SAIGON IS EXPELLING JAPANESE REPORTER
Date: 03 July 1973
Saigon Govt asks chief Saigon correspondent, K Ikawa, of Japanese paper, Asahi Shimbun, to leave Vietnam because his paper carried an ed saying Saigon holds pol prisoners; says paper's news bureau can be kept open
Full Article
SURVERY HAILS PRESS ON WATERGATE ROLE
Date: 03 July 1973
56% of Amers believe press exposes are responsible for uncovering Watergate scandal, according to Louis Harris survey reptd July 2; survey finds 59% feel that 'in exposing facts about Watergate,...newspapers have been an example of free press at its best'; survey, taken just before Sen testimony of J W Dean 3d, also found 61% rejected proposition that 'press is just out to get Pres Nixon on Watergate'; details of findings
Full Article
FOREIGN INTEREST IN SCANDAL RISES; Dean Spurs Press Coverage, but Confusion Abounds Key Japanese Question
Date: 04 July 1973
By ALVIN SHUSTERSpecial to The New York Times
NY Times survey of foreign press coverage of Watergate affair shows that many newspapers outside Soviet bloc expanded coverage for several days after ex-White House counsel J W Dean 3d accused Pres Nixon of participating in Watergate cover-up, but in recent days subject has been relegated to inside pages with virtually no editorial comment; survey finds that importance of whole affair, and its ramifications, seem to escape most foreigners, although there is increasing speculation that charges against Nixon could lead to his resignation; in GB, Daily Telegraph ed says that Dean's charges, if substantiated, are enough to secure Nixon's 'impeachment or at least force his resignation'; in most of capitals surveyed, Nixon resignation or impeachement would be unwelcome to officials, who fear it would lead to period of global instability at time when superpowers are hard at work trying to foster detente
Full Article
HUMANITIES AGENCY NAMES 36 FELLOWS
Date: 03 July 1973
Natl Endowment for Humanities announces on July 2 selection of 36 persons to take part in 3 fellowship programs in journalism and law in coming acad yr; law program will be conducted at Harvard; list of winners from NY, NJ and Conn
Full Article
Colby Says He Would Curb C. I. A. in U. S. and Abroad; Symington Convinced Colby Promises Curb on C.I.A. In U. S. and Foreign Operations 'President's Army' Denied
Date: 03 July 1973
By JOHN W. FINNEYSpecial to The New York Times
John FINNEYSpecial
W E Colby, testifying before Sen Armed Services Com on his nomination to be new CIA dir, acknowledges that Cong intent embodied in '47 law creating CIA had probably been violated when agency was directed in '64 to support secret war in Laos; Sen Symington first exposed CIA aid to an irregular army of Meo tribesman and Thai soldiers in Laos; Colby assures Symington that it is 'very unlikely' that the agency would get involved in such activities again; says CIA was drawn into Laos at the direction of the Natl Security Council because it was supposed to be a covert operation in which the US could not be officially involved
Full Article
News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day International Metropolitan National CORRECTIONS Quotation of the Day The Other News
Date: 03 July 1973
Picture of domed model of new football stadium to be used by Buffalo Bills was printed in error by NY Times on June 17; domed model was rejected by Erie County Legis and new stadium, nearing completion, is uncovered
Full Article