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Date: 09 May 1974
Washington Star-News and Washington Post on May 8 terminate their labor contracts with ITU but rept they intend to continue negotiations; printers are instructed in advance by union local pres Raymond E Hall to continue work in composing rooms in event their contracts are cancelled
Date: 09 May 1974
700 members of Teamsters Local 211 are scheduled to vote on May 9 on contract proposal that ended their 5-wk strike against Pittsburgh Press Co that halted publication of both Press and Morning Gazette
Date: 09 May 1974
Akron Beacon-Journal on May 7 resumes normal publication after 6 days, having reached agreement on new contract with members of Teamsters Local 473; newspaper published during strike with aid of supervisory personnel
Date: 09 May 1974
May 8 editions of Kansas City Star with reduced amounts of news and display ad and no classified ads are printed by supervisory personnel and other employes in absence of pressmen; Web Printing Pressmen's Local 14, representing 98 pressmen who were dismissed, proposes that workers be rehired, but paper's gen mgr Frank S McKinney refuses
Date: 08 May 1974
By BERNARD WEINRAUBSpecial to The New York Times
Sri Lanka Prime Min Sirimavo Bandaranaike has closed country's last ind newspaper chain, Sun Group, on ground that newspapers were 'spreading their invented or deliberately distorted untruths and half-truths, which they mistake for journalistic enterprise'; Govt's emergency move follows take-over of Sri Lanka's most influential and powerful publishers, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon; 3d largest publishers, Times Group, has also turned fervently pro-Govt; Sun Group publisher Sepana Gunasena charges Govt does not want Opposition to get any publicity; Bandaranaike has been upset by increasing publicity given to her opponent Junius Richard Jayawardene, leader of United Natl party (M)
Date: 09 May 1974
Sen Watergate com in draft rept made public on May 8 rejects any natl security justification for break-in by White House plumbers unit at offices of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist
Date: 08 May 1974
By JAMES M. NAUGHTONSpecial to The New York Times
CBS spokesman announces on May 7 that 3 CBS, NBC and ABC will rotate live coverage of House Judiciary Com's impeachment hearings when they enter public phase, expected to begin may 21 with ABC televising 1st segment; Public Broadcasting Service plans coverage of open impeachment hearings, but officials of Public TV Network say that decision has not yet been made whether telecasts will be live or videotaped for later prime-time airing
Date: 08 May 1974
By TERRY ROBARDSSpecial to The New York Times
Amalgamated Engineering Workers Union calls strike that involves 1.2-million workers, threatening to shut down major part of Brit indus just as nation's econ was recovering from 3-day workweek; strike will test Prime Min Wilson's ability to maintain peaceful relations with labor movement and to keep econ on even keel (M)
Date: 09 May 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Fed mediator Theodore Kheel on May 8 asks ITU Local 6 and NY Times, News and Post to meet with him for resumption of contract negotiations on May 9; News, encouraged by its success in producing May 8 paper without printers, goes ahead with plans for expanded editions on May 9; most members of other unions continue to rept to work at News; Mailers Union Local 6 George McDonald repts he is not convinced there is justification for putting his members on picket line
Date: 08 May 1974
By ALLAN M. SIEGAL
NY Daily News repts all but 10% of its staff, outside of union printers, showed up for work on May 7; union-exempt secs run automated typesetting machines during composing-room shutdown; chief copy editor Mel Pine and news editor Joe Kovach rept work continues much the same as before printers' walkout; drawing of automated typesetting process