April 27, 1971

Power charges Sears made deliberate attempt to embarrass ct by telling press judge had no legal power to hold closed hearing with jury; fines Sears $100 for contempt and also imposes $50 fine on round-the-clock basis till he calls all earlier witnesses in Panther case; also prevents jury from handing up possible indictments till May 19 by agreeing to hear motion on behalf of Sgt J P Meade that newspaper repts of possible indictments had tainted jury and made it worthless; Meade conducted '69 police internal probe of raid

Small Business C of C study, prepared by J T Patterson and L Hazlewood under grant from Urban Center of Columbia Univ, finds that sharp increase in crimes, due mainly to increase in drug addiction, in central Harlem during '70 raised cost of crime to more than $2-billion for residents and property owners; study, entitled Crime: Its Impact on Business and Econ of Central Harlem, criticizes current law enforcement in area and stresses need for more effective police work rather than for more policemen; Deputy Chief Inspector Kendall, commander of Harlem's 6th Div, comments; rept's findings outlined; statistics

Nixon says he intends to disengage from Vietnam but rejects counsel of 'new isolationists', whose prescriptions for quick withdrawal would increate prospects of ‘a Communist take‐over’and lessen prospects of ‘a lasting peace’, s, U S C of C, Washington

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Sen, 74-8, approves $1.4-billion desegregation bill; bill includes provision for planning of 1 integration program involving entire met area in effort to test Ribicoff's plan; bill combines Adm's plan, which gave communities broad discretion in use of funds, and stricter requirements suggested by Sen Mondale that dists receiving grants have broad plan for eliminating segregation and that they use funds to create at least 1 integrated school in dist; Sen rejects series of amendments sponsored by Sen Ervin designed to relax some requirements; bill now goes to HR, where it may face difficulties since most Reprs prefer weaker version of bill they adopted last fall