August 15, 1974

unknown assailant tries unsuccessfully to assassinate S Korean Pres Park on Aug 15 as he delivers natl day address in Seoul; Park's wife is struck in head by bullet and is reptdly undergoing surgery at Seoul Natl Univ Hosp (M)

Draft of HR Judiciary Com's final rept on impeachment asserts that for more than 2 yrs, Pres Nixon engaged in 'deliberate, repeated and continued deception' of Amer people about Watergate case; declares that new evidence disclosed last wk by Nixon merely confirmed evidence which was already overwhelming that from beginning Nixon 'knowingly directed' Watergate cover-up; com Chmn Repr P W Rodino Jr says rept will lie 'dormant,' serving only as record of events that led to Nixon's decison to resign; says neither com nor HR will vote on final rept; rept describes grounds for com's bipartisan votes to recommend 3 articles of impeachment against Nixon; it lists 34 central items that led com to vote, 27-11, to charge Nixon with obstruction of justice in Watergate case in Article I; draft contains dissenting rept, signed by 15 Repubs who voted against Article III, asserting that conviction of Nixon on subpoena grounds 'would have unnecessarily introduced an element of brittleness'; says it would have been 'unfair' to seek removal of a Pres from office 'for failure to cooperate in his own impeachment' (L)

NYC Mayor A Beame and 14 other Mayors meet with Pres Ford to discuss munic problems (S)

Turkish forces appear to be on their way toward seizing control of much of northern Cyprus; strong air strike on Nicosia sends thousands of Greek Cypriotes fleeing southward; cease-fire for Nicosia area is agreed to after daylong battle in and around area; Reuters repts that cease-fire was interrupted, at least temporarily, by machine-gun and mortar fire in Nicosia; Turkish armored columns push east during day, and later approach eastern coastal city of Famagusta in effort to establish by force Turkish partition plan for Cyprus that Greece rejected at Geneva peace talks; other Turkish units are reptd moving westward to Lefka; 3 UN soldiers from Austria are killed and 23 UN soldiers are wounded when caught between opposing units; there are no repts of casualties among Greek Cypriotes or Turks; on southwest heavy fighting breaks out near airport, where UN hq are situated; 11 Finnish members of UN peace-keeing contingent are wounded in crossfire between Turks and Greek Cypriotes; 6 Finns are wounded in Greek-Turkish fighting at Mia Milea; 3 Austrians traveling along Nicosia-Larnaca rd in UN-Rover are killed when Turkish plane bombs rd; 1 Canadian and 5 Brit members of UN forces are also wounded; Greek Cypriote radio says 10 Turkish planes were downed, but except for anti-aircraft batteries, Greeks have nothing to oppose Turkish planes; Greek mil camp across street from Hilton Hotel in Nicosia is target for Turkish planes and 3 rockets fall on hotel's grounds; fragments of 1 nicks CBS cameraman, Carl Sorensen, as he is driving into hotel grounds with other TV crewmen; Internatl Telex and phone links are out few hrs after Turkish attack begins; later calls are accepted for newsmen; psychiatric hosp close by Greek Cypriote camp is hit for 2d time in less than mo; 3 bombs strike outbldgs, injuring 36 patients and 3 staff members; Nicosia Gen Hosp is also hit by Turkish mortars, but no casualties are reptd; Turkish Cypriote radio calls for surrender of Greek Cypriote mil forces, but Greek radio calls for resistance; Greek Cypriotes are dissuaded by UN delegations from moving into Turkish part of Larnaca but they occupy seafront; map; illus (L)

Repr Otis G Pike discloses on Aug 14 that Iran, which has already given $31-million in advance payments to Grumman Corp for F-14 fighter, has offered to lend money to corp to enable it to continue production of controversial airplane; urges Defense Sec Schlesinger to win Sec of State Kissinger required approval for loan; Sen Jacob K Javits, Grumman and Navy officials to urge Kissinger support for Iranian financing of Grumman; Pentagon may still advance $100-million to Grumman, despite Aug 13 rejection of loan by Sen, by making loans of less than $25-million that could be repaid one at a time in form of aircraft (M)