June 23, 1971

Boston Globe article based on Pentagon study says Johnson, just before Mar '68, decided to support S Vietnam but to reduce US troops; also repts on study document where Taylor recommends to Pres Kennedy that US ground combat troops be sent to S Vietnam under pretext of flood control; repts other details from study

Circuit Ct, Fla, awards custody of Baby Lenora to Mr and Mrs DeMartino, natural mother O Scarpetta plans appeal; Judge Cullen, stating that no case is more difficult than 1 like this, says he interprets Fla laws as encouraging granting of custody to adoptive parents; witnessses testify for DeMartinos that taking child away from them at this time could cause her incalculable harm; lengthy legal battle revd; Lenore illus

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Sen adopts, 57-42, Mansfield amendment to draft extension bill on Us troops pullout and POWs; questionable if more hawkish HR will pass amendment; White House reaction is that amendment, even if enacted, is not binding and that Nixon will pursue the withdrawal policy he has set forth; Nixon press sec Ziegler reiterates Nixon's belief that establishment of withdrawal deadline 'inhibits' negotiations in Paris; says amendment is only view of 57 Sens, not of Cong as a whole; amendment passage is 1st major victory of war critics in mos of trying to find some legis formula to end war; Mansfield interprets amendment as filling policy void created by '70 repeal of Tonkin Gulf resolution; amendment is cosponsored by Sens Cook and Stevens; amendment by Sen Stennis that provision of a 'firm commitment' by N Vietnam be replaced by 'release' of POWs at first rejected and then passed; details on voting

Com to Protect NYC Animals among humane groups charging city's ASPCA with cruel and inhumane practices in methods used to destroy unclaimed and unadopted strays; some employes also charged with being cruel to animals; former ASPCA employes describe alleged cruelty to animals in handling by employes and destroying them in decompression chambers, ints; ASPCA adm vp W Mapel concedes some charges are probably true but denies all charges of inhumanity in use of decompression chambers; com hires R M Cohn to begin legal action against ASPCA to enjoin it from using decompression chambers

Lindsay illus

Govt lawyers on NY Times and Washington Post cases say Govt offers to begin interagency rev of Pentagon study to determine how much of it can be declassified; Laird says he has ordered rev of study to see what can be publicly released; Ziegler says Laird action is in response to Pres directive of Jan 15 that instructed Govt agencies to study existing classification procedures; says publication of some of study documents compromised purpose of directive enlarging 'people's right to know'; 2 newspapers and NYC appeals ct show no interest in Govt offer; Ziegler and Laird say Times and other papers do not have have full 47-vol study; Ziegler says they have preliminary documents from a partial draft; Fulbright says his com possessed parts of study 'for some time'; says Nixon Adm has only itself to blame for furor created by pub of study; Ellsberg sought for appearance before HR subcom; Humphrey urges full pub of study; details on reaction to situation by Sens Goldwater, Moss and Tunney and by W F Buckley and P Salinger; Newsweek article says Johnson feels R F Kennedy may have inspired rept to aid him in '68 Pres nomination campaign; ABC pres E H Rule scores Govt action against press

HR, 288-132, approves omnibus bill including major changes in Medicare and Medicaid programs

GB and EEC reach agreement on terms for Brit membership in EEC; agreement follows 'package deal' resolving access for NZ butter and cheese in Brit mkt and payments that GB will make to EEC budget; NZ to retain 71% of its mkt in GB over 1st 5 yrs of Brit membership; Rippon and Schumann hold joint news conf, comment on agreement; illus; Marshall says he is satisfied that results are best that Britain could obtain; successful end of negotiations seen opening way for membership of Ireland, Denmark and Norway

Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai deplores moon shots as wasteful, dinner meeting with group of Amer newsmen, Peking

session; Pres Nixon s; illus; notes he is 4th US Pres to address AMA and 1st since Eisenhower in '59; other 2 were C Coolidge in '27 and W McKinley in 1897; Nixon meets socially with assn leaders including pres Dr Bornemeier, pres-elect Dr W W Hall and trustees bd chmn Dr M H Parrott

Chicago Sun-Times article based on secret Govt documents says high-ranking Kennedy Adm officials had advance knowledge of coup that toppled S Vietnamese Pres Ngo Dinh Diem in '63; prints excerpts from memo from Asst Sec R Hilsman to Rusk urging US to encourage and aid in coup; Sun-Times ed J F Hoge says part of material used in article came from Pentagon rept; repts no Govt effort to halt publication