CAMBODIA SEARCH FOR 23 CONTINUES; Hope for Missing Newsmen Persists Although Nothing Conclusive Is Known Hanoi Unhelpful Every Report Checked Committee Is Hopeful
Date: 02 December 1974
By SYDNEY H. SCHANBERGSpecial to The New York Time
Sydney SCHANBERGSpecial
23 foreign journalists are still missing and unaccounted for in Cambodia; most of newsmen disappeared or were captured by anti-Govt troops in early mos of war, in spring of '70, but 3 have disappeared in last yr; North Vietnamese insist that matter has nothing to do with them and have referred all queries to 2 opposing Cambodian sides; Prince Norodom Sihanouk has expressed concern about journalists and his public remarks may have benefited some who were released after capture early in war; journalists' coms have been formed in US and France to press Communist side for information; sources rept that hope remains that some may be alive in prison camps; Amer journalists missing include Sean Flynn (Time), Dana Stone (CBS), Terry Reynolds (UPI) and Welles Hangen (NBC); Amer Com to Free Journalists Held in Southeast Asia, headed by Walter Cronkite, issued statement saying that it believes as many as 10 of journalists are being held by insurgents (M)
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Bulletin Strike in 2d Day
Date: 03 December 1974
Delivery of Philadelphia Bulletin is halted on Dec 2 for 2d day by strike of 150 mailroom employes protesting suspension of 10 members; sales were limited to bldg lobby
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Ford Offers Variation In News Conference
Date: 03 December 1974
Special to The New York Times
Pres Ford holds nationally televised news conf in 4th floor auditorium of Old Exec Office bldg instead of in White House or in Rose Garden; changes in structure of conf noted (S)
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Rockefeller Is Reportedly Contradicted on Wiretaps
Date: 03 December 1974
BySEYMOUR M. HERSHSpecial to The New York Times
Sources say HR Judiciary Com has developed evidence contradicting N A Rockefeller's assertions that he was not privately told of White House wiretapping and the secret operations in Chile before their newspaper disclosure; Rockefeller, at Sen Rules Com hearing in Sept, denied any prior knowledge of White House wiretaps on 4 newsmen and 13 members of H A Kissinger's Natl Security Council (NSC) staff and other Fed officials; according to memo recently circulated among com members, former NSC and Pres's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Bd member A Russell Ash told HR com investigators on Oct 24 '74 of conversation he had with Kissinger in late '69 in which Kissinger complained about Rockefeller's knowledge of the then-secret wiretaps; Rockefeller press sec Hugh Morrow says Rockefeller will stand on previous statements indicating that he had obtained no knowledge of surveillance until newspaper accounts appeared; issue arose last yr when then-White House counsel John W Dean 3d testified before Sen Watergate com that former FBI official William C Sullivan had told him that he had heard wiretap information had gone to then-NYS Gov Rockefeller; subsequently released White House transcript of Feb 28 '72 meeting between Dean and then-Pres Nixon shows 2 men discussed allegation by Sullivan that late-FBI Dir J Edgar Hoover had leaked word of wiretaps to former FBI aide J Patrick Coyne; Dean said, on tape, that it was Coyne who had relayed word of wiretaps to Rockefeller; Rockefeller denies Dean testimony; HR com int with Ash quoted; Coyne, in staff int, denied knowing of wiretaps or discussing them with Rockefeller or any other member of intelligence bd; com summary notes Coyne acknowledged that he had discussed allegations of prior wiretap knowledge during telephone conversation with Rockefeller in Sept '74 (L)
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Dispute on Investigative Reporting Leads Press to Study Its Roile; When It Was Right Harm to the Nation'
Date: 02 December 1974
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
NY Times met editor Arthur Gelb comments on current state of investigative reptg
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Burch Resigning as White House Adviser; Notes on People
Date: 03 December 1974
ALBIN KREBS
Albin KREBS
Diana Dors is discharged from London hosp where she underwent treatment for meningitis
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News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day International National The Other News Quotation of the Day CORRECTIONS
Date: 03 December 1974
correction on Dec 2 article which stated that Beatrice Foods Co earnings declined for 2d qr, fiscal '74; they actually rose 12% for period (S)
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