September 19, 1969

Pres comm to be named by Nixon to study burdensome effects of Fed tax structure on business will weigh possibility that value-added tax should be substituted for part of corp income tax

Sen Mansfield notes it has long been common knowledge US planes have been bombing infiltration routes

Scientists, using laser, have generated succession of tiny thermonuclear explosions indicating fusion reactions, a potential source of power (W Sullivan rept); similar experiments in US and USSR noted; Amer Drs Gottlieb and Lubin comment

US Labor Dept putt into effect, in NYS, NJ, PR and VI, new directive that restricts importation of live-in domestics to households in which there are working mothers with preschool age children; directive has been in force throughout rest of US since July 9; dept regional office immigration service chief Redding says working mothers with children older than 6 1/2 will be allowed to hire foreign help only if there is invalid in family who has to be cared for or if they live in area that is difficult to get to because of pub transportation problems; holds flow of immigrant domestics is being curtailed because many of them are neither living in nor working as domestics; dept feels move will increase demand for and pay scales of Amer live-out domestics

Resor says he rejects strong pressures to remove case from jurisdication of Saigon mil command, statement; says he has been under pressure to dismiss charges of murder and conspiracy; says to have acceded to pleas would have been 'unwise and unfair'; insists full, fair and open trial will be held, with closed-door testimony only on highly classified matters; points out there are 5 levels of appeal and rev, if any of Green Berets are convicted; Chief Warrant Officer E M Boyle and Sgt A L Smith Jr are 2 against whom charges will be held in abeyance

Army announces it will try 6 of 8 Green Berets; says charges against 2 others will be held in abeyance pending outcome of other trials; says cases will be treated as 'not capital'; Lt Col R L Johnson reads statement, news conf; says news conf was timed with simultaneous notification of Repr Rivers and Sen Stennis, both of whom had asked to be notified personally of Army decision on trial; makes other comments

Coalition of community groups occupying site of proposed state office bldg, Harlem, to block construction want site to be used for some other purpose such as low-cost housing and educ and cultural complex

Sen Kennedy scores Nixon policy, s, Boston; says if Nguyen Van Thieu's 'corrupt and repressive' govt does not agree to sensible compromise, US should declare S Vietnam must fight alone; says Nixon policy is 'road to war, and war, and more war'; says war erodes US health, econ and moral and spiritual strength

Overseers Bd approves in principle com rept prepared under Judge H J Friendly which found students and many profs unhappy over quality of univ's teaching and its relevance to world outside; rept links student unrest to Vietnam war and mil draft; also says students' faith in univ as teaching inst has been undermined by absences of sr profs, impersonality of some of instruction process and narrow, abstract and tech mode in which intellectual concerns of faculty are sometimes expressed; univ, in response to rept recommendation, sets up new group called Univ-wide Com on Governance, under Prof Dunlop, to develop proposals for changing structure of univ; faculty members, students, alumni and Overseers to serve on 35-member com; other members of Friendly com listed

Sen com sets stage for possible postponement into next yr of any Sen vote on reform bill by voting to separate proposal for repeal of investment tax credit from bill and to attach repeal to relatively noncontroversial bill; most com Dems oppose move because they fear it will remove all urgency from consideration of reform