News stories from Saturday June 16, 1973
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- John Dean has told government investigators that a high White House aide informed him early last January that orders for the September, 1971, burglary of files belonging to Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist came "from the oval office" of President Nixon, sources close to the Watergate case said. Mr. Dean has said, according to the sources, that information about Mr. Nixon's alleged involvement came from Egil Krogh, a member of the so-called "plumbers group" that had been assigned by Mr. Nixon to investigate Dr. Ellsberg after the June, 1971, publication of the Pentagon papers. [New York Times]
- The Senate Watergate investigating committee has subpoenaed the financial records of five of last year's Democratic presidential candidates. Subpoenas, according to a committee spokesman, have been issued for the financial records of Senators Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, George McGovern, Edmund Muskie and of Gov. George Wallace of Alabama. The spokesman said that subpoenas would also be issued for other Democrats who participated in the presidential primaries, and that the committee also planned to subpoena the records of the Democratic National Committee. [New York Times]
- The Nixon administration will make its Phase 4 system of wage-price controls tough enough to prevent another price explosion after the 60-day freeze expires, according to Herbert Stein, the President's chief economic adviser. [New York Times]
- Leonid Brezhnev arrived at Andrews Air Force Base just outside Washington in a heavy rain, beginning a nine-day visit intended to spur arms control talks and to promote cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Secretary of State Rogers greeted the Soviet leader and said that "this is a wheat rain, which in America is a very good omen." Mr. Brezhnev went by helicopter to Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where he will rest until the official welcome at the White House on Monday morning. President Nixon was in Key Biscayne, Fla., for the weekend, and telephoned greetings to Mr. Brezhnev at Camp David. [New York Times]
- Sporadic fighting continued across South Vietnam despite the beginning of the second cease-fire, and the local commanders of the opposing forces did not meet as required by the new Paris communique. The South Vietnamese command reported 108 Communist violations of the cease-fire in the first 24 hours since it went into effect at noon Friday, about equal to the daily average of incidents during the last three months. [New York Times]