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Read more...The July 18, 1974 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 198 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
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Date: 18 July 1974
Va Bar Assn on July 17 suggests that State Sup Ct disbar Charles W Colson, former Pres counsel who pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in connection with break-in at office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding (S)
Date: 18 July 1974
editor David Kraiselburd (El Dia) on July 17 is shot and killed as police attack house where gang of kidnappers was holding him hostage; kidnappers, it was assumed, were members of left-wing urban guerrillas (S)
Date: 18 July 1974
ITU Local 6 pres Bertram Powers on July 17 urges printers at NY Times to approve new contract agreement at union ratification meeting to be held July 28; agreement will give publishers unrestricted right to use automated processes in exch for lifetime guarantees of employment to regular and substitute printers and 6-mo paid sabbaticals (S)
Date: 18 July 1974
Special to The New York Times
Corriere Della Sera, Italy's most prestigious newspaper, is sold to Rizzoli Publishing Co; Fiat Motor Co spokesman, which until July 17 held 1/3 interest in co that publishes newspaper, confirms that Gianni Agnelli, Fiat pres, has ceded his shares to Rizzoli (S)
Date: 18 July 1974
White House deputy special asst to Pres Bruce Herschensohn on July 17 criticizes CBS TV newsman Marvin Kalb for not having identified source of rept but then offers tentative apology when told source was Sec Kissinger; Kalb rept quoted 'high officials' as saying that Watergate scandal weakened US position in talks with USSR on limiting strategic arms (S)
Date: 19 July 1974
By JAMES T. WOOTEN
James WOOTEN
Rabbi Baruch M Korff, organizer of Citizens Cong of Natl Citizens Com for Fairness to Pres, tells reporters at com meeting 'If you'd leave then man alone, everything would be fine; Rev Ross Moyer suggests in his invocation that journalists and other opportunists' are 'enemies of world peace'; Mrs Anne Armstrong receives standing ovation when she castigates press in speech (S)
Date: 19 July 1974
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston comment notes that Rabbi Korff blames all publicity about Watergate case on ideological bias of reporters who oppose his policies; notes that in later comment Korff reptd Nixon as dismissing conviction of John Ehrlichman for conspiracy and perjury with thought that it is extremely difficult for any Watergate figure to get fair trial in Washington, DC (S)
Date: 19 July 1974
Special to The New York Times
Govt prosecutors depict document that Charles W Colson said played major role in his decision last mo to plead guilty to obstruction of justice as 'scurrilous and libelous' attack on Leonard B Boudin, 1 of Dr Daniel Ellsberg's attys; HR Judiciary Com, in its rept on White House domestic surveillance activities, includes copy of memo on Boudin, which had not been previously made available; it was written by E Howard Hunt Jr; passage from Hunt document, entitled The Odor of Espionage, asserts Boudin for number of yrs has been 'contact of both the Czech and Soviet espoinage orgns'; Colson forwarded memo on Aug 24 '71 to Pres aide John D Ehrlichman (M)
Date: 18 July 1974
By LINDA CHARLTONSpecial to The New York Times
Pres Nixon's special asst Patrick J Buchanan on July 17 renews his attacks on 'the big media,' which he charges dominate thinking of Amers, citing what he calls 'enormous, positive and favorable publicity to movements associated with the far left'; lists some of 'far left' movements as antiwar movement, civil rights movement and consumer movement; names big media as 3 major TV networks, NY Times and Washington Post Co; Washington Post asst managing editor Richard Harwood, Rolling Stone sr editor Richard N Goodwin and Media Access Project dir Thomas Asher also speak; Harwood notes that there are about 1,700 daily newspapers in US and they do not speak in 1 voice; Goodwin is critical of concept of 'balance' in news media and of what he sees as media's acceptance of govt statements, noting Sec Kissinger's announcement in Oct, '72, that 'peace is at hand' in Vietnam, as example of 'uncritical reporting' in NY Times; Asher says that Adm has far more control over news that reaches public than does news media; program is 5th in series of natl Town Meetings with Charles Daley as moderator held in Kennedy Center Theater (M)
Date: 19 July 1974
Special to The New York Times
text of memo prepared by Charles W Colson for Pres Nixon's White House chief of staff H R Haldeman concerning prosecution of Dr Daniel Ellsberg, as released by HR Judiciary Com; Colson por (L)