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' WASHINGTON (UPI) Richard Nixon's lawyer told the
Supreme Court yesterday the ex-president may be em
barrassed and subjected to menial anguish if up to 22 hours of
White House tapes are reproduced for broadcast and public
sale.
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Attorney William Jeffress Jr. urged the justices to reverse a
U.S appeals court ruling opening the way for public
distribution of copies of tapes played at the 1974 Watergate
cover-up trial. .
But Edward Bennett Williams, representing Warner
Communications Inc. which wants to sell a two-album edition
of tape excerpts, said common law gives a trial judge
discretion to allow copying of a court exhibit.
Williams said the fact that broadcasting such evidence
may be embarrassing is not sufficient reason for blocking its
release.
I say this with no meanness of spirit," Williams told the
justices, "but I think that is what petitioner's Nixon's
argument is reduced to that an alleged conspirator has a
right not to be embarrassed by the sound of his voice simply
because he had been president."
The justices wanted to know what would happen .if the
person involved were not a former president, but a defendant
in a murder trial or a society matron charged with adultery.
Jeffress said in many instances the law protects people from
injuries due to embarrassment or mental anguish.
"We submit in these private conversations it is going to be
embarrassing to participants,"he said, and cause them
mental anguish. "It is not unusual for persons speaking
privately to be irreverent."
"TapB are susceptible to uses far more offensive" than
printed transcripts, Jeffress said.
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Medical review groups 'costly'
WASHINGTON (UPI) • The first
report on the medical watchdog groups
created by Congress said yesterday the
agencies, assigned to 'monitor the cost
and quality of subsidized health care,
are too expensive and have not helped
reduce hospital use.
The report reached no conclusion on
whether the review teams of physicians
have succeeded in improving the quality
of care for Medicare and Medicaid
patients.
The agencies known as Professional
Standards Review Organizations
were created in 1972 to monitor the
quality and efficiency of the $47 billion
worth of medical care dispensed an-
Steel-import
WASHINGTON (UPI) The ad
ministration is considering an
assistance program for the nation's
troubled steel industry which may in
clude a new system to monitor prices of
imported products, officials said yes
terday.
The package also will contain new
industry tax incentives and may involve
postponement of government-mandated
pollution controls, the officials said.
American steel companies, en
nually to elderly Medicare and needy
Medicaid patients.
A government advisory panel released
preliminary results of the first national
evaluation of the fledgling PSRO net
work.
The panel decided against immediate
action on the report after some members
said the review may have unfairly
challenged "the integrity of the
program."
A representative of the District of
Columbia PSRO called the study
premature.
But a summary of the $1 million study
said there was enough information "to
strongly suggest that PSRO im
price controls considered
countering severe financial problems,
have long complained that imported
steel is being sold in the United States
considerably below cost
The practice, called "dumping," has
been a factor in several steel mill
closings and thousands of lost jobs since
mid-summer.
President Carter last month promised
industry executives his administration
would begin a more vigorous en
forcement of anti-dumping laws. He also
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plementation alone is not apt to cause
significant changes in either hospital
utilization rates or associated govern
mental expenditures.
It also said the PSRO program is more
expensive than the hospital-based ad
mission review• programs it is replacing
across the country, and said the
program "is not now cost-effective and
thus is not yet serving as A cost
containment mechanism."
In Colorado, which has a statewide
PSRO, the cost of PSRO review was
reported of be $1 million more than'the
cost of patient review conducted by
hospitals.
set up an administration task force to
develop proposals for helping the in
dustry.
That group, headed by Treasury
undersecretary Anthony Solomon, will
present its proposals to Carter by the
end of the month, officials said.
The focal point of the package, a
Treasury spokesman said, will be in
stitution of a so-called "reference"
pricing system aimed at eliminating
delays in imposition of dumping tariffs.