Abolition of F.C.C. Is Promised
Date: 11 October 1976
Libertarian Party Pres candidate Roger MacBride says he will eliminate FCC if he is elected; says he is concerned that agency's power to grant or withhold licenses gives it virtual censorship control over nation's electronic news media (S)
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Italy Acts to Shield Reporters
Date: 10 October 1976
Ital Cabinet approves bill that would allow journalists to refuse to testify in ct about information sources (S)
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Fires, sex and freaks; All-news radio, broadcasting's fastest growing form, appeals to people's need to listen for word of trouble or for reassurance that nothing horrible has happened.
Date: 10 October 1976
By Ben H. Bagdikian
Ben Bagdikian
Article on all-news radio station KCBS in San Francisco; staff follows printout that schedules all 86,400 seconds in 24-hr day; anchormen include Dave McElhatton and Clancy Cassell; Dave Hosley is desk editor and Peter McCoy is gen mgr; illus (L)
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Coup Driving Leftist Leaders in Thailand Into Hiding
Date: 10 October 1976
By DAVID A. ANDELMAN Special to The New York Times
David ANDELMAN
12 of Thailand's leading daily newspapers begin publishing under series of strict censorship guidelines (S)
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Good News in Falling Lire
Date: 10 October 1976
Small plane scatters hundreds of bank notes over Rome, Italy (S)
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News of the Realty Trade; Mall Plan Approved
Date: 10 October 1976
NYC Estimate Bd approves proposed Albee Sq Mall, $16-million development of 80 shops and 500-car garage in downtown Bklyn to be built by Rentar Development Corp (S)
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