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the «) S 'ur montli "'ipleted. rneyfor^ of the pig ice and* right ofi, tlo that challenge ss any ill® e would ii toallowj* school«{ mtry and! until ll® naturalia been ini 'equiredii nforcifo. ien'icelmc t to a higlt le thing is K the sail an rs ate in a unkji program graduate rogram i gineere lb - shore pii makes ik erbich THE BATTALION Page 13 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1974 Hunt calls ‘blackmail money’ collection of ‘overdue bill’ SHINDIGS walk on the easy side... S supp 0 rting A tIxtured°?an leather, IsK FOR 672TLM. ■ .AT JUST 14.00 msirtjok In mode MANOR EAST MALL IS \ pwos' UDDLEMJMI WOT JEANS 100%cotton Blue Denim 100% cotton work-shirt chambrey S while TOM’S PANTS 900 Villa Maria 823-8213 WASHINGTON (AP) — E. Howard Hunt Jr. testified Tuesday that the money demand which former President Richard M. Nixon viewed as blackmail last year was just an attempt to collect an overdue bill. Hunt, testifying at the Watergate cover-up trial, said it was neither extortion nor blackmail. Following him on the witness stand was Jeb Stuart Magruder, who said that former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell once expressed annoyance about the results of bugs and wiretaps planted at Democratic party headquarters by agents of the Nixon re-election committee. Magruder, formerly Mitchell’s deputy in the 1972 presidential campaign, said Mitchell told chief Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy “that he was dissatisfied with the product Liddy was producing from wiretaps and photographs.’ Magruder said Liddy told Mitch ell “he was going to correct the problem. ” Asked whether the problem was corrected, Magruder replied: “Yes. We learned on the morning of June 17 that Liddy had not cor rected the problem but created a problem.’’ June 17, 1972, was Saturday morning when police arrested five men in the act of burglarizing the Democratic party headquarters and trying to replace a telephone bug that had failed. Magruder, who pleaded guilty to participating in the Watergate cover-up and to helping in the plan ning of the burglary, was the third witness in the trial of Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman, Robert C. Mardian and Kenneth W. Parkinson. All are charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Magruder, 39, has been in prison since June 4 on his guilty plea. During 35 minutes of questioning before the day’s session ended, he covered the three meetings where Liddy presented various political espionage plans to Mitchell. He said they also discussed plans by which Mitchell would have “de- niability” — which Magruder said meant “if anyone was apprehended, Mr. Mitchell could deny knowing anything.” Hunt was asked during cross- examination whether he had black mailed the White House. “You don’t consider your com ments to disclose seamy things you did unless you got $50,000, $60,000, $72,000 as blackmail?” the When you need a calculator you need it now. No waiting for delivery. 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He said he threatened to disclose other covert jobs that he had done for the White House. The White House tape transcript of a conversation former White House counsel John W. Dean III had with Nixon on March 21 showed that both Dean and the President viewed the demand as blackmail. “You don’t feel you were selling your silence?” William Hundley, at torney for Mitchell, asked. “No sir,” said Hunt, “that was a different matter.” On Monday Hunt testified he had lied at least a dozen times to grand juries and had decided to tell the truth finally after reading the White House transcripts last summer. He said he decided then that the people he was protecting were not worth it. Asked by Hundley whether he would have felt differently had his demands been met. Hunt replied: “I felt a rude awakening. “I read the President's contemp tuous reference to those of us who had gone to prison as idiots and jac kasses. I realized there had been a wild scramble going on for months in the White House to protect themselves and very little thought had been given to our plight, much less to the money which was the easier thing for them to give to ease our burden.” On the evening of March 21, 1973, after the President said the blackmail money could be raised, $75,000 was delivered to Hunt’s at torney, William O. Bittman, and Hunt said he got the money the fol lowing day. That money delivery figures largely in the charges against three of the five defendants because the government said it was paid to keep Hunt quiet. Supreme Court says names can be asked of political printers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has reaffirmed its earlier order permitting Texas offi cials to require printers of political advertising in the current election campaign to identify themselves. The court declined Tuesday to vacate an order it issued Oct. 11 staying a decision of a three-judge federal court in Houston, Tex., that the requirement is unconstitu- tional. Attorneys for the Printing Indus tries of the Gulf Coast asked the court to “reconsider its precipitate decision. They said they submitted a response to the Texas request for a stay, but the court acted before re ceiving the response. They said granting the stay would be “manifestly unfair” because prin ters who completed their work after the law was declared unconstitu tional, but before the stay was granted, would be exempt from the requirement while others wovdd not. The requirement is contained in a new campaign reporting and dis closure law passed by the Texas Legislature. The printing industry contends it violates freedom of the press guarantees in the constitution. The law requires that all political advertising bear the name and ad dress of the printer. A MRU. 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