Times Is Warned Of a Possible Strike By Photoengravers
Date: 20 November 1975
Photoengravers Union Local 1P on Nov 19 warns of possible strike against NY Times on Nov 20 if it does not agree to continue contract clause giving union jurisdiction for platemaking for offset presses; local pres Stanley A Aslanian, Times sr vp in charge of industrial relations John Mortimer and Mailer Union Local 6 chmn George McDonald comment (S)
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Court Suspends Rate Rise For News Service Phone
Date: 20 November 1975
US Ct of Appeals on Nov 18 temporarily suspends higher private phone rates due to go into effect on Nov 19; nation's 4 major newswire agencies have said new rates would cost them $5-million more a yr (S)
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Levi to Screen U.S. Subpoenas in News Reporting
Date: 20 November 1975
Atty Gen Edward H Levi on Nov 19 tells Fed prosecutors that they must get his approval before subpoenaing confidential material from authors, documentary film producers and anyone engaged in reptg on public affairs, speech at meeting of US attys and marshals, Tuscon, Ariz; notes that regulation clearly covers conventional newspaper and broadcast reporters; case involving subpoena recently issued by Fed prosecutor against group of Calif filmmakers who produced documentary on Weather Underground noted (S)
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U.S. Urged to Guarantee Freedom of All Writers
Date: 19 November 1975
Harrison Salisbury comments on Soviet press censorship, testimony, Permanent Subcom on Investigations (S)
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Mr. Church's Cover-Up
Date: 20 November 1975
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire scores what he sees as Sen Select Intelligence Com's lack of willingness to probe authorized wiretapping and subsequent bugging and attempted blackmailing of Martin Luther King Jr; says they seem unwilling to unduly embarrass officials of Kennedy or Johnson Adms
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Media Credited in Heart-Attack Drive
Date: 20 November 1975
2 experimental mass media campaigns in Calif towns of Watsonville and Gilroy have been effective in persuading people to stop smoking, eat more wisely and exercise more, thus reducing their over-all risks of having heart attacks; Dr John Farquhar, dir of Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program, presents preliminary results of 3-yr study; project is 1st time media have been used in effort to change health habits on community level; campaigns involved radio spots, radio plays, TV shows, regular newspaper column, ads, billboards, direct mail and school kits (S)
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DEMOCRATS KILL ANTIBUSING PLAN; Vote Proposal Down, 172-96 --House Caucus Opened to Public for First Time
Date: 20 November 1975
By RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times
Richard MADDEN
HR Dems open Nov 19 caucus to public and press for 1st time (S)
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