March 19, 1974

Pres Nixon's personal sec Rose Mary Woods testifies at Mitchell‐Stans trial that list of contributors to Pres Nixon's re‐election campaign sent to her by Stans did not contain name of Robert L Vesco; defense introduces 2d list that does have Vesco's name on it; Woods calls Mitchell and Stans ‘fine men'; prosecution attempts to show defendants tried to hide Vesco's contribution; claim Vesco's inclusion in 2d list was in response to his 2d contribution, a $50,000 check, and not his 1st, which was $200,000 in cash; defendants insist they did not think it necessary to rept 1st contribution, despite fact it was received after effective date of new campaign finance disclosure law, because money was promised before effective date; Robert L Higgins of GAO confirms in testimony that Pres Nixon's re‐election finance com did not rept Vesco's 1st contribution in documents filed with GAO (L)

Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, widely ‘regarded as the elder statesman of the birth‐control movement, died yesterday. He was 75 years old. Details on Page 40.

WASHINGTON, March 18The Federal Government moved today to make air bags, or some similar kind of “passive” restraint system,`mandatory on all automobiles beginning with 1977 models.

John J Sirica's last day as chief judge for Fed Dist Ct, Washington, DC, described; he will remain judge and continue working on Watergate case; Judge George L Hart Jr will succeed Sirica as chief judge; party given by his fellow judges described; illus with Hart (M)

Judge John J Sirica orders that grand jury rept and accompanying materials bearing on Pres Nixon's conduct in Watergate scandal be turned over to HR Judiciary Com's impeachment inquiry; says, in 22‐page written opinion, that rept and material deal with Nixon's acts ‘in his public capacity’ during period under investigation; cautions that rept draws no accusatory conclusions and is not substitute for indictments; release of rept has been opposed by attys for 7 indicted former top Nixon Adm officials because they felt release might lead to leaks of contents and generate pretrial publicity affecting their clients; Sirica says 7 men are only incidentally involved in rept; White House spokesman says Nixon's atty James D St Clair stands by his earlier statement to Sirica that White House has ‘no objection’ to release of rept to com; Vice Pres Ford calls it ‘probably a right’ decision; John J Wilson, atty for H R Haldeman and John D Ehrlichman, says he will file appeal; com will urge that such hearings, which could tic up material in litigation for days, be expedited, and Appeals Ct is expected to move quickly in matter; Sirica's order restricts disclosure of this information to com; he requests that com keep rept confidential; illus of Peter M Kriendler of Watergate prosecutor's staff and of Cecil Emerson and Jack McCahill of White House legal staff (L)