Amateurs Writing for Red Chinese Press
Date: 31 January 1971
Special to The New York Times
Amateur 'proletarian correspondents', comprising peasants, workers and soldiers, are now more prominent as news writers than professional journalists, whose ranks have been thinned since Cultural Revolution and who are now mostly anon figures working behind scenes; Jenmin Jih Pao recently pub denunciation of US in article attributed to peasant
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TV News Chiefs Find Gloomy Economic Picture of Their Industry Is All Too Clear as They Cut Back
Date: 01 February 1971
By FRED FERRETTI
Fred FERRETTI
Effects of econ recession on news coverage by TV discussed; networks have cut news programing and news staffs; news execs fear that as econ pinch continues there will be less coverage of unusual events and less money for coverage that is not day-to-day hard reptg; also fear that FCC order requiring reduction of network TV time to 3 hrs a night will also hinder TV news; views of CBS Broadcast Group pres R Jenks, NBC pres J Goodman, CBS News pres R Salant, NBC News pres R Frank and ABC News pres E Lower on problems of TV news presentation and prime-time programing cited
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Allende Sharply Denies Charges Chile's Press Is Being Harasse
Date: 31 January 1971
By JUAN de ONISSpecial to The New York Times
Juan de ONISSpecial
Shortly after Dr Allende took office in Nov, bank inspectors discovered loan of several million dollars guaranteed by Banco A Edwards to auto importing co; loan, which exceeded capital of bank, was declared irregular and state bank admr took over inst; bank's gen mfr was imprisoned; Govt's announcement that records showed guarantee for $1-million loan from US bank to El Mercurio, newspaper co, and subsequent seizing of El Mercurio's books for tax arrears cited as evidence that Chilean Govt is harassing press
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U.S. Silent on Speculation About an Invasion of Laos; Officials Seem Evasive About a South Vietnamese Attack on Ho Chi Minh Trail -- News Blackout Is Reported U.S. AIDES SILENT ON LAOS REPORTS
Date: 31 January 1971
Special to The New York Times
Adm officials in Washington decline to discuss speculation that S Vietnamese, with Amer air support, are about to invade southern Laos; other sources at State Dept and Pentagon say there was no unusual activity this weekend and suggest that if there is a major new operation in Indochina, it will not come today and possibly not tomorrow either; NY Times correspondents in Saigon rept regularly available seats on mil aircraft going to northern regions of S Vietnam cannot be booked from Saigon; mil sources in Saigon say normally scheduled troop and cargo flights have been pre-empted by 'higher priority traffic'; Observer (London pub) says allied authorities have imposed news blackout on mil activities in S Vietnam's northern area; repts meeting between Nguyen Van Thieu, Bunker and Abrams; says further extension of war appears imminent; US command announces B-52s continue to pound Ho Chi Minh Trail; B-52 mission is flown near Khesanh, former bastion in NW corner of S Vietnam; US planes raid in Cambodia
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U.S. B-52'S STRIKE FOE'S LAOS BASES AROUND THE CLOCK; Washington Officials Refuse to Speculate on Any Allied Attack Across Border NEWS EMBARGO STILL ON Vietcong Radio Denounces Expected Drive as 'Bold Intensification of War' B-52's Raid Foe's Supply Bases Around the Clock
Date: 01 February 1971
By TERENCE SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
B-52s continue to bomb enemy supply bases in southern Laos around the clock; State and Defense Dept officials refuse for 3d consecutive day to comment on speculation that allied attack at or across Laotian border is imminent or under way; sustained bombing has been concentrated in area immediately W of old marine base at Khesanh, where, in last yr, N Vietnamese have built up heavy troop concentrations; Vietcong radio cites Western news repts that S Vietnamese troops, backed by Amer aircraft, are about to invade Laos; denounces expected invasion as 'bold intensification' of war; warns Vietcong will respond with 'appropriate blows'; US command continues to impose embargo on all news repts from northern part of S Vietnam; confusion over what is happening extends to Laotian capital of Vientiane, where Premier Souvanna Phouma is reptd trying to determine if allied forces have in fact launched operation into Laos; importance of Ho Chi Minh Trail to N Vietnamese noted; Pentagon issues advisory asserting at least 3 unspecified news orgns have breached embargo and that Defense Dept would 'seriously consider' disaccrediting Saigon correspondents involved in event of further violations; White House press sec says Nixon is aware of what is going on in Indochina; Mansfield says he senses 'feeling of apprehension' among his colleagues; map
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Heavy Toll Discounted In Mozambique Flood
Date: 31 January 1971
officials discount repts of especially high casualties in floods
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Edgar Dean Mitchell
Date: 01 February 1971
biog sketch; por; full name is Edgar Dean Mitchell
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WEATHER RULES DICTATED DELAY; Implemented After Apollo 12 Encountered Lightning
Date: 01 February 1971
Special to The New York Times
Table compares Apollo 14 spacecraft with Mercury spacecraft in which Capt Shepard made historic suborbital flight in '61
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