PRINTERS REPORT STRIKE APPROVAL; Powers Says International Authorizes Action Here
Date: 25 March 1974
ITU Local 6 pres Bertram A Powers on March 24 tells members that agreement has been reached with their internatl officers that would permit them to strike 1,2 or all 3 of NYC daily newspapers if they cannot arrive at new contract settlement with papers
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Watergate Jury's Report Goes to House Unit Today; HOUSE PANEL GETS JURY DATA TODAY Confidentiality Cited To Call These Officers'
Date: 26 March 1974
By ANTHONY RIPLEYSpecial to The New York Times
Attys for Felipe de Diego, 1 of 6 men indicted March 7 in connection with burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding, file motion on March 25 in Fed ct to try Diego separately; hold that Digo believed at time of burlgary that he was employed by exec branch of Govt and was working to protect natl security
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JUDGE RESTRAINS PRINTERS AT NEWS; Continues Ban on Job Action Until Next Monday Injunction Obtained Dismissal Asked
Date: 26 March 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Fed Judge Murray I Gurfein on March 25 signs order continuing until April 1 temporary restraining order enjoining ITU Local 6 from holding meetings or taking other action that would interfere with operations at NY Daily News; contracts between ITU and News, NY Times and NY Post had termination date of March 30, '73, but they contain clause saying that agreements will continue in effect until new settlement is achieved or 'other action' is taken by ITU
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BRAZILIAN PRESS FACES NEW CURBS; Editor Calls the Censorship Grotesque After Ban on Articles on Streaking Some New Restrictions Critics Encouraged
Date: 25 March 1974
By MARVINE HOWESpecial to The New York Times
official Brazilian Govt censors during wk of March 22 ban press mention of devils, angels and streaking, despite assurances from new Pres Gen Ernesto Geisel that censorship would be eased; Mino Carta, managing editor of wkly magazine Veja, calls Govt action grotesque and humiliating; says that Min of Justice Armando Falcao told him that he (Falcao) would recommend end to censorship and establishment of gen self-censorship; similar pledges are said to have been given to publisher Julio de Mesquita-Neto (O Estado de Sao Paulo); editor Raimundo Rodrigues Pereira (Opinao) and Sao Paulo Archbishop Paulo Evansto Cardinal Arns comment (M)
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Congress on the Air
Date: 25 March 1974
Ed on proposed TV coverage of Cong notes that TV, geared to program schedules and elaborate equipment, would either be forced to record every minute of every session or give leadership in 2 legis bodies power to fill prearranged time slot with whatever segment of debate might favor their party
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Sealing History Behind Walls and Iron Bars
Date: 25 March 1974
By George McMillan
George McMillan
George McMillan article discusses US Prisons Bur policy of forbidding inmates access to press, in connection with request by Tennessee to move James Earl Ray from state to Fed prison; holds public has right to know what happened, and if he is incarcerated in Fed prison, it will never know; describes author's suit in Fed Dist Ct to allow him to speak with brother Jack Ray, who is in Fed penitentiary in Marion, Ill; drawing
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U.S. Replies to Networks On Antitrust Suit Motive
Date: 26 March 1974
Justice Dept of March 25 asks Fed ct to dismiss arguments by major TV networks that antitrust suits had been filed against them for pol motives; NBC, CBS and ABC contend that Govt suits against them violate freedom of press and have been filed for improper reasons
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Study at American U. Disputes President on 'Distorted' Newscasts; Clean Bill of Health' Nixon Statement Backed
Date: 26 March 1974
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
3 teams of graduate students in broadcast journalism at Amer Univ in Washington, who conducted 2-wk study of fairness of evening newscasts following charges by Nixon that TV network news was 'outrageous, vicious, distorted,' cite only 1 news story from among 216 reptd which it considered unfair to Nixon; cite as objectionable reference to Maurice H Stans, who was identified as 'under Fed indictment in NY in the Vesco case'; group says that by pointing out that Stans is under indictment, CBS News was deliberately casting Nixon in unfavorable light (S)
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