Washington Columnist Got Rockefeller Loan to Buy Newspaper in California
Date: 13 October 1974
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Los Angeles Times Syndicate columnist Thomas Braden says on Oct 12 that Vice Pres-designate Nelson A Rockefeller had lent him $100,000 in '54 to purchase small daily newspaper in Southern Calif, Oceanside Blade-Tribune; Braden and Paul Beck, from whom he purchased paper, disagree in separate ints over whether Rockefeller's financial backing had been given with proviso that it be kept secret; Beck says he understood that Rockefeller's involvement had been secret; Braden denies that there had been anything secret about loan, which he said had been repaid with interest; another point of confusion, over $150,000 gift to Emmet John Hughes, was clarified; Rockefeller's press sec Hugh Morrow says that money was loan made in '68 that was forgiven on '70 and therefore constituted gift on which Rockefeller had paid 57% gift tax; says that Rockefeller had made Hughes loan for investment purposes because by going to work for Rockefeller he had forfeited chance to become managing editor for NY Post; Hughes said he had been discussing position with newspaper publisher Mrs Dorothy Schiff for some mos but that no firm commitment had been made; spokesman for Schiff confirms negotiations but says job involved special editorial position not managing editor (M)
Full Article
Where the Action Is; The Guest Word
Date: 13 October 1974
By EDWARD HOAGLAND
Edward HOAGLAND
Edward Hoagland article contrasts traditional role of journalists as describers of the moment with that of novelists as writers for posterity; urges novelists to seize upon current 'hard times' as good terrain for explaining and dramatizing own situations (M)
Full Article
Saigon Police Deny Role In Attack on CBS Newsmen
Date: 12 October 1974
Special to The New York Times
Saigon spokesman on Oct 11 says that Saigon police had denied involvement in Oct 10 attack on CBS correspondent Haney Howell; Howell remains hospitalized after being kicked in stomach during street protest; witnesses rept that police stood by and witnessed attack; also attacked were Barry Hillenbrand (Time) and John Spragens (Pacific Basin Rept)
Full Article
Soviet Refuses to Lift Its Ban On U.S. Newsmen at Launching
Date: 12 October 1974
USSR refuses to lift its ban on presence of US newsmen at launching of Soyuz spacecraft for joint Apollo-Soyuz project in '75 despite permission given to Soviet newsmen to view lift-off of US astronauts fron Cape Canaveral; will, however, follow US policy of providing live voice and TV transmission throughout USSR segment of mission (M)
Full Article
2 NIXON AIDES PUT COVER-UP BLAME ON EX-PRESIDENT; Ehrlichman and Haldeman Say They Bade Him in '72 to Make Full Disclosure SIRICA IMPANELS A JURY Members Are Sequestered--Opening Arguments inTrial Set for Monday Papers Are Unsealed No Comment Now 2 Former Aides to Nixon Put Cover-Up Blame on Ex-President 12 Defense Lawyers List of Jurors
Date: 12 October 1974
By LESLEY OELSNERSpecial to The New York Timer
John D Ehrlichman contends in legal papers made public on Oct 11 that Nixon could testify about unrecorded conversations in which 'instructions were given that all matters pertaining' to White House plumbers unit 'were impressed with highest security classification and were not to be revealed by any Govt employe or other person having knowledge of them'; says that he 'advocated' to Nixon in '72 that prosecution of Ellsberg in Pentagon papers case be discontinued
Full Article
Russian Accuses Western Press of Campaign Against Detente; Cannonade of Propaganda',
Date: 12 October 1974
By HEDRICK SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
Yuri Zhukov, prominent Soviet commentator, in article in magazine Znamya, scathingly attacks Western press, particularly NY Times, for allegedly conducting 'violent campaign' against detente; accuses Times of 'gross lies' in reptg Defense Dept assertions 7 Soviet divs had been alerted during Cyprus crisis in past summer and after Oct '73 Arab-Israeli war; also charges that Washington Post disclosures on Watergate resulted from 'order of powerful monopolies' dissatisfied with Nixon Adm's policy of improving relations with USSR; includes NY News and Paris Presse in criticism; charges press 'propaganda' last fall took form of interviews with Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn and Andrei D Sakharov; holds NY Times 'continues' to kindle anti-Soviet and anti-Communist campaign as it did 'at dawn of Soviet power,' saying Times failed in its 1st dispatch on Bolshevik coup of Nov 7, '17, to see development as major turning point in history; suggests Times suppressed news critical of US Govt in some cases and printed Pentagon Papers and opposed Vietnam war only when war began to affect US econ harmfully; seeks to rebut in article the 'myth' of freedom of press in West; other prime targets are Los Angeles Times, London Times, London Telegraph, Paris Le Monde, Paris Figaro, and W Ger Die Welt; ref to Watergate affair follows assertion that not one newspaper in capitalist world can criticize Govt agencies and public enterprises as Soviet press does; Zhukov por (M)
Full Article
