While Sam Ervin's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights met for a second week to hear testimony on possible legislation to protect newsmen's sources and notes, eleven more reporters and news executives were served with subpoenas demanding just such material. Attorneys for the Committee for the Re-Election of the
President subpoenaed representatives of four news organizations: the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Star-News and TIME.
The subpoenas were all related to three civil suits arising from bugging of the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate last June. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien and Robert S. Strauss, the...
