May 7, 1969

Top-level State Dept reorgn is underway in move to give Sec Rogers bureaucratic machinery necessary for him to carry out his legal responsibility of coordinating foreign operations instead of letting function fall by default to Security Council

H Lee elected Mayor, 1st Negro Mayor of predominantly white NC city in modern times; tally

US Justice Dept begins grand jury probe of charges that US Sup Ct Justice Fortas's former law firm of Arnold & Porter had withheld subpoenaed documents in '67 price fixing case involving Donovan Steel & Wire and several other cos

Charles role cited by USN procurement officer G W Rule in Cong testimony charging serious waste and inefficiency has resulted from relationship between defense indus and mil agencies in which indus 'gets its way' in negotiating contracts

Safeguard system criticized as unworkable and unnecessary in rept issued by group of scientific and acad experts after study sponsored by Sen Kennedy and headed by Dr Wiesner and Prof Chayes; Defense Dept calls rept unscientific, erroneous and inconsistent, reply issued by Dir Foster; rept's principal conclusion is that there is no need for deployment and no evidence to substantiate Laird belief that USSR seeks 1st-strike capability; rept also questions system's feasibility and warns of effect deployment might have on US-USSR talks; forcefulness of Dept reply seen effort to goad Kennedy into coming to defense of rept and associating himself with it; he has reptdly deferred giving it his personal endorsement for fear step would be interpreted as partisan move; pamphlet urging Safeguard deployment issued by Amer Security Council subcom headed by Gen Twining, Drs Libby and Thaler