News stories from Sunday October 20, 1974
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Leon Jaworski, the special prosecutor, said he believed that the full story of former President Nixon's role in the Watergate cover-up would come out during the current trial of Mr. Nixon's former top aides. He predicted that most of the White House tapes he obtained through a Supreme Court decision would be made public at the trial. [New York Times]
- As the Watergate cover-up conspiracy trial resumes in Washington, it is expected that another reel of tape will be played in the courtroom, with the voice of former President Richard Nixon discussing problems facing the cover-up, including the problem of Judge John Sirica, who is presiding at the current trial. Mr. Nixon, on the tape, expresses fears that the judge may try anew to unravel the cover-up. [New York Times]
- President Ford has indicated that some conservative Republicans have urged him to abandon Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller, but says he has not taken the advice seriously. "I'm still convinced he would make a good Vice President," Mr. Ford said of Mr. Rockefeller. [New York Times]
- For Boston's black community the controversy over court-ordered busing as part of a school integration plan is just one more step after years of struggle for better schooling. Fear on the part of parents sending their children into hostile white neighborhoods is mingled with almost desperate hopes that the only way to improve black schools is to have whites in them. [New York Times]
- An unannounced Justice Department decision that gives the Federal Bureau of Investigation tentative approval to begin enlarging its communications system has been denounced by the acting director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. John Eger, the acting director, said he feared the Justice Department decision "could result in the absorption of state and local criminal data systems into a potentially abusive, centralized, federally controlled information system." [New York Times]
- Mexico's President, Luis Echeverria Alvarez, will give top priority to seeking a solution to the problem of illegal Mexican migrants in the United States when he meets with President Ford at the Arizona border, Mexican authorities say. Reports from Mexico City indicate that it would like an agreement permitting a fixed number of Mexican farm workers to enter the United States to work during the fruit-picking season. Congress, under pressure from the labor movement, is reported opposed to such an agreement. [New York Times]
- More disorders were reported from Saigon where youthful anti-government demonstrators overran thinly manned police barricades and stoned the National Assembly building. Earlier the demonstrators burned a police vehicle, tore down government posters and brandished photographs of President Nguyen Van Thieu, each with a black cross-mark over the President's portrait. [New York Times]
- The Swiss have rejected by a substantial margin a proposal that would have meant deporting half of the country's 1.1 million foreigners, including 300,000 immigrant workers, in the next three years. The proposal lost, 66 percent against and 34 percent for. [New York Times]