WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
federal government said Thurs-
day it has spent nearly $2
million on President Nixon's
homes in Key Biscayne, Fla.,
and San Clemente, Calif.

The General Services Ad-
ministration (GSA), the federal
housekeeping agency, said
$1,180,522.64 was spent on
improvement and maintenance
at the Key Biscayne compound
and $703,367.20 was spent over
the past 4'4 years for the San
Clemente estate. The San
Clemente figure was _ revised
upward from a_ little over
$400,000 and the Key Biscayne
total was the first of its kind.
 
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS it has spent
nearly $2 million improving President Nixon's humes in
Florida and California, all of it relating to “security.” The
White House also disclosed that businessman Robert H.
Abplanalp, who helped the President buy his San Clemente,
Calif., retreat, has been getting some money back in the
form of rent associated with Nixon's Key Biscayne, Fla.,
place. A month ago the White House had listed $39,000 in
federal funds for improving the Western White Ilouse at
San Clemente since Nixan bought it in 1969,

THE HOUSE LATE THURSDAY VOTED (to create an
independent corporation to handle the free jegal services
program fur the poor, but added a series of restrictions on
what lawyers can do for their poverty clients. ‘The measure,
as passed and sent to the Senate, would bar the attorneys
from engaging in cases involving school busing, school
integration, abertion and governmental lobbying. Final
passage came on a 276 to 95 roli call vote.
 