Sisco Shuttles Between Athens and Ankara; Careful in Praise
Date: 21 July 1974
Special to The New York Times
six foreign newsmen are detained for 5 hrs at Adana Airport on July 19 by police before being allowed to leave area by car for Ankara; film, notes and dispatches are confiscated; those held include members of Swedish film crew, Jack Lawrence (CBS), malcolm MacPherson (Newsweek) and John Star (Washington Post) (S)
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Embattled Nicosia Hotel Traps 380 Without Food; Attack on Hospital Charged
Date: 21 July 1974
Special to The New York Times
Israeli Correspondent Eitan Haberand and several other newsmen have been stranded in Ledra Palace Hotel since drop of Turkish paratroopers in Nicosia on July 20 (S)
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Impeachment Broadcast
Date: 21 July 1974
Ed endorses HR Rules Com's recommendation to HR that HR Judiciary Com's final debate on impeachment be broadcast by radio and TV; hopes decision will be followed by opening HR debate, and Sen trial if it occurs, to complete five coverage; notes objections to live coverage; holds public's interest in impeachment process reaches beyond Pres Nixon's fate as embedded in contest over his guilt or innocence is struggle over nature and extent of const limits of authority of Amer Presidents; says it thus necessarily involves fundamental debate about character of Amer democracy and it is imperative that Amers comprehend as fully as possible arguments and issues involved in its resolution
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ST. CLAIR ASSERTS PANEL LACKS DATA FOR CITING NIXON; Charges Rebutted
Date: 21 July 1974
Special to The New York Times
Analysis of impeachment evidence assembled by HR Judiciary Com contains new disclosures about related aspects of Watergate affair--'goal' of clandestine White House effort to discredit Daniel Ellsberg after publication of Pentagon papers was to 'do to' liberal remnants of Kennedy and Nixon Adms 'the same destructive job that was done on Herbert Hoover years ago' according to handwritten notes John D Ehrlichman made of '71 meetings with Nixon; 2 mos before White House plumbers unit broke into office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding, Nixon wondered whether to 'put a nonlegal team on the conspiracy,' according to another note penned by Ehrlichman; Repr Robert F Drinan says that section of summary that focused on alleged abuses of Pres power contained 'the smoking gun' tying Nixon directly to wrongdoing in Ellsberg case; inquiry staffs summary says that Ehrlichman's handwritten notes of discussions of Ellsberg case shows that Nixon 'viewed the prosecution of Ellsberg not principally as natl security matter, but with view toward gaining public relations and pol advantage, (M)
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Panel Questions Lawyers On Impeachment Analysis; St. Clair Asserts That House Panel Lacks Evidence to Cite Nixon Burch Voices Concern
Date: 21 July 1974
Special to The New York TimesBy JAMES M. NAUGHTON
Pres Nixon's defense atty James D St Clair tells HR Judiciary Com in formal brief made public on July 20 that there is no solid evidence that Nixon committed impeachable offenses; argues that decision to settle antitrust suits against ITT Corp did not result from promised campaign contribution, that Nixon was under no legal duty to respond to sworn testimony in ITT case by Richard G Kleindienst and John N Mitchell since neither was charged with perjury and that Nixon's decision to raise milk prices supports in '71 was divorced from campaign pledge by milk producers; illus of St Clair (S)
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Follow-Up on the News; Horse Meat
Date: 21 July 1974
LEE DEMBART
Lee DEMBART
NYC Police say TV cameras installed last summer in Times Square area have had deterrent effect on crime, but few, if any, crimes have been actually observed; Deputy Inspector Sidney F Gage has recommended that they be continued and that dept assume cost after Sept when private financing ends (S)
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