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VOL. XCVIT No. 159 ™“ Washington (AP)—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned today, his historic decision announced by a weeping staff secretary. Agnew then pleaded no contest in federal court in Baltimore. to a single count of federal income tax evasion, The Vice President, his face drawn, entered the plea before U.S. District Court Judge Walter E. Hoff- man. Hoffman told the Vice President he considered the no contest plea the equivalent of an admission of guilt. Hoffman sentenced Agnew to the maximum $10,000 fine and placed him on probation without su- pervision for three years, Vice President Agnew has reportedly resigned at the direct request of President Nixon, a capitol source told The Banner. Planes Strike Copyright © 1974, Nashville Banners Publishing Company NASHVILLE, TENN., WEDNG Pleads No Conte | Nixon is said to have called Agnew to the Whit House Tuesday. night and demanded. his resignatio Agnew left the courthouse at about 1:40 pf CDT, stepping into a limonsine for an unknown - Editorial page columns by Frank van der Lind and William S. White (page 10) were written pri to Vice President Agnew’s resignation; related sto on page 7. | nation. Agnew told newsmen that the Justice Depal ment has not been fully prosecuting witnesses in Jj case. Witnesses against him had received either full partial immunity, Agnew said. Waving to bystanders, he drove off. He had attended a hearing in which he and Aff | | | Deep In |

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RNOON, OCT. 10, 1973 0 Tax Evasion . iot L. Richardson were seated in a courtroom 't 30 minutes. w’s resignation means President Nixon will to Congress a nominee to succeed the vice t. The Nixon nominee would take over the sidency upon approval by both branches of de | statement to the court, Agnew said his de- ' resign “‘rests on my firm belief that the terest requires swife disposition’’ of his case. ‘w entered his plea of no contest to criminal jion filed by U.S. Atty. George Beall. »w said that had not an agreement been with the government, and had he been in- ihe case would have dragged on for two or ars an “intense media interest in the case stract public attention from other matters val importance.” 56 PAGES PRICE: TEN CENTS TS: GETS YEARS Richardson announced in the Baltimore court- room that-the Justice Department had recommended Agnew not be imprisoned, on grounds that his resig- nation and conviction on the tax charge served as sufficient punishment. The criminal information said Agnew filed a false joint income tax return for 1967 and said he had in- come of $26,099 and that he owed taxes of $6,416 while in fact his income was $55,599 carrying taxes of $19,- 967.47. Richardson told the court that the investigation of kickbacks in Maryland politics during the time Agnew was governor and Baltimore County executive produced evidence which ‘‘establishes a pattern of substantial cash payments to the defendant (Agnew) during the period when he served as governor of Maryland in return for engineering contracts with the state of Maryland.”’ Tricia Again ypt, Syria Defends Father, Denies Rumors