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...depression of a tape recorder's "record" button on at least five different occasions caused the 18-minute gap in one of the subpoenaed Watergate tapes, technical experts testified yesterday at a court hearing before District Court Judge John J. Sirica...
...experts' findings apparently contradict the testimony of President Nixon's personal secretary, Rosemary Woods, who told Sirica last November that she had accidently erased five minutes of the tape...
...experts told Sirica that, based on electronic evidence, they found "conclusively that the 18-minute section could not have been produced by any single, continuous operation...
...Attorney General last week, scorned the subpoenas as a catchall amounting to a "fishing expedition." But the committee's deputy chief counsel, Rufus Edmisten, maintained that every item demanded was relevant to the investigation. This week the committee intends to ask Federal Judge John J. Sirica to order Nixon to surrender seven tapes-the same recordings previously given to a Watergate grand jury and also subpoenaed by the committee last summer. Later the committee will decide whether to request that Sirica force the President to turn over additional tapes and documents...
During his talks with the Congressmen, Nixon had indicated that he would be willing to make public the substance of the celebrated presidential tapes concerning the Watergate burglary that he had turned over to Federal Judge John J. Sirica. The tapes contain key conversations between the President and such former top aides as John Dean, John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. Last week the White House decided not to release the summaries. The main reason was fear that the tapes might link the President closer to Watergate. Top White House aides readily admit that the tapes include "ambiguities" about the President...