Order by Pentagon BarsComment on Peace Talks
Date: 10 January 1973
By ERIC PACESpecial to The New York Times
US Defense Dept directive sent to mil commands around the world on Dec 30 forbids all dept employes, civilian and mil, to comment on the resumption of Vietnam peace talks; ACLU reveals existence of directive after 2 of its offices receives complaints from dept personnel that they were being gagged; ACLU exec dir A Neier sent lr to Sec M R Laird criticizing the order and asking that it be rescinded; dept makes pub text of directive, signed by Deputy Asst Sec J W Friedheim, after inquiry by newsmen; declines comment on directive; dept officials say privately it has not been rescinded; Neier scores order as 'incredibly sweeping'; says it ignores fact that dept personnel have const rights
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World Survey Shows NewsmenFaced Growing Censorship Problems in 1972; AFRICA ASIA EUROPE LATIN AMERICA-CARIBBEAN MIDDLE EAST SOVIET UNION
Date: 10 January 1973
By The Associated Press
AP survey of flow of new across internatl boundaries during '72 repts that Nigerian Govt practices no offical censorship, but fear of arrest and detention without trial inhibits press freedom
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Press Curbs Charged By Journalism Group
Date: 11 January 1973
G Bookman, pres of NY chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, in telegram to Pres Nixon charges Adm has done nothing to protect rights of journalists; calls on him to lift obstacles being placed in way of press freedom
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PATRIOTIC SAYING EXCLUDES A JUROR; Ellsberg Defense Objects to 'Country Right or Wrong'
Date: 10 January 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
4 prospective jurors in Pentagon papers case are dismissed on Jan 9 when defense attys use peremptory challenges in 5th day of jury selection; 1 woman is challenged by defense for cause because she used phrase 'the Government, right or wrong'; Fed Dist Judge W M Byrne Jr rules against defense challenge and defense then uses 1 of its peremptory challenges; defense also uses peremptory challenge to dismiss man who said that US 'must not submit to Communist threat'
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STATE IS PRESSINGATTICA NEWS CASE; Contends a Reporter Must Testify on Crime He Saw News' Defined
Date: 10 January 1973
By DAVID K. SHIPLERSpecial to The New York Times
David SHIPLERSpecial
NYS special asst atty gen M B Spoont seeks testimony from TV newsmen S Dan and R Barnes, who entered Attica prison after inmate take-over in Sept, '71; newsmen have refused to testify before grand jury, contending that to do so would convert them into investigators for police and jeopardize their ability to gather news from dissidents and criminals who fear prosecution; prosecutors are especially interested in Dan's testimony because he was witness and innocent participant in chain of events that led to double homicide in prison; Dan was interviewing inmates B Schwartz and K Hess, who were later killed by other inmates for their alleged treason in speaking to reporter
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Concern by Networks; N.B.C. Sees Effort to Cast Discredit, But U.S. Aide Stresses Responsibility Divisive Issues' Taking Away Power Seen as Smokescreen
Date: 11 January 1973
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
J J O'Connor comment contends that White House Telecommunications Policy Office Dir C T Whitehead ltd himself to broad generalities on over-all broadcasting policy in his Dec 18 speech and recent NY Times int; holds Whitehead disclosure of proposed Nixon Adm communications bill and his attack on some aspects of TV content triggered intense debates within TV indus; cites NBC pres J Goodman recent statement asserting that Whitehead speech and Adm bill must be considered separately even though they were presented as pkg; notes Goodman contention that speech continued Adm's calculated attack against network news; Whitehead speech and NY Times int detailed
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Whitehead Asserts Nixon Bill Does Not Seek to Curtail Television Freedom; Whitehead Reassures Critics on a Plan for TV
Date: 11 January 1973
Text of questions and answers at roundtable discussion held by NY Times editors and reporters with White House Office of Telecommunications Policy dir C T Whitehead; questions involve Whitehead's announcement in Dec that Nixon Adm will ask Cong to amend law now governing broadcasting legis that will alter some ground rules under which FCC now regulates TV indus, such as amount of time that must be devoted to specific program categories; Whitehead illus
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Letters to the Editor; Questions for Court and Country American Youth: Observant but Lazy? The Doctor as a Unionist
Date: 11 January 1973
STANLEY H. FRIEDELBAUMJACK L. COHENSTANLEY H. FRIEDELBAUMREUBEN GABELVINCENT A. DELMAN, D.D.S.THOMAS D. PHELANLLOYD WHITER. C. B. HAY
Stanley FRIEDELBAUMJACK
Internatl Fed of Health Professionals Pres V A Delman lr suggests that health professionals have joined unions in order to protect their interests and public's interests from 3d-party agencies outside dr-patient relationship
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A.B.C. News Picks Sheehan As Chief Operating Officer
Date: 10 January 1973
W Sheehan on Jan 9 is apptd ABC News sr vp
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