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Douglas Survives Impeachment Investigation
Celler set up the special comThe chief House opponent of
mittee to head off demands by the
Justice is the Reuncover any additional evidence more than 100 congressmen for publican leader, Gerald R. Ford
that might be available. But it an investigation of Douglas by a of Michigan, who touched off
is unlikely such hearings will be select committee composed of the Investigation with a speech
members at large, not the Judi- - last April accusing Douglas of a
held.
The special committee was
created by the Judiciary Committee. Its findings are purely
advisory but the Judiciary Committee is expected to concur in
them.
That should end the controversy over Douglas for this ses- clary Committee. It is normal, wide range of misconduct that,
sion of Congress, but opponents however, for the Judiciary Com- in Ford's view, disqualified him
of the justice are certain to re- mittee to conduct impeachment for service on the Supreme Court.
new the battle in the 92nd ConFord's charges dealt mainly
Investigations and Celler's move
with Douglas's outside writings
sidetracked Douglas's foes.
gress next year.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A special House committee investigating the conduct of Supreme Court
J u it ice William O. Douglas has
cone laded that no grounds exist
tor impeaching him.
The five-ma- n
panel based its
findings on evidence collected
from the government and other
sources during an inquiry that
began last April.
In the view of a majority of
the committee, the investigation
has not turned up any creditable
evidence that would warrant preparation of articles of impeachment against Douglas. No breakdown of the vote was made available.
The committee's findings are
contained in a draft report of
the investigation prepared for
submission to the House Judiciary Committee. All five members of the special committee
are members of the Judiciary
Committee, and both panels are
headed by Rep. Emanuel Celler,

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rescue American prisoners was
becau se that particular question
was not asked" during his two
and a half hours of testimony
last Tuesday before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
chaired by Fulbright.
The Pentagon did not disclose
details of the air strike until
Friday after President Nixon let
word slip at a White House dinner for wounded servicemen on
Thanksgiving day that U.S.
planes escorting the commando
raiders fired on targets near the
Son Tay prison camp near Hanoi.
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the CBS
program "Face
the Nation," Fulbright, one of
the Senate's most persistent
critics of the Vietnam war, said
he "wouldn't ever call anybody
a liar in public except by inadvertence." But, Fulbright continued, Laird and Pentagon officials in previous administrations, as well, "misrepresent the
facts. Obviously he did, and they
do it all the time."
Laird contended he was "as
forthright as one could possibly
be in answering all questions"
by the Fulbright committee, but
added that committee members
"were not as prepared as they
might be . . .
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but you have to be prepared, and that particular question was not asked."

He said the question was
asked during closed hearings before the Senate Armed Services
Committee prior to his appearance before Fulbright's committee, and that he answered it in

detail.

Answering Fulbright's assertion that the Pentagon has taken
over the primary role In formulating U.S. foreign policy, Laird
said it isn't his intention or the
intention of the Defense Department "to deal in the foreign-polic- y

area."

Retraction Requested

Group Denies Plotting Kidnapping

anWASHINGTON (AP)-- An
tiwar group of Roman Catholic
priests, nuns and laymen denied
Monday plotting a kidnap and
other accusations by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and accused him of trying to set the
stage for more pressure on leftist
groups.
The eleven members of the
East Coast Conspiracy to Save
Lives said a law suit for defamation of character or libel is
being considered.
Hoover, testifying before a
Senate appropriations subcommittee last Friday, said the group
was plotting to disrupt capital
utility lines and kidnap an unidentified White House official.
Ransom would be an end to
bombing in Indochina and release of "political prisoners."
Hoover said the principal
leaders of the group were brothers Daniel and Philip Berrigan,
two priests presently serving sentences in a federal prison at Dan-burConn.
The Berrigan s issued a statement earlier denying Hoover's
assertion and saying he should
"either . . . prosecute us or publicly retract the charges he

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has concluded are insufficient
grounds for impeachment.
The central issue in the controversy, however, is the differing view Ford and the Celler
committee hold on what constitutes an impeachable offense.
In his April speech Ford said
it could be conduct that falls
short of violating the law if it is
of a nature to cast doubt on the
Justice's integrity and to discredit the entire Judiciary. In the
last analysis. Ford said, it is
whatever a majority of the House
decides it to be.

Laird Defends Senate Hearing Action
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bombing near Hanoi, Secretary
of Defense Melvin R. Laird said
A Whitewash
Monday the Arkansas Democrat
asked the wrong questions during
Already accused of conducting a whitewash of Douglas, the last week's Senate hearings.
Laird's defense against Fulspecial committee suggests that
bright's criticism came during an
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and associations. It was Ford's
charges that the Celler committee investigated and which it

made."
A Jesuit priest, Peter Fordi,
32, Jersey City, N.J., said in the

Monday news conference many
of the members know the Berri- gans socially and through church
work, but that there is no connection whatsoever between the
group and the priests.

Dominican

Sister

Susan

Cordes, 32, said Hoover may
have them confused with other
antiwar groups. However that
may be, she said she would welcome any official investigation
which she hopes "would uncover
what is happening in this coun-

try."
Categorically denying everything, iimer city priest, Father
Joe Wenderoth, 34, said about
such plotting: "our philosophy
and our tactics would not allow

it."
Why the accusations?
"I hope this is
Fordi said, but Hoover may have
been trying "to induce the public

to believe all groups acting to
counter the status quo are subversive, careless of human life,
and not careful of the commandments of human life."
Also, Fordi said, "just the
forum he used indicates he is
trying to create a need for greater
surveillance by the FBI for all
kinds of .leftist groups
He
wants to make the FBI a perpetual part of American life."

....

Hoover was asking the committee to approve increased FBI
funding.
"We are a militant group, but
a militant group respecting human life, taking every precaution
known," Fordi said.
Last February the group
claimed responsibility for destruction of draft files in Philadelphia and disruption of General Elect ric's Washington offices.

British Black Militant Quits,
Aims for Racial 'Friendship'
OXFORD, England (AP) --

Britain's most prominent Black
Power leader Monday quit the
movement and said his new aim
is friendship between black and
white.
Michael Abdul Malik, otherwise known as Michael X, said
he is resigning all his posts and
handing over to their occupants
all buildings and enterprises
owned in his name.
These are reported to include
Black House, a building which

Ford Wants Care
On Cumberland
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- Lt.
Cov. Wendell Ford urged the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
and
Monday to "promulgate
adopt whatever regulations are
necessary to prevent any commercial activity . . . which enof
dangers the real purpose
Lake Cumberland."
Aides to Ford said the lieutenant governor has sent letters
to the Corps, Cov. Louie B.
Nunn and Kentucky's congressional delegation asking the
Corps to deny the Becknell-Crac- e
Coal Co. a permit to construct
a barge loading dock on the lake
near Albany.
Becknell-Crac- e
wants the permit in order to barge coal 56
miles across the lake to the East
Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corp's generating plant at
Burn side.

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mem ben of his Black Muslim
movement have been converting
into a commune.
Militant Group
Malik, 39, was leader of the
Black Muslims and president of
the Racial Adjustment Action
Society, which is supported by
the Muslims and by the still
more militant Black Eagle and
Black Panther groups.
He said in a speech at Oxford University that he had come
to the conclusion that black people in Britain no longer needed
the sort of organization typified
by the Black Power movement.
He recalled that during the
past decade he had shifted his
philosophy from "get a gun" to
"get a brick and build."
Avoid Bloodshed
He added: "I now feel that
my personal usefulness can no
longer be directed within forms
such as black organizations as
we have known them.
"Those people whose interest
is the avoidance of the polarization of races and its inevitable
consequence, bloodshed, I will
continue to serve."
He said the Black Power
movement in Britain had been
produced by a series of social
factors which dominated the
1960s.

He added: "Now our organization, along with other groups
of the same pattern, must recognize that social evolution has,
In effect, processed this pattern

out."

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