680 Foreign Correspondents Find New York the Worlds Hottest Beat; Foreign Reporters Find the City a Hot Beat
Date: 22 November 1972
By JOHN L. HESS
John HESS
Article on correspondents for foreign newspapers stationed in NYC notes there are 680 foreign reporters in city; J Egginton (London Observer), A H Faulkner (London Daily Telegraph), J Gustincic (Politika), U Stille (Correire della Sera), L Foy (Agence France-Presse), S Ahman (Dagens Nyheter) and G Bauer (Springer Publications) comment on advantages of news gathering in NYC; illus of Foy, Ahman, Stille, Bauer and Faulkner
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REPORTER ON COAST WINS JAILING DELAY
Date: 22 November 1972
W Farr (Los Angeles Times), formerly reporter for Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, is ordered to jail on Nov 21 and then wins unexpected reprieve from Superior Ct Judge C Older, who originally cited Farr for contempt for refusing to reveal sources of story about C Manson murders; Older repts that Farr will remain free until Nov 27; says at that time he will summon all attys who were involved in Manson case and ask each of them under oath to say whether they gave Farr information for article
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Harvard's Specialist on Vietnam; Samuel Lewis Popkin
Date: 22 November 1972
Special to The New York Times
Biog of Prof S L Popkin
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MISTRIAL IS ASKED IN ELLSBERG CASE; Defense Says Agnew Made 'Inflammatory' Remark
Date: 22 November 1972
Attys for D Ellsberg on Nov 21 file motions for mistrial in Pentagon papers case on ground that Vice Pres Agnew has made 'highly inflamatory' remarks comparing Pentagon papers case to Watergate bugging incident and has used word 'steal' to describe both incidents during int on ABC program Issues and Answers; Fed Dist Judge Byrne will hear petition on Nov 30 along with motions offered earlier to dismiss jury and select new panel; Ellsberg's atty L Boudin says he is filing material to support defense contentions that during period that case has been delayed (since Aug 7) jurors must have been exposed to prejudicial publicity about trial
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Manila Paper Reopening
Date: 21 November 1972
Philippine Pres Marcos on Nov 20 authorizes Manila Daily Bulletin to resume pub under name of Bulletin Today; authorizes paper to publish wkly feature magazine Panorama
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NEWSWOMEN NAME WINNERS OF AWARDS
Date: 22 November 1972
Newswomen's Club of NY on Nov 21 announces winners of '72 Front Page awards; winners are T Wilson (NY Daily News), E Graham (Wall St Journal), R Amon (Newsday), G Hall (Yonkers Herald Statesman), F duPlessix Gray (New Yorker), B Rose (New York), M Sanders (ABC), B Lamont (WINS) and author F Fitzgerald; winners will receive awards on Dec 1
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3 From Washington Post Win Award for Reporting
Date: 22 November 1972
Washington Post reporters C Bernstein, R Woodward and B Sussman get Drew Pearson Foundation awards for their series on pol sabotage and espionage relating to break-in at Dem party hq in June
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Harvard Professor Jailed In Pentagon Papers Case; HARVARD SCHOLAR ORDERED TO JAIL
Date: 22 November 1972
By BILL KOVACHSpecial to The New York Times
Fed Judge W A Garrity on Nov 21 orders Prof S L Popkin to begin serving sentence for contempt of Fed grand jury, Garrity says there is no immunity for either scholars or newsmen in testifying before grand jury; Harvard Univ pres D Bok receives permission from ct to argue motions on behalf of Popkin; US Atty J N Gabriel says Bok's statement is technically correct but if Popkin agrees to testify grand jury will be called back in to receive testimony; Popkin's wife S Shirk reads husband's statement before TV cameras in which he says that he has no knowledge of distribution and pub of papers; Popkin says questions which he refuses to answer are those he believes have 'no bearing on the stated purpose of the grand jury' and that to answer questions would 'betray my personal and scholarly ethics' and would create dangerous precedent by allowing scholars to be questioned without restriction about their sources; US Atty R Bachman says that only by agreeing to answer questions without any qualifications will Govt drop its insistence that Popkin be sent to jail; illus of Popkin, handcuffed, being taken to jail from Boston Fed Ct
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Sports News Briefs
Date: 22 November 1972
comment on Nov 21 events at fall thoroughbred horse auction at Belmont Pk, NYC
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Nixon Order Fails to Ease Access to Classified Data; Bureaucratic Obstacles and High Costs Are Impeding Efforts to Obtain Older Government Documents
Date: 22 November 1972
By FELIX BELAIR Jr.Special to The New York Times
Felix BELAIR
Access to classified Govt data relating to foreign and defense policies has not been eased by Nixon's June 1 order directing freer flow of information to public from secret and confidential papers more than 10 yrs old; this is assessment of historians, other scholars and newsmen who have been seeking data; they blame official attitudes as well as remaining rules on classification; Prof Gardiner comments; difficulties of Washington bur of NY Times in dealing with State Dept on issue detailed
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