SAIGON ASSAILED FOR PRESS CURBS; Newsmen Drop Timidity and Join in Accusing Regime of Terrorizing Them
Date: 09 September 1974
By JAMES M. MARKHAM
Com Struggling for the Right to Freedom of the Press and of Publication, newly formed com of South Vietnamese publishers, journalists and Opposition politicians, on Sept 8 denounces Govt for 'oppressing and terrorizing the press, newspapermen, writers and artists'; group's formation marks sharp change in attitude of Saigon journalists, who have up till now been timid about organizing into groups to attack Govt; new journalists' group plans to hold seminar to air its complaints; reprs of Assn of Vietnameses Newspaper Publishers are scheduled to meet on Sept 12 with Information Min Hoan Duc Nha, who personally orders confiscation of and censorship of S Vietnamese newspapers (M)
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Honorable Withdrawal
Date: 10 September 1974
Ed holds White House press sec J F terHorst's resignation from Ford Adm is refreshing throwback to simpler time in Amer pol life; comments on problems terHorst had with Ford's decision to pardon former Pres Nixon; calls decision remarkable
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Watergate Burglars Hope for Clemency
Date: 09 September 1974
Pres Ford's granting of pardon to Pres Nixon has raised hopes for clemency of Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez and Felipe de Diego, indicted in connection with break-in in Sept '71, at office of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding
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Some in White House Misled terHorst, Friends Say in Explaining Why He Quit; 'Cover Stories' 'Completely Open' Had Sought Frankness
Date: 10 September 1974
By MARJORIE HUNTERSpecial to The New York Times
J F terHorst, who resigned as Pres Ford's press sec, resumes work as columnist for Detroit News
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Cost of Ford's Decision; It Not Only Led terHorst to Resign, But Also Realigned President and Nixon G.O.P. Senators Critical Possible Loss of Credibility
Date: 10 September 1974
By R. W. APPLE Jr.Special to The New York Times
R. APPLE
R W Apple analysis of cost of Pres Ford's decision to pardon former Pres Nixon holds press sec J F terHorst's resignation meant more than ordinary departure of a White House aide because terHorst was unusually competent man, was key to reputation for openness that Ford has cultivated and was symbol of differences in style and attitude between Nixon and Ford Adms; says by his action, Ford reidentified himself and, to some degree, his party with Nixon (L)
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The Failure of Mr. Ford
Date: 09 September 1974
ed on Pres Ford's granting of a pardon to former Pres Nixon holds Ford has affronted Const and Amer system of justice; calls action unwise, divisive and unjust; says Ford has confused his responsibilities to Republic and his understandable sentiments toward one who has inflicted grave damage upon body politic; notes reasons Ford cites for decision; says adjudication of Nixon's offenses and character of criminal trial in which those offenses would be weighed and argued are 1 set of concerns and Nixon's suffering and his claims on Ford's conscience as a pol sponsor, friend and fellow human being are another set of concerns; says it is essential that crimes committed by several of Nixon's closest associates and apparently by Nixon himself be determined in a ct of law by same rules of evidence and same procedures of due process that apply in Amer system of justice to every citizen; comments on Ford's duties and responsibilities and asserts that Ford failed; says Ford has initiated bitter controversy as shown by immediate resignation in protest of Ford's press sec J F terHorst, acting as 'matter of conscience'; holds it might have stirred less public outrage if Ford, in what amounted to secret and discreditable plea bargaining with Nixon, had insisted on frank and forthright confession of guilt; says Ford settled for unctuous, guileful statement from Nixon in which Nixon admits nothing specific and blurs issues; says arrangement avoids nothing in way of publicity and public controversy; notes Nixon must testify at cover-up trial and if he testifies falsely, he is still open to prosecution for perjury; notes Nixon cannot avoid testifying by claiming 5th Amendment because his pardon has immunized him; notes Ford, when asked a yr ago whether he would do precisely what he has now done, indicated to Cong that he would not
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Ethiopia Says Ex-Official Blocked News of Famine
Date: 10 September 1974
former pres of lower house of Ehtiopia's Parliament Seifu Tadesse is accused on Sept 9 of having suppressed news of famine in '73 in which some 100,000 people died
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Experts Assert Some Nixon Legal Problems Remain; Court Review Doubted
Date: 10 September 1974
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
pardon given by Pres Ford to former Pres Nixon has not covered many of problems facing Nixon including fact that he is still liable to civil lawsuits for damages, such as claim by Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis Fielding that White House burglary of his office was violation of his civil rights
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