Talmadge Is Reported To Have Accepted Trip
Date: 31 July 1973
The Washington Star-News
US Sen Herman E Talmadge, member of Sen Com investigating Watergate scandal, reptdly was flown to Caribbean for mid-winter vacation in '73 by Rockwell Internatl Corp, major aerospace contractor
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A '71 Plan to Leak Ellsberg File Reported; Game Plan" Cited Not for Gossip'
Date: 01 August 1973
By JOHN M. CREWDSONSpecial to The New York Times
Memorandum written by former White House aide D R Young to J D Ehrlichman on Aug 26, '71, indicates that despite assertions by Pres Nixon and some of his top aides various White House officials hoped to use data gathered by what was labeled 'Hunt-Liddy Project Number 1,' burglary of office of D Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr L J Fielding, to create 'negative press image' for Ellsberg by leaking information to press through House Armed Services Com; memo says conduit for confidential information on Ellsberg was to have been former special counsel to Pres Nixon, C W Colson; source close to Colson who has admitted raising $5,000 from nongovernment sources to finance Ellsberg operation, confirms that Colson was supposed to leak Ellsberg information to press once it was secured by 'plumbers' team; wrote that plan agreed to by Reprs F E Hebert and L C Arends included beginning investigation with questions of security clearance, classification and declassification and then moving on to more specific case of Pentagon papers; Hebert and Arends say they cannot recall making any such arrangement with Adm
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Excerpts From Ehrlichman's Testimony Before the Senate Watergate Committee; MORNING SESSION President Advised An Assumption Noted AFTERNOON SESSION Secondary Objective A Local Culture
Date: 31 July 1973
Special to The New York Times
excerpts from transcript of July 30 testimony by J D Ehrlichman before Sen Watergate com on its 31st day of hearings; illus of some com members and com counsel
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CONVICTS REFUSE TO RE-ENTER GELLS; 600 in Oklahoma Say They Fear Inmates' Reprisals
Date: 31 July 1973
more than 600 inmates refuse on July 30 to enter cellblocks out of fear of reprisals from other inmates; charge that there are 'lots of dead inmates' whose bodies have not been found in charred ruins of prison after 3 days of rioting; death toll so far is 3: R Derough and E Merriman, stabbed on July 27, and L W Brooks, whose throat was slashed on July 28
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BONN SETS TALKS ON SPYING CHARGE; Awaits Results of Inquiry on U.S. Intelligence Activity Results to Be Withheld Paper Protests
Date: 01 August 1973
Special to The New York Times
W Ger officials are scheduled to meet later in wk of July 29 to study results of a probe into news repts charging that Amer mil engaged in illegal intelligence activities in W Ger; Ger newspapers begin on July 31 to clamor for explanations and a legislator asks for full rept in Parliament; Govt spokesman, R Von Wechmar, says he cannot confirm a Pentagon assertion that Bonn had given Amer intelligence activities prior approval, as required by W Ger law; says results of Ger probe will be withheld from public even if it confirms allegations because law does not require public disclosure of legal wiretapping or other infringements of right of privacy; Munich Sueddeutsche Zeitung, commenting on NY Times July 28 rept of Amer intelligence activities, urges Govt probe; Frankfurter Rundschau sends wire of protest to Fed Interior Min H D Genscher; one of its reporters was apparently overheard talking on monitored telephone of T Schwaetzer, Liberation News Service journalist in Heidelberg; wire asks for explanation whether Ger authorities gave this monitoring 'illegal support'; some rough notes by an agent on transcript of tap on Schwaetzer's phone obtained by NY Times also identify other newsmen in Ger--J Sheahan of CBS, J Prym of Overseas Weekly, NY Times correspondent and a Reuters reporter; notes indicate that conversations between them and Schwaetzer might have been monitored; agent's rept notes Schwaetzer is considered by US Army to be an 'anti-US Army activist'
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ENRLICHMAN ENDS ON LOYALTY NOTE; Finishes Senate Testimony by Reaffirming Innocence and Defending President Excerpts from the Ehrlichman testimony are on Page 22. Ehrlichman Ends 5-Day Testimony on Loyalty Note Keep 'Your Eyes Open' Contention Repeated
Date: 31 July 1973
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUMSpecial to The New York Times
David ROSENBAUMSpecial
J D Ehrlichman ends his 5 days of testimony before Sen Watergate com on July 30 by insisting that neither he nor Pres Nixon were involved in any aspect of Watergate cover-up; reads prepared statement proclaiming his loyalty to Pres; says he hopes that in his testimony he accomplished his 2 goals--to establish his innocence and to 'raise a voice for the Pres'; recalls G Strachan's July 23 statement advising young people to 'stay away' from govt jobs; says politics is only as honest as people involved in it and advises young to 'come and test their ideas and convictions in this mkt place'; again contradicts previous testimony by J W Dean 3d and H W Kalmbach; illus of Sen Weicker
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Police Check Led Zeppelin Party for Clue in Theft
Date: 31 July 1973
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Ralph BLUMENTHAL
predawn party by Led Zeppelin rock music group in Drake Hotel, NYC, is being investigated by NYC police as possible lead into disappearance on July 29 of $180,000 in cash concert receipts from hotel's safety deposit box; group's road mgr R Cole, who reptd money missing, has passed a volunteer lie detector test
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Letters to the Editor; Mr. Nixon and the Tapes: A Theory The Case for Hitchhiking Locusts' on Fifth Avenue How Foreign Aid Hurts India Washington's Couch The Specter of the Hangman Ehrlichman vs. Hoover The Inouye Indiscretions To Pay the Interrogators
Date: 01 August 1973
L. J. KAPLANSubramanian SwamyDAVID F. MUSICPAUL TSCHUDINJOHN STEELE GORDONSTUART FUCHSPAUL R. DAVIDSON, M.D
L. KAPLANSubramanian
L J Kaplan lr lauds Met Museum's new frontings on Fifth Av and introduction of chairs for passers-by; deplores proliferation of street venders in area
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