CAMBODIANS HOLD 250 MORE ALIENS; 500 at Border Won't Tell of Experiences Pending Release of Others Cambodians Still Hold 250 Refugees
Date: 04 May 1975
By DAVID A. ANDELMAN Special to The New York Times
David ANDELMAN
More than 500 foreigners arriving at Aranyaprathet (Thailand) refuse to describe journey from Phnom Penh or experiences in French Embassy where they took refuge over 2 wks ago when Communist-led insurgents took over city; 8 journalists, including NY Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg, impose news embargo on themselves until remaining 250 foreigners at embassy are safely out of country; most refugees appear tired but healthy after 3 1/2-day journey despite predictions by French officials of dysentry among evacuees; emotional scene at border crossing described; French Govt and UN have issued pleas for quick release of remaining foreigners in country; illus of refugees crossing border into Thailand, including Schanberg (M)
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Contempt Case Against Editor in Indiana Is Dismissed
Date: 04 May 1975
Special judge apptd by Ind Sup Ct dismisses contempt of ct charges against Jerry Hargis, editor and owner of The Rockport Journal, who urged 3,870 wkly subscribers in pre-election ed Oct 31 '74 to vote against Ralph M Roberts, 81-yr-old candidate for county prosecutor because, among other things, Roberts's 77-yr-old brother John L Roberts was then in 2d yr of 2d 6-yr term as Circuit Ct Judge; Hargis asserted that combination of prosecutor and judge in same family could lead to challenge of almost any conviction in ct; Judge Roberts began indirect contempt of ct charges against Hargis after candidate Roberts lost bid; Hargis atty Richard W Cardwell notes that Hargis intends to seek investigation by Ind Sup Ct Disciplinary Comm of possible improper conduct by Judge Roberts; Ralph Roberts served 44 yrs as US HR Clerk; was retired after his refusal to turn over records in investigation of Repr Adam Clayton Powell (S)
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EHRLICHMAN PLEA OPPOSED IN COURT; Prosecutor Asks Judges to Back Conviction of Four
Date: 03 May 1975
By LESLEY OELSNER Special to The New York Times
Lesley Special
Special Watergate prosecution, in 151-page brief filed with US Ct of Appeals, asks ct to affirm convictions of John D Ehrlichman and co-defendants, G Gordon Liddy, Bernard L Barker and Eugenio R Martinez, in plumbers case; defends both its own actions and those of trial judge, Gerhard A Gesell; says that it has sustained burden of proving all elements of central charge in case, conspiracy to violate civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg; says that Gesell had been right to refuse to call former Pres Nixon as witness in case; that Gesell had not, as Ehrlichman alleged, violated Ehrlichman's rights to fair trial through alleged mannerisms and facial expressions, and that Gesell had conducted adequate jury selection process; brief, signed by Henry S Ruth Jr, special prosecutor, and assts Peter M Kreindler, Philip B Heymann, Maureen E Gevlin, Jay Stephens and Richard D Weinberg, was essentially point-by-point rebuttal; prosecution repeated earlier arguments to some extent (M)
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Saigon Copters Found a Haven at Sea
Date: 03 May 1975
By FOX BUTTERFIELD Special to The New York Times
Fox Special
NY Times correspondents Fox Butterfieid and Malcolm W Browne are among more than 800 Vietnamese and Amer refugees aboard USS Mobile (S)
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Thousands of Refugees Fleeing on Vietnamese Boats Appeal for Food and Water; U.S. NAVY'S SHIPS QUIT THE REGION But Some Chartered Craft May Still Be Rescuing People Off the Coast
Date: 03 May 1975
Time (pub) chief correspondent Murray Gart says that news-gathering orgns have long-standing moral responsibility to assist their Vietnamese employes in Saigon to escape from city before it fell to Communists; is responding to remarks made about evacuation by Pres press sec Ron Nessen (S)
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EXPOSE OF C.I.A. WINS THE HILLMAN AWARD
Date: 03 May 1975
NY Times reporter Seymour M Hersh, who uncovered CIA surveillance in US, receives Sidney Hillman Foundation award (S)
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Judge Refuses to Dismiss Farm-Trespass Charges
Date: 03 May 1975
Clarksboro, NJ, Munic Ct refuses to dismiss trespassing charges against Assemblyman Byron M Baer, newsmen Charles Finley and Thomas Herde (Newark Star-Ledger) and soc worker Alex Morisey who attempted to inspect Swedesboro migrant labor camp owned by Rosario Sorbello & Son in '74; says only trial can assess whether accused were exercising right to reasonable access; atty for newsmen holds continuing charges will have unconst 'chilling effect' on freedom of the press; incident at Sorbello farm recalled (M)
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Vietnam boosters; The Experts
Date: 04 May 1975
By SAUL FRIEDMAN
Saul FRIEDMAN
Clyde Edwin Pettit book The Experts. 100 Years of Blunder in Indo-China, reporter's account of Amer involvement, revd
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500 FOREIGNERS HELD IN CAMBODIA REACH THAILAND; Most Appear in Good Health on Arrival After Being Stranded Two Weeks A FOUR-DAY TRUCK TRIP 100 Are Still in Phnom Penh Embassy but May Leave for Border Today 500 Foreigners Held in Cambodia Reach Thailand
Date: 03 May 1975
About 500 foreigners stranded in French Embassy in Phnom Penh for 2 wks arrive at Aranyaprathet, border crossing between Cambodia and Thailand, after 4-day journey in open trucks; NY Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg is among 1st to cross border; French mil attache in Thailand Lt Col Jean Roubert says about 100 foreigners had been forced to stay behind apparently because of lack of transport; Schanberg and 6 other journalists decline to comment on situation in capital until all foreigners are out of Phnom Penh; W Ger TV newsman Heinrich Froehde describes journey's preparations; arrival of foreigners followed meeting Apr 2 between French Pres d'estaing's special envoy Marc Bonnefous and Cambodian Communist soldiers at border crossing; illus at border crossing (M)
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3 Reporters Are Honored By White House News Group
Date: 04 May 1975
Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire receives Worth Bingham Prize for her series on White House's handling of gifts from foreign govts, 61st annual dinner of White House Correspondents Assn (S)
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