October 3, 1974

Sen on Oct 2 approves amendment to foreign aid bill, later recommitted, to bar mil aid to Turkey but Sen stopgap resolution approved on Oct 1 includes affirmation of cutoff (S)

Gov Wilson announces new NYS mental health program he says will provide for careful follow-up and treatment of all patients released from state mental insts into community facilities for rehabilitation; says plan will put tight watch over each released patient, with planning 2 wks before patient is discharged and close cooperation between state and local agencies to assure that 'unnecessary reinstitutionalization can be prevented'; NYC Humans Resources Admr James R Dumpson says plan lacks reality; says his office is still preparing estimates on number of personnel needed; NYS Soc Services Comr Abe Lavine, who will participate in plan, says local agencies will have responsibility for follow-up and state will make sure local agencies are doing the job; says 35 specially trained persons will be assigned to NYC Humans Resources Adm to do follow-up work; Wilson says Mental Hygiene Dept Comr Alan D Miller will work out details with Comr Lavine; Lavine says program will cost $11.6-million; Lavine says persons assigned to local agencies will receive special training with his dept and Mental Hygiene Dept (M)

Calif Lt Gov Ed Reinecke is given suspended 18-month sentence on charges he lied to Sen Judiciary Com when he denied discussing ITT's $400,000 pledge to '72 Repub Natl Conv with former Atty Gen John N Mitchell; in related matter, Greyhound Corp pleads guilty to criminal information filed before Judge Oliver Gasch alleging corp made $16,040 in illegal corp contributions to '72 Pres candidates Richard Nixon and George McGovern; Reinecke illus (M)

 

Sources say Richard A Moore, former special counsel to former Pres Nixon, has been added by prosecution to its list of co-conspirators in Watergate cover-up trial apparently after reviewing Pres tapes; Moore's atty Herbert J Miller Jr, who is also Nixon's atty, says Moore has not been named as unindicted co-conspirator either by grand jury or by prosecutor; evidence relating to Moore, either testimony by him in ct or statements he made elsewhere, is expected to be significant part of prosecution's case against 5 cover-up defendants; Moore was implicated in cover-up to some degree by ex-White House counsel John W Dean 3d when Dean testified at Sen Watergate com hearings on June 25 '73; Moore contradicted Dean when he testified; at end of 2d day of cover-up trial, 80 of 160 potential jurors remain; defendant John D Ehrlichman contends in written arguments filed with ct that his prosecution and conviction in plumbers trial act as bar against his prosecution in cover-up case; cites const prohibition against 'double jeopardy'; prosecution moves to quash part of subpoena issued by Ehrlichman for CIA files saying that CIA will make some material available to Ehrlichman but that part of subpoena is 'blanket request' without regard to evidence (L)