EHRLICHMAN PLEA OPPOSED IN COURT; Prosecutor Asks Judges to Back Conviction of Four
Date: 03 May 1975
By LESLEY OELSNER Special to The New York Times
Lesley Special
Special Watergate prosecution, in 151-page brief filed with US Ct of Appeals, asks ct to affirm convictions of John D Ehrlichman and co-defendants, G Gordon Liddy, Bernard L Barker and Eugenio R Martinez, in plumbers case; defends both its own actions and those of trial judge, Gerhard A Gesell; says that it has sustained burden of proving all elements of central charge in case, conspiracy to violate civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg; says that Gesell had been right to refuse to call former Pres Nixon as witness in case; that Gesell had not, as Ehrlichman alleged, violated Ehrlichman's rights to fair trial through alleged mannerisms and facial expressions, and that Gesell had conducted adequate jury selection process; brief, signed by Henry S Ruth Jr, special prosecutor, and assts Peter M Kreindler, Philip B Heymann, Maureen E Gevlin, Jay Stephens and Richard D Weinberg, was essentially point-by-point rebuttal; prosecution repeated earlier arguments to some extent (M)
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Saigon Copters Found a Haven at Sea
Date: 03 May 1975
By FOX BUTTERFIELD Special to The New York Times
Fox Special
NY Times correspondents Fox Butterfieid and Malcolm W Browne are among more than 800 Vietnamese and Amer refugees aboard USS Mobile (S)
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Price of New York Post Will Rise to 25c Monday
Date: 02 May 1975
NY Post on May 5 will increase its newsstand price by 5c to 25c; cites sharp increase in prices of newsprint, wages, ink and other supplies (S)
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Thousands of Refugees Fleeing on Vietnamese Boats Appeal for Food and Water; U.S. NAVY'S SHIPS QUIT THE REGION But Some Chartered Craft May Still Be Rescuing People Off the Coast
Date: 03 May 1975
Time (pub) chief correspondent Murray Gart says that news-gathering orgns have long-standing moral responsibility to assist their Vietnamese employes in Saigon to escape from city before it fell to Communists; is responding to remarks made about evacuation by Pres press sec Ron Nessen (S)
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Nessen Spars With Reporters Regarding Vietnam and Evacuation; Pressure Conceded
Date: 02 May 1975
By RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times
Richard MADDEN
NY Times foreign editor James Greenfield comments on pressures news orgns brought on US Govt to aid them in leaving Vietnam (S)
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EXPOSE OF C.I.A. WINS THE HILLMAN AWARD
Date: 03 May 1975
NY Times reporter Seymour M Hersh, who uncovered CIA surveillance in US, receives Sidney Hillman Foundation award (S)
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Judge Refuses to Dismiss Farm-Trespass Charges
Date: 03 May 1975
Clarksboro, NJ, Munic Ct refuses to dismiss trespassing charges against Assemblyman Byron M Baer, newsmen Charles Finley and Thomas Herde (Newark Star-Ledger) and soc worker Alex Morisey who attempted to inspect Swedesboro migrant labor camp owned by Rosario Sorbello & Son in '74; says only trial can assess whether accused were exercising right to reasonable access; atty for newsmen holds continuing charges will have unconst 'chilling effect' on freedom of the press; incident at Sorbello farm recalled (M)
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500 FOREIGNERS HELD IN CAMBODIA REACH THAILAND; Most Appear in Good Health on Arrival After Being Stranded Two Weeks A FOUR-DAY TRUCK TRIP 100 Are Still in Phnom Penh Embassy but May Leave for Border Today 500 Foreigners Held in Cambodia Reach Thailand
Date: 03 May 1975
About 500 foreigners stranded in French Embassy in Phnom Penh for 2 wks arrive at Aranyaprathet, border crossing between Cambodia and Thailand, after 4-day journey in open trucks; NY Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg is among 1st to cross border; French mil attache in Thailand Lt Col Jean Roubert says about 100 foreigners had been forced to stay behind apparently because of lack of transport; Schanberg and 6 other journalists decline to comment on situation in capital until all foreigners are out of Phnom Penh; W Ger TV newsman Heinrich Froehde describes journey's preparations; arrival of foreigners followed meeting Apr 2 between French Pres d'estaing's special envoy Marc Bonnefous and Cambodian Communist soldiers at border crossing; illus at border crossing (M)
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Asian Communists Cheer Take-Over in Saigon as Others Ponder the Implications.; Japan Looking to Trade; Some Extend Recognition Firecracker Set Off Commitment to Peking Japan Looks to Trade
Date: 02 May 1975
By JOSEPH LELYVELD Special to The New York Times
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comment on May Day celebrations in Peking focusing on recent Communist victory in S Vietnam; officials from Japan, S Korea, Nationalist China, S Korea and Malaysia discuss implications of Vietnam fall for their nations (M)
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JOURNALISTS NAMED TO HALL OF FAME
Date: 02 May 1975
Sigma Delta Chi names Homer Bigart and James Reston (NY Times) to Hall of Fame (S)
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