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Warm Day Partly cloudy and warm with a few thundershowers (Details Page 2A) MONDAY'S TEMPERATURES Tuesday August 6 1974 Final 15 Cents 64th Year No 249 61 Pages Complete Neuspaper Two Latin Amarlcan Editions Art Published Dally 7 a 0 9 a 84 11 a 1 87 7 87 3 89 9 86 5 88 11 84 mm mom Ml Mil mmmmmmmi New Transcripts Reveal Nixon Cover up Role financed with cash from hjs reelection campaign reaction: right" fine I- understand it all We second guess Mitchel) and the rest! the three' edited transcripts released Monday by Nixon refute- a central element of his Watergate defense for more than a year that he did not learn until March 21 1973 that there 'was a Watergate coverup and that some of his top -aides were involved in wrongdoing INSTEAD the transcripts show that the President himself gave an order to have the Watergate probe limited on spurious national-security grounds because the agents were getting too close to productive The transcripts of meetings between Nixon and his chief of staff HR Haldeman which the President conceded present for him contain Turn to Page ISA Col 6 i By CLARK HOYT Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Nixon knew about the Watergate coverup almost a year before he has claimed he did the hew White House Watergate transcripts showed Monday $7 On' June' 23 1972 just six "days after the Watergate burglary Nixon was told that John Mitchell his campaign manager was involved and that the illegal operation was i Dama Tapes 9 Concedes Defeat in the Honse The Cqiiipletc Storys Pages llx9 15A IGA 17A V1 1 By DAVID HESS -Herald Whl9ton Buru WASHINGTON Admitting he did not tell the whole truth in Jiis previous statements on the Watergate case President Nixon Monday released three taped conversations that indicate he tried to use the CIA and FBI to mask the involvement of his reelection committee in the 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters here Saying that-disclosure of the conversations further damage my Nixon added that his previous withholding of the information a serious act of omission for which I take full respon- sibility and which deeply At the same time Nixon conceded that he expects to be impeached by the House and to stand trial in the Senate His statement drew sharp reaction from several of his staunchest supporters on the House Judi ways of sidetracking an FBI investigation of the break-in by portraying it as a CIA operation As the two men roughed in the outlines of this scenario Nixon repeatedly assented to suggestions that the CIA ploy was the best way of obscuring the role played in the break-in by operatives of the Committee to Reelect the President At one point Nixon told Haldeman to call CIA officials and say this is a comedy of errors without getting into it the President believes it is going to just open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again and that they should call the FBI in and (unintelligible) go any further into this case At another point urging Haldeman to deflect the FBI investigators the President remarked: it tough the way they play it and the way we are going to play THE TAPED conversations were transcribed Turn to Page ISA Col 2 ciary Committee Rep Charles Wiggins (R Calif) said that he would support the impeachment on grounds of obstruction of justice and urged Nixon to resign Rep Charles Sandman (R NJ) said: is serious This is bad" IN HIS STARTLING announcement at the White House made through his deputy press secretary Gerald Warren the President made public the contents of three taped conversations of June 23 1972 between Nixon and his chief aide (Bob) Haldeman The conversations indicated that the President and Haldeman alarmed at the possible political fallout from the Watergate incident discussed Staunch Supporters Call for Resignation public is no longer served by my previously expressed belief that on the basis of cdl the evidence known to me and the American people the President is not guilty of an impeachable offense Vice President Gerald Ford It is time to discuss the orderly transition of power from Richard Nixon to Gerald Ford Rep Charles Wiggins Prom Htrild Wirt Sorvlcos WASHINGTON President hard-core Republican support began turning to ashes Monday in the new firestorm touched off by his admission that he had withheld tapes damaging to his defense Following the release of tape transcripts indicating that he had plotted with his chief aide HR Haldeman to impede -Watergate investigators Nixon's staunchest supporters began to break ranks PERHAPS among the most devastating reactions to all this was that of Vice President Gerald Ford up to now one of staunchest defenders Ford who has been arguing that the evidence did not warrant impeachment tersely commented: public is no longer served by my previously expressed belief that on the basis of all the evidence known to me and the American people the President is not guilty of an impeachable offense under the Constitution which specifies treason bribery high crimes and misdemeanors as additional evidence is about to be forthcoming from the President which he says may be damaging I intend to respectfully decline to discuss impeachment matters in public or in response to questions until the matters are more fully available" IN THE HOUSE Rep Charles Wiggins (R Calif) one of the most articulate defenders on the Judiciary Committee could not stem the flow of tears as he wept: "I have reached the reluctant conclusion that the magnificent public career of Richard Nixon must come to an end" Wiggins who fought unsuccessfully against the approval of three articles of impeachment sent to the House by the Judiciary Committee said it is time "to discuss the orderly transition of power from Richard Nixon to Vice President Gerald In a long statement Wiggins said statement that he withheld evidence was an admission that he had violated the law If Nixon refuses to resign i Turn to Page 14A Col 1 apparent attempt to use the CIA to cover up the depth of the Watergate conspiracy is shocking It seems to me this disclosure makes a quick House vote on impeachment a necessity John Rhodes House minority leader DIDIO Miami Herald Staff Rescuers Work Amid Tangled Metal Topsy-Turvy Automobiles building at ISE 12 Street and Second Avenue Jell at 10:23 am At Least 4 Dead 15 Hurt in Collapse Of Federal Drug Agency Headquarters Rapid-Transit Routes Proposed all a cashier a clerk-typist and a clerical supervisor women had been recovered after taking into consideration vehicle technology cost the number of residents and businesses that might have to be moved and the opinions of Dade residents Public meetings are being held this week and will continue before the commissioners choose a route within about three months Planners proposed 14 possible routes Monday for rapid-transit system The suggestions range from a 53-mile network of bus routes to a 58-mile elevated system of electrically powered trains The routes are only suggestions from transit consultant Kaiser Engineers The Metro Commission will select the final route which might be entirely different from the proposals By ARNOLD MARKOWITZ Herald Staff Writer Four persons were known dead three presumed dead and 15 injured Monday when a section of roof collapsed dropping 1 1 cars a van and tons of concrete and steel into the southern regional offices of the US Drug Enforcement Administration in Miami Fourteen hours after the 1023 am cave-in two male narcotic agents and two female secretaries were still deep in the debris of the 5fl-year-old building at the corner of NE 12th Street and Second Avenue One of the men was confirmed dead the other man and two wonfji were presumed dead Earli the bodies of See Pages IB 2B BY MIDNIGHT WITH all hope gone for the survival of those still inside rescue officials decided to knock down one unstable wall behind which all four were believed buried The alternative they said was an unnecessary risk of the lives of firemen Throughout the 1 1 hours it lasted the job of retrieving victims was tedious dangerous and tense The movement of any large piece of rubble rescuers said could cause a shift in other debris that could kill vie- Tjurn to Page 12A Col 1 1 INDEX 70 40 IOC 00 Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials Amusements Anderson Bishop Classified.