24. toukokuuta 1973 oli torstaina tähtimerkin ♊ alla. Se oli 143 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli Richard M. Nixon.
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24th of May 1973 News
Uutiset sellaisena kuin ne ilmestyivät New York Timesin etusivulle 24. toukokuuta 1973
3 Newspapers Here Offer Plan To Automate to Printers Union; Step Called Essential
Date: 25 May 1973
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Publishers of NY Times, NY News and NY Post on May 24 submit proposal to Typographical Union Local 6 that would permit papers to introduce and utilize automation, including 'any and all' computers; porposal says that use of automation would not result in job lossess for 'regular situation holders who are seeking and are available for regular full-time employment'; union pres B A Powers repts that proposal has been submitted to union negotiators at bargaining session
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Chinese Journalists Visit Boston as Part Of a 4-Week Tour
Date: 24 May 1973
By ROBERT REINHOLD
Robert REINHOLD
Eighteen Chinese journalists who are visiting US on 4-wk tour sponsored by ASNE visit Boston, Mass, area on May 23; journalist Yao Wei comments
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300 IN GUILD STRIKE CONSUMERS UNION
Date: 25 May 1973
Three hundred Newspaper Guild members employed by Consumers Union go on strike on May 24 at co facilities at Mt Vernon and Orangeburg, NY, in dispute over wages, pensions and other issues; Consumers Union spokesman says that June issue of pub was already in mails and that July issue should go to press in several days and will not be affected by strike
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OFFICIALS EXPLAIN NIXON'S ASSERTION; Say He Referred to Texts Cited in Pentagon Papers but Not Part of Them Team's Narrative Described Nixon View Questioned
Date: 25 May 1973
Special to The New York Times
White House sources on May 24 offer explanation for Pres Nixon's assertion that NY Times in 3 installments of Pentagon papers had published 'a majority' of documents not included in 47-vol Pentagon study; say that Nixon was referring to texts of Govt documents that, while not physically appended to study, were mentioned in it or cited in its footnotes; add that Nixon's assertion was based on 'meticulous study by the Defense Dept'; D Ellsberg takes issue with Nixon's assertion that publication of papers caught Adm by surprise; says that FBI agents had visited Rand Corp, his former employer, more than 1 yr before articles appeared; says agents warned that wide variety of documents about Vietnam entrusted to Rand were being photographed and shown to antiwar sens; Pres Nixon on May 24 agains reiterates his contention that publication of classified documents threaten natl security; says it is time to 'quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in newspapers'
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Soviet, in Break With Secrecy,Names Crews for Space Flights
Date: 25 May 1973
By THEODORE SHABADSpecial to The New York Times
USSR on May 24 identifies crews of joint Soyuz-Apollo project, which calls for '75 flight during which spacecraft from US and USSR will dock in earth orbit; release of information by Soviets marks major break with tradition of secrecy; Soviet crews listed as A A Leonov, V N Kubasov, Col A V Filipchenko, N N Rukavishnikov, Maj V Dzhanibeko, Maj B Andreyev, Capt Y Romanenko and A Ivanchenkov
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A Greek Publisher Begins Jail Term for Agnew Report
Date: 24 May 1973
Special to The New York Times
Y Horn, publisher of Athens News, Greece, is picked up by police on May 23 to serve 6 1/2 mos in jail for printing 'misleading' headline about US Vice Pres Agnew's visit to Greece in Oct '71
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Excerpts From Transcript of Testimony Before Senate's Committee on Watergate; MORNING SESSION Author of Book on C.I.A. Offensive Steps Urged Compliment Is Rejected Clemency Issue Raised McCord's Apprehensions Testimony to Senators by Barker on His Motivation for Participation in Watergate AFTERNOON SESSION His Own Decision Search Is Described Alfred C. Baldwin 3d Weapon Was Returned Checked Javits Office
Date: 25 May 1973
Special to The New York Times
excerpts from transcript of May 24 testimony by G Alch and B L Barker in 5th day of Sen Watergate com hearings; illus
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Barker Asserts He SoughtProof of Cuba Aid to Party; 'No Hard Evidence' BarkerExplains His Goalin Raid Worked Under Hunt Thrust Brings Laughter 'Best-known Burglars'
Date: 25 May 1973
By WALTER RUGABERSpecial to The New York Times
Watergate conspirator B L Barker testifies on May 24 at Sen Watergate hearings that he broke into Dem Natl Com hq to search for proof of financial support of party by Cuban Govt but was unsuccessful; says his role in Watergate affair was 'to obey orders, not to think'; says he and his 'team' hoped their participation in break-in would speed 'liberation of Cuba'; says, in response to question by Sen Baker, that 'fact that the Castro Govt was aiding the Dem party had been rumored' in Miami but that he had no hard evidence that this was true; says his prime motivation for taking part in break-in was belief that he could later get help from co-conspirator Hunt and 'others in high places' for overthrow of Castro; says he 'personally was convinced at the time--and I am today, too--that what I did at the time was correct'; insists he was not under pressure to plead guilty and keep silent about Watergate scandal and that he had never been offered exec clemency in return for guilty plea; says that after his arrest he recd from Hunt's wife payments of about $45,000 or $46,000 for bail, expenses and lawyers' fees, but says this was part of aid he expected to receive 'if you are caught by the enemy'; A C Baldwin 3d follows Barker as witness; illus of Sen Ervin and Barker
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Buckley in Survey of Current Events Explains His Vote to Override Veto
Date: 24 May 1973
By MARTIN TOLCHINSpecial to The New York Times
Sen Buckley says May 23 that responsibility for Watergate is focused in Washington and power is focused in White House, reception for 38 released Vietnam war prisoners; says 'Watergate shows us the dangers that are inherent when you concentrated as much power as Cong has concentrated in Pres'; says it is important to begin to 'dismantle Fed responsibility...and return authority to local areas'; says there are such things as security imperatives and if there is a leak, source of leak must be found; ; illus
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Presidential Confessions; ESSAY
Date: 24 May 1973
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire comment notes Pres Nixon's confessions--of error, not guilt-in his Watergate statement; says confessions include: admission that bureaucratic civil war took place in '70 pitting FBI against foreign intelligence agencies on issue of whether to resume authority, ended in '66, permitting US agents to burglarize for natl security reasons; Pres asserted he told Asst Atty Gen Petersen to 'confine his investigation to Watergate and stay out of natl security matters'; Pres said he instructed H R Haldeman and J D Ehrlichman to ensure that investigation of break-in not expose either unrelated covert CIA operation; said 'it is clear that unethical, as well as illegal, activities took place in course of '72 campaign'; Safire says statement raises more questions than it answers; says Nixon put it out to enable Haldeman, Ehrlichman, CIA Deputy Dir Walters and E Krogh Jr to testify truthfully without seeming disloyal to Pres; says it tries to separate dirty pol, which is unconscionable, from dirty, but more conscionable, business of stretching or breaking laws in behalf of natl security; says most important, statement focuses attention on dilemma that drew Nixon Adm into supersnoop business in 1st place
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