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News Council Head Defends Project and Suggests That Critics Are Shortsighted; Opposition From Editors

Date: 04 May 1973

By GLENN FOWLER

Glenn FOWLER

R J Traynor, chmn of Natl News Council, says on May 3 that editors and publishers who oppose council, formed by 20th Century Fund to monitor media performance, 'may be very shortsighted', int, Center Magazine; says that media are more vulnerable to attacks by govt figures if public respect for media is low; says he cannot believe that council, completely detached from govt and without any power to impose any sanctions whatever other than publicity, can be in any way threat to press freedom or encourage atmosphere of regulation; 20th Century Fund pres M J Rossant says that full membership of council will be announced on May 7

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2 Times Newsmen Reported Targets Of '71 Phone Taps

Date: 03 May 1973

Special to The New York Times

Washington Post repts on May 2 that according to 2 highly placed Adm sources, telephones of 2 reporters for NY Times were tapped in '71 as part of investigation ordered by Pres Nixon into leaks of Pentagon papers; repts wiretaps were supervised by E H Hunt Jr and G G Liddy, Watergate conspirators; repts taps were authorized by then Atty Gen J N Mitchell; names of reporters are not disclosed; sources rept that wiretapping connected with Pentagon papers followed earlier White House-ordered taps of other reporters to discover sources of leaks of information about Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) to news media; notes that during 1st Nixon Adm office or home phones of at least 10 white House staff members were tapped in course of investigations into news leaks

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Rhodesia Frees Newsman And Forces Him to Depart; Detention Order Stands FIFTH AVENUE 'Can't Believe I'm Free'

Date: 04 May 1973

By CHARLES MOHRSpecial to The New York Times

Rhodesian journalist P Niesewand is released from jail May 3 and forced to leave on plane to London; action seen as submission of Prime Min I D Smith Govt to Brit and internatl demands that Niesewand be freed; Rhodesian Govt issues statement on release saying Min D Lardner-Burke had decided not to revoke detention order but had decided to issue permit for Niesewand's departure under certain conditions; Niesewand says he has not renounced his Rhodesian citizenship; his detention in solitary confinement and subsequent conviction revd

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MontevideoPapersReappear

Date: 03 May 1973

3 daily newspapers in Montevideo (Uruguay) resume publication after 3-day suspension decreed by Govt for violating mil censorship

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Agnew Says He Was Abrasive to Press

Date: 03 May 1973

special to The New York Times

Vice Pres Agnew says Nixon Adm would like to begin talks with media to reduce 'unfortunate hostility' between Govt and press, speech, Md Press Club, May 2; says he does not apologize for content of his early press criticism but admits it could have been stated 'less abrasively'; holds hostility has resulted in situation threatening ability of 'information (to) flow credibly and freely' to public; contends that responsibility for difficulties rests with participants on both sides of controversy

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McGovern Scores Nixon On Attitude on Watergate

Date: 03 May 1973

Sen McGovern accuses Pres Nixon on May 2 of implying that Watergate case is typical of Amer pol and calls it worst campaign scandal in modern times, speech to Amer Soc of Newspaper Editors; emphatically rejects 'notion that I or my colleagues or my party in Pres election condoned or would have countenanced activities of a criminal nature'; calls on US to help Pres Nixon 'restore fully the credibility and capacity of the Govt he leads'; says there is no direct evidence to implicate Nixon in planning of pol espionage, sabotage and subsequent cover-up and that he believes Nixon's denial of involvement

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Hruska and Justice Aide Defend Planned Crime Code Changes

Date: 03 May 1973

By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times

Warren WEAVER

Sen Hart, in Sen Criminal Laws Subcom May 2 hearings on Nixon Adm's new criminal code, including issue of govt control of information that touches on natl security, clearly alludes to Watergate scandals in questioning code provisions; says he does not have to emphasize 'in light of recent events...importance of vigorous free press, free to investigate matters of public interest

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..White House Ethics

Date: 03 May 1973

Ed holds that Pres Nixon's '71 request for special staff investigation into unauthorized disclosures of Govt information may not in itself have been either improper or unusual, but that everything else about White House involvement in Pentagon Papers case was

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Ellsberg Judge Confirms 2 Talks With Ehrlichman; Ellsburg Judge Confirms 2 Talks With Ehrlichman A File Collected

Date: 03 May 1973

By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times

Former Pres aide J D Ehrlichman has reptdly admitted in FBI int, released on May 2 as part of evidence in Pentagon papers case, that he has seen previous FBI investigative repts on NY Times reporter N Sheehan, who 1st disclosed Pentagon papers on June 13, '71, in Times

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Government Lifts Wounded Knee News Blackout; Request by Church Group

Date: 04 May 1973

By ANDREW H. MALCOLMSpecial to The New York Times

Andrew MALCOLMSpecial

Natl Council of Chs on May 3 asks Fed Govt to permit shipment of 1 wk's supply of food and med into Wounded Knee (SD) at council expense; offers to assist in insuring appearance in ct of any insurgent who might be arrested; emphasizes that it is concerned, but not partisan'; fears that Justice Dept might be running out of patience and might resort to violence

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