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Court says Nixon not immune WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that former President Richard M. Nixon can be sued for authorizing reporters and government officials to be wiretapped without a warrant. The U S. Court of Appeals rejected Nixon’s claim that presidents and former presidents are immune from civil damage suits. "Presidents are scarcely immune from judicial process,’’ the court said. “The president is the elected chief executive of our government, not an omniscient leader cloaked in mystical powers.” • The immunity principle was explained in two 3-0 decisions that affirmed in part rulings by U S. District Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. While upholding Smith on the immunity question, the appellate court reversed him on another key issue. Smith had ruled that Nixon and top aides did not violate a 1968 law that limited warrantless wiretaps to national security matters. The appeals court disagreed. The panel expressed the view that Nixon had not complied with the 1968 law and told Smith to hold further proceedings on the issue.

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Carter seeks advice of 'people at bottom of pole'

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter disappeared into the darkness, his whereabouts for several hours a mystery, as he sought the advice of steelworkers and other blue-collar laborers in a back porch giveandtake laced with lemonade. The advice he heard Thursday night in Carnegie, Pa., was for a speech just 72 hours away. That national television appearance could make or break his political future. “I told him I thought the country was in a downhill spiral right now inflation, the gas shortage, all the good stuff. He thinks the country’s in a downhill spiral, too,” said William Fisher, the president’s 29-year-old host. Carter described the conversation, around a picnic table, as “interesting and informative,” said presidential spokesman Rex Granum. He revealed the president’s whereabouts after Carter returned to Camp David, Md., for more work on the speech he will deliever Sunday at 10 p.m. EDT. The president was having lunch at the mountaintop retreat today with several journalists,

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Egyptian embassy in Turkey invaded by three terrorists

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Three Palestinian terrorists blasted their way into the Egyptian Embassy today, seized the ambassador and other hostages and reportedly killed “many” of them, the state radio said. Egypt gave the go-ahead for an army assault on the building if needed. The raiders killed a Turkish policeman and Turkish security guard as they stormed into the building, firing automatic weapons and apparently tossing a grenade. It was reported they seized as many as 20 hostages, including Ambassador Ahmed Kemal Olema and his son. The terrorists demanded that Turkey sever its relations with Egypt and Israel, that Egypt release two Palestinian prisoners, and that they geta bus to take them to Ankara’s airport and a plane to fly to a friendly Arab country. If the conditions are not met, “we are determined to blow up the building,” state radio quoted one of the terrorists as telling a reporter in a telephone interview. In Cairo, Egyptian Prime

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including Frank Reynolds of ABC, Walter Cronkite of CBS and some newspaper and magazine political columnists. They were among the last outsiders with whom Carter arranged to consult as he concluded his domestic summit meeting at Camp David on a wide range of domestic ills. His wife, Rosalynn, a summit participant, said there are “no quick fixes.” The president’s plans were kept a secret from Fisher and his wife, Bette, 25, until about one hour before he arrived at their two-story house. The group had been assembled by a White House staff member for a discussion of “what was wrong with the country,” Fisher said. In addition to the Fishers, five couples, including several workers from steel mills, a carpenter and a county employee, took part. “The reason why he came here?” Fisher asked rhetorically. “I guess we’re the people at the bottom of the pole.” “He asked us to get things off our chests and tell him everything,” Fisher said.

Minister Mustafa Khalil said he had given permission for Turkish troops to assault the embassy “if they see on the spot that it is needed to save lives. ” He said Egypt holds the Palestine Liberation Organization responsible for the attack and threatened “serious retaliation” if the guerrillas harmed Egyptian diplomats. Palestinian guerrillas have struck Egyptian targets periodically since President Anwar Sadat launched his peace initiative with Israel 21 months ago. A Turkish employee of the embassy who was released told police “there are many dead” among the hostages, the government broadcast said. This could not be otherwise confirmed. The woman employee, secretary Bahar Ozturk, said the terrorists were holding four Egyptians and two Turks hostage. But local news agencies, quoting police sources, said there were 20 hostages, including Turkish employees.

Administration concedes a recession is possible

WASHINGTON (AP) A top Carter administration official is indicating the president will propose a tax cut if a recession this year is orse than expected. “We are sensitive...to the fact that in the coming months economic conditions may change than we now anticipate,” Budget Director James T. Mclntyre said today in testimony prepared the Senate Budget Committee. If that happens, he said, “we will modify the tax and the budgetary recommendations that we make to the Congress. . . ” Considerable support for a tax cut to ease the impact of a recession and high inflation has surfaced in Congress in recent weeks, although opinion is divided over whether the cut should be primarily for businesses, or for businesses and individuals. It is thought that Carter might propose a reduction in Social Security taxes next year, although he wants to avoid a reduction in individual income taxes if at all possible. A major tax cut would likely force a delay in balancing the federal budget in 1981, a top Carter priority. Mclntyre told the Senate committee that the administration hopes to keep a lid on spending. “Although we believe that a mild recession this year is likely, we also believe that we should not abandon budgetary restraint,” he said. Nevertheless, some increase in federal expenditures over earlier estimates will occur automatically to counter the impact of the recession and high inflation, the budget office said Thursday. These include unemployment benefits, up $1.4 billion in 1980; food stamps, up $1.7 billion, and Social Security benefits, up $1.5 billion. The administration stopped insisting Thursday that there will not be a recession, conceding a mild slowdown in the economy of 0.5 percent this year may already be under way. It blamed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which has raised world oil prices 60 percent this year. In its mid-year update on the economy, the administration also said inflation and unemployment will be worse than thought previously. Consumer prices will increase 10.6 percent while

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Citizens group plans to cut energy use by third

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) While President Carter wrestles with the nation’s energy woes, a grass-roots citizens group in Portland is polishing up a plan to cut local energy use by one third within five years. The plan includes mandatory “weatherization” of homes and businesses, energy audits, bicycle and pedestrian improvements, zoning changes, staggered work hours and improved mass transit. It takes aim on such future projects as neighborhood solar power units. “I certainly hope this would be considered a national model,” said Marion Hemphill, the city’s energy adviser. “It’s comprehensive, probably the most comprehensive plan in the country.” The City Council will consider the first part of the Portland Energy Policy next week. The term “weatherization” was written into Oregon law by the 1977 Legislature, which awarded state income tax credits based on work done on homes to keep heat in and cold air out. Under the plan, Portland building owners would receive low-interest loans, tax credits and business assistance grants. If the program is implemented, energy conservation measures would cost owners little or nothing since the investment would be offset by lower utility costs, city officials say. The plan would combine existing programs under which local utilities perform inspections and install insulation in electrically heated houses. The owner of such a home pays nothing for the insulation until he sells the property.

joblessness will rise to 6.6 percent this year and 6.9 percent in 1980. President Carter, who has been conducting a domestic sum mit at Camp David for more than a week, may have more to say about economic problems and oil prices when he delivers a nationwide address Sunday. Carter economic adviser Lyle E. Gramley told reporters Thursday that the economy probably began slowing in the year’s second quarter and may continue its downturn in the third. “We think the recession that is implied by our forecast will be relatively mild and shortlived,” said Gramley, a member of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers. But some private forecasters are saying the recession will be serious. One, Michael K. Evans of Evans Economics, Inc., of Washington, believes unemployment will peak at 8.6 percent next year. Gramley acknowledged to reporters that “there is a possiblity our forecast may underestimate” the extent of the downturn. Budget Director James T. Mclntyre also sounded a note of caution Thursday, saying that while he hopes Carter can propose a balanced budget for fiscal 1981, “I think we’ll just have to wait and see with the uncertainty we face in the economy....” However, Mclntyre insisted, “Inflation is still the major.threat to the American economy and we continue to believe thatl movement toward a balanced budget remains appropriate to* keep cool the fires of inflation. ’ ’ Rudy Oswald, chief economist for the AFL-CIO, said he fears the economy will be “predominantly worse” than the president believes and urged the administration to prepare for a more serious downturn. The current unemployment rate of 5.6 percent is higher than the under-5 percent rate that prevailed prior to the deep 19741975 recession, when joblessness hit a post-war peak of 9 percent.

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Mayor Neil Goldschmidt said the program is. to be funded by federal grants, with possible contributions from private industry. The Portland Energy Policy is unusual: because it originated with a citizen’s board*rather than with politicians and bureaucrats, said Hemphill. “The citizen group was broad-based.” Hem-1 phill said. “We had representatives of the financial community, business, industry, architects, neighborhood associations and nonaffiliated citizens. We had representatives of the utilities and other energy industries and the' bus companies. And we took our time, about a year and a half, to put together a comprehensive approach to energy conservation.” ; The proposal would require extensive renovations for most of the city’s buildings. Installing insulation, storm windows and other improvements is expected to cost property ' owners about S3OO million, with each of the city’s 150,000 homeowners expected to spend an average of $1,500. If the improvements are not made within five years the home could not be sold. Vern Rifer. chairman of the citizen's committee, claims the program is "fair and workable.” He said, "People are willing to do first step things such as making a home or business energy efficient or changing travel patterns so that they still allow you to do the things you want to do and save some money in the meantime.” He claims measures suggested by the federal government are too drastic.