NEWSMEN BLOCKED AT TRUCE UNIT SITES
Date: 06 February 1973
Newsmen blocked, Feb 5, from covering first deployment of Internatl Comm of Control and Supervision (ICCS) truce inspectors at truce-unit sites at Da Nang, Pleiku and My Tho

Diego Serrano (ur. 5 lutego 1973 w Quito, w Ekwadorze) – amerykański aktor telewizyjny i filmowy.
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Date: 06 February 1973
Newsmen blocked, Feb 5, from covering first deployment of Internatl Comm of Control and Supervision (ICCS) truce inspectors at truce-unit sites at Da Nang, Pleiku and My Tho
Date: 05 February 1973
By DAVID K. SHIPLER
David SHIPLER
Cong hearings are scheduled to begin on Feb 5 on more than 25 measures intended to prevent cts, grand juries and other govt authorities from forcing newsmen to testify about their confidential sources of information; hearings come in wake of several jailings and contempt citations against newsmen who refuse to honor subpoenas; will be held by Subcom Number 3 of HR Judiciary Com; Sen subcom counsel L Baskir details various measures that com will debate; Assoc Justice B R White por
Date: 05 February 1973
By HENRY TANNERSpecial to The New York Times
7 journalists on Feb 3 are dismissed from Arab Socialist Union, in action that is believed to be beginning of major pol purge conducted by Govt of Pres Sadat; purged newsmen automatically lose their jobs in newspapers; Sadat, in speech to Natl Assembly, speaks accusingly of Egyptians who gave information to foreign journalists; several newsmen were thought to have been in frequent contact with foreign correspondents
Date: 06 February 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
L B Boudin, defense in Pentagon papers case, on Feb 5 asks Judge W M Byrne Jr to preclude Govt from presenting evidence based on 2 of 'top secret' documents in case, '54 Geneva Accord memorandum and 1 vol of Pentagon papers; Byrne says he will consider request; if granted this would have practical effect of throwing out 2 of 8 espionage counts and 1 of 6 theft counts against D Ellsberg; motion was made on ground that there exists exculpatory evidence in 2 documents and that 2 documents are only ones involved in those particular counts; Boudin begins defense cross- examination of Brig Gen P F Gorman, who is highest-ranking Army officer on Defense Dept team that put together Pentagon papers; points out to Gorman that former Pres Johnson, in his book The Vantage Point, disclosed much of same material that had been made public by Pentagon papers; Gorman holds that there is difference, that material is more important to foreign nation when it comes from Defense Dept rather than from press
Date: 06 February 1973
By DAVID K. SHIPLERSpecial to The New York Times
David SHIPLERSpecial
Repr P W Rodino, chmn of HR Judiciary Com on Feb 6 calls for swift Cong action that would prevent newsmen from being forced to testify about their confidential news sources; holds that newsmen are being increasingly subjected to fishing expeditions under threat of being jailed if they persist in honoring commitment to secrecy and decline to identify their source; key question to be discussed during HR Judiciary Com's Subcom Number 3 meeting is whether newsmen should be granted absolute immunity from forced testimony in all cases; Prof B C Schmidt, representing Bar Assn of NYC, calls for qualified immunity under which newsmen would be susceptible to subpoena where case involved foreign agression, espionage, homicide or violent crimes; reporters J Landau and J Nelson call for absolute guarantees for newsmen; reporter E Caldwell (NY Times), in calling for immunity, says he is deeply aware of suspicion regarding press in black community
Date: 06 February 1973
NM State Senate passes press shield law Feb 5 allowing State Supreme Ct to make final determination of whether newsman must disclose his source
Date: 05 February 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Comment on life-style of 'Ellsberg people', those who are involved in defense of D Ellsberg and A J Russo, and have been forced to take up residence in Bunker Hill Towers, Los Angeles, near site of trial; notes that much of out-of-ct action takes place in Ellsberg home with confs between defendants and their attys; illus of Ellsberg, Russo and wives, and attys D Donovan, L I Weinglass, C R Nesson and H P Young at conf
Date: 05 February 1973
By ALVIN SHUSTERSpecial to The New York Times
article on career of newspaper magnate Lord Thojson of Fleet cites recent North Sea oil strike by Thomson Organization Ltd in collaboration with Getty Oil Co, Allied Chemical Co and Occidental Petroleum Corp; Thomson says oil field, of which he owns 20%, will bring co hundreds of millions of dollars in future; illus