News stories from Sunday September 30, 1973

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

Vice President Agnew denounced the Department of Justice for its conduct of the criminal investigation against him, according to associates, because of the Vice President's having dwelt "on the dark side of an inferno" for weeks. In addition to his prepared speech to the National Federation of Republican Women, Mr. Agnew declared he was "innocent of charges" against him in the "perjured" testimony of "small and fearful men". [New York Times] President Nixon authorized a "national security" wiretap on Morton Halperin, an assistant to Henry Kissinger, which remained in effect even after the assistant had left the Nixon administration and joined the campaign of Senator Edmund Muskie. In a brief filed by the Justice Department in response to a suit brought by Mr. Halperin, it was learned that Mr. Halperin's home telephone was monitored for nine months after he resigned. [New York Times] To promote the interests of black Americans, Congressional Black Caucus leaders aid they were prepared to form coalitions even with those traditionally regarded as enemies of black people, if necessary. The new degree of political sophistication would be designed to "put the black perspective into all legislation," according to the caucus chairman, Representative Louis Stokes. [New York Times] Although President Nixon has repeatedly declared that the war in South Vietnam is over, for the Vietnamese peasants and soldiers the Paris agreement has not been effective and the dying goes on. Except for 1968 and 1972, the overall rate for casualties for the South Vietnamese is higher than in any previous year. [New York Times] Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of Austria, in an interview, called upon the United States and other countries to "share the burden" of assisting Jewish refugees. He defended his government's decision to close the transit center for Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union and abolish other facilities that have been used to ease the way to Israel. Dr. Kreisky would not comment directly on a report that Jewish emigrants might be channeled through Rumania. [New York Times] Public colleges and universities should more than double their undergraduate tuition charges, according to the Committee for Economic Development. The recommendation by the influential business-oriented research group adds to an intensifying national controversy over whether government subsidies of higher education should benefit all students equally or be concentrated on those who demonstrate greatest need. [New York Times] American scientists working in Central America have entered the final stages of research that they feel may lead to the virtual elimination of malaria as a major world health problem. The scientists, affiliated with the United States Public Health Service, have devised a way to sterilize male malaria-carrying mosquitoes without using insecticides. [New York Times]