Colson Says Ehrlichman Sought Aid for Plumbers; Break-In Financed Terms Used F.B.I. Agent Testifies
Date: 04 July 1974
By LINDA CHARLTONSpecial to The New York Times
Charles W Colson testifies on July 3 at plumbers trial that John D Ehrlichman asked him to raise $5,000 for White House plumbers unit a few days before break-in at office of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding; testifies that it had been 'the President's desire and Dr Kissinger's desire and the desire of others to get out whatever was available' concerning Ellsberg in summer of '71; prosecution expects to compete its presentation on July 5; Ehrlichman is scheduled to take stand and defense expects to have written interrogatories from Pres Nixon as well; Colson, when asked who requested information damaging to Ellsberg be obtained and disseminated, says 'specifically, in this instance, the President'; says that both Kissinger and Nixon had wanted to 'get out' anything available that would bear on Ellsberg's motives for releasing Pentagon papers; says he had also had discussions with Ehrlichman about getting information on Ellsberg; testifies that in late Aug he recd call from Ehrlichman asking him to supply Egil Krogh with $5,000; says Ehrlichman stressed that money was needed right away and told him to check with H R Haldeman, who had fund that could be drawn upon; Haldeman was evidently unable to provide money and Colson says he called Joseph D Baroody, public-affairs consultant in Washington; Baroody's money was used to finance Ellsberg break-in; Krogh testifies that Ehrlichman was not told specifically of break-in plans; Baroody corroborates Colson's account of $5,000 loan and says that Colson had not described purpose for which he had need of money; Gen Robert E Cushman testifies about role of CIA in furnishing plumbers with false identification and other tech assistance; relates having recd call from Ehrlichman in July, '71, asking him to give E Howard Hunt 'carte blanche' to work on security problems; FBI agent Charles A Regan is questioned about his 2 ints with Ehrlichman in April and May '73; Ehrlichman is charged with having made fraudulent statements to FBI agents who questioned him about Ellsberg break-in; US Atty Earl J Silbert testifies about having obtained from Young Aug 11 memo in which Ehrlichman approved 'covert operation' (L)
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Beirut Newspaper Writer Reported Kidnapped by 4
Date: 04 July 1974
Lebanese police rept that Michel Abu Jawdeh, writer for An Nahar, was kidnapped on July 3 by 4 armed persons who stopped his car en route to his hotel (S)
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2 Philadelphia Papers Fail To Publish as Strike Ends
Date: 04 July 1974
Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News on July 3 suspend publication despite ratification of 39-mo contract by truck drivers as dissident teamsters continue picketing; spokesman for Evening Bulletin repts that drivers returned to work at their plant and all 6 editions were printed and sold over the counter; Bulletin and Daily News are expected to resume publication on July 5 (S)
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Questions That Won't Go Away
Date: 05 July 1974
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker on State Sec Kissinger's involvement with White House wiretaps and plumbers unit; notes contention of some Kissinger defenders that press is out to 'get' him; holds press has not been able to get anybody except where evidence is conclusive; contends argument that someone is so valuable that he must be excused from ordinary rules has alarming implications in govt of laws; holds there was no legal justification for employment of plumbers and only disputed legal authority for taps; notes that FBI document says he 'initiated' taps and that sworn affidavits by Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman suggest he had more knowledge of plumbers than he said he did; says with that kind of evidence, Kissinger can hardly claim immunity from further questioning or blame his troubles on press
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TWO LISBON PAPERS FINED IN CRACKDOWN
Date: 04 July 1974
Special to The New York Tims
2 leading afternoon newspapers disclose that they have been fined in 1st official crackdown on press; A Capital is fined $4,000 for publishing news of demonstrations staged last wk against arrest of 2 officers who had refused to accept a plan to assume mil control of strikebound post office; charges against Republica, fined $1,200, are not known, but action is particularly embarrassing because Information Min Raul Rego is publisher (S)
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Troubles for Marcos; While Manila Papers Report Gains, Key Land Reforms Hit a Big Snag A New Pressure Group
Date: 05 July 1974
By SYDNEY H. SCHANBERGSpecial to The New York Times
Sydney SCHANBERGSpecial
analysis of problems facing martial-law Govt of Pres Ferdinand E Marcos; (M)
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