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Date: 08 October 1975
Ital publisher Mondadori and group that publishes magazine L'Espresso announce on Oct 7 foundation of new natl daily, La Republica, due to appear on newsstands on Jan 14; editor Eugenio Scalfari comments (S)
Date: 08 October 1975
By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN Special to The New York Times
Christopher WREN
Article on Pravda, organ of Central Com of Soviet Communist party read by 10-million citizens; commenting on paper's functions are managing editor Sergei V Tsukasov, chief editor Mikhail V Zimyanin and deputy editor Vadim Nekrasov; illus of page one of a Pravda issue (L)
Date: 08 October 1975
St Louis Post-Dispatch on Oct 7 lays off 51 of its 225 pressmen and flymen, members of union that have failed to reach agreement on new contract with paper (S)
Date: 09 October 1975
Correction on Oct 7 article that named Frederick, Md, News and Post as 1 of 6 nonunion papers in Washington area that have been printing Washington Post during pressmen strike; Frederick paper has not been assisting Post (S)
Date: 08 October 1975
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
members of Newspaper Guild at Washington Post on Oct 7 vote to continue working during walkout of pressmen that is now in its 6th day; mailers and photoengravers strike, raising prospect of long and costly walkout; Post repts that Christian Williams, reporter and Guild member, was assaulted while entering bldg; execs of Post rept that paper would have continued to publish without Guild members had they voted to reverse their week-old policy of crossing pressmen's picket lines; say they have been prepared to assign supervisory and other nonunion employes to newsroom jobs; Post exec vp Mark J Meagher comments (M)
Date: 09 October 1975
Pres Ford to hold regional news conf in Detroit on Oct 10 (S)
Date: 09 October 1975
Indian Govt on Oct 8 cuts off telex and telephone lines of Reuters office in New Delhi and home phones of its 3 correspondents; chief censor Harry D'Penha tells Reuters that action had been taken because of rept on beating of pol prisoners in New Delhi's Tihar jail; rept has not been denied but D'Pehna says it was serious violation of self-censorship; home and office phone line of Australian Broadcasting Comm repr was also cut, apparently for same reason; telex and home and office phones of UPI have been disconnected for 1 wk (S)
Date: 08 October 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Comment on refusal of 2 networks to carry live broadcast of Pres Ford's TV speech on Fed tax cuts and Fed spending cuts because they felt it would subject them to demands for equal time from other candidates (M)
Date: 09 October 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
ABC is involved in dispute with its former White House correspondent Bill Gill over whether network kept too close liason with White House during Pres of Richard M Nixon; Gill filed $3-million breach of contract suit against network after he was dismissed in spring of '74 (M)
Date: 08 October 1975
ed on refusal of CBS and NBC to give live coverage to Pres Ford's TV speech on Fed tax cuts and Fed spending cuts; suggests decision of networks was ploy aimed at forcing FCC to move toward suspending 'equal time' provision; holds suspension of provision would not assure fuller public access to information about campaigns or public affairs