Comment by Washington
Date: 21 October 1971
Special to The New York Times
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Едді Чарльз Джонс (англ. Eddie Charles Jones; нар. 20 жовтня 1971, Помпано-Біч, Флорида, США) — американський професіональний баскетболіст, що грав на позиціях легкого форварда і атакувального захисника за низку команд НБА. Гравець національної збірної США.
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Date: 20 October 1971
Special to The New York Times
NBC commentator D Brinkley disputes W Cronkite (CBS) charge of Govt intimidation of electronic press, Sen (Ervin) subcom hearing on press freedom; says it is not his job as newsman to worry about regulators
Date: 21 October 1971
Justice Dept asks Fed Ct, Boston, to have Ellsberg's mother-in-law Mrs I Marx jailed for contempt; she is free on bail for silence before Boston grand jury probing Pentagon study case
Date: 21 October 1971
By CHRISTOPHER LYDONSpecial to The New York Times
FCC chmn D Burch and Comr Johnson deny FCC interferes with broadcasters freedom, Sen(Ervin) subcom hearing on press freedom; Burch cites charges by CBS pres Stanton of FCC conspiracy with Vice Pres Agnew; Stanton denies he charged conspiracy but rather intrusion into broadcasting and press; Burch says FCC has never acted as journalism's judge; cites cases of intentional avoidance; Johnson says danger comes from censorship by broadcasters themselves for pol or profit motives; Burch and Johnson say some regulation over broadcasting stations is justified while none is justified for printed media; Johnson says broadcasting requires Govt permission to use natural resource and this distinguishes it from newspapers; both defend fairness doctrine; Burch illus
Date: 21 October 1971
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
J J O'Connor examines CBS program Evening News with Walter Cronkite and comments on his technique of broadcast journalism
Date: 21 October 1971
Special to The New York Times
US Asst Sec Henkin announces Defense Dept plans to make its documents harder to classify and easier to declassify; says dept plans to reactivate Classification Rev and Advisory Bd, which has been dormant since Mar '68, to give policy guidance to dept's security classification mgt program, which will rewrite rules governing classification system
Date: 21 October 1971
By JONATHAN KANDELLSpecial to The New York Times
AP Managing Eds Assn presents its 1st Freedom of Information Citation to NY Times for publication of Pentagon study series; Times's managing ed A M Rosenthal accepts award; says study contains facts, not innuendoes, which show decision-making process in Govt; Ellsberg says real lesson of the study is Govt's 'process of secrecy to deceive the Amer people , panel discussion; M Hayden warns that publication of study could 'lead to enactment of an official secrets act'; says Sup Ct decision in case was 'a great ct victory' for The Nr Times, Washington Post and other papers, but it was not 'a victory for the whole press'; Rosenthal, in rebuttal, says material in study does not involve US mil security; poll taken before presentation of award shows one-fourth of 365 editors at AP conv oppose publication of study
Date: 20 October 1971
Sen E M Kennedy, scoring Nixon Adm altitude to Vietnam war veterans, says that 'when the veterans assemble in Washington to plead for an end to the war, the same Govt which sent them 8,000 miles to sleep in the mud of Indochina sues to keep them from sleeping on the grass of the capital', s, B'Nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League, NYC
Date: 21 October 1971
Special to The New York Times
Govt Information office issues new directive to press to avoid material 'detrimental to natl security and pub order'; lists proposals to be followed by 44 newspapers to preclude seizures and Govt prosecution; proposals detailed; many editors and newsmen see increased pressure to restrict coverage of groups critical of Govt policy; 14 papers carrying articles on new censorship seized by Govt
Date: 20 October 1971
Special to The New York Times
Cumberland (Md) News ed B E Sitter says 'with the war scaling down, it's hard to justify front-page coverage', s, AP Managing Eds Assn, Phila; Lake Charles (La) American Press ed T Stacey says his paper is 'still playing the war story strongly'