The News Of the Absurd; WASHINGTON
Date: 10 February 1974
J Reston comment on news repts from various countries that strike him as absurd; news includes repts from China that Govt is mounting another 'cultural revolution,' from USSR that Govt is mounting greatest naval challenge since the Kaiser, from Eur that Eur Common Mkt now has more people than US or USSR and is by far most powerful internatl trading group but can't defend itself, from Washington that Pres Nixon is going to lead campaign to protect privacy of Amer citizens
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Photonegravers Ratify 2-Year Pact With Papers
Date: 11 February 1974
Photoengravers Union Local 1 on Feb 10 ratify new 2-yr contract with NY Times and Daily News; new agreement is retroactive to last March 31
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On Emancipation
Date: 11 February 1974
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire, in fictional roundup of reaction to Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 'quotes' writers Mary McGrory, Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, William Buckley, C L Sulzberger, Art Buchwald and James Reston
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Washington Post Raises Its D.C. Newsstand Prices
Date: 10 February 1974
Washington Post announces increase in newsstand price of its daily and Sunday edition in Dist of Columbia and Maryland; daily price will rise from 10c to 15c and Sunday price from 40c to 50c
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Heykal Said to Attribute Ouster to Rift on Nixon
Date: 11 February 1974
Time magazine repts that former Cairo newspaper Al Ahram editor Mohammed Hassanein Heykal says he was dismissed by Egyptian Pres Sadat on Feb 1 because he expressed doubts about Pres Nixon's influence in Middle East at time when he was too busy defending himself over Watergate scandal; quotes Heykal as saying that he doubts Nixon has strength to force Israel to give up enough for peace settlement (S)
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Pentagon Spy Case: Questions Remain; The Senate Investigation Is Cautious, the Testimony Secret
Date: 10 February 1974
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Article summarizing alleged Pentagon spying inside White House, cites events leading up to Jack Anderson's publication in '71 of secret White House papers on India-Pakistan war
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Ideas &Trends; Education, Space, Psychology, Religion
Date: 10 February 1974
Donald Johnston and Caroline Rand Herron
Donald Johnston
Sen hearings on consumer-reptg indus revd; testimony of 4 former investigators for Retail Credit Co that they were forced to falsify repts and meet unrealistic goals in order to keep jobs noted (S)
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