SINGAPORE LEADER THREATENS PRESS; Lee Says Those Who Print 'Unfit' News Face Trouble
Date: 26 November 1972
Singapore Prime Min Lee Kuan Yee warns that he will be judge of what news is fit to print in Singapore, speech at Singapore Press Club's annual dinner at which he is guest of hon; says those who persist in disseminating the 'unfit' will face trouble
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Bureaucratic Wall
Date: 26 November 1972
Ed on Exec Order on Security Classification issued by Pres Nixon in March holds that order has made little progress in facilitating release of classified documents; holds reasons for keeping tight hold on classified documents seem not to be substantitive, but rather procedural; says Nixon should give some thought to assuring that his order to make available what 'properly belongs to the public' is not frustrated by his own bureaucracy's tendency to secrecy
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Heart Transplants Fell Into Disrepute'; Dr. Barnard on the Media
Date: 26 November 1972
By CHRISTIAAN N. BARNARD
Christiaan BARNARD
Dr C N Barnard article, describing publicity by mass media given 1st heart transplant in '67, says problem of med profession is to decide how to use assns with media to maximize benefits to objectives of med and to minimize harm; discusses problems arising from publicity about operation
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The Popkin Case -- an Ominous Chill
Date: 26 November 1972
-- ROBERT REINHOLD
Comment on jailing of Prof S L Popkin and reporters P J Bridge (Newark Evening News) and W T Farr (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) holds cases are reptdly regarded by many as 1st fallout from Sup Ct decision last June, involving E Caldwell (NY Times), in which Ct held that newsmen possess no inherent right under concept of free press to refuse to testify about their work before grand juries; says cases raise perplexing legal and ethical problems, such as how is scholar or newsman to freely pursue his investigation of Govt activities and other sensitive areas of modern life if he cannot protect confidentiality of his sources and how is Govt's duty to investigate crime to be balanced against damage done to free society by imprisonment of scholars and newsmen; Profs P Nejelski and A J Reiss comment on effects of Popkin's jailing; illus of Popkin
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Ex-Egyptian Aide Sentenced as Spy
Date: 26 November 1972
By The Associated Press
Cairo newspapers rept on Nov 25 that former Amb and mil attache M M A Ghaffar has received 10-yr prison term on charges of espionage; say Ghaffar was accused of communicating with unnamed Western country, maintaining close links with Israel and supplying it intelligence and pol, econ and mil information; Ghaffar was discharged from diplomatic service in '59 for alleged 'personal abnormalities'
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Sanders Takes Outboard Title
Date: 27 November 1972
J Sanders on Nov 26 wins $18,000 1st prize in world outboard championships on Colorado River; covers 696 miles at record 87-mph
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Soviet Scientist Is Here To Address Law Schools
Date: 26 November 1972
V N Chalidze arrives in US on Nov 23 for visit that will include series of lectures before law facilities of Georgetown and NY Universities; says he has come as private person with no pol motivations, news conf; repts he experienced no legal difficulties in obtaining Soviet exit visa; asserts he does not anticipate any difficulties in returning to USSR
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U.S. Naval Officer Defies Greek Courts
Date: 26 November 1972
By The Associated Press
Capt J B Linder, comdr of US aircraft carrier Forrestal, on Nov 24, accompanies 2 of his sailors, F Gomez and E Dudley, to ct in Athens and later says Greek cts should have no jurisdiction over US servicemen; 2 sailors charged with assaulting a taxi driver and policeman in dispute over taxi fare; Amer officials later say Linder was speaking for himself; say status-of-forces agreement between Greece and US allows US to ask Greece to waive jurisdiction but that Greek cts have right to refuse
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Aid Sent to Bahrain In Oil-Company Fire
Date: 26 November 1972
By Reuters
Firefighting equipment from Kuwait and Qatar is sent on Nov 25 to help control fire that is burning out of control at Bahrain Petroleum Co; no deaths have been reptd; unofficial earlier repts say 7 or more tanks are on fire
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