GUILD AND REUTERS AGREE ON CONTRACT
Date: 27 May 1974
NY unit of Newspaper Guild on May 26 accepts new 3-yr contract offered by Reuters; contract contains cost-of-living clause that will be triggered when cost of living rises more than 8% in yr
The May 27, 1974 was a Monday under the star sign of ♊. It was the 146 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
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Date: 27 May 1974
NY unit of Newspaper Guild on May 26 accepts new 3-yr contract offered by Reuters; contract contains cost-of-living clause that will be triggered when cost of living rises more than 8% in yr
Date: 27 May 1974
Alsop, Stewart
Date: 27 May 1974
driver crashes his van into plate-glass doors of London Daily Mirror and Daily Express and then into neighboring Daily Telegraph; winds up ramming gates of Buckingham Palace; police rept they charged man with drunken driving
Date: 28 May 1974
ed lauds Judge Gerhard Gesell's ruling that has rejected claim that burglary committed by White House plumbers at office of Daniel Ellberg's former psychiatrist was consonant with Const under vague delegation of natl security by Pres Nixon; holds that there are fundamental freedoms that cannot be ignored or suspended if dem govt under law is to endure
Date: 28 May 1974
Ed on Judge Gerhard Gesell's ruling that natl security excuse cannot be invoked to cover illegal entry as in case of White House plumbers break-in to office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding; holds that Gesell in effect warned Nixon that his stonewalling may be tantamount to obstruction of justice; holds that since case involves decisions or actions taken by John Ehrlichman and Charles W Colson their White House files and records are undeniably pertinent to their defense; holds that main question involves Nixon's duty to enforce criminal laws where his former aides are under indictment
Date: 28 May 1974
Former White House aide John Caulfield has testified secretly before Sen Watergate com that he instigated tax audit of newspaper reporter Robert W Greene of Newsday (LI Newspaper), who wrote articles about financial dealings of Pres Nixon's friend Charles G Rebozo; testimony by John W Dean 3d on this point noted; Cong Joint Com on Internal Revenue Taxation says it has determined that Greene was not audited by IRS but by NYS tax authorities under Fed-state exch program; Caulfield testified that he discussed matter with then-IRS Asst Comr Vernon D Acree, who suggested that anonymous lr could be written that would initiate audit (S)