Saigon Departures Delayed
Date: 24 May 1975
airlift of 72 foreign correspondents from S Vietnam to Vientiane, Laos, is canceled on May 23 because of bad weather and will leave on May 24 (S)
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Date: 24 May 1975
airlift of 72 foreign correspondents from S Vietnam to Vientiane, Laos, is canceled on May 23 because of bad weather and will leave on May 24 (S)
Date: 25 May 1975
1st Westerners to leave Saigon since Communist takeover on Apr 30--81 newsmen and retired French gen--arrive in Vientiane, Loas; reporters' main complaint was that while they had been permitted to move freely in Saigon and live in luxury hotels, no communication had been possible with S Vietnamese officials (S)
Date: 24 May 1975
By RICHARD EDER Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
Portugal's mil rulers meet separately with Socialist party leader Mario Soares and Communist party head Alvaro Cunhal in effort to maintain civilian pol participation in govt; in face of severe pol crisis, Armed Forces Council is reptly still inclined to keep intact four-party coalition that shares govt posts with military men; there are no indications council is willing to make concessions called for by Socialist party; council's key leaders reptdly are leaning toward decision to set up all-mil Cabinet without 4 parties that now hold ministerial posts; press repts that Lisbon area unit comdrs have been summoned to meeting with Brig Gen Otelo de Carvalho, Natl Operational forces comdr, and told that Council has lost patience with bickering parties (M)
Date: 24 May 1975
Spanish Govt on May 23 imposes news blackout on 2 Basque provinces, Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa, where authorities are trying to stop anti-Govt agitation and terrorism (S)
Date: 25 May 1975
By ANTHONY THORNCROFT
Anthony THORNCROFT
Anthony Thorncroft article on Newsround, Brit Broadcasting Corp TV news program for children; illus of anchorman John Craven (S)
Date: 24 May 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Article discusses controversy that has developed over payments to Abbie Hoffman and H R Haldeman for TV ints; issue of whether it is right to pay for exclusive access to pol personalities is compounded by widely held view that subjects in question were manipulating TV; Hoffman, radical who is fugitive from narcotics charge, recd $2,500 from TV, while Haldeman, former White House chief of staff in Nixon Adm, was paid $50,000; CBS justifies paying Haldeman on ground that it was purchasing memoir by someone of 'historical importance"; Michael Shampberg, who arranged Hoffman int for his co, TVTV, newspaper reporter Ron Rosenbaum, CBS News sr vp Bill Leonard, former CBS News head Fred W Friendly and WNET pres John Jay Iselin comment (L)
Date: 25 May 1975
Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist for Chicago Sun-Times, has his nose broken by irate man when he tried to photograph some 20 cars illegally double parked near bldg where party for son of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was in progress; police, instead of apprehending assailant, began questioning Maudlin as to why he was taking pictures; car from which assailant emerged belongs to Chicago police capt, Eugene A Nolan, who said he knew nothing of beating; illus (M)
Date: 25 May 1975
Portugal's Socialist party leader Mario Soares leaves for France to seek outside support for showdown with Portugal's mil rulers; party has threatened to quit coalition unless slide toward 'Communist dictatorship' is halted; main demand is reopening of their newspaper Republica (S)
Date: 24 May 1975
Sen James L Buckley urges FCC and Public Broadcasting Corp to investigate WNET's payment of $2,500 to Abbie Hoffman, fugitive charged with selling cocaine, for TV int, lrs to FCC Chmn Richard E Wiley and PBC pres Henry Loomis (S)
Date: 25 May 1975
CYCLOPS
TV critic Cyclops comments on 'superstar' image of news commentators and anchormen of major TV networks (L)