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WASHINGTON UP) — House
iders decided Tuesday to go
lead with an inquiry that could
d to President Nixon’s im-
achment despite his agree-
lent to release the White House
tapes to a federal
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cked up, theysa f° re Nixon’s about-face on the
pes, and said they would con-
me at least until the effect of
his action becomes clear.
With the controversy over the
tapes apparently stilled, Nixon’s
critics in the House said their
major concern was to assure the
continuation of an independent
prosecution of the Watergate case
and its many offshoots.
Nixon abolished the special
prosecutor’s office when he fired
its director, Archibald Cox, touch
ing off the uproar that led to the
move for beginning impeachment
proceedings.
“By giving up the tapes he
showed Cox was right in insist
ing that he comply with the
court’s order,” said Rep. Donald
W. Riegle, D-Mich., in a House
speech. “Now he should bring
Cox back.”
There seemed little doubt, how
ever, that Nixon’s decision would
take some of the steam out of
any impeachment drive. A chief
criticism aimed at him during an
emotional House session was that
he had refused to comply with an
order of the court.
Some key Democratic senators
also said they expect the develop
ments to defuse talk of impeach
ment.
However, Democrats such as
Edward M. Kennedy, Philip A.
Hart and Birch Bayh said they
will press ahead with legislation
to create a special Watergate
prosecutor not subject to dismis
sal by the President.
They also said they expect the
Senate Judiciary Committee to
conduct hearings on all the cir
cumstances surrounding the firing
of Archibald Cox as special pros
ecutor.
Kennedy said Chairman James
O. Eastland, D-Miss., told him
that, if it is the will of the com
mittee, Cox will be called Wed
nesday after an executive session
of the members.
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AUSTIN — Dr. George Wille-
ford, state chairman of the Texas
Republican Party since 1971, said
Tuesday he is resigning because
of business reasons.
A new state chairman will be
named at a special called session
of the state GOP executive com
mittee in Austin Nov. 19.
Willeford said in a letter to
state committee members that he
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was resigning because his profes
sional committments in 1974
would prevent him from taking
full part in political activities
that year. Willeford is an Austin
pediatrician and child psychia
trist.
AUSTIN — Rep. Senfronia
Thompson, D-Houston, called
Tuesday for a special legislative
subcommittee to investigate racial
imbalance at the University of
Texas at Austin.
Recent figures released by the
school show 422 of the 41,000 stu
dents are black.
Mrs. Thompson said the figures
“indicate beyond a doubt that the
university continues to reflect the
historical pattern of discrimina
tion against minorities in Texas.”
“I am today calling on the
chairman of the House Education
Committee to appoint a three-
member special purpose subcom
mittee,” she said. “Its purpose
will be to meet with university
system authorities to review and
discuss programs now in prog
ress as they relate to minority
Texans.
National
WASHINGTON—Former Atty
Gen. Elliott L. Richardson called
for the appointment of a new
Watergate special prosecutor and
said Tuesday the American peo
ple must judge whether President
Nixon should be impeached.
Richardson, who resigned rath
er than comply with Nixon’s order
to fire special proecutor Archi
bald Cox, said he disagreed with
the President’s effort to curtail
the independence of the Cox in
vestigation.
His comments were made at a
nationally-televised news confer
ence before the announcement
that Nixon will now comply with
a court order and turn over White
House tapes for a judge’s private
inspection.
NEW YORK—The trial of two
former Cabinet officers, John N.
Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans,
was postponed a second time
Tuesday, to await the outcome of
efforts to obtain White House
documents and tapes which might
bear on the case.
The postponement was an
nounced before President Nixon
said in Washington that he would
capitulate and turn over Water
gate tapes to U.S. District Court
Judge John Sirica. It was not
known immediately if those tapes
included the ones sought in the
Mitchell-Stans case.
International
MIDEAST — The Arab-Israeli
war raged on Tuesday as if the
United Nations cease-fire never
existed.
The State Department said in
Washington that Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger post
poned his planned trip to China
because of the continuing Middle
East fighting and “intensive di
plomatic activity” was under way
to save the threatened truce.
The U.N. Security Council in
New York was summoned into
an emergency session at Egypt’s
request and the Soviet Union pro
posed a renewal of the council’s
cease-fire appeal.
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Nixon’s decision in court, “didn’t
find out until 12:30 this afternoon
himself,” a White House source
said. The announcement came less
than two hours later.
On Monday, the White House
had quietly delivered to Sirica
a copy of the President’s com
promise plan, which Cox had re
jected, and gave the judge a pro
posed order accepting it that
was prepared for Sirica’s signa
ture. When Wright went into
court Tuesday, however, he with
drew the proposal and announced
the decision to comply.
Cox had left a farewell party
for him at the special prosecution
force offices when Nixon’s an
nouncement was made. “I know
that all citizens will be happy, as
I am, that the President wisely
chose to respect the rule of law,”
he said.
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