July 5, 1973

Pres Nixon's daughter Julie says Pres considered resigning over Watergate affair 4 days after his top aides, H R Haldeman and J D Ehrlichman, resigned, but his family talked him out of it, July 3 int; says family convinced Pres that his resigning would be 'admission of wrongdoing,' that 'he was the man for the job' who had 'started things and needed to finish them'; she dismisses as 'ludicrous' White House pol 'enemies' list disclosed in Sen Watergate hearings and says Pres is 'too busy to be concerned with petty, paranoid concerns'; says she thinks events are going to vindicate Pres; says she feels press is 'obsessed with Watergate'; says Pres had complete faith in his aides, and that was 'part of the whole tragedy of the thing'; says Pres's present mood is 'very good'; her illus

nonmedical employes at Wyckoff Heights Hosp, Bklyn, on July 4 agree to end strike that began on June 29; Hosp Nursing Home and Allied Services Union Local 144 pres P Ottley says his decision followed 2 days of negotiations between labor and mgt with S Kreitman of NYS Mediation Bd; says he feels assured hosp will pay $500,000 in wages retroactive to Dec '71 within 2 wks; wages have been authorized by Fed Cost of Living Council

Queens Borough Pres D Manes announces July 4th that Flushing Meadows-Corona Perk will be renamed Independence Park in time for US bicentennial yr

US Appeals Ct Chief Judge I R Kaufman announces on July 4 broad effort to end disparate sentencing of defendants in Fed cts in NY, Conn and Vermont; says program, which will be conducted on 'voluntary' basis, could well serve as model for ct reform throughout US; plan, which will differ from previous ct reform efforts in that it will apply to more than 1 ct, calls for 14-member com of judges, prosecutors and lawyers drawn from 3 states to begin at once to draw up new sentencing procedures; com, headed by Chief Judge J E Lumbard Jr, will set up experimental programs in dist cts, study 'nature and depth' of sentencing disparities, analyze previous reform proposals and make recommendations; Kaufman says com will also consider recommendations made recently for Fed cts by special NYC Bar Assn com; recommendations outlined; Lumbard com will also analyze proposed amendment of Fed Rules of Criminal Procedure, under which sentences would be revd by dist judges panel; basic aim of all proposed reforms is to eliminate differences in way defendants convicted of same crime are treated; Kaufman claims that disparities come about in part because of conflicting aims of criminal justice system, but Judge M E Frankel says problem is result of lack of adequate guidelines and laws for judges to follow in sentencing; appointees to Lumbard com, including Frankel and former US Atty W N Seymour Jr, listed

S Vietnam is expanding its territorial control by moving tens of thousands of refugees into areas where Vietcong has roamed freely for yrs; \b0 Govt officials say they do not believe they are exposing refugees to excessive danger; most US officials agree, but add that in some cases margin of safety is thin; until this spring efforts to resettle more than 600,000 refugees created by N Vietnamese '72 offensive have foundered; Pres Thieu has accelerated resettlement, apparently in effort to lay claim to as much territory as possible before clear lines of control are drawn; S Vietnam, in July, expects to resettle more than 160,000, 30,000 more than during the entire first half of the yr; there are supposed to be no more refugee camps by Dec; US officials back resettlement program, but believe deadline is unrealistic; Saigon has earmarked 750,000 acres in 15 provs for resettlement of about 300,000 people who originally lived in territory captured by the Communits and never retaken; rest of the refugees are supposed to move back to their old villages; comment on pol ramifications of program; map shows Communist and Saigon Govt resettlement areas