CLOSED TALKS QUIT BY MERRILL LYNCH
Date: 31 May 1973
Merrill Lynch confirms May 30 that 5 or 6 of its research analysts, in conformance with recent co policy, have resigned from splinter groups that do not permit press attendance at meetings; such groups are small orgns of analysts that hold private meetings or luncheons to discuss particular industries
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Peking's Envoy Received By Nixon at White House; Left for Iceland After Talk Chinese Journalists on Tour
Date: 31 May 1973
group of Chinese journalists, touring US as guests of ASNE, are in Washington on May 30; on May 29 they met with Nixon at White House, toured White House and talked with Kissinger, who told them US is firmly fixed on policy of normal relations with Peking
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The Trials Of Ron Ziegler
Date: 30 May 1973
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston comment says 1 of mysteries around White House is why White House press sec Ziegler remains as Pres spokesman rather than being called to testify before grand jury and Sen Watergate com; says it is puzzling why he has not been asked to explain who instructed him to give all misleading answers to questions put to him at White House; says there is element of unfairness in his present exposed position as he has never had any real freedom to interpret substance or even tactics of Nixon's actions; says that aside from fact that Ziegler himself is now 'inoperative' as a believable official spokesman, main question is who told him to dismiss Watergate as 'a 3d-rate burglary attempt' or to say that 'White House has no involvement whatever in this particular incident'
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The Outrage of Wiretaps
Date: 31 May 1973
By InaMorton H. Halperin
Inamorton Halperin
article by I and M H Halperin on wiretapping says their phone was tapped in '69 when he was on staff of Natl Security Council; questions what was contained in summaries of taps then-Col Haig prepared for Dr Kissinger and J D Ehrlichman; say they are bewildered when they read claims that this intrusion into their privacy is legal and that they are outraged at being tapped; drawing
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Gen. Cushman Tells Jury That Hunt Violated Trust
Date: 30 May 1973
Special to The New York Times
article on grand jury (Los Angeles) investigation of break-in at office of D Ellsberg's psychiatrist Dr L Fielding notes that Fed investigators in Washington consider break-in, and subsequent attempts to cover it up, as central to their case against Ehrlichman and Haldeman; aides to Dist Atty Busch do not believe that 2 investigations will conflict
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EHRLICHMAN SAYS NIXON SOON KNEW OF MEXICO INQUIRY; Asserts the President Was Fearful of Harm to C.I.A. 6 Days After Watergate
Date: 31 May 1973
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
David ROSENBAUM
J D Ehrlichman, former chief domestic adviser to Pres Nixon, tells Sen subcom that Pres Nixon knew 6 days after Watergate break-in that Fed agents were investigating 'Mex aspects' of case; several Sens say they feel Ehrlichman was referring to transfer of $89,000 through Mex City bank that ended up in hands of Watergate burglars, money which came from Pres's re-elect com; Ehrlichman says Nixon was worried that investigation of Watergate break-in might expose covert intelligence operations being conducted by CIA in Mex; says that is why Nixon had him and H R Haldeman, former White House chief of staff, meet with CIA officials and ask them to tell FBI to call off investigation in Mex if Nixon's fear was true; says Gen V Walters, then deputy to former CIA dir R Helms, reptd that no CIA operation in Mex would be imperiled by FBI investigation, but that Nixon did not believe Walters; illus
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Detroit Reporter Arrested
Date: 30 May 1973
H Kohn, suspended reporter for Detroit Free Press, is arrested on May 29 on charges of filing false police rept for claiming he was kidnapped after he had written article on Detroit's narcotics kingpins; acknowledges articles were false
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Break-In by F.B.I. Alleged Before 1969 Inauguration; Clark Directive Cited
Date: 31 May 1973
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH
2 former Army intlligence operatives say on May 30 that FBI agents broke into offices of radical newspaper Washington Free Press, Washingon, DC, without search warrant shortly before Pres Nixon's inauguration in '69 in attempt to find evidence of overseas Communist influence
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Black News Office Ruined
Date: 30 May 1973
Explosion on May 29 demolishes office of Wilmington, NC, Journal, black-owned paper
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Ending Soviet Isolation
Date: 30 May 1973
ed on Brezhnev statement in Bonn that USSR does not seek isolation but cooperation with other nations, including those of opposite soc system, urges him to give reality to these words by permitting more freedom of press in USSR; urges end to restrictions on foreign correspondents and suggests that US also lift its own existing restrictions
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