21 marca 1973 roku była środa pod znakiem zodiaku ♓. Był to 79 dzień roku. Prezydentem Stanów Zjednoczonych był Richard M. Nixon.
Jeśli urodziłeś się w tym dniu, masz 53 lata. Twoje ostatnie urodziny upłynęły sobota, 21 marca 2026 roku, 116 dni temu. Twoje następne urodziny przypadają na dzień niedziela, 21 marca 2027 roku, w 248 dni. Żyłeś przez 19 474 dni lub około 467 379 godzin lub około 28 042 762 minut lub około 1 682 565 720 sekund.
Date: 21 March 1973
By LAWRENCE FELLOWS
Lawrence FELLOWS
Chief Dist Ct Judge M J Blumenfeld rules on March 20 that publisher of Wallingford Post, G N Kelman, need not reveal names of confidential sources he used in article linking philanthropist and dog-track promoter, J M Linsey, with Mafia; Linsey is suing Kelman and newspaper for $5-million, claiming his reputation has been damaged
Date: 21 March 1973
By RICHARD MADDEN
Richard MADDEN
HR Judiciary subcom on March 20 ends 15 days of hearings on possible legis to protect newsmen's sources with its chmn Repr R W Kastenmeier observing that drafting of bill on subject would not be easy; says that during course of his subcom hearings reprs of news media have shifted their views toward support of absolute privilege to refuse to disclose confidential sources and information and for legis that would apply to proceedings before state and local as well as Fed authorities; says that task of his subcom has been clouded by suspicion; Nassau County Dist Atty W Cahn and Essex County prosecutor J P Lordi comment
Date: 22 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Dr M H Halperin, who had gen supervision of Defense Dept group that put together Pentagon papers, testifies on March 21 at Pentagon papers trial that 1 copy of papers had been sent to Rand Corp for storage and that it did not belong to US Govt; says he classified papers 'top secret-sensitive' in routine manner because everything relating to war in Vietnam had been classified 'top secret' in dept; says he considered materials including 1 set of papers, as being private papers of himself, L Gelb, who headed Pentagon papers study, and P C Warnke, then Asst Sec of Defense for Internal Security; says that 1 reason 3 men wanted information stored in special way at Rand was so that other officials in Govt would not learn of existence of papers when Govt inventories of 'top secret' documents at Rand were made; says that he and Gelb gave D Ellsberg right to have special access to papers for study he was doing on Vietnam; says word 'sensitive' was added to 'top secret' because then Sec of Defense, R S McNamara, considered documents 'bureaucratically and politically sensitive' and did not want their existence to be known 'within the executive branch as well as outside, except to those who were working on papers'; says he had made no attempt to determine whether source docuemnts on which papers were based had been properly classified, nor did he other to read various classification regulations
Date: 21 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
W G Florence, former Air Force officer concerned with classification of Govt secrets, testifies at Pentagon papers trial on March 20 that there is no real way to tell whether papers were properly classified 'top secret-sensitive', partly because L Gelb, head of study group that compiled papers, did not have authority to give papers original 'top secret' classification; says that 1 of documents in case, '68 Joint Chiefs of Staff memo, would have been virtually useless to foreign intelligence because there was nothing in document itself to authenticate whether it was genuine
Date: 21 March 1973
Govt of Cambodian Pres Lon Nol on Mar 21 arrests newspaper editors Bouy Sreng (Sangarous) and Po Kim (Seng) under state of emergency declared in Cambodia after air attacks on pres residence
Date: 22 March 1973
By WALTER RUGABER
Walter RUGABER
US Dist Ct Judge Richey, acting on 1st Amendment grounds, quashes subpoenas served on reprs of 4 news orgns by Com for Re-Election of Pres which demanded that 10 reporters and news execs turn over notes and other unpublished material in Watergate case; says Nixon com lawyers made no showing that other sources of evidence 'have been exhausted or approached' and that they failed to show that material demanded of journalists is central to case; journalists' lawyers and Judge Richey note that current case, unlike most of those in which cts have ordered testimony to be given, is civil action with fewer competing needs than criminal case would have; Dem Natl Com and party leaders are demanding $3.2-million in damages from Nixon orgn and others in connection with break-in and bugging of Watergate; Repubs charge former Dem Natl Chmn L F O'Brien with libel and malicious abuse of judicial process; reporters subpoenaed include J M Crewdson (NY Times), C Bernstein, B Woodward, Mrs K Graham and H Simons (Washington Post), J O'Leary, P Collins and J Polk (Washington Star-News) and D Fisher (Time)
Date: 22 March 1973
Special to The New York Times
Greek Govt spokesman V Stamatopoulos says on Mar 21 that he has ordered explusion from Greece within 24 hrs of A Coerant, resident correspondent for Dutch and Belgian news media; alleges Coerant is 'pol instructor' who incited dissident students at Athens Univ; action comes 1 day after police stormed into Athens Univ Law School to break up sit-in by 800 students; Coerant, who is released from hospital on Mar 21 for injuries sustained during disturbances, says he left law school bldg, where he was interviewing students, 1 hr before police raid; notes he was later beaten up by police in bookstore near school
Date: 22 March 1973
NYS Newspaper Editors Soc on Mar 20 votes unanimously to oppose 2 bills currently before NYS Legis dealing with access to public meetings and govt records, annual meeting final session; charges there are too many loopholes in proposals; appts com to suggest revisions
Date: 21 March 1973
By THEODORE SHABAD
Theodore SHABAD
USSR Min L A Kostandov, who has been criticized in official press for shortcomings in supply of mineral fertilizer for nation's hard-pressed agr, takes unusual step on Mar 20 by meeting with Soviet and foreign newsmen to defend himself against charges; says that newsmen misunderstood 'crisis' in fertilizer business; situation, even though taken lightly by Kostandov, was considered serious enough to result in publication of special decree of Communist party's Central Com on Mar 11 and convening of day-long policy meeting on fertilizer issue the next day; decree accuses Min of Chemical Indus of making poor use of its production capacity and turning out too much low quality fertilizer; at policy meeting, Kostandov publicly acknowledged criticism and promised to correct situation; Soviet fertilizer production has been increasing at rapid rate but has been consistently plagued by low efficiency; reliable harvests in USSR are thought to depend on better fertilizer supply; Kostandov holds that indus not only fulfilled its plan for last 2 yrs, but delivered to agr 1-million tons of fertilizer in excess of what was expected; concedes that some fertilizer plants are not meeting goals, either because of disruptions in supply of raw materials or because of antiquated equipment; claims that new fertilizer capacity being commissioned is designed for production of more advanced, concentrated and mixed fertilizers; adds that older plants will be gradually reconstructed and modernized; discloses that, far from being under cloud, he has been given additional responsibility of coordinating all fertilizer production
Date: 21 March 1973
Correction on Mar 18 article on St Patrick's Day parade, NYC, notes NY Times reptd that police removed group of marchers from Natl Assn for Irish Freedom who tried to break into march; says assn was scheduled participant and parade officials had them removed partly because of objections to pictures they carried, showing some of 13 victims of '72 killings in Londonderry, N Ireland