News stories from Sunday July 28, 1974
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee held a caucus to revise the wording of a second article of impeachment charging that President Nixon had abused his constitutional authority. The new draft of the second article incorporates and revises previous drafts offered by Representative Harold Donohue of Massachusetts, a Democrat, and Representative Robert McClory of Illinois, a Republican. Meanwhile, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Democratic whip, said that chances were increasing for the removal of President Nixon from office. [New York Times]
- Nixon's closest aides said that he was able to go stoically about the business of the presidency through the exercise of enormous self-control as the crisis of impeachment nears its climax. The President ended a 16-day working vacation at his estate in San Clemente, Calif. He has worked at avoiding impeachment an average of two hours a day, a White House spokesman said. [New York Times]
- Congressional authorities have noted that while the impeachment inquiry has been gaining momentum, President Nixon has made important concessions of authority to the Congress that must decide whether he remains in office. The administration is said to be more cooperative in providing Congress with information and access to officials in the executive branch and that Mr. Nixon has consulted congressional leaders more often on a wider range of issues than had been his custom. [New York Times]
- The foreign ministers of the three-nation conference on Cyprus were informed in Geneva that the Soviet Union had decided to send an observer to the meeting, but this had no visible effect on the deadlock between Greece and Turkey. The foreign ministers of Greece, Turkey and Britain were continually meeting an impasse each time progress on a new cease-fire was reported. [New York Times]
- Premier Bulent Ecevit of Turkey, at a hastily called news conference in Ankara, said that Turkey would not sign a cease-fire agreement in Geneva unless "real security" was established for ethnic Turks in Cyprus, "Security on paper would not satisfy us," he said. "Every Turk in every corner of the island must feel at home." [New York Times]
- A high Greek official said that Greece may have to ask the United States to put "more drastic pressure" on Turkey to achieve a solution to the deadlock on Cyprus, The Greek government, which had been highly optimistic, was grave and solemn today as reports indicated that the Geneva negotiations seemed to be faltering. [New York Times]
- Foreign Minister Yigal Allon of Israel arrived in Washington, beginning a month of intensive discussions between American officials and Israeli and Arab leaders on establishing a formula for further progress toward a Middle East settlement. In addition to Mr. Alton, Premier Zaid al-Rifai of Jordan, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy of Egypt and a Syrian envoy will come to Washington for separate consultations with Secretary of State Kissinger. [New York Times]