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Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 2, 1973 THE BATTALIOI Vednesd No Evidence Found To Link Nixon With Watergate WASHINGTON <A>)—There is no evidence, as of now, to impli cate President Nixon either in the Watergate bugging activities or in any subsequent attempts to cover them up, sources close to •the Watergate investigations said Tuesday. However, investigations by both the Justice Department and a Sen ate committee are continuing. “I’m not ruling out any possi bility at some future point, but as of this moment, we haven’t got evidence that implicates President Nixon,” one investiga tor said. “We go where the evi dence leads us and as of now it hasn’t led us to the President.” In a speech to the nation Mon day night, Nixon said he accepted ultimate responsibility for the events surrounding the Watergate affair, but said again he didn’t Achievement Awards Given 12 Students Fred C. Campbell Jr., William E. Hartsfield, Michael K. Lindsey and Cathleen Schnatterly have received College of Science Fac ulty Achievement Awards. Each of these students will graduate May 5. They were selected by a committee of the College of Science faculty on the basis of their high scholastic achievement and participation in extracurricular activities. Eight other seniors earned Distinguished Honor Awards for “outstanding scholarship and leadership” from the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. W. David Maxwell, dean of the College, presented awards to economics majors Layne E. Kruse, McGregor; and Stephen G. Metzenthin, Brownsville; mod ern languages major Mary Beth Beard, Bryan, and philosophy major David H. Donaldson, Odessa. Other recipients are psychol ogy majors Samuel J. Buser, Sulphur Springs, and Stephen D. Clodfelter, College Station; and sociology majors Jeanne L. Har ris, Houston, and William V. Wade, McGregor. Liberal arts faculty members select the recipients from the graduating seniors each semester. They’re Here!! 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Exactly what that new infor mation was is unclear, but be tween the time Nixon received it, on March 21, and April 17, the day he announced “major develop ments” in the case, these events transpired, according to several sources close to the case: —On March 20, Judge John J. Sirica, the Watergate trial judge, received a letter from convicted Watergate burglar James W. Mc Cord in which McCord said high er-ups were involved, that there was perjury in the Watergate trial and that the defendants had been pressured to plead guilty. —Federal investigators probing the Watergate case turned up evi dence involving, among others former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell and presidential assistants John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. Halde- man. —After discussing the evidence at length among themselves, fed eral prosecutors decided the pos sible implication of men so close to Nixon was news which had to be transmitted to the President without delay. —Several of the men, led by Earl J. Silbert, chief Watergate prosecutor, took the news to Henry E. Petersen, assistant at torney general in charge of the criminal division. —On Sunday, April 15, White House Counsel John W. Dean III, who had been implicated in the Watergate case, went to Peter sen and told him that acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III had burned the files relating to the Watergate case. He also told Pe tersen that two convicted Water gate defendants had burgled the office of a psychiatrist in an effort to get the records there of Daniel Ellsberg, principal de fendant in the Pentagon Pa^ trial. —Armed with information fi^ Dean and federal prosecub Petersen went to Atty. Gen.fiiij. ard G. 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