May 6, 1974

contract talks between ITU Local 6 and NY Times, News and Post break down on May 5; News exec vp Walter K Graham repts paper will attempt to introduce automated typesetting processes; notes that 1st edition for May 7 will be published with traditional typesetting; repts that printers who do not work will not be paid; ITU Local pres Bertram Powers says that News apparently does not feel negotiations have made enough progress; other newspaper unions are scheduled to meet on May 6 at Newspaper Guild hq to decide what action they will take if printers picket News

White House chief of staff Alexander M Haig Jr suggests that 'excesses and distortions' in investigating Watergate scandals might be lead to 'cure being worse than the illness,' int, ABC TV program Issues and Answers; says he is not condoning 'what alleged wrongdoing may have occurred' in Watergate affair but says time has come to bring matter to conclusion; Pres Nixon's chief counsel James D St Clair says Nixon, in releasing edited transripts of tapes, placed guarding of Presidency above rights of defendants in Watergate criminal trials, int, NBC TV program Meet the Press; says it will nonetheless be possible to impanel fair jury in forthcoming Watergate trials; St Clair and Haig stress that they hope gen public, Cong and HR Judiciary Com will conclude that complete account of Watergate had now been made public; com members Reprs T F Railsback and P S Sarbanes indicate transcripts are not enough, ints, CBS TV program Face the Nation; note transcripts deal only with alleged Watergate cover-up and no other areas; pors of Haig and St Clair (L)

illus of Kissinger with Israeli Foreign Min Eban, Israeli Amb Simcha Dinitz and State Dept spokesman Robert J McCloskey in Jerusalem

article discusess emergence of debate in natl policy-making process on issue of US relations with Cuba; notes leading officials in Nixon Adm insist no change is imminent in US policy on boycott while some officials comment that mere emergence of debate signifies important change; says debate has been spurred by favorable Adm decisions on licensing of Amer subsidiaries of 3 major auto cos in Argentina to export cars and trucks to Cuba, and Sec Kissinger's acquiescence to demands of Latin Amer and Caribbean foreign mins for vote among OAS members to determine whether Cuba should be invited to participate in new hemisphere dialogue in '75; says issue has drawn attention because of 5 yrs of Adm's detente policy involving principally USSR and China; discusses Kissinger remarks, which seemingly indicate softening of US stance on aspects of Cuban policy affecting other Latin Amer countries; cites number of large obstacles, outlined by Kissinger and his observers, that have to be overcome before US and Cuba can begin direct dialogue on improving relations (L)

$34.1-million record NYS budget for the arts for '74-'75, more than twice $16.3-million allotted for '73, stipulates new patterns for distribution of culture funds; funds given by NYS Council on Arts are expected to stimulate emergence of performing groups and museum shows in counties near, but not in cultural downtown areas; breakdown of money shows that Bronx will be allotted $1,103,775 compared with $373,567 spent in '73, Bklyn will receive $1,951,500, Queens $1,490,000, Steten Island $221,550, Nassau County $1,071,600 and Westchester $670,800; council's exec dir Eric Larrabee comments; illus