October 16, 1972

7 candidates running for 3 seats on NYS Ct of Appeals comment on issues; all agree on reforms which include faster handling of cases, taking victimless crimes out of clogged ct system and sharply curtailing number of 'unimportant' cases now reaching Ct of Appeals; NYS Sup Ct Justice Sol Wachtler sees an end to plea-bargaining once calendars are cleared of victimless crimes

October 16: (Campaign Outlook) Survey by NY Times and Yankelovich orgn indicates that in last mo, McGovern has started to claim sizable numbers of potential Dem defectors, but Pres Nixon still holds wide over-all lead; McGovern's gains appear most notable in NYS and 3 other large states among ind voters and those of Italian background; survey was conducted in 16 largest states between Oct 1 and 10; shows voters prefer Nixon 57% to 27%; simultaneous survey of NY-NJ-Conn area shows improvement for McGovern with 53% supporting Nixon, 31% supporting McGovern; special new Gallup Poll shows 26-point Nixon lead, gain of 2 points for McGovern; surveys detailed; 2 Electoral Vote surveys used noted

The New York Giants upset the 49ers, 23‐17, yesterday at San Francisco and the New York Jets trounced the New England Patriots, 41‐13, at Foxboro, Mass. Page 49.

more than 150,000 Polish Caths gather in Oswiecim, Poland, between Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camps, to honor Rev M Kolbe, priest who gave his life for another inmate's in July '41; Kolbe was beatified in '71; 5 cardinals, including Polish primate Cardinal Wyszynski and nominal head of US Cath hierarchy, Cardinal J Krol, speak to crowd; Sgt F Gajowniczek, who was saved by Kolbe, expresses his gratitude 'for gift of life'; illus

(Alleged Espionage Against Dem Campaign) Elaborate campaign to disrupt Dem campaigns for Pres and spy on aspirants has been linked to White House official D L Chapin, other Adm figures and Pres Nixon's campaign orgn; Time (pub), citing Justice Dept files, repts that in Sept, '71, Chapin, Nixon aide, hired D H Segretti, young lawyer who has previously been identified as Repub sabotage agent; says G Strachan, another White House aide, had hand in hiring Segretti and that Segretti was paid through H W Kalmbach, Nixon's personal atty; Washington Post also links Chapin and Segretti, quoting L Young, Segretti's friend, as saying Segretti told him that Chapin was person he reptd to in Washington; Justice Dept source tells NY Times that over-all espionage campaign against Dems is under direct control of 'high official' of Com for Re-Election of Pres; says espionage effort is financed from secret cash supply in offices of M H Stans, former Sec who is now Nixon's chief fund-raiser; says, along with other informants, that large sums of Repub campaign money were spent in effort to make it appear, among other things, that Dem aspirants were working against each other; specific and gen denials come from White House; Chapin says he has known Segretti since coll days but Washington Post rept is 'hearsay' and fundamentally inaccurate'; Nixon aide J D Ehrlichman says on Issues and Answers TV program that rept is 'hearsay about 4 times removed'; espionage-sabotage charges result from investigations into Watergate incident; at least 8 persons in various parts of US have said during last wk that they were approached by Segretti and invited to act as undercover agents; all those approached have said they denied offer; Young's account of Segretti's statements detailed; Time and Washington Post repts detailed