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Date: 17 October 1972
By BERNARD GWERTZMANSpecial to The New York Times
US on wk of Oct 9 protests to Soviet Embassy press counselor A P Yevstafyev and Amb A F Dobrynin against continued travel restrictions on Amer correspondents; State Dept official repts that Russians were informed that Govt would retaliate against Soviet correspondents when travel barriers were placed on Amer newsmen in USSR
Date: 18 October 1972
NYU awards its D Hollenbeck award for best article evaluating mass media to More (pub)
Date: 18 October 1972
Special to The New York Times
South Korean Pres Park Chung Hee on Oct 17 proclaims martial law and imposes press censorship
Date: 17 October 1972
By HENRY KAMMSpecial to The New York Times
Philippines Govt on Oct 16 authorizes pub of new daily newspaper, Times-Journal; Asst Sec of Public Information L J Cruz says staff of Times-Journal have all been found to be 'respectable' journalists not involved in corruption or subversion; says they have agreed to write positive news; Dept of Public Information head F S Tatad says censorship of dispatches by foreign correspondents will soon be ended
Date: 17 October 1972
Special to The New York Times
New Mexico Press Assn votes during its meeting on wk of Oct 9 to drop use of hyphenated Amer terms such as 'Mexican-American' in newspapers; says word Amer should precede natl or ethnic origins and that such terms as American of Mexican descent' should be used
Date: 18 October 1972
ed holds that Nixon criticism of public opinion leaders and press for not supporting his Vietnam policies shows 'shallowness' of Pres's commitment to freedom of opinion, speech and press
Date: 17 October 1972
By TAD SZULCSpecial to The New York Times
Nixon, in attack on 'so-called opinion leaders of this country,' cites 'leaders of media, great editors and publishers and TV commentators' for failing to stand behind him on his Vietnam policies, Oct 16 surprise appearance at Natl League of Families of Amer Prisoners and Missing in SE Asia conf, Washington; illus
Date: 17 October 1972
By HEDRICK SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
USSR officials, noting that statistics on USSR traffic accidents are published erratically, say privately they see no point in sensationalizing bad news as is done in Western media; some Western diplomats suspect that Soviet authorities are wary of reptg alarming death statistics that might reflect badly on roads or state of repair of cars, both of which are considered to be far below standards in W Eur and US; suggest that traffic fatality rates may be rising at alarming proportions; articles in Soviet publications last summer disclosed 8,797 fatalities in Ukraine and Kazakhstan in '71, twice as many as in Calif although that state is estimated to have 4 or 5 times as many vehicles
Date: 17 October 1972
Chilean police on Oct 16 clash several times with groups of businessmen and youths as shopkeepers, striking in sympathy with truckers, keep their stores closed in defiance of leftist Govt; nationwide truckers' strike, which led to declaration of state of emergency on Oct 12, began on Oct 10 as truck owners sought higher cargo rates and protested against reptd formation of state trucking agency in southern Chile
Date: 17 October 1972
Peluso, Dominick R