MICTHELL LINKED TO PLOTTERS' AID; Reportedly Approved Funds for Watergate Defendants Testimony by McCord
Date: 05 June 1973
according to confidential summary of testimony before Sen Watergate com investigators by ex-Atty Gen Mitchell and made available to AP on May 19 by columnist J Anderson, Mitchell admitted that he approved payments to Watergate conspirators after their arrest to avoid embarrassment to Pres Nixon's re-election campaign; summary says Mitchell went along with payments to defendants rather than risk having other Liddy-Hunt activities exposed before election
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Excerpts From Series of Pravda Articles on U.S.
Date: 04 June 1973
Special to The New York Times
excerpts from recent series of articles about US written by B Strelnikov, Washington correspondent of Pravda, and by V Peskov of Komosomolskaya Pravda, youth daily
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How Much Security Is Enough?; IN THE NATION
Date: 05 June 1973
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker queries to what extent Pres may commit criminal acts in order to protect what he believes to be 'natl security'; notes that Nixon said on May 22 that he had set up, in 71, White House 'plumbers' unit to try to stop what he thought were leaks of sensitive information but that after Watergate episode in '72 he ordered Ehrlichman and Haldeman 'to insure' that plumbers' activities would not be uncovered by Watergate investigation; queries whether Nixon had right to order FBI to limit its probe of Watergate to protect covert 'security' operation; also queries whether he had right ot obstruct justice by ordering FBI to limit probe to protect real or imagined covert security operation by CIA
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Pravda's News of U.S. Doesn't All Fit; In Pravda, News of U.S. Doesn't All Fit Pattern Fear of Unemployment
Date: 04 June 1973
By THEODORE SHABADSpecial to The New York Times
comment on news about US carried in USSR by Soviet newspaper Pravda on eve of visit to US of Soviet leader L I Brezhnev
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RICHARDSON BARS SECURITY AS ISSUE; He Sees Insufficient Reason for White House Creation of Investigative Group Concedes "Concern" Asked for Briefing
Date: 05 June 1973
By JOHN M. CREWDSONSpecial to The New York Times
A Cox, special Watergate prosecutor, ran in '72 Mass Pres primary elect as alternate delegate to Dem Natl Conv, pledged to Sen E S Muskie; he lost to candidate pledged to Sen G McGovern
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