Young Says Ehrlichman Took 'Sensitive' Memos; Defendants Listed ' They're Too Sensitive' ' Cover of Some Sort' References Deleted ' Next Higher Authority'
Date: 02 July 1974
By SEYMOUR M. HERSHSpecial to The New York Times
David R Young Jr, in 1st public testimony on July 1, tells Fed ct that John D Ehrlichman removed 2 White House plumbers memos from master file in March, '73, because they were a little too sensitive and showed too much forethought'; testifies that 1 of documents removed was recommendation on Aug 11, '71, for 'covert operation' to obtain psychiatric records of Daniel Ellsberg; Ehrlichman had initialed his approval on memo and added 'If done under your assurance that it is not traceable'; existence of document has been publicly known since televised Sen Watergate com hearings last summer, but Young's assertion is 1st direct evidence that Ehrlichman apparently considered it to be potentially incriminating; Young, at no point during his 3 hrs of testimony, specifically linked Ehrlichman to approval in '71 of illegal burglary; dislosed that he himself tampered with potentially incriminating documents during rev of plumbers in Dec, '72; acknowledges that he had removed references to Ehrlichman's prior approval of 'covert operation' from Aug 11, '71, memos and then replaced documents with deletions in files; testifies that he destroyed copies of 2 psychological profiles of Ellsberg that had been prepared by CIA as well as another document that showed plans to make pol use of Ellsberg materials taken from Fielding's office; E Howard Hunt completes testimony in which he repeatedly says he had briefed G Gordon Liddy and Young about specific break-in plans for Fielding's office; illus of Ehrlichman and wife (L)
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THWARTED PAPER SET TO SUE SPAIN; Has Waited Two Years for Permission to Publish Press Law of 1966 Aim of the Suit
Date: 02 July 1974
By HENRY GINIGERSpecial to The New York Times
400 shareholders of co organized 2 yrs ago to publish Spanish newspaper El Pais are bringing lawsuit against Spanish state for its failure to authorize newspaper's publication and failure to live up to its self-proclaimed desire to liberalize pol life and assure freedom of expression and information; El Pais has collected $2.6- million, is completing new plant, has imported offset printing machinery from US and has tentatively gathered a staff; Min of Information Pio Cabanillas is holder of 3 shares of El Pais stock valued at $5,000 and so in a sense will be suing himself; newspaper shares, which are not publicly traded, were purposely dispersed so as to assure as much independence as possible from econ and pol pressure groups; principal editor is Jose Ortega Spottorno (M)
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Power and Saintly Purity
Date: 02 July 1974
By Peregrine Worsthorne
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Peregrine Worsthorne, in article adapted from London Sunday Telegraph column, holds that threat by Sec Kissinger to resign demonstrates total failure by Amer liberal establishment to supply sense of governing order; holds that quality press in this matter articulated voice of unworldly stupidity
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Conflict Over Protection of News Sources Enters New Phase Tomorrow in Farr Case in California; Violation of Gag Order
Date: 01 July 1974
By ROBERT A. WRIGHTSpecial to The New-York Times
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reporter William Farr (Los Angeles Times) is scheduled to appear before Superior Ct Judge Raymond Choate on July 1 for sentencing for his refusal to answer 6 questions before grand jury involving sources of article he wrote on Charles Manson murders; Farr case revd (M)
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U.S. Newsmen Become Tourist Attraction at Yalta
Date: 01 July 1974
By HEDRICK SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
Amer newsmen covering Nixon's stay at Brezhnev's Oreanda villa on Black Sea stay themselves in Yalta; become tourist attraction in resort city; city, Livadiya and Vorontsov Palaces, associated with World War II conf, described; Mrs Nixon visits Vorontsov Palace and fairy-tale castle called Sparrow's Nest; Oreanda beach scene illus (M)
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