Mrs. Mitchell Suggests Press May Be Silenced
Date: 05 July 1971
Mrs J N Mitchell suggests today that press may be silenced if it continues to reveal Govt secrets; 'resents, regrets and abhors that media has taken upon itself to interfere with possible lines of communications with Vietcong,' phone call to Washington Star
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Airing of Pentagon Data Backed in Poll
Date: 05 July 1971
Gallup Poll shows that majority of Amers familiar with issue thought even before Sup Ct ruled for newspapers that publication of articles was 'the right thing'
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Public Broadcasting Scored on Commercial Trend
Date: 05 July 1971
By JACK GOULD
Jack GOULD
A L Singer Jr, charging that pub broadcasting aspires to become a '4th network,' says that goal of Carnegie Comm on Educ TV, of which he was an organizer, was to make pub broadcasting pluralistic in sense that individual stations would be free to develop own programs and exercise diversity of news judgments (J Gould rept); inferentially criticizes potential for journalistic bias in present system
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2 Turkish Newsmen Jailed For Insulting Armed Forces
Date: 06 July 1971
mil ct sentences Turkish journalists I Selcuk and O Kurtboke to 1 yr's imprisonment and 4 mos enforced residence for pub of 2 articles by Selcuk deemed insulting to armed forces and security authorities
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Garrison Asks Curb On Papers Printing Affidavit on Bribes
Date: 06 July 1971
Special to The New York Times
Fed ct, New Orleans, denies move by Dist Atty Garrison to temporarily keep New Orleans Times-Picayune and States-Item from pub installments of Fed affidavit charging Garrison and others with bribery involving pinball operations in New Orleans; sets hearing; says papers can continue pub until he issues permanent ruling
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Comment by Macomber
Date: 06 July 1971
Deputy Under Sec Macomber says only 'very small percentage' of Pentagon papers could be damaging if disclosed and that newspapers had largely refrained from publishing those sees, TV int; says that only Times may have printed sensitive material; hopes that Govt will do better job of 'declassifying things that have become history' as result of disclosures; says Govt sought to halt publication because it feared a newspaper might inadvertently reveal something that would harm US diplomatic efforts
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Reston Hopes to Visit Hanoi
Date: 06 July 1971
J Reston (NY Times), en route to Communist China, says he hopes to go to Hanoi from China 'to find out if the war is going to end'
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Agnew, in Singapore, Says U.S. Media Unintentionally Aid North Vietnamese
Date: 06 July 1971
By ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr.Special to The New York Times
Agnew charges US news media unintentionally aid N Vietnamese in some aspects of war coverage; says he thinks prospects for survival of Saigon Govt 'very good' but warns that N Vietnamese may launch 'high-risk, high-casualty effort' that will be played 'heavily as failure of Vietnamization program'; says enemy might achieve pub relations coup because 'so many people in natl media are too ready to assist N Vietnamese by overemphasis on what's taking place'
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Rep. Broyhill Scores Panel On Censure of C.B.S. Head
Date: 05 July 1971
Repr Broyhill scores com action
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Police Here Adopt New Policy On Briefings in Investigations
Date: 06 July 1971
Comr Murphy changes police tradition of maintaining silence during major probes in favor of careful disclosures designed to encourage pub confidence and cooperation, announcement by Deputy Comr Daley in int; change seen evident in police statments J A Colombo Sr case
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