Ellsberg Is Commended
Date: 26 August 1971
Special to The New York Times
Assn for Education in Journalism resolutions commend Ellsberg for 'valuable contribution to the people's right to know' and The NY Times, Washington Post and other papers for their 'courage and pub service spirit' in publishing the Pentagon papers
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Public TV Unit Aims to Centralize News Activities; Takes Over Coverage of Special Events Will Produce a Weekly Political Series
Date: 25 August 1971
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
Orgn and program plans of Natl Pub Affairs Broadcast Center taking shape; aim is greater centralization of public TV's news and public affairs schedules; center will be a separate public TV production agency in Washington with ties to WETA-TV; 1st yr of operation to be funded with about $3-million from Corp for Public Broadcasting and Ford Foundation; centralization aim backed by corp and Public Broadcasting Service; some program plans noted
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LABOR DISPUTE CUTS NEWS'S DISTRIBUTION
Date: 26 August 1971
About 400,000 copies of NY News not distributed as result of labor dispute between paper and Deliverers Union; drivers insist on counting papers individually after they had been bundled by machines; deny mgt charge of slowdown; say action is result of new co policy making drivers numerically responsible for consignment; policy change follows indictments of 86 persons in theft of 7.5-million papers from News plant
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Defense Contractors Cut Top Security Clearances
Date: 26 August 1971
Special to The New York Times
US dispute with press over Pentagon study prompts move, reptd by US mil and defense contractors and made at Defense Dept request, to cut number of employes who hold top-secret Govt security clearances; security measures at Rand Corp, where Ellsberg worked, are target of particular attention
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Dell Cancels Book by Ellsberg But Simon & Schuster Steps In
Date: 25 August 1971
By HENRY RAYMONT
Henry RAYMONT
Dell Publishing Co cancels $150,000 contract with Ellsberg on ground he failed to provide a 20,000-word introduction to a book of his writings on the war in time for publication before the end of Aug; Simon & Shuster to issue similar book in Nov tracing Ellsberg's change from hawk to dove, ending with his admitting leaking Pentagon study to press; Simon and Shuster ed T Solotaroff comments
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China's First Order of Priorities
Date: 25 August 1971
By JAMES RESTON
James RESTON
Reston, in dispatch from Shanghai after 6 wks in China, repts officials there less interested in leading worldwide revolution than in projects at home and near home
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Freeze on Rents Termed Threat to Housing Here
Date: 26 August 1971
By BARBARA CAMPBELL
Barbara CAMPBELL
6 real estate groups representing owners and bldrs, including Met Fair Rent Com head E Sulzberger, predict wage-price freeze will cause abandonment of bldgs; Sulzberger says groups will comply with freeze but suggests city be exempt from it, news conf; says he sent wire to Pres Nixon asking special housing group be sent to city to help create guidelines for suitable rent increases and rent stabilization; also requested Nixon appt Fed housing inspector gen to supervise city's housing program; charges, referring to rent strikes, that city is encouraging violations of law; groups represented listed
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COAST LAND ABUSE CHARGED BY NADER; Speculators and Developers Accused of Destruction
Date: 26 August 1971
Special to The New York Times
R Nader charges Calif's mts, deserts and seacoast are being assaulted by speculators who have razed land that has little or no prospect of becoming home sites, Calif land study rept prepared by Nader orgn; charges action is permitted because corp developers are able by legal and illegal means to win local officials into their service; cites examples of development on which there is only 1 house; calls for immediate ban on all housing or recreational development unless bldr posts bond to complete entire plans
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Journal on Business Topics Set
Date: 26 August 1971
Biwkly journal Boardroom Reports, giving condensed business information in 37 categories, about to be started; will also have series of articles by its consultants
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