Guild Vote Authorizes Officers To Call a Strike at Daily News
Date: 16 October 1975
Members of NY News unit of Newspaper Guild on Oct 15 authorize officers of union to call strike 'when and if they see fit'; vote to authorize strike is scheduled Oct 16 by NY Times guild members; Carl Levy pres of Newspaper Deliverers Union warns that union will strike News sometime next wk if members do not have new contract by then; union holds that critical issue is News management's insistence on unilateral right to determine size of driver work crews; Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger announces that it News is unable to publish as result of drivers strike, Times will assess situation and may suspend publication; News publisher W H James issues similar statement (M)
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Editors Debate Reactions to Court 'Gag' Orders
Date: 16 October 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
to surprise of many members of Amer press, there is growing split in their ranks over how to handle confrontation between press and courts; most such confrontations have been over what can and cannot be reptd about judicial proceedings, including criminal trials, and over what should and should not be reptd; issue, termed Fair Trial vs Free Press, involves growing tendency of judiciary to issue so-called 'gag' orders; split among journalists on how to handle these confrontations is dramatized at panel discussion at Associated Press Managing Editors conv, Williamsburg, Va; on 1 side of split is that segment of press and judiciary that wants to work out procedures and guidelines designed to diminish ct-press conflicts over 'gag' orders; on other side are those who are coming to believe that any procedures and guidelines would merely serve to legitimize what they see as judiciary's attempt to whittle away press's 1st Amendment right to publish freely (M)
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DRIVERS WARN NEWS; TIMES GIVES NOTICE
Date: 15 October 1975
Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union tells NY News on Oct 14 that it will cancel its contract with paper on Oct 21; NY Times notifies union shortly afterwards that it will cancel its contract with union at same time; union pres Carl Levy says he will set strike date Oct 20 if issues in dispute have not been settled (S)
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Byrne Says He Will Sign Open Public Meetings Bill
Date: 16 October 1975
NJ Gov Byrne on Oct 15 announces he will sign bill that will open to public most meetings of govt at local, county and state levels; intensive campaign mounted by public-interest lobby, Common Cause, has generated considerable public pressure on Byrne to approve 'sunshine law'; measure makes it illegal for any public body to conduct business of govt behind closed doors, and requires that public be notified of any meeting 48 hrs in advance; is officially called Open Public Meetings bill and was sponsored by Assemblyman Byron M Baer; exec dir of Common Cause Nancy Becker comments (M)
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Ten Receive Fellowships To Study Business Writing
Date: 16 October 1975
Columbia Univ Grad School of Journalism awards Walter Bagehot Fellowships in business and econ reptg to Ovid Abrams (Community News Service), Scott Aiken (Cincinnati Enquirer), Douglas Campbell (Trenton Times), Doreen Chu (NBC News), Stephen Dunphy (Seattle Times), James Elsener (Chicago Tribune), Robert Hagen (Minn Tribune), John Housha (Washington Star), Philip Moeller (Chicago Sun-Times) and Jerome Morgan (Newsday) (S)
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President to Appear On 'Meet the Press'
Date: 16 October 1975
Pres Ford will appear on special anniv edition of NBC-TV program Meet the Press; Lawrence E Spivak will make his final appearance on show as moderator and producer (S)
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Church Groups Ask Congress for F.C.C. Hearings
Date: 16 October 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Natl Council of Churches, United Ch of Christ Communication Office and UNDA USA, communications soc representing RC Churches, call for Cong hearings on attempts by FCC to reduce its regulation of radio and TV in line with Pres Ford's call for less Govt interference in private business; FCC has modified its adm of equal-time law for pol candidates and put forth proposals to exempt small stations from some Equal Employment Opportunity requirements and to embark on experimental deregulation of radio in large cities where there is no scarcity of frequencies; actions by FCC that have generated controversy include decision to exempt news confs and pol debates between major candidates at all levels of Govt from provisions of Sec 315 of Communications Act, decision to allow agreements worked out between irate citizens groups and station mgts and proposal by FCC Chmn Richard E Wiley to test suspension of fairness doctrine; Natl Council of Churches asst gen sec Rev William F Fore, UNDA USA pres Sister Maureen Rodgers, United Church of Christ dir Rev Dr Everett C Parker and spokesmen for Sen John O Pastore and Repr Torbert H Macdonald comment (M)
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GAP IN NIXON TAPE STILL A MYSTERY AS INQUIRY CLOSES; Watergate Jury Concluded 'Small Number of Persons' Could Be Responsible RUTH ISSUES FINDINGS Says 18 -Minute Deletion Among Areas Unresolved by Prosecutor's Office
Date: 16 October 1975
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
Rept by special Watergate prosecutor Henry S Ruth, issued 2 days before his scheduled resignation, lists among investigations that came to naught alleged misuse of IRS and other Fed agencies by officials of Nixon White House to harass former Dem natl chmn Lawrence F O'Brien, to punish individuals singled out by Nixon Adm as 'enemies,' and to favor Adm supporters; rept gives little indication of why these investigations did not culminate in prosecutions (S)
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