April 19, 1972

Conn Fed Appeals Ct, 2-1, declares unconst Conn's statutes prohibiting elective abortion, Apr 18; decision is interpreted to mean that Conn will not be able to prohibit drs from performing abortions, or women from having abortions or individuals from counseling in favor of abortion; abortions were formerly permitted in Conn only to protect life of the mother; G Stoughton, state atty in '71 suit originally brought by orgn called Women v Conn, representing 838 women of child-bearing age throughout state, says he will not comment until he has read 40-page document; Judges J E Lumbard and J O Newman base reasoning primarily on 9th Amendment, dealing with right to privacy, and 14th Amendment, upholding equal protection under law; dissenting Judge T E Clarie calls decision 'unwarranted Fed judicial intrusion into legis sphere'; M Seichter, atty representing plaintiffs, says decision strikes 'fundamental blow for women's rights' in Conn

White House aide P M Flanigan offers to testify before Sen com investigating ITT antitrust controversy; Flanigan hired analyst whose 'hardship plea' for ITT was instrumental in obtaining out-of-ct settlement of case; Flanigan in lr to Sen Eastland repts he discussed situation with members of com and decided that he would testify solely about his services in obtaining analyst and his unrelated meeting with ITT pres Geneen; Sen Kennedy holds witnesses cannot set limits on their testimony before com; says he will not be bound by Flanigan's conditions; Sen Gurney says Flanigan's change of heart is because nomination of Kleindienst as Atty Gen is in jeopardy; com, 12-1, votes in favor of Flanigan's ground rules for testimony; Eastland says he hopes to have Flanigan as witness on Apr 20 for its last scheduled day of public hearings; com votes to invite voluntary witnesses Lt Gov E Reinecke and asst E Gillenwaters; US Atty in San Diego H Stewart testifies that in '70 he quashed Fed grand jury subpoena for F Thornton, Repub campaign mgr; Sens have charged that Kleindienst acted from pol motives in absolving Stewart from wrongdoing; Stewart concedes that when he was called to Washington to explain his action he told Kleindienst of Thornton's pol history; testifies that he withdrew subpoena to avoid 'pol circus' and instead int Thornton himself; Flanigan por; Sens Ervin, Eastland, Kennedy and Tuney illus before hearing

Dem Pres candidates sharpen attack on Nixon's war policy since weekend bombing or Hanoi and Haiphong; criticisms so far draw muted response; war, while revived as an issue, does not yet grip pol audiences with immediacy of domestic issues; exception to this pattern is enthusiastic response received by Sen McGovern to his sharply worded condemnations of expanded bombing made in campaign across Massachusetts Apr 18; other major candidates have intensified criticisms of war policy, but with less success than McGovern; Gov Wallace accepts US Adm view of expanded air strikes; Muskie, Humphrey and Sen Jackson views cited

antiwar protests on US coll and univ campuses erupt anew in reaction against increased bombing of N Vietnam; students protest or vote to protest at Harvard, Barnard, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, Univ of Calif at Berkeley, Holy Cross Maryland Univ, Wis Univ, Maine Univ, Fla Univ and Illinois Univ; there is violence only at Harvard where students storm Center for Internatl Affairs; Harvard protest illus; 7 of 8 Ivy League univ presidents hold phone conf to decide what to do about a call for a nationwide campus strike on Apr 21 to protest the war; Columbia Univ pres McGill comments; excerpts from antiwar ed in Columbia Daily Spectator calling for a 1-day suspension of univ activities; ed is also published in papers of 7 other Ivy League schools; Columbia protest illus

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