The July 15, 1971 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 195 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 54 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 111 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in 253 days. You have lived for 19,835 days, or about 476,059 hours, or about 28,563,572 minutes, or about 1,713,814,320 seconds.
Date: 16 July 1971
Pres Pacheco Cabinet re-imposes special security laws less than 24 hrs after Cong has voted to repeal them, triggering major confrontation between Pacheco and Cong; special laws have been used as basis for holding suspects without charges, banning demonstrations and other pub activities considered threat to Govt
Date: 15 July 1971
Jackson, Miss, TV station WLBT news dir D Mieher says station followed standard news-service guidelines in identifying persons in news broadcasts, FCC hearing; says station regularly offered to weigh airing of views contrary to those expressed in broadcast editorials and told listeners that granting of equal time for differing views would be considered; Lamar Life Broadcasting Co lost license to operate station and is 1 of 5 groups seeking permit
Date: 16 July 1971
By JOSEPH LELYVELDSpecial to The New York Times
Issuance of order requiring Ellsberg to go to Los Angeles to stand trial in connection with Pentagon papers put off for at least 8 days as his attys seek to show that Govt case against him is based on illegal wiretap evidence; Govt contends that issue of wiretapping is properly business of Fed Dist Ct in Los Angeles, where he was indicted, but Magistrate Princi rules that defense may have until Friday of next wk to file further brief supporting contention that wiretap question must be settled first in order to determine whether case should be allowed to proceed; Ellsberg is object of 1-man demonstration at courthouse by J Mlot-Mroz, self-styled Polish freedom fighter
Date: 16 July 1971
By TERRY ROBARDS
Terry ROBARDS
Investment Co Inst puts new security system into effect as result of premature leak of its June sales rept on mutual funds which could have major impact on stock mkt; henceforth repts will be taken to Treas Dept pressroom, wire services alerted and rept sent out on news wire
Date: 15 July 1971
HENRY BEETLE HOUGH
Henry HOUGH
H B Hough lr opposes Acheson's view that papers should have been returned to Govt and Acheson's proposal for press czar
Date: 16 July 1971
By FELIX BELAIR Jr.Special to The New York Times
Felix BELAIR
Previously classified information provided by State Dept to Repr Reid and read into record of HR subcom discloses that 26,843 nonmil Vietcong insurgents and sympathizers were 'neutralized' in 14-mo period beginning Jan '70 through Operation Phoenix counterinsurgency program financed by US; 9,820 reptd 'killed,' 7,751 'sentenced' to prisons, 9,272 'rallied' to Saigon Govt; Reid says that if figures for 1st 2 mos of '71 were projected on annual basis they would show 27,001 Vietcong 'neutralized'; State Dept memorandum cited '70 goal as 21,600 neutralized; silent on Reid charge that many in 'killed' category are actually victims of 'planned murder' of civilians in violation of Geneva conv; Reid 'shocked and dismayed' that Gen Abrams 'endorsed and called for implementation' of plan; urges Adm totally disassociate self from program and insist that Saigon halt it; cites data showing 441 US mil personnel involved in operation
Date: 15 July 1971
Special to The New York Times
Justice Dept reptdly will ask Fed grand jury, Boston, to hand down criminal indictment against Sheehan; sources close to investigation say that he was main subject of information presented to jury last wk by Govt; say presentation was aimed at indictment charging violation of statutes against moving stolen property in interstate commerce by receiving secret documents taken from Govt without authorization
Date: 16 July 1971
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Sen Dole, Repub Natl Chmn, says that any decision to prosecute criminally distributor of Pentagon papers or newspapers that printed them could be politically harmful to Repub party; holds that prosecuting Ellsberg would attract attention and give antiwar group new momentum; feels that publication of papers has not raised any particular trouble for Adm or Repub party; says he has not 'heard of any great anguish around Washington' over Sup Ct decision; says only question on his mind is why Mitchell waited 2 days before going to ct
Date: 15 July 1971
By BERNARD GWERTZMANSpecial to The New York Times
Literaturnaya Gazeta (USSR pub) devotes entire page to question, why did The New York Times begin to talk?; accompanies article with illus map of US linking some newspapers to major monopolies that it says control US; diagram illus with text in Eng tr; thesis of article is that Pentagon papers were pub as result of split within ruling US monopolies, which were allegedly united at time war began but are now at each other's throats; article contends that US can be divided into 3 main econ sectors--mil-indus, based in Southwest, mil-civilian, based in Northeast, and civilian, based in Northeast and Midwest; says that mil-indus and mil-civilian sectors formed special 'Vietnam sector' that reaped big profits; holds civilian sector monopolists and non-Vietnam sector mil monopolists have become alarmed at falling profits and smaller Govt allocations, and have 'lost interest' in war; says A O Sulzberger decided to pub documents because Times, as well as such other papers as Boston Globe, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and Chicago Sun-Times, has 'close relations with very large old monopolies not involved in Vietnam sector of the econ'; Los Angeles Times and St Louis Post Dispatch linked by article to strategic arms sector of mil-indus sector, which has been chafing because of loss in allocations due to Vietnam priorities
Date: 16 July 1971
Bantam Books repts over 1-million copies of paperback edition of Pentagon papers are in print; 500,000-copy 1st printing believed sold out; many cities have not yet recd copies; in others, initial shipments have been sold out