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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1980 ational ^iNixon testifies he a Jo of secret break-ins of finding fugitive members of the militant Weather Underground. The prosecution finished with rebuttal witnesses Thursday after calling Nicholas Katzenbach — the fifth former attorney general to testify about break-in policies. It is uncertain whether the case would go to the jury today. Nixon’s testimony was marred briefly, moments after he took the oath, by three leftist sym pathizers shouting “murderer,” “liar,” “genocide,” “war cri minal.” He sat stone-faced as they cal led him names. He resumed his testimony after they were ejected from the courtroom. Sometimes smiling nervously to the jury, Nixon urged the panel to think back to the climate of Vietnam era in deciding whether the FBI had cause to conduct the Weather Underground break- ins. “What I am saying is that at the time, as far as my actions were concerned and the actions of others, we must recognize things ile fuel. Also,,,, ding with Sub United Press International ley were sealed WASHINGTON - Richard Nixon, reliving the anger he felt > flush fumesLi toward anti-war groups while in an accident ah ' office, says the FBI was j ustified "d. The exhatr > conducting secret break-ins in innes into a m 1972 and 1973 to find radicals ? 22 others fr ' a ^ries of bombings, o, the AirForctq ipor, the repot) nmended it h ate the vapor it into the silo's mildup. Thes olast hurled tl, linked to a series of bombings. Nixon walked into a packed federal courtroom Wednesday and told a jury he felt he had dele gated authority to the FBI to con duct such break-ins. Testifying at the trial of two for mer FBI officials, Nixon said, in uuneatie I 970 he approved a White House injured Set D P lan for widespread surveillance, ® l ™including break-ins, against domestic groups. He told the jury he revoked the plan when FBI Director}. Edgar Hoover objected to it. But Nixon made clear his action did not for bid the FBI from conducting further break-ins. He testified for 45 minutes at the six-and-a-halfweek old trial of W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Mil ler, the FBI’s former No. 2 and No. 3 men, charged with approv ing nine illegal break-ins in hopes he Air Force I ors at the top j es. But slower— gered the heal led. :ed were quite different than they are today,” said Nixon. He said “there were reports — that I considered to be hard evi dence — the Weather Under ground had foreign connections. ” Nixon said he always was con cerned about terrorist activities — especially in wartime when terrorism “may create attitudes in this country that delay the end of the war, the end of the killing. ” He said he would “particularly support” FBI surveillance to combat subversion, espionage and terrorism. Nixon said he be lieved the bureau had authority delegated from the president to conduct break-ins — without having to get approval from the attorney general. Ai the time, Nixon said he was troubled by U.S. terrorist activi ties — which intensified as oppo sition to the Vietnam War height ened. “We were at war. 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