BONN COMPLETING A 'FAIR' PRESS BILL; Editorial Staffs' Role Measure Widely Oppoced--Editorial Staffs Would Have More Authority
Date: 18 August 1974
Special to The New York TimesBy CRAIG R. WHITNEY
W Ger Interior Min putting finishing touches on bill to give newsmen legal protection from ed interference by publishers and impose 'fairness' requirements for news coverage; legis has drawn widespread opposition from press; press bill was promised in '72 election platform of Willy Brandt, then Chancellor; Govt sources say that principal original aim was to hinder take-over of financially ailing papers by powerful publishers; Axel Springer reptdly was main target; Springer has reacted mildly, but Rudolf Augstein, publisher of Der Spiegel, has attacked legis; Ger Journalists Assn holds that law does too little (M)
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China Mail in Hong Kong Publishes Its Last Issue
Date: 18 August 1974
Eng-language China Mail, Hong Kong newspaper, suspends publication after over 125 yrs (S)
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POST AND PRINTERS IN TENTATIVE PACT
Date: 17 August 1974
NY Post and Typographical Union 6 reach tentative agreement on contract running to March 30 '84, similar to agreement reached by other NY dailies; local pres Bertram Powers comments; pact detailed (S)
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Peru, Alleging Plot By the Opposition, Seizes Party Chiefs
Date: 17 August 1974
8 Peruvian leaders of Accion Popular are reptdly arrested Aug 16 after police uncovered plot 'to create chaos in Peru'; had reptdly organized series of violent demonstrations 2 wks ago to protest Govt's expropriation several wks ago of privately owned newspapers in Peru; arrested leaders of Accion Popular listed (S)
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Press Operations in White House Revised, With Politics Ruled Out
Date: 17 August 1974
Special to The New York Times
White House announces major reorgn of press operations (S)
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Madrid Orders Newspaper Not to Publish for 2 Weeks
Date: 17 August 1974
editors of newspaper Sol (Malaga, Spain) say they have been fined and ordered by Information Min following Sol article hinting that right-wing politician Jose A Giron had been arrested (S)
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In the End, Allies
Date: 18 August 1974
By Carolyn Lewis
Carolyn Lewis
Carolyn Lewis article on sense of relief felt by Washington newsmen that their coverage and exposure of Watergate affair were not mere reflection of Eastern elitist views but were in the end reflection of views of entire nation; cartoon (M)
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2 Newsmen Wounded By Gunfire on Cyprus
Date: 17 August 1974
US newsman Serge Fliegers (Hearst Newspapers) and W Ger Robert Held (Frankfurter Allegemeine) wounded when car is hit by gunfire near Nicosia airport, Cyprus (S)
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Minority-Journalists' Program Closes
Date: 17 August 1974
By NATHANIEL SHEPPARD Jr
Nathaniel SHEPPARD
Michele Clark Journalism Awards for Excellence in Race Reptg to NY Times newsmen Earl Caldwell and John Kifner (S)
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