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President Nixon may have freed Charles Manson-not by an act of executive clemency, but by one of errant stupidity...
Defense attorneys for Manson, Leslie Van Houten, and Susan Atkins-who face charges of murder stemming from the mass killings last August of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons-moved for a mistrial yesterday after learning that Nixon had said that Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason...
...Late last night, however, Nixon said flatly he did not mean to imply that Manson was guilty...
Referring to the Manson case, Nixon said, "here is a man who was guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason...
...Another defendant is Charles Watson, a member of Manson's family who is in a Texas jail fighting extradition; he will be tried separately...