VOUCHER PLAN FACES NEW HAMPSHIRE TEST
Date: 16 January 1974
By Washington Star-News
Washington Star-News
Controversial voucher plan, designed to afford parents choice between public and private education for their children, is approved by HEW Sec Caspar Weinberger on Jan 15 by award of $88,227 planning grant for trial of plan in NH; under plan parents will be given ctfs issued by public authority to cover cost of educating individual students, and may choose either public or nonreligious private school by cashing voucher with particular school; proponents of system maintain it will promote healthy competition between pub and private schools and give lower-income parents greater freedom of choice; opponents, including Natl Educ Assn, denounce it as device to support private schools and undercut public education (S)
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U.S. Envoy Runs Tight Saigon Ship; Curbs News, Strongly Backs Thieu; Key Officials Replaced Support Delights Thieu Passes on Interviews
Date: 17 January 1974
BY JAMES M. MARKHAMSpecial to The New York Times
US Amb Graham A Martin during his 6 mos in office has asserted severely restrictive public-information policy, condemnning 'defeatist reporting' (M)
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Papers and Printers Meet
Date: 16 January 1974
Negotiators for NY Times, NY Daily News and NY Post and Typographical Union on Jan 15 begin formal contract bargaining talks on automation issue; Fed mediator Theodore Kheel comments
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BOSTON PAPER DROPS AFTERNOON EDITIONS
Date: 17 January 1974
Boston Herald-American announces that it will eliminate its afternoon editions beginning Feb 11 and that cutback will involve about 60,000 copies; publisher Harold G Kern repts that about 150 employes will be laid off as result of move (S)
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Paris Accused of Taps on Mitterrand
Date: 16 January 1974
Special to The New York Times
newspaper Le Canard Enchaine charges Govt sent 5 men on night of Dec 4 to install electronic listening devices in its new office; notes that during probe by Magistrate Alain Bernard, Govt counterespionage agency denied any involvement, but more recently has been trying to block citation of its members in case by invoking secrecy of matters involved in natl defense; Le Canard ed Claude Agneli rejects Premier Pierre Messmer off-the-record suggestion that US CIA may have been involved as diversion
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Athens Journalists Urge a Restoration Of Press Freedom
Date: 16 January 1974
Special to The New York Times
special assembly of 600-member Athens Union of Journalists adopts resolution on Jan 15 urging Greek Govt to restore press freedom and end 'insecurity' felt by journalists; resolution says that for last 7 yrs, internatl principles safeguarding freedom of press in democratic countries have been impaired in Greece; resolution follows closing of several newspapers for unspecified reasons (S)
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Fund Set Up for Ehrlichman Defense; Saw Quick Recovery Remains Optimistic
Date: 16 January 1974
Former White House aide John D Ehrlichman in int on Jan 15 says he still expects White House tapes, which have not yet been heard, will vindicate him of charges involving break in at office of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding (S)
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Press Freedom for Cable TV Is Urged in Whitehead Report; Press Freedom Is Urged for Cable TV Departure Delayed Like a Common Carrier Industry Share Urged
Date: 17 January 1974
By LES BROWNSpecial to The New York Times
White House Telecommunications Policy Office releases rept calling for virtual removal of Govt regulations over cable TV in order to give it same freedom-of-the-press status that newspapers, magazines and books have under First Amendment; rept, prepared under auspices of special Cabinet com established by Pres Nixon in '71, proposes that owners of cable systems be prohibited from producing programs for their own channels and that current restrictions be lifted against cable-TV ownership by TV networks; rept's key recommendation is that pay cable TV be permitted on unrestricted basis; Clay T Whitehead, Telecommuniciations Policy Office dir, who is chmn of Cabinet com, says proposals will not receive 'great push' from Adm because of 'reverse effect of such endorsement'; 5 of 7 com members are gone from Adm; Whitehead's departure has been put off by delays in releasing rept, which he considers most significant product of his office; rept receives support from number of academicians and cable-TV indus officials who attend conf in Washington, DC, sponsored by Aspen Program on Communications and Soc (L)
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