Byrne Challenges License Renewals In Bid to Get TV Station for Jersey
Date: 01 May 1975
By RONALD SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times
Ronald Special
NJ Gov Byrne files petition with FCC challenging license renewals of all NYC TV stations in NYC on ground that they have largely ignored NJ; action comes 2 wks after NJ Coalition for Fair Broadcasting announced that it had withdrawn similar challenge after recg pledges from 4 stations that they would increase their news and public affairs coverage of NJ; Byrne holds that agreements achieved by coaltion do not go far enough; says his objective is to persuade FCC to order 1 of network flagship stations moved from NYC to NJ; says if this fails he will ask FCC to order at least 1 of stations to assume specific broadcast responsibility for NJ (M)
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Price of New York Post Will Rise to 25c Monday
Date: 02 May 1975
NY Post on May 5 will increase its newsstand price by 5c to 25c; cites sharp increase in prices of newsprint, wages, ink and other supplies (S)
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Nessen Spars With Reporters Regarding Vietnam and Evacuation; Pressure Conceded
Date: 02 May 1975
By RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times
Richard MADDEN
NY Times foreign editor James Greenfield comments on pressures news orgns brought on US Govt to aid them in leaving Vietnam (S)
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Kissinger Says U.S. May Shelter 70,000; Kissinger Asserts U.S. May Resettle 70,000 Vietnamese
Date: 01 May 1975
By JOHN W. FINNEY Special to The New York Times
John FINNEY
NY Times correspondents Malcolm W Browne and Fox Butterfield are aboard US Navy ship Blue Ridge, which left Saigon on Apr 30
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Asian Communists Cheer Take-Over in Saigon as Others Ponder the Implications.; Japan Looking to Trade; Some Extend Recognition Firecracker Set Off Commitment to Peking Japan Looks to Trade
Date: 02 May 1975
By JOSEPH LELYVELD Special to The New York Times
Joseph Special
comment on May Day celebrations in Peking focusing on recent Communist victory in S Vietnam; officials from Japan, S Korea, Nationalist China, S Korea and Malaysia discuss implications of Vietnam fall for their nations (M)
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JOURNALISTS NAMED TO HALL OF FAME
Date: 02 May 1975
Sigma Delta Chi names Homer Bigart and James Reston (NY Times) to Hall of Fame (S)
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Reds Report Take-Over Of Vietnam Is Complete; Vietnam Reds Call Take-Over Complete Numbers Differ No Reports of Casualties U.S. Presence Assailed New Committee Named Newsmen Move Freely French Nationals Safe
Date: 02 May 1975
Communist announcement that Saigon (S Vietnam) will be renamed Ho Chi Minh City is changed; new announcement notes that while popular name will be Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon will be official name (S)
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Date: 02 May 1975
The New York Times
NYC pol reporters hold stickball contest with Mayor Beame adm officials, marking start of Police Athletic League summer program; Manhattan Dist Atty Robert M Morgenthau illus
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Times and News Reporters Win Columbia's Mike Berger Prizes
Date: 01 May 1975
Columbia Univ Meyer Berger Award to Deirdre Carmody (NY Times)
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Trial Suspension of Fairness Rule Urged
Date: 01 May 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
CBS Inc pres Arthur R Taylor proposes 1-yr trial suspension of controversial fairness doctrine requiring broadcasters to present all sides of debatable public issues if Cong does not abolish rule, testimony before Sen Communications Subcom hearing on 3 pending bills to ease restrictions against broadcasters under existing communications law; Taylor and ABC pres Elton H Rule support bill that would repeal rule only for Pres and Vice Pres candidates; NBC chmn Julian Goodman endorses bills that would abolish rules for all candidates; Westinghouse Broadcasting pres Donald H McGannon and ABC News pres William Sheehan oppose repeal of doctrine (M)
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