Ellsberg Prosecutor Tied to Studies of Pentagon Papers' Impact; Request by Judge Argument of Defense Request by Judge
Date: 30 January 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
J L Martin, chief of Justice Dept's Internal Security Div Research and Evaluation Section, testifies on Jan 29 at Pentagon papers trial that Govt has done many anaylses to determine whether natl defense has been affected by pub of Pentagon papers and that all of them have long since been turned over to chief prosecutor in case, US Atty D R Nissen; Nissen has been saying since last spring that as far as he knew few such analyses existed; 3 sets of analyses exist; 1st was prepared by Govt for ct case against NY Times after Times made Pentagon papers public on June 13, '71; Judge Byrne presumably has this set; 2d set is one made on or about Dec 13, '71 in preparation for Los Angeles case against Ellsberg and Russo; defense claimed in ct that it was ready to prove that Govt was trying to hide that set because it contained exculpatory material; 3d set was put in motion on Dec 22, '71 and defense contends that these latter analyses, which were turned over to Byrne for most part last wk, were done after Govt became unhappy with results of analyses it had ordered on Dec 13; Nissen claims that none of documents have exculpatory material in them
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'Publish, and Be Damned'; IN THE NATION
Date: 30 January 1973
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker comment on press council; notes that NY Times will not cooperate with council because plan for council is underlied by newsmen's fear of actions Nixon Adm has already taken against press; holds that council's basic idea is to 'clean up' press before Govt comes in to do job; says that Govt, in trying to act through official means to cripple press, will encounter const barriers, Cong resistance and perhaps even some public hostility; notes that press council idea pre-supposes that council itself will be objective and unbiased, when no one can be; holds that anything that tends to enforce its 'responsibility' necessarily will make press less free
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Justice Orders Arbitration Of Press Dispute at News
Date: 30 January 1973
NYS Sup Ct Justice T C Chimera on Jan 29 rules that dispute between NY Daily News and NY Printing Pressmen's Union Local 2 regarding 2 new, high-speed color presses must be arbitrated; refuses to grant injunction requested by News that would have barred pressmen from continuing to refuse to operate new presses
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Communist Delegates Balk at Saigon Procedure and Stay on Plane for Day; DISPUTE CENTERS ON LANDING CARDS Delegation Is Said to Feel Signing Would Indicate Recognition of Saigon No Waiver, Saigon Says Security Is Tight U. S. Planes Fly to Hanoi
Date: 29 January 1973
Special to The New York Times
Saigon Govt, Jan 29, agrees to allow group of Vietcong mil reprs to leave plane at Saigon airport without filling out immigration forms; advance party of Vietcong and Hanoi reprs had refused to fill out S Vietnamese landing cards after they arrived Jan 28 aboard a S Vietnamese plane; Saigon, referring to Natl Liberation Front (NLF), says that in order that the Four-Party Joint Mil comm can begin to carry out its responsibilities, the Saigon Govt will permit the NLF delegation to leave the plane for purpose of attending the Jan 29 morning's meeting of the comm; says issue of compliance with Saigon's immigration laws will be taken up at the first meeting of the comm; says Saigon decision is not a waiver of Govt's immigration laws; US is believed to have pressed S Vietnam to resolve the matter and to allow the Communists to leave the plane without filling out the forms; US officials speculate that Saigon insisted on the immigration forms for a second planeload because passengers consisted mostly of members of Provisional Revolutionary Govt, while a first planeload consisted of N Vietnamese for the most part; groups arrival described; security is extremely tight at airport; newsman are supposed to be barred from arrival and from all areas near the Communists' qrs; newsmen F Butterfield (NY Times), B Seibert (UPI), T Lippman (Washington Post), B Flores (NBC) and H Mulligan (AP) are detained by S Vietnamese police for trying to talk to Communists; qrs for Communists described; illus of plane and a N Vietnamese officer
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Letters to the Editor; Imposing Standards for Auto Pollutant Emissions On the Future of the Electoral College Press Council Subsidy for the SST Abortion and the Court Only Four Days to the Moon ABRAHAM ISAAC CARMEL.
Date: 29 January 1973
JEROME KRETCHMERFRED C. HARTJAMES J. FLYNN,FRANCIS A. O'CONNELL Jr.SIDNEY LAURENDARRILYN DESSERROBERT K. FRIEDMANMARTIN W. HELGESENALICE J. D'ANGELO
NYC Admr J Kretchmer and Comr F C Hart lr on Jan 19 ed holds acquiescence to auto co demand to extend deadline for implementation of '75 emissions standards 1 yr will have serious repercussions for NYC and NYS; asserts joint plan to meet '77 air quality standards cannot be met if cos are given 1 yr extension; says with extension, ban on private cars and stringent restriction on taxi and truck use would have to be enacted to meet standards in place of present limitations on taxi cruising and requirements for antipollution equipment on trucks; holds support for mfr's requestion for deadline extension is ill-advised, citing feasibility of current antipollution equipment in urban driving conditions; cartoon
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