TORTURE ASSAILED IN PERU'S PAPERS; Government Joins Drive--Action Is Announced Against the Police
Date: 11 September 1974
By MARVINE HOWE
Marvine HOWE
Peruvain press has embarked on broad campaign to end police torture and obtain effective legal guarantees for prisoners; Govt has joined campaign; Govt's newspaper, La Cronica, calls for 'definite uprooting' of practice of torture (S)
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Honorable Withdrawal
Date: 10 September 1974
Ed holds White House press sec J F terHorst's resignation from Ford Adm is refreshing throwback to simpler time in Amer pol life; comments on problems terHorst had with Ford's decision to pardon former Pres Nixon; calls decision remarkable
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48 ARE INVOLVED; But High Source Tries to Minimize Chance of Clemency Move
Date: 11 September 1974
By JOHN HERBERS
John HERBERS
White House deputy press sec John W Hushen says Pres Ford is studying possibility of pardoning those persons convicted or accused of crimes in Watergate and related scandals, press briefing; after suggestion of further pardons met with almost universol opposition in Cong, high White House official, in attempt to minimize Ford's intentions in matter, says he doubts Ford will give very serious consideration to pardoning Watergate defendants; Hushen says Ford was aware that his pardoning of former Pres Nixon would be controversial but that he did not expect that Adm would become so engulfed in after-effects of Watergate scandals; White House counsel Philip W Buchen says he has not been brought into study of further pardons but assumes that he will be; there is speculation, which White House officials try to discourage, that Ford is considering being more lenient in dealing with Vietnam War draft dodgers and deserters than he had originally planned in view of protests against Nixon pardon
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Washington Star-News Deal Delayed by Contract Dispute
Date: 11 September 1974
Special to The New York Times
Sale of 37% interest in Washington Star-News to Joe L Allbritton is postponed on Sept 10 because of dispute over union contract; Allbritton reptdly threatened to withdraw his offer 2 wks ago because he had not been fully consulted about mid-Aug agreement with printers' union under which mgt reed authority to automate in return for life-time security for present mechanical employes
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Some in White House Misled terHorst, Friends Say in Explaining Why He Quit; 'Cover Stories' 'Completely Open' Had Sought Frankness
Date: 10 September 1974
By MARJORIE HUNTERSpecial to The New York Times
J F terHorst, who resigned as Pres Ford's press sec, resumes work as columnist for Detroit News
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Cost of Ford's Decision; It Not Only Led terHorst to Resign, But Also Realigned President and Nixon G.O.P. Senators Critical Possible Loss of Credibility
Date: 10 September 1974
By R. W. APPLE Jr.Special to The New York Times
R. APPLE
R W Apple analysis of cost of Pres Ford's decision to pardon former Pres Nixon holds press sec J F terHorst's resignation meant more than ordinary departure of a White House aide because terHorst was unusually competent man, was key to reputation for openness that Ford has cultivated and was symbol of differences in style and attitude between Nixon and Ford Adms; says by his action, Ford reidentified himself and, to some degree, his party with Nixon (L)
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Ethiopia Says Ex-Official Blocked News of Famine
Date: 10 September 1974
former pres of lower house of Ehtiopia's Parliament Seifu Tadesse is accused on Sept 9 of having suppressed news of famine in '73 in which some 100,000 people died
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Experts Assert Some Nixon Legal Problems Remain; Court Review Doubted
Date: 10 September 1974
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
pardon given by Pres Ford to former Pres Nixon has not covered many of problems facing Nixon including fact that he is still liable to civil lawsuits for damages, such as claim by Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis Fielding that White House burglary of his office was violation of his civil rights
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