BILL ON NEWSMEN FRUSTRATES ERVIN; He Finds Topic Hardest of His Career in Senate The Worst Criminal' Scholar Asks Privilege Ruling in Florida
Date: 15 March 1973
Special to The New York Times
Fed Dist Judge J Eaton on Mar 14 dismisses petition to stop dissemination about an inquiry into alleged corruption in Dade County, Fla, judiciary and local govts; rules that petition by Rev T Wright, whose name has been mentioned in connection with inquiry, does not belong in Fed ct and should be addressed to state cts
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Trenton Community Paper Is Upheld Against Charge It Is Public Nuisance; Case Held Significant
Date: 16 March 1973
By RONALD SULLIVAN
Ronald SULLIVAN
Trenton magistrate S Leventhal on March 15 dismisses charges against Rank & File, volunteer community newspaper, declaring that paper's const right to free press overrides police charges that its distribution on streets is public nuisance; paper's spokesman says he does not think ct action will stop police from continuing to 'harass and intimidate us'; paper was 1st involved in altercation with law on Feb 10 with arrest of D Clark and M Zehr who were charged with interfering and molesting shoppers on intersection where they were selling papers; 1 wk after arrest Mrs D Kirby and W Thomas were arrested and convicted in ct on charges of unlawful solicitation for distributing copies on same corner; illus of paper's masthead
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Bar Group Appoints a Panel To Study News Shield Laws
Date: 16 March 1973
Amer Bar Assn on March 15 appts panel to study newsmen's shield laws and to consider its policy on issue; assn pres R W Meserve says that panel will hold its 1st session in April; members of panel include Judge D Brofman, V E Whelen, D A Rezneck, P A Nejelski, J J Shestack and G Saunders
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ELLSBERG JURORS BRIEFED ON SPYING; Kissinger Consultant Tells of Intelligence Gathering U.S. Held Uninjured Call Held Deliberate
Date: 15 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Dr A S Whiting, consultant to Pres Nixon's advisor H Kissinger and former dir of Office of Research and Analysis for Far East for State Dept, testifies for defense in Pentagon papers trial on Mar 14; says he cannot see any way in which Pentagon papers would be of any advantage to foreign national operating against US in '69; says he sees no way in which material in papers could be used to injure US; comments on his experience of manner in which intelligence material is gathered and evaluated; attempts to rebut testimony of Brig Gen P F Gorman, who testified earlier that disclosure of information in papers had damaged natl defense; holds foreign analyst can assess capacity of US intelligence only when he can identify source of material and where it was collected; cites Pentagon papers revelation of phone conversation between Premier Kosygin and Communist party chmn L I Brezhnev in '67 which was wiretapped; C Ronning, retired Canadian diplomat who in '66 made 2 trips to Saigon for talks that were to have been secret, testifies that even though trips were reptd in NY Times, release of information after contacts had been finished damaged no one
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ELLSBERG TRIAL HEARS SORENSEN; He Says He Left the White House With U.S. Data
Date: 16 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
T C Sorensen, counsel to former Pres Kennedy, tells Pentagon papers trial on March 15 that when he left White House he took with him many Govt documents; implication is that he then used those documents as material for books he wrote about Kennedy yrs and for articles on foreign affairs
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NIXON SUGGESTS HIGH COURT RULING ON REFUSING DATA; Voices Confidence He Would Be Upheld on Interpretation of Executive Privilege
Date: 16 March 1973
By JOHN M. CREWDSON
Mar 16-31: Pres Nixon says on March 15 that his chief legal counsel J W Dean 3d is protected by 'double privilege, the lawyer-client relationship as well as the Pres privilege' in view of fact that Dean also served as 'counsel to number of people on White House staff,' news conf; says he will not allow Dean to appear before Cong coms; says Adm has not 'drawn a curtain down' and that Dean will furnish information when any of it is requested provided it is pertinent to investigation; characterizes Watergate bugging case as 'espionage by 1 pol orgn against another'; reprs for White House and re-election com have previously said that 7 men indicted for bugging were acting independently; Sen Baker says appearance by Dean 'would be essential to full investigation' of Watergate; Sen Weicker says he would vote to subpoena White House officials before Watergate panel; Nixon illus
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Dispute Blocks Delivery Of Times in Boston Area
Date: 16 March 1973
News Distributors Inc and Local 259 of Teamsters on March 15 sign new contract that clears way for regular delivery of NY Times and Christian Science Monitor in Boston area; Times spokesman repts that labor dispute affected distribution of about 26,000 copies of paper in area
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Publisher of Times Intervenes In Subpoena of Reporter's Files; Dozen Subpoenas Served Other Moves to Quash Question of Immunity
Date: 16 March 1973
Special to The New York Times
NY Times, through its publisher A O Sulzberger, asserts ownership of notes and files of 1 of its reporters, J M Crewdson, subpoenaed by Com for Re-Election of Pres; materials were sought by Repubs' lawyer K W Parkinson in countersuit against Dems in connection with bugging of Dem hq last June; Crewdson says that because these materials are now in files of Times he will not be able to produce them in response to subpoena; attys for Times and Crewdson have filed motion to quash subpoena; other reporters and news execs who have been subpoenaed have also moved to have subpoenas quashed; suits by Dems and Repubs described
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Rivera Back at WABC After 'Censorship Dispute'
Date: 16 March 1973
By ALBIN KREBS
Albin KREBS
WABC-TV Eyewitness News newscaster G Rivera returns to program after settlement of what he calls 'censorship dispute' with network's execs; dispute arose on Mar 14 after Rivera had filmed rehearsal of nightclub act at Bitter End, starring radio personality D Imus; film segment contained thrusts at WNBC newscaster C Stokes and WABC vp K H McQueen; Rivera walked out when WABC execs ruled that segment was too 'offensive' but returned on Mar 15 when segment was televised after Stokes references were deleted
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