Sen, 84-6, approves $21.9-billion mil procurement bill

Senate Votes $21.9‐Billion For Weapons Procurement

Fed Judge Gerhard A Gesell, citing Pres Nixon's refusal to provide White House documents, on June 11 orders that separate, delayed trial be held for John D Ehrlichman, farmer Presidential aide charged with conspiring with White House plumbers group to violate civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist; says he will issue 'specific order' in attempt to enforce ct's demand that Nixon provide documents

EHRLICHMAN WINS A DELAY OF TRIAL IN ‘PLUMBER’ CASE

WASHINGTON, June 11&#8212;The House of Representatives voted today, 211 to 204, to kill a highly controversial land use bill that would have given Fedaid to states seeking to halt runaway real estate development.

HOUSE VOTE KILLS BILL ON LAND USE

Nixon press sec Ziegler says Nixon discussed East-West relations during meeting, Salzburg, Austria, with Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky; Kissinger and Austrian Foreign Min Rudolf Kirchschlager also took part in meeting (S)

AUSTRIAN LEADER AND NIXON CONFER

Kinsler, Fred: Gunman Floyd Steele holds 5-yr-old girl and her stepfather hostage in Queens housing project on June 12; girl's mother, Peggy Dalton Kinsler, escaped earlier through window by means of bedsheet; Steele is ex-mental patient with long criminal record who has been living with Kinslers for at least 6 wks; police fear stepfather Fred Kinsler may be injured or dead; efforts of NYC Detective bur's hostage negotiating team detailed; illus (L)

Gunman Holds 2 Hostages In Queens Housing Project

US Sec Kissinger on June 11 threatens to resign unless he is cleared of allegations that he participated in 'illegal or shady activity' in Govt wiretapping of officials and newsmen, news conf, Salzburg, Austria; asks Sen Foreign Relations Com to reopen its investigation of case; illus at news conf and with Gen Alexander M Haig (L)

EMOTIONAL PLEA

NEWS INDEX

sources say Dem gubernatorial contender US Repr Ogden R Reid is expected to drop out of race and also to withhold endorsement from either rival Howard J Samuels or US Repr Hugh L Carey; Assembly Speaker Duryea's aborted Repub gubernatorial candidacy appears to be in evidence at Repub conv, Uniondale; Duryea hails party and record in address but refers to Gov Wilson only as 'present exec'; Wilson takes care to praise party leaders, including Duryea, luncheon; Duryea's smiling response seen contrast to pol rumors he has denied that he would not be displeased by Wilson loss in Nov and that he sees Nassau County Exec Ralph G Caso Lt Gov candidacy as too big a boost for Gov (M)

Wilson Picks May of Rochester As the Candidate for Controller

Sen Foreign Relations Com on June 11 votes unanimously to accept US Sec Kissinger's request for review of his testimony on natl security wiretaps; Kissinger has threatened to resign amid charges that he was instrumental in ordering placing of wiretaps on newsmen to halt leaks of sensitive material; has denied any direct involvement in wiretapping by Nixon Adm (M)

SENATORS WILL ACT

Eleven large New York banks have agreed to lend the financially pressed Franklin National Bank $250&#8208;million, apparently with the backing of the Federal Reserve Board. Page 61.

Aid for Franklin Bank

Ford Foundation agrees to make $7-million long-term loan to Educ Broadcasting Corp, licensee of WNET, for establishment of permanent home for station at Henry Hudson Hotel on West 57th St, NYC; loan is subject to corp's ability to put together plan that will make facility public-TV center for NYC; key element in plan will be utilization of plant by Children's TV Workshop for production of its public-TV shows; WNET will have to raise additional $8-million to complete renovation of 5 or 6 floors of hotel and to move its present studios there; foundation's loan is separate from its $10-million terminal grant to station over next 4 yrs; WNET pres John Jay Iselin meets with reprs of 10 corps in hopes of raising some funds (M)

Ford Offers WNET Loan of $7‐Million

Pres Nixon's attys disclose that Nixon has asked Sup Ct to decide whether grand jury has right 'under the Const' to charge an incumbent Pres as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal proceeding; Nixon was named co-conspirator in Watergate cover-up; Nixon argued in petition to Ct that to allow a grand jury to take this kind of action against an incumbent Pres 'seriously impinges upon the const grant of authority' of HR, which has sole power of impeachment of Pres; calls grand jury finding 'prejudicial'; attys say Nixon will go beyond const issue when proceedings begin and will argue that evidence on which Watergate grand jury acted was 'totally insufficient'; James D St Clair asks Judge John J Sirica to provide Nixon and his attys with large amounts of material from grand jury that named Nixon co-conspirator; material consists of tapes, minutes, exhibits and testimony by 5 persons, including ex-White House counsel John W Dean 3d and ex-White House chief of staff H R Haldeman; St Clair says he believes that materials will demonstrate that grand jury acted without authority and that materials before it were 'totally insufficient' to impute criminal activity to Nixon; asks Sirica to send material to Sup Ct; 6 cover-up defendants ask Sup Ct not to make public papers of jury action; Sirica denies motions by each defendant for separate trial, ruling that all 6 must be tried together; tells prosecutor James F Neal to provide defense counsel with full list of co-conspirators by July 1; says that if Sen appears likely to hold impeachment trial in Sept, he will change trial date from Sept 9 to Sept 3 to pick jury and have it sequestered, so that jurors would not hear or read of evidence at impeachment trial; says he will open up a packet of previously sealed evidence to determine whether prosecution violated its promise of immunity to defendant Gordon Strachan as contended by Strachan's atty John M Bray (L)

Nixon Asks Court Ruling On Co‐Conspirator Issue

Summary of '73 inquiry by FBI indicates some of 'original requests' for wiretaps placed on newsmen came from US Sec Kissinger or Gen Alexander M Haig; contents of summary discussed; portion of summary (M)

F.B.I. Tied Tap Requests To Kissinger or Gen. Haig

analysis of Pres Nixon's visit of Egypt; Egyptian Pres Sadat is determined to consolidate his relationship with US as quickly as possible; Sadat's policy is based on belief that US alone can help him bring about acceptable negotiated settlement with Israel and that US alone has tech and financial resources to help him rebuild Egypt's drained econ; Egyptian-Amer relations under Sadat and former Pres Gamal Abdel Nasser revd; illus of Cairo st with poster of Nixon (M)

The U.S.‐Egyptian Links

rebel Eritrean Liberation Front plans to try 3 of 5 N Amers kidnapped 10 wks ago on charges of exploiting natural resources of prov in northern Ethiopia; men facing trial--all employes of Tenneco, Amer oil co--are identified as Clifford M James, Powers W Kayce and J W Rogers; Don Wederfort and Motte Paula, two other hostages, have apparently been exempted from trial (S)

3 SEIZED IN ERITREA SAID TO FACE TRIAL

The Proceedings In the U.N. Today

US State Sec Kissinger says US has reservations about some aspects of Eur decision to begin dialogue with 20 Arab nations, but hails 'change in spirit and attitude' on issue of Eur-Amer consultation; opposes possible cong of foreign mins of Arab and Eur nations; comments after meeting with W Ger Foreign Min Hans-Deitrich Genscher, Bad Reichenhall, W Ger, who informed him of results of 2-day EEC foreign mins meeting; Genscher explained that 'gentleman's agreement' to ease consultations between EEC and US was informal and that any one EEC member could block consultations; Kissinger sees plan leading to greater use of bilateral consultations; hints Pres Nixon might stop in Eur on way to Moscow later this mo (M)

Kissinger Cool to European Bid to Arabs

Most Rev George Patrick Dwyer relieves RC priest Rev Michael Connoly, who delivered eulogy over coffin of IRA member Michael Thomas Gaughan who died in Eng prison after 2-mo hunger strike, from diocesan duties; Dwyer says Connoly's eulogy can only 'foment bitterness and division' (S)

PRIEST IN ENGLAND REBUKED OVER I.R.A.

USSR Politburo member Andrei P Kirilenko, close deputy of USSR Communist leader Leonid I Brezhnev, says Pres Nixon's forthcoming visit to USSR emphasizes that USSR and US have put summit meetings on regular basis, election speech, Sverdlovsk; stresses need to strengthen econ and mil capability, holding antagonism between 2 world systems continues; speech contrasts with earlier speech by Min Andrei A Gromyko, who warned of possible 'zigzags' in US policy; Pravda and other Moscow newspapers omit most cautious passages of Gromyko speech, following pattern of toning down for natl converage local election speeches that sometimes put more stress on ideological conflict with West and maintaining high defense level; different shadings in Kirilenko and Gromyko speeches suggest USSR leadership may be divided on likely course of USSR-US ties if Pres Nixon were to leave office (M)

Russian Sees a Regularity In Nixon‐Brezhnev Talks

HR Banking subcom approves bill authorizing $1.5-billion contribution for low-interest loans to developing countries; move is attempt to reverse HR's Jan defeat for new funds for IDA, which were approved in Sen in May (S)

House Unit Backs Funds For Developing Countries

Egyptian Pres Sadat on June 10 promises Palestinian leaders that he will seek concessions from Jordanian King Hussein to make it possible for Palestinians to take part in Middle East peace talks in Geneva, rept in Cairo newspaper al Ahram; says, in meeting with members of newly elected exec com of Palestine Liberation Orgn (PLO), that he will meet with Syrian Pres Assad in near future and then seek 4-sided meeting that will include Hussein, PLO chmn Yasir Arafat, Assad and himself; says Arafat was 1 of 3 men with whom he shared secret of coming attack before Oct Middle East war; others were Assad and former Egyptian C/S Ahmed Ismail (M)

Sadat to Press Hussein on Palestinians

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, who was ousted as Reform Min by French Govt over nuclear policy dispute, says he agreed to join Govt unware of Govt's desire to continue nuclear testing, news conf; adds that new Cabinet was expected to discuss nuclear issue at meeting on June 10 (S)

FRENCH MILITARY ACCUSED ON TESTS

Maurice Girodias, publisher of novel entitled President Kissinger, says publication has been delayed because its prospective distributor objects to 2 passages describing fictional Kissinger being intimate with Radcliffe girl and with a Prussian noblewoman, int (M)

Novel on Kissinger Held Up by Dispute Over Two Passages

GSA admr Arthur F Sampson discloses new rules for awarding of Fed contracts for public bldgs; rules are designed to eliminate potential conflict of interest; he says that from now on the 3 architectural and engineering cos considered most qualified for a specific project will be selected by regional professional bds instead of by him although he and his successors will retain ultimate decision as to who gets contract; Gerald D Hines, chmn of group of architects and engineers who have been studying problem, says group did not find any 'impropriety' during inquiry (S)

NEW RULES ARE SET ON G.S.A. CONTRACTS

results of referendum in which natl divorce law was upheld seen as giving Socialists Party hard line in election of Premier candidate to succeed Premier Mariano Rumor since Christian Dem party suffered defeat in losing repeal of divorce statue (S)

Italy's President Consults On Choice of New Premier

Flávio da Conceição is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Flávio Conceição, Brazilian footballer

Flávio_Conceição

Hideki Matsui , nicknamed "Godzilla", is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Rays, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

June 12, 1974

Headlines from June 12, 1974

Senate Votes $21.9‐Billion For Weapons Procurement

EHRLICHMAN WINS A DELAY OF TRIAL IN ‘PLUMBER’ CASE

HOUSE VOTE KILLS BILL ON LAND USE

AUSTRIAN LEADER AND NIXON CONFER

Gunman Holds 2 Hostages In Queens Housing Project

Billboard 200

Band On The Run

The Sting

Sundown

Buddha And The Chocolate Box

Maria Muldaur

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 12, 1974