Broadcast Industry Backs Challenge to Florida Law
Date: 02 March 1974
Natl Assn of Broadcasters and NBC on March 1 ask Sup Ct to declare unconst Fla statute compelling newspapers to provide free space to pol candidates who have been criticized in its pages; case involves challenge by Miami Herald and arguments before 9 Justices are scheduled for April
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Printers Union to Appeal Strike Ban Reinstatement
Date: 02 March 1974
Typographical Union Local 6 pres Bertram Powers on March 1 says that he has asked union's atty to seek rev by US Sup Ct of NY Appeals Ct ruling reinstating permanent no-strike injunction against typographical employes at NY Times
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Paper Stirs a Dispute; Special to The New York Times
Date: 02 March 1974
By JAMES T. WOOTEN
James WOOTEN
Wilmington, Del, policemen have organized boycott of Wilmington Morning News and its sister newspaper Wilmington Evening Journal, protesting newspapers' hiring of convicted murderer, Tom Winsett, as columnist; paper repts having recd angry lrs and having subscriptions canceled; has published 2 of Winsett's columns since Feb 13, both critiques of country's penal system and people's attitudes toward it; Sgt Thomas F Gears, head of Fraternal Order of Police, says his group is asking members to urge advertisers to curtail their business with the 2 (M)
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MANILA ACCUSES A U.S. NEWSMAN; Says He Showed Malice in Reporting on Fighting No Evidence Given Mijares a Correspondent
Date: 01 March 1974
Special to The New York Times
Philippine press monitoring council, Media Advisory Council, on Feb 28 accuses AP Manila bur chief Arnold Zeitlin of malice in reptg on recent fighting between Govt troops and Moslem rebels, Jolo Is; warns in lr to Zeitlin that Filipino employes of news agency will also be held liable for his repts on fighting; Zeitlin is summoned to appear at hearing but refuses on ground that AP has not recognized jurisdiction of media orgn; at hearing no evidence is submitted to demonstrate falsity of any AP rept; council chmn Primitivo Mijares castigates Zeitlin for trying to alienate Philippine Govt from Arab world (M)
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Times Reporter's Notes Are Returned by Saigon; Special to The New York Times
Date: 02 March 1974
South Vietnamese Govt on March 1 returns notes and film of NY Times Saigon bur chief James M Markham
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The Political Impact; Special to The New York Times Reaction to Indictment Could Result in Severe Blow to Republican Prospects News Analysis
Date: 02 March 1974
By R. W. APPLE Jr
R. APPLE
analysis of upcoming election in Ohio's 1st Cong Dist holds defeat of Repub candidate Willis D Gradison Jr, who appears to be running behind, would partly be result of voters equating Gradison with Republicanism, Nixon Adm and Watergate affair; possible natl implications of loss discussed (S)
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I.R.S. WILL GIVE UP DATA ON REPORTER; Specail to The New York Times Agency Denies Wrongdoing in Getting Phone Records
Date: 02 March 1974
IRS Comr Donald C Alexander on Mar 1 decides to surrender home telephone records of NY Times reporter David E Rosenbaum to Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co of Maryland without conceding any wrongdoing in obtaining records; records were subpoenaed in Jan without any notice to Rosenbaum or Times in connection with IRS investigation into alleged unauthorized disclosure of tax information by agency employe; Alexander says in lr to Times atty Floyd Abrams that agency is making exception in Rosenbaum case without changing future policy; Rosenbaum speculated that IRS was interested in his telephone records because he was investigating rept of pending tax charges against major contributor to Pres Nixon's '72 re-election campaign (M)
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Cochrans Dominant In Slalom; News of Skiing
Date: 01 March 1974
By MICHAEL STRAUSS Special to The New York Times
Michael Special
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