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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Galbraith Heard as Ellsberg Witness; Third Ex-Kennedy Aide A Witness to Facts
Date: 14 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Harvard econ Prof J K Galbraitn testifies on Mar 13 at Pentagon papers trial on what in his view would constitute damage to natl defense; says he would define it as damage that would lead to casualities of some substantial importance; was asked to study 3 volumes of Pentagon papers; Strategic Hamlet Program, 1961-63, US-GVN Relations, 1963-67, and US-GVN Relations, 1963-67, Part 2; says that volumes disclosure would not have damaged natl defense nor been helpful to foreign nation; says it is conceivable that such disclosure could have damaged US; says when he served in Kennedy Adm he was not in line of responsibility for Vietnam; M Gurtov, member of panel that compiled papers, testifies that he was principle author of 3 volumns in case; says that they were classified under derivative classification system, under which entire document is classified 'top secret'; says that when he wrote volumes he marked some pages 'unclassified' and some with various degrees of classification, but when they were printed they were all marked 'top secret-sensitive'
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Panel Splits on Whether Press Is Periled by Federal Criticism; Constant Vigilance Urged
Date: 14 March 1973
By GLENN FOWLER
Glenn FOWLER
NY Times assoc editor H E Salisbury is one of 5 panelists discussing whether First Amendment to Constitution is currently in jeopardy at 1st of 3 seminars held on Mar 13 at NY Cultural Center under auspices of Fairleigh Dickinson Univ
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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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London Article on 'Degeneration of New York Stirs Outcry Here; The Reaction Here
Date: 14 March 1973
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
Martin TOLCHIN
Mar 4 London Sunday Times Magazine article describes what it terms NYC's 'degeneration' and finds 'hopeless, intolerable and inhuman' conditions in 'virtually every aspect of munic life'; is sprinkled with grim albeit reasonably accurate statistics on city's major soc problems; stirs outrage in NYC; illus of magazine front page
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Press Photographers Showing Prize-Winning Pictures of '72
Date: 14 March 1973
NY Press Photographers Assn on Mar 13 announces winners of its 37th annual competition, including Evans
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Sports News Briefs; Coach Gravely Hurt in Crash
Date: 15 March 1973
US Forest Service official J Sposta says Mar 14 that 6 ski complexes in Vt using Fed land for some trails would be banned from expanding until they complied with requests for long-range development plans; centers affected are Mt Snow, Glen Ellen, Sugarbush, Bromley, Haystack Mountain and Corinthia
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News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day International Metropolitan The Other News Quotation of the Day CORRECTIONS National
Date: 15 March 1973
correction on NY Times article of Mar 13 on oriental rugs; import volume should have read that from 1964 to 1971 the quantity imported rose from 5-million sq ft to 6.8-million sq ft
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