Washington Union Leader Silent Before Grand Jury
Date: 19 October 1975
James A Dugan, leader of pressmens' union at Washington Post pleads Fifth Amendment before Fed grand jury investigating sabotage in newspaper's press room; union is currently staging strike against newspaper (S)
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Newspaper Guild Strikes For 3d Time in San Juan
Date: 20 October 1975
Newspaper Guild strikes San Juan Star on Oct 18, 3d time in 1 yr (S)
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Senate Office to Publish Declassified Documents
Date: 19 October 1975
Sen historical office is estab under auspices of Sec of Sen to organize and disseminate to public secret documents that are now subject to declassification; under law, transcripts and notes from closed com meetings can be declssified after 12 yrs if move is approved by Sens and witnesses who participated and present members of com concerned; Richard A Baker, Sen Historian and office dir, comments (M)
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French Journalist Is Due To Be Knighted by Britain
Date: 19 October 1975
Brit Embassy spokesman says Jean Marin, former head of Agence France-Presse, will be made honorary knight comdr of Order of the Brit Empire, possibly before end of yr (S)
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Digging Out the News in Soviet Bloc Is Not Any Easier Under Detente
Date: 20 October 1975
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE Special to The New York Times
Malcolm BROWNE
article on difficulty still encountered by Western newsmen in E Eur despite detente and recent Eur summit conf at Helsinki, which dealt in part with freedom for news correspondents to carry out their work; says direct censorship has disappeared and provocations, blackmail and extortion directed against newsmen have largely ended, but that W Eur and US correspondents are sometimes ostentatiously followed by plainclothes men,seemingly to intimidate; notes correspondents have had experiences proving that their telephones are at least occasionally monitored, that their offices and apts contain hidden listen devices and that in some cases their cars have been bugged; says Western journalists leaving Communist countries are sometimes carefully searched and their papers and int notes photographed by secret police; says Western newsmen also live under threat of explusion or exclusion; notes tendency is to avoid direct confrontations with foreign correspondents and to adopt many of tactics of Western press-agentry; says in all Communist countries special govt insts have been established, ostensibly to help foreign correspondents in their work but actually to try to channel reptg away from certain subjects (M)
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PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW; Photojournalism How Does It Stand Up as Art?
Date: 19 October 1975
GENE THORNTON
Gene THORNTON
Article assessing photojournalism as art form; discusses news photographs curently on exhibit at Internatl Center of Photography; illus (L)
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Food News; Children Measure the Metric System
Date: 19 October 1975
By HELEN P. SILVER Special to The New York Times
Helen SILVER
Article on 'learning by doing' method of teaching metric system to grade schoolchildren at Ridge School, Ridgewood, NJ; illus (M)
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Follow-Up on The News; 'Bubble Baby' Nontaxable Tips City Marshal Fees
Date: 19 October 1975
comment on '73-74 toilet paper 'shortage,' which many consumers believe was engineered by paper cos to force increase in prices (S)
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