Moscow Refuses to Admit New Newsweek Reporter
Date: 07 March 1974
Special to The New York Times
Soviet authorities on March 6 disclose that they are rejecting application of Newsweek (pub) to send news correspondent, Anthony Collings, to Moscow; US Embassy is informed that Foreign Ministry's rejection is based on Collings activities during his previous assignment in USSR in '60s; Amer officials are surprised by action in view of persistent efforts to improve restrictive working conditions for Amer correspondents (S)
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New Yonkers Manager Invites Press to Meetings of His Staff
Date: 06 March 1974
By JAMES FERONSpecial to The New York Times
Clifford W O'Key, City Mgr of Yonkers, NY, announces on March 5 that his staff meetings will be open to press
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Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Date: 07 March 1974
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire comment on his involvement as both newsman and former Adm official with Watergate affair
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Arab Editor Missing From Jerusalem; A Palestinian Nationalist She Lives in U.S. Close to Dayan
Date: 06 March 1974
By TERENCE SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
East Jerusalem newspaper Al Fajr editor Yusuf Nasr, committed Palestinian nationalist who has sharply criticized Israeli adm of west bank of Jordan River, Jordanian Govt, and west bank's conservative Arab mayors, has been missing since Feb 6; Nasr's sister Mrs Vivian Afaf Ajlouney believes that Sheik Mohammed Ali Jaabari, Mayor of Hebron, 2d largest city on West Bank, is behind disapparance; 1 wk before his disapparence, Nasr published expose of allegedly corrupt adm of Jaabari, charging that he placed many of his relatives on city payroll and diverted munic funds to his own use; Jaabari reptdly was outraged by Nasr's article and several of his supporters in Hebron reptdly promised to take revenge on Nasr; Ajlouney, who is convinced that her brother is still alive, has appeared on radio and TV and has sought, so far unsuccessfully, intercession of Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, Defense Min Dayan and Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek; has offered $25,000 reward for information on Nasr's whereabouts; claims that Israeli authorities won't touch Jaabari because he has established intimate connections with Israeli adm and has become close friend of Dayan (M)
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PENTAGON'S STAND ON ELLSBERG TOLD; Nixon Reportedly Overruled Military's Objections to Prosecuting the Case FE
Date: 07 March 1974
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Sources rept on March 6 that Pres Nixon authorized prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg after publication of Pentagon papers in June '71, even though Defense Dept objected to ct case on natl security grounds; publicly disclose Pentagon's objections to Ellsberg trial, noting that mil, for similar natl security reasons, officially objected to pending prosecution 6 mos later of 2 Navy men accused of funneling unauthorized documents from White House to Pentagon; Nixon in that case barred prosecutions for 'national security' reasons; Nixon's differing approaches to 2 cases is known to have raised question of whether he was acting both times in fair and impartial manner or whether he was invoking natl security argument for pol purposes
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Arab's Day in Court; Notes on People
Date: 07 March 1974
ALBIN KREBS
Albin KREBS
Hogan in critical condition on Mar 6 in St Luke's Hosp (S)
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