CALLS' DISCLOSURE UPHELD BY A.T.&T.; It Says Law Requires Data on Newsmen Be Given to Government Agencies
Date: 25 December 1973
spokesman for Reporters Com for Press Freedom on Dec 24 reiterates group's stand that AT&T must give reporter prior notice before turning his phone records over to Govt agency even if faced with subpoena to do so; says unless AT&T agrees to grant prior notice, 'appropriate legal action will be taken'
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News Groups Challenging Rate Changes by A.T.&T.
Date: 25 December 1973
UPI, AP, Reuters and Dow Jones Financial Service are challenging rate changes by AT&T on grounds that they would be discriminatory and impede free flow of information; AT&T's revised rates would affect private leased lines used by news services and others for voice and data communications
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Report by F.B.I. Disputes Gray on Wiretaps; Question by Kennedy Nixon Approved Wiretaps Stands by Testimony Gave Up Position
Date: 26 December 1973
By JOHN M. CREWDSONSpecial to The Ncw York Times
Confidential FBI rept apparently contradicts testimony of L P Gray 3d last Mar before Sen Judiciary Com that he had no knowledge of nearly 20 'natl security' wiretaps that Pres Nixon ordered on newsmen and officials of his Adm; copy of rept, obtained by NY Times, indicates that Gray, while FBI Acting Dir, was advised in advance of his testimony of the by-then defunct surveillance operation; existence of wiretaps, which between May 6 '69 and Feb '71 involved at least 4 newsmen and 13 Govt officials, was 1st reptd in Time (pub) on Feb 26 '73, shortly before Gray began testifying in support of his nomination; 3 days later, Sen E Kennedy asked Gray to respond to rept, which both White House and Justice Dept had rejected as without substance; Gray replied under oath that he had examined FBI's wiretap survellance records and found no evidence of any such program; Gray's assertions that he found nothing in FBI files to support existence of wiretaps was apparently technically correct; FBI rept relates that records on wiretaps were sent to White House before Gray took over FBI, result of internecine struggle between late-FBI Dir J E Hoover and 1 of his assts; rept, compiled after internal inquiry ordered last May by W D Ruckelshaus, next to take over FBI's top post, shows that Gray was provided with memo on Feb 26 that related known details of disappearance of wiretap records; rept also notes that Gray was advised before that date of circumstances surrounding disappearance of records, which included authorizatons for wiretaps and summaries and logs of overheard conversations; records were eventually recovered by Ruchelshaus from White House office of J D Ehrlichman, about 2 wks after Ehrlichman resigned on Apr 30 as Pres Nixon's chief domestic adviser; rept says inquiry ordered by Hoover had been able to reconstruct much of surveillance operation in absence of missing records, including data on 16 of 17 individuals whose telephones had been tapped; judging from rept, this information was also available to Gray before his testimony; Gray illus
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So Long '73 And Good Riddance!; WASHINGTON
Date: 26 December 1973
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston comment on '73 event cites successful Arab use of oil weapon on Israel's supporters among Western industrialized states
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News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day
Date: 25 December 1973
illus of L Beck accompanying Dec 22 article on his acquittal of charges of fraud and transportation of stolen securities was of another man with same name as Beck's
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News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day International National Metropolitan The Other News Energy Quotation of the Day CORRECTION
Date: 26 December 1973
correction on Dec 24 article giving dates of E Hawkins Dance Co performances at Bklyn Acad of Music notes correct dates are Jan 3 through Jan 5
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