July 1, 1971

Premier Chou En-lai says that for Communist China to join UN it is necessary that all membership rights be 'restored,' including permanent seat on Security Council, and that Nationalists be ousted, int with Japanese Clean Govt party chmn Y Takeiri; says Japan must recognize this stand if Tokyo-Peking relations are to be restored

26th Amendment, lowering voting age to 18 in all elections, ratified; ratification took only 2 mos and 7 days, shortest time in which process has ever been accomplished

WASHINGTON, June 30 — H & R Block, Inc., which says it prepares income tax returns for eight million American annual ly, was accused by the Federal Trade Commission today of false advertising and illegally using confidential information supplied by customers.

NY Times resumes pub of series of articles on Pentagon secret study of US involvement in Vietnam

R Garvin, cousin of J A Johnson, alleged assassin of J A Colombo Sr, discloses that Johnson had told him several mos ago that he was working for Italian-Amer Civil Rights League; says that Johnson gave him telephone number where he could be reached; check by NY Times discloses that number had been recently changed; operator said that number had been switched to league number; league spokesman T Nestro denies that Johnson worked for orgn; details

Nixon announces that Turkey has agreed to eliminate within 1 yr her production of opium poppies, which account for about 2/3 of illegal heroin reaching US; says that as result of negotiations between both Govts, Turkish Premier Erim has agreed to ban altogether cultivation of opium poppies by June '72; says that agreement represents by far most significant breakthrough that has been achieved in stopping source of supply of heroin in worldwide offensive against dangerous drugs; US Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Bureau Dir Ingersoll, Sen Javits and Sec Rogers comment; agreement detailed

USSR authorities appt special comm to investigate deaths of Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Patsayev; Russian people are shocked and saddened by tragedy; virtual news blackout imposed during day; Moscow radio repts return flight from Salyut space station proceeded normally until radio contact with Soyuz 11 spacecraft was lost after it entered earth's atmosphere; USSR leaders pay homage to astronauts by signing obituaries in their hon and sending condolences to their families; tragedy seen severe blow to Soyuz-Salyut program; flight's principal goal was to test man's ability to withstand weightlessness for prolonged period; mission highlights revd; certain official functions are postponed but formal mourning period is not proclaimed; illus of astronauts in spacecraft before launch; sketch shows Soyuz 11 about to dock with Salyut

Dist Atty Garrison arrested by Fed agents and charged with taking bribes to protect illegal pinball gambling in city; Justice Dept says last payment, $1,000, was delivered to Garrison at home in marked $50 bills by Garrison's once-trusted confidant P Gervais, who has been working secretly for Govt agents since '69; claims Garrison has taken up to $1,500 a mo in bribes since '62; Garrison is 1 of 10 men arrested; others include high police officials Capt Soule and Sgt Frey and several prominent pinball machine co officials; Garrison freed on $5,000 bail; denies charge; illus; arrests are announced jointly by Atty Gen Mitchell and US Atty Gallinghouse; Fed Govt holds arrests resulted from 1-yr investigation by Justice Dept, FBI and IRS; dept says Gervais made numerous tape recordings of conversations pertaining to alleged illegal transactions; transcript of recording of alleged conversation between Garrison and Gervais quotes Garrison as having pledged to intercede with La Gov McKeithen to try to kill antipinball machine bills

Cong conf approves provision of draft extension bill that continues term of required civilian service by conscientious objectors at 2 yrs

Pentagon study shows that Pres Kennedy knew and approved of plans for coup that overthrew Pres Ngo Din Diem in '63; finds US complicity in overthrow heightened US responsibilities and commitment in Vietnam; says that US, in Aug and Oct of '63, gave its support to cabal of army gens bent on removing Ngo Dinh Diem, whose rise to power Kennedy had backed in ss in mid-'50s; says coup offered US opportunity to reconsider commitment and decide to disengage but that effect was that US, discovering after coup that war was going much worse than officials had previously thought, felt compelled to do more for Saigon; finds that Washington did not originate coup, nor did Amer forces intervene in any way, even to try to prevent assassinations of Ngo Dinh Diem or his bro, Ngo Dinh Nhu; Amer mission in Saigon maintained secret contacts with plotting gens though CIA operative Lt Col L Conein; then-Amb Lodge authorized CIA participation in tactical planning of coup and was so closely tied to plot that he offered refuge to families of gens if plot failed; Kennedy feared failure of plot; recd conflicting advice from Lodge and Gen P D Harkins

US Sup Ct, 6-3, holds that attempt to block news article prior to publication bears 'heavy burden of presumption against its constitutionality,' frees Times and Washington Post to resume publication of articles based on secret Pentagon study; decision rendered in unsigned opinion because no single opinion by a single justice commanded the support of a majority; Ct was divided roughly into 3 groups of 3 each; 1st group took absolutist view that cts lack power to suppress any press publication; 2d group held that press should not be muzzled except to prevent direct, immediate and irreparable damage to nation; 3d bloc held that cts should not refuse to enforce exec branch conclusion that material should be kept confidential on matters affecting foreign relations if Cabinet-level officer has decided that it should

Nixon asks steel co and USWA negotiators to meet with him before they begin contract talks; meeting will be 1st that Nixon has had with labor and mgt in any indus prior to nationwide contract talks