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Congress can't trust papers to Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. government said yesterday Congress felt Richard Nixon had a "propensity to distort the historical record" and therefore had good reason for laying claim to his presidential papers. It also said Nixon "is ill fitted" to claim now that it would be a violation of free speech rights of individuals involved should his White House tapes be made public. The justice department made the statements in a 100-page brief in the continuing fight over ownership of Nixon's papers. A three judge court will hear oral arguments on the issue Sept.

22. "Congress had a rational basis for perceiving that his presidential materials might not pass intact into the custody of the United States if he were permitted to have custody of them, even temporarily," the justice department said. It added that Congress reached the conclusion: "Mr. Nixon would not be a trustworthy custodian, even temporarily." Cites 3 factors The government cited the ute gap in one taped conversation for which "no satisfactory explanation has ever been provided;" the White House transcripts of -tape recordings which "contained material differences;" and Nixon's repeated statements that he had no knowledge of the Watergate cover-up before March, 1973, when transcripts "indicated to the contrary." In a deposition filed in the case, Nixon said that he, his wife and daughters should decide which of his 42 million pages of documents should be made public. "The suggestion is, to put it kindly, unrealistic," said the government.

Lawyers for a group of historians and individual reporters such as columnist Jack Anderson, also filed a 187-page brief with the court, taking issue with Nixon's claims. That brief also cited the feeling of Congress that "there was grave danger that the materials would not be safely preserved if placed in Mr. Nixon's control." 'Record altered' That fear was prompted by Nixon's own record in 1973 and 1974, the brief said, adding, "the nation felt that it had been misled and that the documentary record had been altered or destroyed" by the Nixon administration. The lawyers said it is long-established law that the federal goernment owns any record or works created by employees in the course of official duties. And they said to accept Nixon's argument that he is the proper person to assert claims of executive or presidential privilege would produce an intolerable situation.

"Suppose that Mr. Nixon should die tomorrow. This would leave no one in a position to assert the privilege unless, of course, Mr. Nixon contends that his presidential privilege is an asset that can be devised to his children or other designees," they said As part of his argument for the papers and tapes, Nixon said he intended to use them for his memoirs. That prompted the lawyers for the historians reporters to say there was nothing in the constitution "that a former president should be entitled to own history in this manner." THE MONTREAL STAR, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.

1973 Paris bank hostages safe Bandits' $1.35 million ransom bid succeeds PARIS (AP) Two gunmen escaped with $1.35 million last night after releasing seven hostages seized during a bank holdup and eluding police in a high-speed chase. The robbers had held the hostages for more than 10 hours in a central Paris bank while negotiating for the money and a getaway car. No one was injured. When police delivered the money and a white limousine, the gunmen fled, taking three women hostages with them but freeing four men. Sadat: No secret deals in Sinai pact AP Reuter Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is quoted today as saying that his country's interim peace agreement with Israel does not include any secret clauses.

He said the accord is not Cairo's final settlement with the Jewish state. an interview published by the Kuwaiti newpaper Al -S as se Sadat described the accord as another military disengagement between Egyptian and Israeli forces. He. said that earlier reports from Syria and other Arab countries that the accord was tantamount to the end of a state of belligerency with Israel distorted facts. In Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said yesterday the chances of his country following up the accord by concluding similar peace agreements with Syria or Jordan are "practically nonexisting." But in the same British Broadcasting Corp.

television program, Syrian President Hafez Assad told another interviewer he foresaw an agreement on the Golan Heights. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy told a Beirut magazine he thinks a Golan accord "is imminent." Elsewhere, 3,000 leftists and Moslems fought to encircle a Christian village in northern Lebanon in continuing sectarian fighting over the Takeover of fiscal affairs State approves N. Y. plan ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The New York state assembly approved a $2- billion plan yestef day for a state takeover of New York City's fiscal affairs to stave off the city's financial collapse.

As the Democratic-controlled lower house passed the bill by a 80-to-70 vote, Republican Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson announced his support, which would guarantee that the Senate would pass the bill. Anderson, who spent the day in Washington seeking federal help in the fiscal crisis, said his visit convinced him there was "a growing awareness" of the city's problems by the Ford administration. "I got no commitments that are cashable nothing that I can put in the bank." he said. "But I went down there feeling pessimistic. I don't feel that way now.

Anderson said he discussed the idea of a federal guarantee or insurance program for all municipal borrowings, as well as some specific federal assistance to New York City, with Treasury Secretary William Simon and with William Seidman, economic adviser to Ford. He said Simon will meet with CP Wirephoto Cindy sees the Falls Cindy Waite, 12, who is rapidly losing against the spray from Niagara Falls Waite, who gave birth to Cindy while daughter from Bournemouth, England American scenic splendors, including her vision, huddles with her mother while touring on the Maid of the Mist. Ann she had the measles, has brought her for a whirlwind 17-day tour of North the Grand Canyon and Disneyland. Ford today and discuss the possibility of aid to the city, which both men so far have rejected. However, President Ford said: "I sympathetic, I understand their difficulties; but basically New York City is going to be forced to straighten out its own problems." Complaining as he had in the past that the city lived beyond its means, Ford said in a television interview filmed Friday for broadcast in California yesterday: "Basically New York City will have to tighten its belt, make up for the poor management that existed for too long a time and find the solution internally." Anderson said that before voting for the bail-out bill he would want some amendments to increase from five to seven the number of members of a state board set up to take over control of the city's spending.

Gov. Hugh Carey, Democratic author of the bill, agreed to the changes. In the six-hour assembly debate, Republicans and Democrats from northern regions of the state provided most of the opposition. Supporters said the plan is the only way to head off financial disaster. Many legislators and New York City Mayor Abraham Beame are accepting the plan, which sharply cur- The weather Sunny days on the way A ridge of high pressure is moving into the Montreal In the U.S.

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Palestinian issue, and Israel offered her Arab neighbors a Middle East Common Market, broad technical assistance and the use of Israeli ports for trade. The fighting is largely over the Palestinian Arab presence in Lebanon. The Moslems support the guerrillas and the Christians want them curbed. Street battles and mortar bombardments also raged thro the day in Tripoli, 50 miles north of Beirut, cutting telephone communications for part of the day, interrupting water supplies and causing dozens more casualties, police said. At least 19 persons were killed Sunday.

A Tripoli resident reached by telepone said he and his family were holed up in their apartment and armed men were roaming the streets. "It is impossible to estimate casualties exactly because of the intensity of fighting in various areas of the north," a police spokesman said. An emergency meeting of Premier Rashid Karami's cabinet broke up without announcing any new measures to end the latest violence. But Karami repeated appeals for a return to calm to avoid civil war. In Washington, State.

Secretary Henry Kissinger told the House of Representatives international relations committee there will be no more than 75 American technicians in the Sinai at a time to monitor the new accord between Egypt and Israel because the maximum of 200 must man three shifts. Stationing Americans in the desert is subject to congressional approval. Asked in the BBC interview if the interim pact with Egypt would make it easier to reach similar agreements it easier to reach similar agreements with other Arab neighbors, Rabin said: "The possibilities of aninterim agreement between, let's say, Jordan and Israel, or Syria and Israel are practically non-existent. "Between Egypt and Israel we have a lot of room to manoeuver we have got Sinai. But when it comes to the Golan' Heights, the area is much more limited.

The terrain is different. We have settlements there. Therefore, practically, there is almost nonexistence of room for manoeuvrthat is required in the context of any interim agreement." Assad said: "We may agree to demilitarization of equal areas on both sides." "We cannot accept complete demilitarization of the Golan, or even a part of the Golan, unless an equal part is also demilitarized on the other side," he added. Parole board refuses to free Morgentaler The National Parole Board has refused parole to Montreal abortionist Dr. Henry Morgentaler, saying his "performance" in jail and the charges standing against him make him unacceptable.

Dr. Morgentaler started serving his 18-month sentence March 26 and would have become eligible for parole Sept. 26, after serving one-third of his sentence. A Montreal jury acquitted him on a charge of performing an illegal abortion, but the Quebec Court of Appeal reversed the verdict and the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the reversal. During his jail term, Dr.

Morgentaler has issued public statements through friends and has criticised the prison system. He suffered a mild heart attack June 16 following an argument with guards and was taken to hospital, then to a convalescent home. The parole board decision was announced in a statement attributed to vice-chairman Claude Bouchard. A board spokesman said that while parole rulings are not normally publicized, the ruling on Dr. Morgentaler's application was announced because "there is such public concern" about his case.

Mr. Bouchard's statement said Dr. Morgentaler's "performance during his French ponder tax on porn tails the city's control of its own spending, as the only alternative to a default by the city on its debts. Default might come as early as this week and appears inevitable by next Monday without some state action. Some legislators of both parties say default would not only disrupt city government, but also would wreck state credit and make it impossible or expensive for local state governments to raise money.

The legislation is designed to borrow about $2.3 billion for the city, through device: such as a directing state purchase of $750 million in bonds and notes, $750 million in investments by state and city public employee pension funds, and money from the state insurance fund and other sources. The borrowing would only provide for the city's cash needs through November. PARIS (Reuter) Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade said yesterday a tax on pornography might help to: balance France's 1976 budget. He made the remark in a radio interview in which the growing amount. of pornography available in France was discussed.

Police cars pursued the getaway vehicle across the city sometimes at speeds nearing 90 miles per hour but the robbers managed to switch cars twice and vanish. When they abandoned the first car, they left one of the woman hostages behind and jumped into a car on the northern edge of Paris with the other two women. The second car was found in south Paris with the two women inside, chained but unhurt. Witnesses said the bandits drove away in a third car. Commissioner Robert Groussard, head of the elite anti-gang squad.

said: "We almost got them, it was touch-and-go for a few moments there." Witnesses in the bank said the men were "young, perfectly calm and very decided." At one point, they fired warning shots in the air but no one was hurt. The ransom money, delivered in two sacks, was left at the door of the bank, but the gunmen waited almost four more hours before agreeing to the getaway arrangements. Police cleared a route for their escape and as the gunmen drove off they were followed by police cars, ambulances and reporters in a mad chase through the city's winding streets. The robbers, armed with automatic pistols and a sawed-off shotgun, entered the bank around 11:30 a.m. They let customers go after entering the bank, but forced seven other persons to remain inside.

More than 250 policemen, including sharpshooters, surrounded the bank, near the Invalides which houses Napoleon's tomb. Police closed off all streets around the busy Left Bank intersection near the small bank and subway trains ran through the station without stopping. Policemen kept low, and pedestrians were not allowed near enough to the bank to see what was going on. Reporters were requested not to broadcast information on the siege so as not to aid the gunmen, who were believed equipped with radios. Gino Continued from Page A-1 school.

Actually he was in French kindergarten in another school." Mr. D'Aoust could not explain how or why Mrs. Nesparoli had received. a letter saying Gino had passed his test. However, he said that letters with information regarding test results sent out by individual schools were "not as valid" as letters sent by the commission.

Gino's letter was apparently "not valid," though it was signed by Mr. D'Aoust, the principal. Mrs. Nesparoli was called and informed that Gino, after all, could not enter Grade 1. Out of curiosity, I asked Mrs.

Nesparoli what French kindergarten Gino had attended. "French kindergarten?" she asked. "He stayed home all last year. We sent our older boy to French kindergarten three years ago and had a hard time getting him into English Grade 1. So we kept Gino home." incarceration did not meet acceptable criteria." The performance and the criteria were not explained.

The parole criteria set down in the national parole legislation are that the prisoner must have derived full benefit from imprisonment, his release on parole must aid his rehabilitation and he must pose no undue risk to society. Car crash claims rabbi, family Rabbi Samuel Cass, 67, of Montreal his wife Annabel. 61, and their son Ely, 26, were killed vesterday in a traffic accident, which also claimed the life of a Toronto woman riding in their car on Highway 401, one mile west of the Quebec-Ontario border. The woman was identified by Ontario Provincial Police as Lottie Weiss, 74. The accident occurred about 4 p.m.

when their car and a tractor trailer collided. Rabbi Cass was born in Toronto and was educated at City College of New York. He was ordained at the Jewish Theolcgical Seminary of America and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters in 1933. Past president of the Board of Jewish Ministers of Greater Montreal, he became director of the Hillel Foundation at McGill University in 1946. He retired in 1967 but remained associated with the Miriam Home for the Exceptional.

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