PRINTERS STAY OUT AT WASHINGTON POST
Date: 04 November 1973
negotiations on Nov 3 fail to end work stoppage by ITU Local 101 at Washington Post and Post repts no new sections will be distributed with its Nov 4 Sunday editions; paper's spokesman says that only Sunday supplements printed before work stoppage will be distributed
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STOPPAGE IMPEDES WASHINGTON POST; But Paper Discloses Plans to Publish Without Union
Date: 05 November 1973
supervisory and mgt personnel are assigned tasks in printing room on Nov 4 as Washington Post prepares abbreviated Nov 5 morning edition; Post spokesman says decision was made by publisher K Graham in face of continuing work stoppage by members of ITU Local 101, who are protesting dismissal of union member M Padilla; repts paper will lose about $2-million a wk if situation continues; asst gen mgr K Johnson says that all members of Newspaper Guild have been reptg to work throughout stoppage and were joined on Nov 4 by union engravers; US Dist Judge B Parker on Nov 3 issues order instructing 12 union reprs to appear in ct on Nov 6 to show cause why union should not be cited for contempt for not obeying his temporary restraining order ordering printers back to work
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GUILD AND NEWS STEP UP TALKS; Money Issue Pattern Set Union Threatens to Strike if No Pact Is Reached
Date: 04 November 1973
Newspaper Guild and NY Daily News on Nov 3 step up pace of their contract talks in face of guild threat to strike at 7 AM Nov 5 if no agreement is reached; negotiations also continue, mostly on fringe issues, between guild and NY Times; guild sources rept that no significant progress has been made on major issues; acknowledge that money issue is likely to be settled along lines of pattern set in earlier agreements between Times, News and NY Post and mailers, deliveres and machinists
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GUILD AND NEWS CONTINUE TALKS; Negotiatiors Seek to Avert Strike Set for Today
Date: 05 November 1973
negotiators for Newspaper Guild and NY Daily News are seeking to reach contract agreement that would avert strike scheduled for 7 AM Nov 5; guild sources express hope that News will make pkg proposal during night that might serve as basis for further bargaining
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No London Papers Today
Date: 05 November 1973
no daily or evening papers will appear in London on Nov 5 becasue of 1-day work stoppage by Fleet Street newspaper mechanics; workers are acting in support of Amalgamated Union of Engineer Workers, whose exec bd is opposing $187,500 fine imposed on union by Natl Industrial Relations Ct for refusing to call off strike at machine factory
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Forced Subscriptions In Soviet Are Criticized
Date: 05 November 1973
Communist party newspaper Pravda repts on Nov 4 that Soviet citizens are often subjected to 'bureaucratic pressure' from salesmen to subscribe to newspapers and magazines and practice ought to be stopped; says that dissemination of party line through press has 'great political signifiance' but that use of 'obligatory subscriptions' and other types of tricks to artifically expand circulation should be abolished
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White House Compiles Alleged Press 'Sins'
Date: 05 November 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Washington, DC, observers believe Nixon Adm attacks on press are part of carefully planned strategy to gain sympathy for Pres during his Watergate problems
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Tight Curb on Use of Police Data Urged in Justice Dept. Report; Tight Control on Use of Police Records Advocated in Report for Justice Dept. Credit Ratings
Date: 05 November 1973
By LESLEY OELSNERSpecial to The New York Times
US Justice Dept on Nov 4 releases Natl Advisory Comm on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals rept calling for tight new restrictions on use of criminal information systems and intelligence files and conscious planning to control data gathering in order to protect right of privacy; says even arrests records pose threats because of growing trend toward automating files and fact that computer systems can make errors; calls for purging of inaccurate or outdated information from files; says that individual should be allowed to rev and, if need be, correct, information collected about him; says access to any dissemination of information should be limited to those public agencies that have both right to know and need to know, contending that media and credit rating services should not receive any information from criminal justice systems; says effort should be made to repeal state laws requiring dissemination of such information to nonpublic agencies; comm seen likely to draw criticism from press for its recommendation that law enforcement agencies withhold information currently made available, such as details about crimes, arrests and criminal records; says that information systems are vital to criminal justice system both to help it deal with individual cases and to enable it to manage itself and plan for future; notes that Law Enforcement Assistance Adm is giving high priority to developing systems to provide basic criminal history of individual, statistics about justice system's treatment of individuals and gen crime occurrence data; says each state should have system connected with natl network, but that each state should also have a council to devise rules regulating system to protect individuals' rights to privacy and to protect security of information; comm is headed by former Del Gov R W Peterson
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Misusing the CIA: A Final Report
Date: 04 November 1973
Excerpts from HR Armed Services Com Sepcial Subcom on Intelligence, which probed into CIA's role in Watergate and concluded that, however reluctantly, CIA had allowed itself to be used for 'improper purposes' for which there was 'no support in law or reason'
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A Beirut Calligrapher Pens Recurring Words of War
Date: 04 November 1973
Special to The New York TimesBy ERIC PACE
M Ghafari, chief headline scribe for Beirut newspaper An Nahar, has been kept busy in recent wks writing out Arabic headlines for news stories covering Israeli-Arab war; newspaper's managing editor F Akl says having calligrapher is luxury; illus of arabic word for war, 'al harb' as engraved by Ghafari
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