COAST TRIAL SEEKS PRESIDENTIAL TAPES
Date: 25 October 1973
Los Angeles County Dist Atty J Busch says on Oct 24 that after Pres Nixon agreed to release Watergate tapes to ct in Washington, it should be possible to obtain any Pres tapes relevant to break-in at office of D Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr L J Fielding
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2 NEWSMEN CALLED IN SENATE INQUIRY
Date: 24 October 1973
Manchester Union Leader reporters R W Pease and A C Egan Jr are served with subpoenas on Oct 23 to appear before Sen Watergate com on Oct 26 and bring all records pertinent to '72 Pres campaign; com reptdly will question newsmen about lr printed in Manchester Union Leader during '72 Pres campaign which alleged that then-Dem Pres aspirant Sen Muskie had condoned racial slurs against Amers of French-Canadian ancestry
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BYRNE ENDORSED BY TENANTS' BODY; Offers a Plan to 'Guarantee Fairness' to Landlords and Renters Alike Tenant Protection Urged
Date: 24 October 1973
By WALTER H. WAGGONERSpecial to The New York Times
Walter WAGGONERSpecial
B T Byrne, NJ Dem gubernatorial candidate, on Oct 23 proposes program to 'guarantee fairness' to tenants and landlords through guidelines for local rent ordinances, model leases and other tenant-landlord arrangements; outlines his plans after he is 'strongly' endorsed by NJ Tenants Orgn; illus of Byrne and tenant orgn pres Mrs S Aranow
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PRESIDENT TALKS TO PRESS TONIGHT; News Conference Scheduled After Speech Is Dropped--Meany Is Critical President to Hold News Conference Tonight; Speech Canceled New Prosecutor Urged Stations Here to Carry Nixon News Conference
Date: 25 October 1973
By JOHN HERBERSSpecial to The New York Times
White House deputy press sec Warren says on Oct 24 that Pres Nixon 'exerted no pressure on Vice Pres' to resign
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Greater TV Role for Congress. And Judiciary Urged in Report
Date: 25 October 1973
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
N N Minow, in book written for Twentieth Century Fund entitled Presidential Television, suggests that each Pres candidate be given certain amounts of network time that Govt would pay for at half price
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Revenue Worries Cut Prime - Tim e TV News Specials; Lack of Prime Time Coverage Must Negotiate for a Spot
Date: 24 October 1973
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
L Brown analyzes TV news coverage of Watergate crisis; holds TV networks have, on whole, performed creditably in breaking news that began Oct 20 with press conf of then special Watergate prosecutor A Cox, in following developments and in analyzing their implications; notes story has been kept out of prime time; holds Pres Nixon has become canny in uses of media; notes some network newsmen believe Pres purposely timed firing of Cox for Saturday to make least possible impact; says PBS has nationally been sole source of information on rapidly changing events during hrs convenient for most viewers
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Supreme Court Again Divides 5 to 4 in Appeals on Prohibition of Obscenity
Date: 24 October 1973
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
US Sup Ct on Oct 23 refuses to grant Amtrak an injunction against Kansas law enforcement officials who have prevented serving of liquor on Amtrak trains as they pass through that state
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Letters to the Editor; Of Arms and the Country Remember the 'Port' In Our Port Authority Subways: Shut the Doors! Antisocial' Psychiatry Agnew: A Farewell...
Date: 25 October 1973
ARTHUR BODENHEIMERSIMEON H. F. GOLDSTEINHANFORD M. TWITCHELLALEXANDER HAMMIDLouis LINDENHARRY S. GEORGEFRANCIS W. RODGERSBARBARA VAN BURENREBECCA GOLDBLUM
lrs by H S George, E Rosenfeld and F W Rodgers on ex-Vice Pres Agnew; George says he believes most people have arrived at comforting conclusion that S T Agnew was inherently honorable gentleman as well as distinguished and patriotic Amer; says he would have preferred Agnew to remain as Vice Pres and to have fought to clear his good name; Rosenfeld, in reply to W Audubon's Oct 16 lr, says place in which Agnew tacitly conceded culpability was not newsroom but courtroom; Rodgers says decision of natl networks to give free time to Agnew to address US is regrettable; says Agnew, a convicted felon, had his day in ct and chose to make his case behind closed doors through plea bargaining; calls it ironic for Agnew to choose nationwide TV for recording of his funeral oration
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