March 6, 1972

US State Dept opens campaign to raise status of dept secs; rept in current issue of monthly State Dept Newsletter admonishes supervisors, who are predominantly male, not to assume that secs have 'disabling intellectual limitations'; asserts that secs should not be required to fetch coffee, cigarettes, newspaper and lunch or perform other such menial tasks

Sen Judiciary Com schedules hearing Mar 6, day earlier than previously announced, to take testimony from ITT lobbyist D D Beard's doctor V L Liszka; Sen Eastland calls hearing after Liszka says Beard, who recd subpoena to testify before com on purported memo linking Justice Dept's settlement of ITT antitrust case to ITT subsidiary Sheraton Corp contribution to '72 Repub Conv, is too ill to leave hospital; Liszka says he has treated her for heart ailment for about 9 yrs; airline indus sources rept woman fitting description of Mrs Beard became ill on flight Mar 2 to Denver; say she was given oxygen but fended off stewardesses' attempts to learn her identity; Beard spent time at home of friend in Denver R B McCall and later contacted Dr D T Garland who admitted her to hosp; R W McLaren's former Justice Dept econ adviser K G Elzinga said neither he nor FTC former chief economist W F Mueller were consulted before antitrust case was settled; says many economists he spoke to thought ITT settlement was weak from Govt's standpoint; Mueller says settlement does not make econ sense and Govt's abandonment of its suit to sever Grinnell Corp from ITT at time when case was pending before Sup Ct is unprecedented act

wk's statistics on mil action seen reinforcing belief of US officials that S Vietnamese Army has slowly improved over the last few yrs and that the enemy has lost much of its strength; officials note following developments: S Vietnamese Army is capturing an avg of 65 enemy weapons a day and finding an equivalent number of enemy bodies left on the battlefield; number of enemy ground attacks on allied positions has dropped over 60% in the last 4 yrs to an avg of 68 a wk; in recent wk, outside the Mekong Delta, almost all actions above the platoon level have been initiated by the S Vietnamese; illus of US soldier after patrol

WBAI gen mgr E A Goodman is released from NYC jail after lawyers obtain writ of habeas corpus from Fed Judge M E Frankel; says station will continue its defiance of Dist Atty's office but he might have to reassess his position if station's Fed license were placed in jeopardy; Goodman illus

NYC Councilman Merola holds $15 auto‐use tax is 'least objectionable' of Lindsay's proposed local taxes, int, WNBC‐TV Newslight program