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Greeted with open arms

Former White Houselawyer visits Burlington

By David CloustonReporter

Some o the most tantalizingmysteries surrounding the Wa-tergate scandal are ones not evenormer White House counsel, nowauthor, John DeanIII, can put to rest.

Dean was in Burl-

ington or a speechto a district Ro-tary Club gather-ing and a publicpresentation Friday at Elon’s Moseley Center. Dean be-came a key celeb-rity gure duringWatergate, spend-ing our monthsin prison or ob-struction o justice or his rolein the cover-up o the scandal.

A break-in June 17, 1972, at theoces o the Democratic NationalCommittee at the Watergate hoteland oce complex in Washington,D.C. ultimately led to President Nix-on’s resignation in disgrace August9, 1974. Conventional theory holdsthat the break-in was designed tocollect political inormation aboutNixon’s Democratic opponents.

As the scandal unolded, newsitems like the inamous “eighteen-minute gap” and the identity o the condential source known as“Deep Troat” would make head-lines in the manner o Monica Le-winsky and Whitewater two de-cades later or President Clinton.

Dean, who was Nixon’s White

House lawyer, thinks the gap on oneo the tapes secretly recording con-

  versations in the oval oce, couldeasily have been made by Nixon’sclumsiness with the taping system,rather than a deliberate attemptto conceal incriminating speech.

What was physically impossible, Dean told anaudience uesday at Elon

University, was or secre-tary Rose Mary Woodsto have erased acciden-tally part o the tape assome have suggested.

“I got to thinking abouta man (Nixon) I knowwho had trouble, liter-ally, sometimes openinghis desk drawer,” Deansaid. “He had troublewith (aspirin bottles)

pressing down and turning (thecap). He couldn’t gure that out.

“He hadn’t driven a car in de-cades ... so it became very clear tome that there was only one personwho could have (caused the gap)and that was Nixon and I think itmight have been as much an er-ror as anything else,” Dean said.

Dean was in Burlington or aspeech to a district Rotary Clubgathering and a public presenta-tion Wednesday at Elon’s Moseley Center. Dean became a key ce-lebrity gure during Watergate,spending our months in prisonor obstruction o justice or hisrole in the cover-up o the scandal.

Now an investment banker inBeverly Hills, Dean, spends mosto his time writing. He published

School districts to

slash budgets, jobs

Demonstrators retaliate over arrests, rumors

Doing the ‘responsible thing:’ Congress divided over defciency savings, deadline

Police ofcers arrest a Portland, Ore. protestor Nov. 13. Po-

lice surrounded the demonstrators in a downtown park afterthey refused the mayor’s orders to leave the park by midnight.

Nicole Williams, recently released from the State Correctional Facility for women, is greeted by her friend, Christina Belland. Inmateprograms such as the Alamance County Inmate Reentry Program are providing assistance to inmates, with housing, jobs, recovery, etc.

PORLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Policedrove hundreds o anti-Wall Street dem-onstrators rom weeks-old encamp-ments in Portland and arrested morethan 50 o them, as authorities in Oak-land, Cali., warned Occupy campersthat a similar crackdown was coming.

Portland police moved in shortly beore noon Sunday and orced pro-testers into the street aer dozens re-mained in the camp in deance city ocials. Mayor Sam Adams had or-dered that the camp shut down Sat-urday at midnight, citing unhealthy conditions and the encampment’s at-traction o drug users and thieves.

More than 50 protesters were arrested

in the police action, but ocers did notuse tear gas, rubber bullets or other so-called non-lethal weapons, police said.

Aer the police raid, the number o demonstrators swelled throughoutthe aernoon. By early evening, doz-ens o ocers brandishing nightsticksstood shoulder-to-shoulder to holdthe protesters back. Authorities re-treated and protesters broke the stand-o by marching through the streets.

Demonstrators regrouped severalblocks away, where they broke into

small groups to discuss their uture.Te Oregonian reported that num-bers began to thin out by mid-evening.

In Oakland, city ocials warnedprotesters or the third time in threedays that they do not have the rightto camp in the plaza in ront o City Hall and ace immediate arrest. Po-lice did not respond to requests orcomment on whether ocers werepreparing to orcibly clear the camp.

Protesters said the main plaza wasabuzz with rumors o imminent po-lice action, and campers were dis-cussing what to do and how to sae-guard those who decided to stay.

“Oakland is not araid. We’re

not araid o our tents being tak-en away, o the movement be-ing stymied,” said Shon Kae, whois part o the group’s media team.

A live video eed posted on the In-ternet by protesters o the encamp-ment showed many protesters millingas 4 a.m. PS Monday but there wereno signs o imminent police action.

Te warnings were similar tothose issued beore ocers raidedthe encampment on Oct. 25 withtear gas and bean bag projectiles.

By Cait PurintonSta Writer

Nicole Williams was welcomed to

Burlington with open arms whenshe was released rom the StateCorrectional Facility or women.

She was greeted by her case man-ager rom the Alamance County Inmate Reentry Program, and be-ore her release she was greetedby other community representa-tives who are helping Williamsand other inmates lead crime-ree lives through the program.

Williams said she has more con-dence that will she succeed be-cause o the assistance she hasreceived through the program.

“Beore, I wouldn’t have even tried.I would have walked out the rontdoor and said ‘I’ll be back. Catchme i you can’,” Williams said. “Tis

time I can say I’m not coming back.”Te program has become one o the

most notable o its kind in the state,in part because o its rigorous nature.

A case manager with the Ala-mance County Inmate Reentry Program meets with the oendera year beore her release to assessthe oender’s risk and needs. Eachre-entry plan then is tailored to theoender’s needs and may include acombination o classes in money management, amily transition, so-cial skills, diversity and tolerance,employment and addiction recovery.

Te case manager meets withthe oender once a week beoreher release rom prison. In the sixmonths ollowing the oender’srelease rom prison, the case man-ager slowly turns the case overto the oender’s parole ocer.

Troughout the course o a year,

the oender meets with variousteams made up o a case manager,community police ocer, paroleocer, a mentor and key compo-

nents o the oender’s re-entry plan.Program director erry Finley said

there are more than 50 community partners who assist oenders withissues such as housing, jobs, addic-tion recovery and mental health.

“I think most people are will-ing to understand the act thatwe can’t build enough prisons,”Zellers said. “And, how success-ul would you be coming back i you didn’t have some prepara-tions and community support?”

Te program is designed to assistthe most serious and violent oend-ers. Program participants must be 18to 34 years old and have a signicantconnection to Alamance County.

In Williams’ case, she established

a job in Burlington through theprison’s work-release program, en-abling her to save money to securereliable housing aer her release.

Williams, 24, was convicted in1997 o involuntary manslaughter,and in 2001 o making alse writ-ing. She was incarcerated or thoseconvictions and or violating parole.

She applied or the programmore than a year ago and hascompleted courses in lie skills,re-entry planning, employment,health and amily transition.

Williams also earned her gen-eral equivalency diploma.

Viccie Ducksworth, Wil-liams’s case manager, said shehas noticed considerable chang-es in Williams in the past year.

“She wouldn’t say anything to any-body, including me. I she didn’tknow you, she wouldn’t talk. It

By John MilburnTe Associated Press

Tird verse, same as the rst.For the third consecutive year, leg-

islators ailed by the end o Marchto settle on how much money thestate will spend on public schoolsor the ollowing school year.

And with a April 30 deadlineor notiying teachers that they won’t have jobs next all, schooldistricts had no choice but to as-sume the worst -- and to send badnews to hundreds o teachers.

Some will be hired back in thenext ew months as district nancesare rmed up, said Mark allman,lobbyist or the North Carolina As-

sociation o School Boards. Andthe number o teachers now re-ceiving layo notices is no worsethan at this time last year, he said.

“But last year was a very bad year,” allman said.

Te Alamance County SchoolBoard is considering cuts o $12.5 million in its $375 mil-lion budget and the elimina-tion o 34 teaching positions.

Diane Gjerstad, who lobbiesor Alamance County schools,said the district had no mag-ic le or balancing its books.

“Our rabbits are gone. We’veused them all up,” she said.

Tat is because Alamance County’slocal option budget -- revenue raised

through local property taxes to supplement a dis-trict’s state aid -- has beenincreased through theyears to the maximumallowed by state law. Inthe past, local option rev-enue allowed the districtto avoid reductions thatwould aect classrooms.

Tat isn’t so this year.“We will have to cut

positions, and we’ll try to do it through attri-tion,” Gjerstad said,adding that the districttypically lls 300 teach-er positions each year.

Legislators already have

WASHINGON (AP) -- De-spite prodding rom PresidentBarack Obama, members o Con-

gress’ supercommittee concede nodeal is in sight to meet their goalo $1.2 trillion or more in de-cit savings over the next decade.

Instead, with only 10 days re-maining until a Nov. 23 deadline,the panel is divided along parti-san lines and Rep. James Clyburn,D-S.C., said Sunday the six com-mittee members o his own party “have not coalesced around a plan.”

Despite the diculties, Clyburn

and Republicans on the decitpanel all said they haven’t givenup hope o a deal by the deadline.

“But i this was easy, the presi-dent o the United States and thespeaker o the House would havegotten it done themselves,” said RepJeb Hensarling o exas, the Repub-lican chairman o the committee.

Obama mentioned his own unsuc-cessul negotiations with SpeakerJohn Boehner in passing at a newsconerence in Hawaii on Sunday where he urged the members o thecommittee to show more fexibility.

“It eels as i people continue to try tostick with their rigid positions rath-er than solve the problem,” he said.

“Tere’s no magic ormula. Tereare no magic beans that you can tosson theg r o u n dand sud-denly abunch o m o n e y  g r o w son trees,” Obama added.“We got to just go ahead anddo the responsible thing.”

Despite some concessions, the twosides remain divided over the samebasic issues that thwarted earlier

decit reduction eorts - ndinga mutually agreeable blend o tax

increasesand cutsin the larg-est gov-e r n m e n tb e n e i tprograms.

Democrats on the supercommitteesay they are willing to make signi-cant reductions in programs such as

Social Security, Medicare and Med-icaid only aer Republicans agree tohigher tax revenue, including a larger

bite out o the income o the wealthy.Republicans say that the soaring

decits result rom too much spend-ing, and not rom a shortage o reve-nue to the reasury, and tax increas-es would crimp eorts to create jobs.

In an oer they said marked asignicant concession, GOP mem-bers on the panel oered lastweek to raise taxes by $250 bil-lion over a decade as part o anoverhaul o the tax code that si-

multaneously would cut the toprate rom 35 percent to 28 percent.

Democrats swily rejected that

as a tax cut or the wealthy in dis-guise, and separately jettisoned anearlier proposal that would haveslowed the growth in cost o liv-ing increases under Social Security.

Tere has been little, i any, indica-tion o progress in the talks since then.

But Hensarling seemed to sug-gest in an interview Sunday thatthe two parties could nd a way around the ast-approachingTanksgiving deadline by coming

“We got to just go ahead and do theresponsible thing.”

-BARACK OBAMA 

Correctional facility programs provide assistance

Speech reveals insight on Nixon, Watergate

- The Alamance CountySchool Board is consideringcuts of $12.5 million.

- Legislators have passed a$10 billion budget for the up-

coming scal year.

- Local option revenue hasincreased to the maximumallowed by state law.

- Thirty-four teaching posi-tions may be cut in Alamance

County.

John Dean