Guild Members Authorize Their Leaders To Call Strikes at 3 Papers in New York; Management Proposals Assailed
Date: 24 March 1978
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
members of Newspaper Guild complete votes authorizing strikes to be called at NY News, NY Times and NY Post, where contracts with 10 unions expire at midnight on March 30; guild exec vp Harry Fisdell, at NY Times, repts vote was 1,157 to 41 in favor; Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union has voted to strike News at midnight if no new agreement is reached; Fisdell asserts that Times is 'flourishing' after 'greatest yr in its history'; charges Post seeks to dismiss anyone in guild who publisher deems incompatible with his publishing concept (S)
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Press Competition Heats Up in California; New Supplement Planned Population Growth Slips Pages to Be Redesigned
Date: 24 March 1978
By ROBERT LINDSEY Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Comment on increased newspaper competition in S Calif; Los Angeles Herald Examiner is hiring number of reporters and editors in effort to compete more effectively with Times-Mirror Co's Los Angeles Times; Times appears to be preparing for campaign attempting to extend its hegemony to cover more of S Calif; will begin to publish daily supplement of San Diego News in April for distribution in San Diego, placing it in competition with San Diego Union and Tribune; has established burs in Santa Barbara and in Riverside (M)
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TWO PAPERS ACCUSED OF 'UNFAIR PRACTICE'; Unions Charge Post and News Train Executives for Possible Strike Concern Over Strike
Date: 23 March 1978
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
newspaper unions charge that NY Post is planning familiarization run to see if it can produce newspaper without union members and that NY Daily News has already done so; contend that such efforts represent 'unfair labor practice'; News mktg dir Jonathan Thompson says such newspaper was not produced; Allied Printing Trades Council pres George E McDonald says unions rept lack of progress in negotiations; Newspaper Guild shop paper charged that 'scab crews' from San Antonio Express-News and other enterprises controlled by Rupert Murdoch were being readied to be flown in to replace guild news and other workers in case of strike (S)
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Yugoslavs, After Rare Tour, Tell of a Primitive Cambodia; 'All Will Participate' Communications Termed Primitive Tools Instead of Schoolbags Description Matches Refugees' Library Open but in Disarray
Date: 24 March 1978
By DAVID A. ANDELMAN Special to The New York Times
David ANDELMAN
Yugoslav reporters, returning from Southeast Asia, rept 4-page newspaper, called Revolution, is being printed in Phnom Penh 3 times a mo though no books are being printed; principal information medium is radio (S)
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AIDE IN MOON CHURCH CALLS INQUIRY 'ABUSE'; Denies Link to Korean Government and Accuses House Committee of Trying to Destroy Group Times Article Singled Out Denies Being Intelligence Agent
Date: 23 March 1978
By RICHARD HALLORAN Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
Pak Bo Hi, assoc of Rev Sun Myung Moon, singles out NY Times in accusing press of trying to destroy Moon's Unification Ch, testimony before House Subcom on Internatl Orgns (M)
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Around the Nation; Arizonian Sues Journalists Over Story in Bolles Case Man Killed as Two Bombs Are Exploded in Denver Alabama State Treasurer Indicted in Funds Case
Date: 23 March 1978
Unidentified man killed as 2 bombs explode in downtown Denver; 3d bomb is disarmed by police (S)
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