Administration 'in March, 19G9, early in the Nixon administration.

5 "During 1909, as Edward L. Morgan, the defendant, well knew, the prepresidential papers remained in storage at GSA but title to, and all interest in, those materials mained In (the name of) Richard M. Nixon," the information said. The Tax Reform Act which ended tax deductions on such presidential papers was passed on Dec. 30, 1969, retroactive to the previous July 26.

The information charged specifically that Morgan: In March and April, 197Q, prepared a chattel deed dated March 27, .1909, transferring the papers from Mr. Nixon to the United States, and a notarization and affidavit to the deed dated April 21, 1969. These documents "falsely and fraudulently represented that, when the prepresidential papers of Richard M. Nixon ha been delivered tq the storage la-' cilities ofthe gas on March 26 and March 27, 1969, certain of those papers constituted a gift to the United States." Conspired in May and June, 1970, to conceal from federal agencies the "true facts and circumstances" surrounding the 1969 delivery of the papers. Mr.

Nixon agreed to pay the in back taxes after the Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation ruled it was not a proper deduction. The House Judiciary Committee, however, voted against recommending impeachment on those grounds. if. i ROTTEN Elinor Guggenhei-mer, New York's consumer of-, fairs commissioner, makes opinion known os she displays assortment of spoiled food that had been purchased in N.Y. stores.

Legislation is to be introduced to prohibit such sales. (fi Wirephoto 1: r- 1 i Edword Morgan UPI photo White House Hints Ford Ready to Drop Gibson Nomination WASHINGTON (UPI) President Ford's chief spokesman hinted strongly today that the nomination of Andrew E. Gibson to head the Federal Energy Administration will be dropped soon. "The matter is being reviewed diligently," press secretary Ron Nes-sen told reporters. "It is being given serious consideration.

We hope to be able to resolve the matter in the near future and to tell you about Gibson, 52, was appointed 10 days ago to to replace John Sawhill. A government source said the White House knew at the time of the ap-' pointment that Gibson stands to collect about $880,000 over the next 10 years as part of a separation agreement with a Philadelphia oil transporting firm. Nessen refused to any questions from reporters regarding Gibson's status and pointedly declined an invitation to say again, as he did Thursday, that the President still stands firmly, behind the nomination. "I'm not going beyond my state- -ment" of today, Nessen said. 1 In addition, when asked Gibson's whereabouts, Nessen gave no direct reply and said that "he will not be going back to the FEA for the kind of familiarization process that he's been going through in recent days." Nssen's comments came after Sen.

George S. McGovern called on Mr. Ford to withdraw the Gibson nomination because of potential conflict of interest: "This appointment is an insult to every patriotic American," McGovern said in a "Gibson has a million-dollar ring through his nose." "There can be only one reason for this appointment and that is a further raid on the American consumer by big oil." SON OF ROMMEL RUNS FOR OFFICE STUFFGART, Germany (UPI) Manfred Rommel, son of Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox" of the Nazi Afrika Korps, is up for election as mayor of Stuttgart. Rommel, a state secretary at the Finance Ministry, is running on a Christian Democratic Party ticket. "I am not running as someone's son, but as a man who has achieved something by himself," he said.

His election slogan is "He does what he says." QUESTION Rundschau, editorially opposed to the Haig appointmenVsaid U.S. officers attached to NATO have posed seven questions to the headquarters staff, including: "Do you think that Haig is involved in any of Nixon's Watergate affairs?" The newspaper cited reports of dissatisfaction within- the alliance over Haig's appointment because of his lack of experience in leading larger army units, such as divisions or corps, and because of the impression that President Ford had used the NATO appointment as a means of "expelling" Mr. Nixon's chief aide from the White House. In addition to questioning Haig's qualifications to lead the 14-nation military alliance, the NATO pollsters also are asking whether the four-star general owes his meteoric rise to his White House connections and whether his appointment damages European interests within the alliance, the newspaper said. From TlmM Wirt Srvlcf WASHINGTON Budget Director Roy Ash said today that if President Ford decided to slow the growth in federal expenditures, he would have to cut back on such programs as Social Security, revenue sharing and aid to dependent children.

But Ash sought to emphasize at a White House budget briefing for reporters that no decisions had been made on the 1976 budget or on any program reductions. He also noted that many of these programs, called income-transfer programs because they redistribute income from one person to another, would require legislation to change. Ash said the decline in the nation's economy probably would reduce federal tax receipts below the $330 billion level which had been forecast earlier. And he indicated the Ford Administration's commitment to a balanced budget for 1976 was weakening. "A balanced budget is certainly the direction we should be going in.

We want to be sure the 1976 budget best serves the economy for 1076," Ash said. Other Administration officials have said in recent days they thought that a balanced budget was now beyond reach because of the sagging economy. The Ford Administration had been pushing the idea of a balanced budget as a major support for its anti-inflation program. Ash said budget deficit in recent years had resulted more from a loss of potential federal revenue than from an increase in government expenditures. Ash repeated as he has said before that the big increase in federal spending since 1968 had been in income transfer programs, such as Social Security, while other government expenditures, including defense expenditures, had decreased proportionally.

"The main role of government is no longer governing," Ash said. "The main role of government is now redistributing wealth, taking from some people and giving it to others." More than half of federal revenues "now are on their way to somebody else to spend," he said. "If we are to reduce the rate of growth of federal expenditures, we will have to do it in income transfers, because that's where the money is being spent," Ash said. COVENT GARDEN, LONDON'S FAMOUS MARKET, CLOSES From Reuters LONDON Piles of crushed fruit and wilting crowded bars and small groups of nostalgic porters today signaled the end of 300 years of fruit, flower and vegetable selling at Covent Garden, one of the world's best-known markets. It was to Covent Garden that top-hatted young blades in the 19th century traditionally went early in the morning to buy flowers for their lady companions.

The mythical Cockney flower girl Eliza Doo-little, of the musical "My Fair Lady," sold her wares there. Until today, the 96-acre market served as central distributing point for fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers for London and- the surrounding area. on Child Abuse "They're proud people. It could have been a religious question with them," said a hospital spokesman speculating what might have led the family to go hungry as its members sat for days inside the stalled van along a highway in southern New Mexico. Dist.

Atty. Norman Bloom' said a medical examiner had determined Orr and the girl died from carbon monoxide poisoning from fumes re- leased by an open charcoal grill the family apparently was using to keep warm inside the van. Although the van ran out of gasoline near an orchard, and residences were located nearby, the family remained in the van without food for six days before an area rancher discovered the victims Wednesday. Officials believe the family was on a cross-country religious mission, having left their home in Pennsylvania a year ago. "I think they refused to beg as a matter of pride," Bloom said.

LONDON The wife of. a British earl was savagely beaten in her elegant London townhouse and her children's nanny was found battered to death in the basement, police said today. They said they wanted to find Lord Lucan, the estranged husband, but did not say whether he was a suspect in the case. Lord Lucan is a. former British bobsleigh crewman once considered for the role of James Bond.

Lord Lucan, educated at Eton and later a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, is a descendant of the earl who'ordered the Crimean war action later immortalized as the "Charge of the Light Brigade" in the 'poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The body of the 20-year-old nanny was found late Thursday night in a large canvas bag in the cellar of the four-story home of Lady Lucan, 33, Scotland Yard said. It said the body had head wounds believed to have been inflicted by a blunt instrument. Police said they were anxious to trace Lordj Lucan, 39, who lived apart from his wife, but did not say why they wanted to see him. Lady Lucan ran from her house Thursday night and staggered into a nearby pub screaming, "murder, murder, murder," witnesses said.

Pub owner Errick Whitehouse said, "She was covered in blood and bleeding profusely. She kept saying I am dying and my nanny has been killed." Whitehouse called police who UPi Wirephoto Lady Lucan l) Wirephoto went to the Lucan home and found the There were signs of a struggle in various rooms, they said. Lady Lucan was taken to a hospital in serious condition. The couple's three children, daughters aged 4 and 10, and son, 7, were in the house at the time of the nanny's death. Lord Lucan often competed in bobsleigh competitions at St.

Moritz. Switzerland. In 19G6 Italian film director Vit-torio de Sica spotted him at the baccarat tables of a European casino and gave him a screen test for a role opposite Shirley MacLaine in the film "Woman Times Seven," but the test was unsuccessful. He was also once considered to play James Bond. the events which led to the deaths of the family's head, William T.

Orr, 48, and a 13-year-old daughter, An- nette. found dead in their van. FEATURE INDEX ASTROLOGY. Prt 2, Page 5. View, Page G.

DR. ALVAREZ. View, Page .10. BOOK REVIEW. View, Page 11.

BRIDGE. View, Page 11. CLASSIFIED. Part 5, Pages 1-20. COMICS.

View, Page 29. CROSSWORD. Part 5, Page 20. EDITORIALS, COLUMNS. Part 2, Pages 6, 7.

FILMS. View, Pages 14-25. FINANCIAL. Part 3, Pages 19-28. METROPOLITAN NEWS.

Part 2. MUSIC. View, Pages 23, 25. SPORTS. Part 3, Pages MS.

STAGE. View, Pages 16, 19. TV-RADIO. View. Pages 26-28, 30.

VITALS, WEATHER. Part 2, Pace 4. WOMEN'S. View, Pages 1-13. lilt via IMIBIII Starving Mother of 4 Charged QUALIFICATIONS OF HAIG ALAMOGORDO, N.M.

(UPI) A mother who sat with her starving family of six in a stalled van while two members died was charged today with child abuse. The mother and three sons suffered malnutrition and were admitted to a local hospital, her husband and daughter died and authorities said it might have been pride which kept the family from asking for. help. Otero County Sheriff Felix Work said he filed the sharges against Mrs. Lillian Orr, 44, of Exeter Township, but had not yet served the papers on the woman because of her weakened condition.

"Her doctor said she was in no, shape yet to give a statement," the sheriff said. Hospital spokesman T. D. Smith said Mrs. Orr and her sons William 12, Joseph, 11, and Gregory, 7, Were in fair condition today.

Authorities said it may be several days before they can piece together BONN A West German newspaper said today that Gen. Alexander. M. Haig qualifications, Watergate stance and political pull are being challenged in a questionnaire that U.S. staff officers, have circulated among colleagues of 14 nations at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

But U.S. spokesmen in Brussels and at military headquarters in nearby said no such questionnaire had been found. Haig, White House chief of staff under former President Richard M. Nixon, is to take command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Dec. 15.

Last week he assumed his post as commander of U.S. forces in Europe, and his predecessor, Gen. xndrew J. Goodyear, did not attend the ceremony. Goodpaster's absence was interpreted as a snub.

la advance of Haig's arrival in Brussels, the leftist Frankfurter.