News stories from Saturday June 19, 1971

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

The New York Times won a victory in U.S. District Court for the right to publish the classified Pentagon Papers, but it cannot publish the report until the case is reviewed by an appeals court on Monday. The government argued that publication of the report is harmful to national security; the Times argued that the government doesn't have the right to pre-censor newspapers. Judge Murray Gurfein ruled that the Times may publish the report and that it does not endanger national security. The case is expected to reach the Supreme Court by the middle of next week.An appellate court will hear a similar case on Monday against the Washington Post; a temporary injunction against Post publication of the same report was issued last night. Rep. Pete McCloskey claims to have a copy of the report, and he will ask the House to vote on whether to make it public. [CBS] Republican national chairman Robert Dole says that the New York Times' disclosure of the Pentagon Papers is "destructively irresponsible"; Democratic party chairman Lawrence O'Brien pointed out that American involvement in southeast Asia was supported by Republican congressmen and President Nixon during the 1960's. [CBS] Senator Clifford Case stated that he wants the CIA's military role to be limited, and he wants restrictions on Defense Department spending to be extended to the CIA. [CBS] The Citizens Research Foundation reports that President Nixon spent $35 million during his 1968 election campaign compared to $10.3 million for Senator Hubert Humphrey; the 1968 campaign cost all candidates $100 million. [CBS] White House press secretary Ron Ziegler stated that President Nixon didn't mean to say yesterday that revenue sharing could reduce property taxes 30%; he meant that it could ease pressure against raising property taxes 30%. [CBS] Vice President Spiro Agnew said that drug addiction could become the biggest domestic problem unless the administration's drug program is approved by Congress; the Army has begun testing soldiers leaving South Vietnam for drug addiction. [CBS] South Vietnam staged its first military parade in Saigon in four years. [CBS] The House Labor Committee says that the U.S. Bureau of Mines must bear responsibility for the Hyden, Kentucky, coal mine explosion last December. [CBS] Over 100,000 Neo-Fascists held an election victory rally in Rome. Romano Mussolini, son of the World War II dictator, said that he thinks the Neo-Fascists' election victories show time to be a good judge, and he believes that many ideas from his father's regime would be useful to modern democracy. [CBS] Soviet space expert Anatoly Fedoseyev reportedly defected to the West at the Paris air show three weeks ago; he is now in the United States. [CBS]