More Nixon tapes to be released

YORBA LINDA, Calif., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- More records from the Nixon administration are being made public, including documents about U.S. policy in Chile, officials say.

The Richard Nixon Presidential Library is releasing an additional 265 hours of audiotape, CNN reported Wednesday. The library said the subject matter ranges from Watergate to the release of U.S. POWs held by North Vietnam, to policy in the Middle East -- including visits to Washington by King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

The library is also releasing documents like oral histories by public figures including former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., the Democratic presidential nominee in 1972. Nixon won a lopsided victory, but his tactics eventually cost him the presidency.

Another 2,500 pages of documents include information on U.S. policy in Chile, where President Salvador Allende was overthrown and assassinated in 1973 in a U.S.-backed coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

The library is in Nixon's birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.