PRINTERS REPORT STRIKE APPROVAL; Powers Says International Authorizes Action Here
Date: 25 March 1974
ITU Local 6 pres Bertram A Powers on March 24 tells members that agreement has been reached with their internatl officers that would permit them to strike 1,2 or all 3 of NYC daily newspapers if they cannot arrive at new contract settlement with papers
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Nixon and a Right of Reply
Date: 24 March 1974
By ANTHONY LEWIS
Anthony LEWIS
A Lewis comment on Pres Nixon's recent suggestion of new law to counter libelous criticism of pol candidates; notes that Nixon's complaint was against Sup Ct decisions holding that falsehood in comment on public figure is not enough to make it meat for libel action; past cases cited
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BRAZILIAN PRESS FACES NEW CURBS; Editor Calls the Censorship Grotesque After Ban on Articles on Streaking Some New Restrictions Critics Encouraged
Date: 25 March 1974
By MARVINE HOWESpecial to The New York Times
official Brazilian Govt censors during wk of March 22 ban press mention of devils, angels and streaking, despite assurances from new Pres Gen Ernesto Geisel that censorship would be eased; Mino Carta, managing editor of wkly magazine Veja, calls Govt action grotesque and humiliating; says that Min of Justice Armando Falcao told him that he (Falcao) would recommend end to censorship and establishment of gen self-censorship; similar pledges are said to have been given to publisher Julio de Mesquita-Neto (O Estado de Sao Paulo); editor Raimundo Rodrigues Pereira (Opinao) and Sao Paulo Archbishop Paulo Evansto Cardinal Arns comment (M)
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Watergate Ensnares the Press, Too; The Newspaper Page and the Television Screen Have Become Vital Arenas in the Impeachment Struggle
Date: 24 March 1974
By BILL KOVACH
Bill KOVACH
Article on relationship between Watergate and press and role press plays; says it is not new role but is different both in degree and in kind than in past and concept has been expanded; says that in addition to possibilities press offers to gauge and to mold public opinion, it is being used to help define limits of struggle; cites 3 case studies, on strategy, publicity and signals, to illustrate various uses of US's media; cartoon
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Congress on the Air
Date: 25 March 1974
Ed on proposed TV coverage of Cong notes that TV, geared to program schedules and elaborate equipment, would either be forced to record every minute of every session or give leadership in 2 legis bodies power to fill prearranged time slot with whatever segment of debate might favor their party
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Sealing History Behind Walls and Iron Bars
Date: 25 March 1974
By George McMillan
George McMillan
George McMillan article discusses US Prisons Bur policy of forbidding inmates access to press, in connection with request by Tennessee to move James Earl Ray from state to Fed prison; holds public has right to know what happened, and if he is incarcerated in Fed prison, it will never know; describes author's suit in Fed Dist Ct to allow him to speak with brother Jack Ray, who is in Fed penitentiary in Marion, Ill; drawing
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Anchorman
Date: 24 March 1974
ed eulogizes news commentator Chet Huntley; contends NBC-TV's Huntley-Brinkley Report was 'turning point toward maturity and sophistication in TV news'
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