Narrow Focus on TV News; Books of The Times
Date: 05 April 1973
By JOHN J.. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
Epstein, Edward Jay: Book News From Nowhere: Television and the News, by E J Epstein, revd by J J O'Connor
Loris Capirossi (born 4 April 1973) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, currently serving as Safety Advisor to Dorna Sports, the commercial rights holder of Grand Prix motorcycle racing.
He is a 9-time Premier Class race winner, competing between 1990 and 2011. He was the first Grand Prix rider to start at least 300 races, having made his 300th start at the 2010 season-opener Qatar Grand Prix. Capirossi is the 1990 and 1991 125cc World Champion, the 1998 250cc World Champion, while also holding the honor of Youngest World Champion in motorcycle racing, winning the 1990 125cc title at 17 years and 165 days old.
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Date: 05 April 1973
By JOHN J.. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
Epstein, Edward Jay: Book News From Nowhere: Television and the News, by E J Epstein, revd by J J O'Connor
Date: 05 April 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
D S Luce testifies, Apr 4, at Pentagon papers trial that disclosure of information about the 'strategic hamlet' and 'pacification' programs in Vietnam did not damage those programs; both programs were operated by US; Luce says hamlets program wa over by '63, that it became the pacification program, which in turn, by '69, became Vietnamization program; comment on Luce role in helping uncover in '70 the tiger cages'--small cells jammed with prisoners in S Vietnam
Date: 05 April 1973
Brazilian Govt censors lengthy rept describing press censorship made by J Mesquita Neto on Apr 3 before Inter-Amer Press Assn that was appear in his newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo; lrs to editor were substituted on internatl news page to fill space alloted to material
Date: 04 April 1973
Mailers Union Local 6 pres G E McDonald says on Apr 4 that he has recd ruling from Cost of Living Council rescinding rollback, from 15% to 8%, of wage increase in 1st yr of contract for 43 mailers employed by AlcoGravure Div of Publications Corp, Hoboken, NJ; repts mailer will receive retroactive payments totaling about $3,000
Date: 05 April 1973
By JOSHEPH B. TREASTERSpecial to The New York Times
news team of 3, including NY Times correspondent J B Treaster, cruising down Mekong River, are in invited by a Vietcong guerrilla squad to visit a 'liberated hamlet' when boat stops at a clearing; hamlet is 5 mi from Saigon; visit is tightly controlled; Vietcong, since start of cease-fire, have welcomed journalists to their areas; most newsmen rept considerable supervision, but most have also been taken on lengthy tours and tell of having seen hundreds and thousands of people; Vietcong described as showing sense of dedication and purpose that is almost unknown among S Vietnamese troops; Saigon officials say they regard the village as being under their control and had classified it as 'relatively secure'; map; illus of young Vietcong guerrillas
Date: 05 April 1973
Amer journalists D Southerland and F FitzGerald, on assignment for New Yorker (pub), rept on Apr 4 that they had been held prisoner by Vietcong for 2 days and released in hamlet near northern provincial capital of Quang Ngai; Southerland says they were treated well by their captors
Date: 04 April 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
defense attys in Pentagon papers trial call W D Gerhard, intelligence analyst for Natl Security Agency of Defense Dept, and Lieut Col E A Miller, former analyst on dept's Security Rev Div, to testify; both have produced repts, ordered earlier by prosecution in case, on effects of release of papers on natl defense and have found that defense was not injured; Ellsberg-Russo defense contends that Govt suppressed repts for many mos; Judge W M Byrne has allowed defense to use findings of Miller and Gerhard but has not allowed defense to bring out its allegations of suppression; defense hopes by calling Miller and Gerhard to taint prosecution's theft case against Ellsberg and Russo
Date: 05 April 1973
US Atty J F Rudy, in hearing before Judge J J Sirica on suit filed by columnist J Anderson and his asst L Whitten to get back from FBI all copies of what they contend are names and phone numbers of their confidential news sources, notes that FBI has already returned originals of phone toll calls to local phone co; says he will not agree to Anderson's request that all duplicate copies be destroyed because FBI plans to keep them on file as part of its record in investigation of charges against Whitten, later dropped, of possession of papers stolen from Bur of Indian Affairs
Date: 04 April 1973
NY Chapter of Women in Communications presents its Matrix award to E Shanahan (NY Times)
Date: 05 April 1973
Proponents of proposed Stratford (Conn) Downs race track say on Apr 4 that they are undaunted despite Apr 3 referendum that rejected proposal by 2 to 1; opponents of track comment