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NIXON AGREES TO TURN OVER TAPES

Lawyers Make Announcement In Court Hearing On Tapes

By DONALD ROTHBERG Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP>— President Nixon-agreed to turn over the Watergate tapes to a federal judge yesterday even as the House ot Kepresentatives began a preliminary investigation into whether to impeach him. Nixon’s chief courtroom lawyer,. Charles Alan Wright, said Nixon decided to give in to a U.S. Appeals Court ruling because the weekend’s events made; it clear that his proposed coniprotmee wouldn’t settle the constitutional crisis. “This President does not defy the law," Wright said. “He has authorized me to say he will comply with the court’s order in full.” The impact of Nixon’s stunning reversal, after weeks of open resistance to disclosure of the tape recordings, was not

immediately clear. Nixon’s refusal to release the tapes had been one reason cited by his critics for the several impeachment motions filed But Nixon’s * action still leaves other controversies unresolved, including his orders against subpoenas for any other presidential tapes and documents. Wright announced Nixon’s decision to U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica who originally ordered the President to supply the tapes to him for private inspection. Sirica’s ruling had been upheld by a federal appeals court, but Nixon at first refused to go along with it and fired special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox when Cox balked at an out-of-court arrangement to have the tapes edited by Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss.

Sirica’s clerk said later that the judge had no advance knowledge of the P resident’s intention. The timing of the delivery of the tapes was left open but Wright promised it would be “done as expeditiously as possible.” Sirica opened the hearing at 2:05 p.m. by announcing that the decision of the court of appeals had been delivered to him. He read the order dated Oct. 12, 1973 including the portion saying, “the President’s petition is denied.” The judge, his voice occasionally faltering, then said, “This filing makes effective the order of this court dated Aug. 29 except as modified by the court of appeals.” Sirica then read his own order which said, “it is by the

court ...ordered the respondent President Richard M. Nixon ...is hereby commanded to produce forthwith for the court’s inspection in camera the subpoenaed documents...” Sirica then read portions of the appeals court order which modified his own to permit the President to withhold portions of the tapes which dealt with foreign policy or national security information. Then he read “the President will present to the district court all other items on the record.” The judge next turned to a footnote which provided the ground rules under which the higher court would consider appeals of any disputes over matter the President chose to withhold. Then he looked at the counsel table where Wright and White House counsel Leonard Garment sat and asked, “are counsel for the President prepared at this time to file a response?” Wright, a tall law professor from the University of Texas, strode to the podium directly below Sirica and said, “I am not prepared.” His voice faded and then he told the judge, *As the court is aware the President filed a response" and then he added that it was now “withdrawn.”

It was then that Wright made the dramatic announcement that the President had finally given up his long battle to keep his tapes. Outside the courtroom, Wright commented, that ‘the President made on Friday what he thought and I thought was a very reasonable proposal to accommodate the spirit of the court’s order with the least intrusion on presidential confidentiality and bring a constitutional crisis to an end.” But, said Wright, ‘it was obvious the constitutional crisis was not over.” He added: “Even if, as I hoped he would. Judge Sirica accepted the presentation we had planned to make as satisfying compliance there would have been those who said the President is defying the law.” Wright added, as he had in court: “This P resident does not defy the law.” Earlier in the day, the House moved quickly to make a preliminary study into whether Nixon should be impeached. Cox had subpoenaed nine tapes from the President and, when Nixon refused to comply, the special prosecutor went to court and got favorable decisions from Sirica and the U.S.

Court of Appeals. Nixon ordered Cox to halt his court efforts to obtain those tapes and any other White House recordings, notes or documents pertaining to presidential conversations. When Cox refused, Nixon ordered his dismissal and transferred the prosecution force he had headed into the Justice Department. Atty. Gen. Elliot L. Richardson, who had been confirmed by the Senate last May only after promising to appoint Cox

special prosecutor and give him broad independence to pursue the investigation, resigned. When Deputy Atty. Gen. William P. Ruckelshaus also refused to fire Cox, he was dismissed. Robert H. Bork, who had been solicitor general, a job Cox held a decade ago, was named acting attorney general, and he carried out the presidential order to fire Cox. Bork put Assistant Atty. Gen. Henry E. Petersen, head of the criminal division, in charge of

the Watergate investigation and pledged to pursue it vigorously. He said Petersen “will use the evidence and staff already assembled, as well as other department personnel, to see that these cases are pressed to a conclusion and that justice is done." Cox’s refusal to compromise on the tapes issue recieved support from Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., chairman of the Senate Watergate committee. Ervin said, “I would have done exactly like Cox did.”

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By BOB THOMAS Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (APj — For seven years, Jason Miller’s Irish luck seemed to have escaped him. He acted in off-Broadway shows in New York at $70 a week, hardly enough to support his wife and three young children. In the dull stretches between jobs, he tried his hand at writing plays, but his efforts attracted scant interest. Last year Miller’s luck changed. His play, “That Championship Season,” became a Broadway hit and won the Pulitzer, Drama Critics and Tony awards. He was chosen to play the title role in the film “The Exorcist" and is now starring in another film, “The Nickel Ride.” “Yes, there were moments when I was close to despair,” says Miller. ‘But I tried not to think erf the odds that were against me. My wife was terrific through it all. She never complained, never despaired. I received an enormous amount of support from her. “I got through. And when it happens the way it happened to me, you feel you have earned it. It’s much better than overnight success, which some people can’t handle. What I went through forges character. I’m not the same person I was when I went to New York seven years ago.” Miller has been fighting the odds for most of his 35 years. His interest in theater started in his native Scranton, Pa., when a nun encouraged him to enter a poetry reading. He joined the drama club at the University of Scranton and won the annual play contest with a one-acter called “The Winner.” He did graduate work at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where he met his wife, Linda, an aspiring actress. They were confident enough in their future to move to New York. “It was rough,” Miller recalled. *1 believe there are 16,000 actors in New York, and 450 of them made a living from their profession last year. It’s the largest part-time employment category in the city.

Miller worked as waiter, social worker and teacher between acting jobs. In 1970 he mentioned a play he was writing to producer Joseph Papp and director A.J. Antoon, for whom he was appearing in an off-Broadway production. It was “That Championship Season,” which drew from Miller’s life as a high school basketball player in a Pennsylvania town. The hit play led to Miller’s being cast as Jesuit Father Karras in “The Exorcist.” “Billy Friedkin, who was directing the picture, came to That Championship Season’ and noted the references to the Jesuits,” said the playwright.

“He called my agent and said that he had an intuitive feeling that I might be the one to play Father Karras. “I hadn’t read the book, but being an Irish Catholic, I had been brought up on the mythology of exorcism. I read the script and liked it, and I asked Friedkin, ‘What do I have to do? He said I had to come to Hollywood and make a screen test.” Scranton University, Miller’s alma mater, is run by the Jesuits. Miller, a strongly built man with a darkly handsome face, won the test and worked six months on the trouble-plagued film.

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