Times Is Warned Of a Possible Strike By Photoengravers
Date: 20 November 1975
Photoengravers Union Local 1P on Nov 19 warns of possible strike against NY Times on Nov 20 if it does not agree to continue contract clause giving union jurisdiction for platemaking for offset presses; local pres Stanley A Aslanian, Times sr vp in charge of industrial relations John Mortimer and Mailer Union Local 6 chmn George McDonald comment (S)
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Report Will Be Printed
Date: 21 November 1975
rept of Sen Select Com on Intelligence will be made available to public through Govt Printing Office; printing office spokesman says it will print 10,000 copies of rept beginning on Nov 20 (S)
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Times Engravers Drop Strike Threat And Continue Talks
Date: 21 November 1975
Photoengravers at NY Times call off strike threatened for Nov 20 and agree to continue negotiations on new contract; Photoengravers Local 1P pres Stanley A Aslanian and mediator Vincent D McDonnell comment (S)
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Sad Story for Voice of America
Date: 21 November 1975
By LINDA CHARLTON Special to The New York Times
Linda Special
Biog sketch; por (S)
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Court Suspends Rate Rise For News Service Phone
Date: 20 November 1975
US Ct of Appeals on Nov 18 temporarily suspends higher private phone rates due to go into effect on Nov 19; nation's 4 major newswire agencies have said new rates would cost them $5-million more a yr (S)
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Levi to Screen U.S. Subpoenas in News Reporting
Date: 20 November 1975
Atty Gen Edward H Levi on Nov 19 tells Fed prosecutors that they must get his approval before subpoenaing confidential material from authors, documentary film producers and anyone engaged in reptg on public affairs, speech at meeting of US attys and marshals, Tuscon, Ariz; notes that regulation clearly covers conventional newspaper and broadcast reporters; case involving subpoena recently issued by Fed prosecutor against group of Calif filmmakers who produced documentary on Weather Underground noted (S)
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Part of Capital Staff Dismissed By Westinghouse Broadcasting
Date: 21 November 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Westinghouse Broadcasting Co, which operates WINS in NYC met area and similar all-news radio stations in Los Angeles and Phila, has dismissed 7 correspondents from its Washington bur as econ measure and is negotiating with natl news services to provide stations with hard-news coverage; bur mgr Sid Davis will continue to cover White House and co's 4 commentators and its specialists in health, consumer affairs, educ and economics will stay on in Washington; co's overseas burs have not been affected by cutback; Westinghouse chmn Donald H McGannon estimates that co will save $600,000 to $1-million a yr by eliminating 7 reporters (M)
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NO VOTE BY SENATE; Democrats, Fearing a Close Tally, Said to Block Floor Ballot Full Senate Vote on Report Blocked
Date: 21 November 1975
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM Special to The New York Times
David ROSENBAUM
Sen sources say Sen Dem leadership prevented floor vote on making public Sen Select Intelligence Com's rept on pol assassinations; com votes to make it public; Sen J G Tower disassociates himself from rept because of Sen's failure to vote to adopt it; Sen R C Byrd says he objected to vote on whether to publish rept on ground that it was unfair to require Sens to vote to release a document they had not read and because Sen delegated to com the responsibility for making a rept and a vote would have been demeaning to com; Sens F Church, B Goldwater, W F Mondale, R S Schweiker and R Morgan comment (M)
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REACTION TO DEATH REACTION TO DEATH OF FRANCO MUTED; Most of European Countries Observe Courtesies but the Communists Are Caustic
Date: 21 November 1975
By JOSEPH COLLINS Special to The New York Times
Joseph Special
Portuguese Popular Dem leaders Francisco Sa Carneiro says that Spanish Gen Francisco Franco's death will have less effect on Portugal than events in Portugal are having on evolution of Spanish pol (S)
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MAGAZINE BACKED IN A LIBEL RULING; Plaintiffs Held to Be 'Public Figures' Open to Scrutiny
Date: 21 November 1975
By ROBERT LINDSEY Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Superior Ct Judge Thomas W Le Sage on Nov 20 rules that Rancho La Costa, southern Calif hotel and real estate development with alleged links to organized crime, and its 4 principal owners are 'public figures' and therefore valid subjects for probing scrutiny by press; ruling, made in largest suit ever brought in US, claim for $630-million against Penthouse (pub), is expected to affect future press coverage of organized crime; ruling means that to win case co and its owners must now prove that Penthouse published inaccurate information about them with malice, knowingly or with reckless disregard for facts; plaintiffs in suit are Morris B Dalitz, Allard Roen, Irwin Molasky and Mervyn Adelson; article in Penthouse was written by Lowell Bergman and Jeff Gerth and claimed that development was financed largely by questionable loans from pension fund of Teamsters (M)
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