Printing Shops and Union Agree on a 10-Year Pact
Date: 28 October 1975
Typographical Union Local 6 and Printers League, representing NYC met area commercial printing shops, on Oct 27 announce tentative agreement on 10-yr contract that opens way for unlimited automation, provides wage and cost-of-living increases and guarantees full day-scale pay for all current employes; contract contains unusual provision for special fund to subsidize shops that hire otherwise unemployed or underemployed printers; such shops' lower payroll costs would thus enable them to bid more competitively for work now being done outside NYC; mediator Theodore Kheel describes contract as historic; others commenting include James E Home, exec vp of Printers League, and Bertram A Powers, typographical union pres; contract provisions detailed (M)
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Executives Learn How to Operate Newspaper Equipment at Center in Oklahoma City
Date: 28 October 1975
By DAMON STETSON Special to The New York Times
Damon Special
Article on Newspaper Production and Research Center, Oklahoma City; center, div of Southern Production Program Inc, is multicourse, rapid-learning school aimed at acquainting mgt personnel with techniques of newspaper production while also teaching them how, in strike situation, to operate equipment and perform tasks normally assigned to craft employes; training programs described; center's history revd; Southern Production Program chmn Robert Spahn, Dallas Morning News sr vp Richard D Blum, Kansas City Star labor relations mgr Michael McKinney and center gen mgr James D Stuckey comment (L)
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U.S. Newsman Says Leftists in Beirut Shot Him Purposely
Date: 27 October 1975
Philip Caputo, correspondent for The Chicago Tribune, says leftist gunmen deliberately shot him after checking his credentials; says he was told to walk down st in Beirut before he was shot from behind; is wounded in both feet and in back and is reptd in good condition in hospital (S)
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Brazilian TV Man Held as Communist Is Reported Suicide
Date: 28 October 1975
Brazilian mil repts that state-owned educ TV station TV Cultura news editor Vladimir Herzog committed suicide while in detention in Sao Paulo after admitting being member of banned Brazilian Communist party; mil says Herzog confessed to having been recruited by former news editor Rudolfo Konder, who is in detention; says Konder and journalist of newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo denounced Herzog as Communist party member; journalists' union of state of Sao Paulo publishes statement blamming security forces for Herzog's death (S)
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EMBASSY ADVISES SOME AMERICANS TO QUIT LEBANON; Dependents and Unessentia Personnel Told to Go as Beirut Fighting Spreads 1,000 ARE SAID TO LEAVE Two-Day Toll in Clashes o Moslems and Christians Estimated at 128 Dead Embassy Advises Some Americans to Leave Lebanon
Date: 28 October 1975
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
US Embassy in Beirut repts that there has been no word on whereabouts of USIA employes Charles D Gallagher and William R Dykes Jr (S)
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Editorialists Split Ideologically On U.S. Aid for New York City
Date: 27 October 1975
informal survey of ed opinion throughout US on NYC fiscal crisis reveals wide spectrum, with let-them-stew-in-own-juice attitude dominant and scant sympathy for path that city followed that led to troubles; sample (M)
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