HARPER DEFENDS DECISION TO PRINT; KENNEDYS OBJECT; Publisher Contends People Have the 'Right to Know' Facts on Assassination FAMILY SEEKS PRIVACY Spokesman Says Key Point in Dispute Is Charge That Contract Was Broken HARPER DEFENSE PROVOKES CLASH
Canfield issues statement defending Harper & Row decision to pub book; says public has right to know facts; softly criticizes Kennedy family by suggesting that if any of them had read book instead of leaving it to their reprs to do so, 'present situation' might have been avoided; backs Manchester in defending book's 'right to live'; Kennedy family repr insists statement does not alter issue of whether Manchester and Harper & Row broke written agreement, statement; holds Manchester, Harper & Row and Look did not let Mrs Kennedy or her reprs see ms despite repeated assurance by Harper & Row that contract would be hon; denies book's 'right to live' is issue; holds question is right of Mrs Kennedy and children to privacy, free from pub of intimate details which bear no relation to history; Canfield says Harper & Row has not been motivated by profit; says all profits will go to Kennedy Library except for small return on 1st printing; says Manchester is making substantial gift to library from his earnings; says Harper & Row's advance to him is $40,000, not $675,000 as reptd in press; close ties between principals on both sides of dispute detailed
