Replay Freitag, 7. November 1975

Reporters Won't Be Forced To Testify About Article

Date: 08 November 1975

RI Atty Gen Julius Michaelson says on Nov 7 that he will not compel newsmen Randall Richard and Jack White (Providence Journal-Bulletin) to testify about article they wrote on Aug robbery; says he will send investigators to talk to newsmen but if they still refuse to give additional information matter will be dropped; notes that under RI's Newsmen's Privilege Act reporters have legal right to refuse to disclose their sources (S)

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KHEEL JOINS TALKS ON PACT AT TIMES; Guild and Newspaper Both Gloomy on Outcome

Date: 08 November 1975

By DAMON STETSON

Damon STETSON

Mediator Theodore Kheel joins newspaper contract talks on Nov 7 as negotiators for NY Times, Daily News and Newspaper Guild resume talks in effort to avert Nov 11 strike; says there remain substantial differences between parties; Paul Yager, regional dir of FMCS asked Kheel to assist; Mason Wye and Hezekiah Brown, mediation comrs, will continue to participate with Kheel; Newspaper Unity Com pledges support to guild if strike should occur at Times; George McDonald, chmn of com and pres of Mailers Union Local 6, announces union's support with exception of ITU Local 6 which has 11-yr contract with Times and News; ITU pres David Crockett says printers will assess situation and make decision at time strike begins; guild exec vp Harry Fisdell comments (M)

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GUILD PICKS TIMES AS STRIKE TARGET; Union to Act Next Tuesday if Negotiations Fail

Date: 07 November 1975

By DAMON STETSON

Damon STETSON

Citywide Coordinating Com of Newspaper Guild on Nov 6 picks NY Times as union's strike target on Nov 11 if negotiators fail to reach contract settlement by then; guild exec vp Harry Fisdell comments; Stereotypers Union Local 1 and Times and Daily News are reptd close to settlement (M)

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Still New Under the Sun: Truth

Date: 07 November 1975

By Jonathan PowerAssemblage by Michael Sullivan

Jonathan Michael

Jonathan Power on news events played up by media; holds too often media are obsessed with passing trivia of dramatic events; notes John Wilheim, dean of School of Journalism at Ohio Univ, observed that UPI in Feb '62 had no dispatch on events in Chile (S)

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Panel Drops Complaint on Leaks Filed Against Rep. Harrington; Invalid Complaint Activities in Chile

Date: 07 November 1975

By RICHARD D. LYONS Special to The New York Times

HR Ethics Com, 7-3, on Nov 6 dismisses complaint that Repr Michael J Harrington illegally disclosed classified testimony about CIA's covert activities in Chile; complaint dismissed on tech ground that no rules of Cong had been violated; com rules that April 22, '74 meeting at which CIA Dir William E Colby testified, had been convened under conditions that violated HR rules and therefore Repr Roland L Beard's complaint was invalid; Repr John J Flynt Jr, Ethics Com chmn, says no public notice was issued to call April 22 meeting; Harrington acknowledges that he discussed testimony with other Congressmen and reporters, but denies he had been source of several news accts of Colby's testimony; releases lr from Repr F Edward Hebert as evidence, referring to Congressman from Mass who is self-confessed breaker of rules of HR and self-confessed leaker of sensitive information of US to unauthorized people and to press; Harrington, defending his action, did not refer to illegality of April 22 meeting, which supports repts that Dem leaders are seeking to quash formal investigation (M)

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OPEN GOVERNMENT BACKED BY SENATE; Vote Is Unanimous to Make Federal Meetings Public Contact With Country Agencies Will Be Affected

Date: 07 November 1975

Sen rejects Sen Javits amendment to exempt system from legis to require most of Govt to open its meetings to public

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Lisbon Soldiers Blow Up Leftist Radio Transmitter; Lisbon Leftists' Radio Silenced As Its Transmitter Is Blown Up

Date: 08 November 1975

By ALVIN SHUSTER Special to The New York Times

Alvin Special

Portuguese soldiers blow up transmitter of radio station operated by extreme left in raid ordered by mil leadership to strengthen its authority; station, Radio Renascenca, was voice of RC Ch in Lisbon before it was taken over during summer (M)

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RIGGED ARMS DATA ON SOVIET ALLEGED; House Intelligence Unit Cites Evidence of U.S. Agencies Distorting Estimates Congress Unit Cites False Data on Soviet

Date: 07 November 1975

By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times

CIA dir William Colby, in response to questions by HR Intelligence Com, acknowledges that CIA had continued its practice, 1st disclosed 2 yrs ago, of employing as informants abroad some part-time correspondents of major Amer news-gathering orgns; declines to discuss in public session names either of correspondents or orgns, but indicates that practice extends to free-lance radio and TV correspondents as well as part-time newspaper and magazine writers; emphasizes that CIA does not now employ any full-time correspondents of Amer news-gathering orgns (S)

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Senate Unit Says Cable Companies Aided in Spying; Published Over Objections Legality Not Judged Government Got Tapes Ford 'Regrets' Disclosure

Date: 07 November 1975

By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times

Sen Select Intelligence Com discloses that for almost 30 yrs, 3 internatl telegraph cos secretly supplied to US Govt copies of most of messages they carried; makes public its rept on Operation Shamrock, a secret program to scan cable traffic for intelligence data, begun during Truman Adm and discontinued last May by Defense Sec J R Schlesinger; rept is made public over objections of Ford Adm and 3 of com's Repub members, Sens J G Tower, B Goldwater and H H Baker Jr; publication follows testimony by Atty Gen E H Levi, who said Ford ordered Natl Security Agency (NSA), which conducted Shamrock, to keep him informed of its various electronic-surveillance programs; com rept says James Forrestal, Defense Sec in '47, asked 3 cos to turn over to Govt voluntarily message traffic of certain specific foreign intelligence targets; rept does not name targets, but presumably they were embassies and individuals in contact with Soviet bloc; cos are RCA Global Communications Inc, ITT Communications and Western Union Internatl; rept says Forrestal told cos project had approval of Truman and Atty Gen Tom C Clark; says from '49, program operated without express approval of any Pres or Atty Gen; former NSA deputy dir Dr Louis Tordella testifies; NSA officials and reprs of cos testify that cos recd no compensation for their cooperation, nor did they get govt favoritism in other business dealings; (M)

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REPORTERS PROTEST CONVENTION SET-UP

Date: 08 November 1975

Com representing reporters covering Cong charge on Nov 7 that press arrangements for '76 Dem Natl Conv in NY will hamper news coverage of conv by wire services and daily newspapers; 3 major TV networks have ready access to conv, but wire service and newspapers reporters have been relegated 4 levels below conv floor, with indications that floor access from press stand may be further reduced to unacceptable levels; com concerned about Dem's decision to issue conv hall credentials on daily basis, forcing hundreds of reporters to line up daily, interrupting assignments to obtain them (S)

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