U.S. Fails in Move To Curb Protesters
by Paul W. Valentine
Washington Post Staff Writer
     
Concerned with the current upsurge in Impeach-Nixon and other demonstrations  planned near the White House, the government yesterday unsuccessfully sought to block a recent court order enlarging the maximum number of demionstrators permitted in the area.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals refused to stay the effect of a lower court order issued last Aug. 28, raising the permissable limits from 100 to 500 demonstraors on the sidewalk in front of the White House; and from 500 to 3,000 demonstrators in adjacent Lafayette Park.

Acting on an urgent note, the the U.S. Attorney's office here in concurrence with the Secret Service cited a half-dozen assorted protests and demonstrations scheduled near the White House today and Sunday.