November 5, 1974

Article on consumer reaction to supermkt practice of repricing items already on shelves notes that many supermkts have announced voluntary end to practice to appease customers; consumer groups spokesmen and supermkt officials say that move will mean miniscule sayings to consumers; Natl Consumers League exec dir Alice Shabecoff dismisses repricing as issue, claiming that main issues is high food prices; supermkt execs say that consumers do not understand merchandise pricing; explain pricing system; Sloan's Supermkt vp Jules Rose and Fed of Co-ops exec vp Seymour Klafner comment; co-op survey, supervised by Alan Thurgood, assesses several supermkts' pricing practices; Natl Assn of Food Chains pres Clarence G Adamy holds that industry's current return on investments totals 7.5%, compared with avg 10% for all Amer indus; earnings repts by chains show gen improvement over '73; Adamy claims that industry's worst period was in '73; Pathmark vp Dr Robert Wundele comments (L)

final article in series of special repts assessing world food situation analyzes problem facing world, noting that experts believe that present world food situation is acute crisis and beginning of chronic global condition that calls for fundamental changes in way people live and govts cooperate; notes key issues of problem will be debated at World Food Conf, but that few experts expect broad questions to be answered in near future; holds that series on situation makes it clear that there exist potential solutions to almost every food problem; holds some proposals require concerted internatl action, while others point to concrete measures that can be adopted by peasant farmers; says that limiting factor is strength of will of leaders in govt and finance to make food production and distribution matters of high natl and internatl priority; illus of workers in aid kitchen, Bangladesh; illus of Ital Pres Giovanni Leone meeting with UN Sec Gen Kurt Waldheim; illus of US Sec Kissinger with Ital Foreign Min Aldo Moro (L)

over 100,000 people fill streets around UN Nov 4, in one of largest demonstrations in NYC history, to protest Assembly inv to PLO to participate in debate on Palestine; among notables attending are Israeli ex-Foreign Min Abba Eban, Sen Henry M Jackson, Mayor Beame, Sen Javits and Ramsey Clark; PLO supporters hold counter news conf few blocks away; heavily guarded by police; illus (L)

Wanaque, NJ, Magistrate Joseph J Crescente, 71, killed by sniper on Nov 4 as he presides over night ct session; suspect apparently used .22-cal rifle and fired into courtroom from about 25 yards away; Mayor Frank Longo offers $1,000 reward; map (M)

Watergate cover-up chief prosecutor James F Neal discloses on Nov 4 that E Howard Hunt Jr withheld until last weekend a 'bombshell document' that affects all 5 defendants; document is memo Hunt wrote on Nov 14 '72 reminding Nixon re-election campaign and White House officials of their alleged 'commitments' of money and pardons in return for defendants' silence about Watergate break-in at Dem Natl Com hq on June 17 '72; Hunt described such a memo in his testimony last wk and said that he had prepared it for his atty, William O Bittman, for submission to Kenneth W Parkinson, then an atty for Nixon re-election campaign and now a cover-up defendant; Hunt said he did not know where memo was and Bittman denied its existence; Neal says Bittman admitted receiving memo and had turned over a copy; says Govt's initial 'prosecutorial decisions' in case were affected by statements that Bittman had made to Govt in past; says Govt and defense were misled by Bittman and calls it 'sad affair'; Parkinson's atty Jacob A Stein requests severance and mistrial for Parkinson; says he feels he is now confronted with a 'cover-up within a cover-up'; Judge John J Sirica postpones decision; denies mistrial motion by H R Haldeman's atty John J Wilson; document, which Hunt purportedly wrote on behalf of all 7 defendants, lists variety of 'items for consideration'; among them is contention that ex-Atty Gen J N Mitchell may have committed perjury and fact that Watergate break-in was 'only of a number of highly illegal conspiracies engaged in by 1 or more of the defendants at the behest of sr White House officials'; says defendants kept 'their part of the bargain by maintaining silence' but 'Adm, however, remains deficient in living up to its commitments'; implications of disclosure for Bittman noted; Neal's account to ct of how document was turned over to prosecution noted; Neal says prosecution will not call Bittman as witness as it had intended; asst prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste says Bittman told prosecution he had given 'acctgs' to Parkinson, presumably of money that Hunt and others were demanding and receiving in mos following Watergate break-in; prosecution is standing by this; prosecution and Stein say Bittman is still contending that he never transmitted Hunt memo to Parkinson; Jeb S Magruder, under cross-examination by Robert C Mardian's atty Thomas C Green, testifies that when he told Mardian on June 17 '72 of bungling that had led to arrest of Watergate burglars, Mardian said that 'if he had been in charge there wouldn't have been this kind of amateurism'; Neal reads to jury testimony that Parkinson gave before grand jury about shredding notes he made of conversation on July 13 '72 with Magruder; in that conversation, Magruder told him what he contended was true story of Watergate, implicating himself and Mitchell; jury hears testimony from Robert A F Reisner, formerly adm asst to Magruder at election com (L)