Peru Is Calm Again After Riots; Death Toll Is Placed at 100
Date: 08 February 1975
By JONATHAN KANDELL Special to The New York Times
Jonathan Special
Calm returns to Lima, Peru, on Feb 7 after 2 days of rioting and looting that left about 100 persons dead; rioting linked to anger over army's heavy-handed tactics against striking police and reptdly was fed by underlying public antipathy to 6-yr-old mil Govt; inflation reached 20% in '74, and public employes and miners have staged strikes during wks preceding police walkout; pol and econ overtones of outburst are overshadowed by widespread looting and vandalism; Govt announces that more than 650 people are under detention for vandalism; new police chief Lt Gen Gaston Zapata de la Flor to take all actions necessary to solve problems of police force; one condition set by striking police is removal of former police chief Lt Gen Roberto Acosta Rodriguez, but there is not indication that Govt has met police wage demands; Govt deports Reuters news agency employes Patrick Buckley and Andrew Tarnowski on charges of having reptd 'false information'; Govt officials and local newspapers under Govt control blame 'counter-revolutionaries' and 'reactionaries' for disorders; some newspapers allege that US CIA and 'ultraleftists' were behind rioting; damage from looting and burning is estimated in millions; curfew continues in Lima and all constitutional guarantees remain suspended (M)
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Peru Declares Holiday in Attempt to End Disorders
Date: 07 February 1975
By JONATHAN KANDELL Special to The New York Times
Jonathan Special
Peruvian mil Govt, in effort to quell pub disorders brought on by army assault on garrison of policemen striking for higher pay, Lima, declares holiday on Feb 6 and extends suspension of const guarantees for 30 days; pillaging continues sporadically in city; mil authorities deny that any policemen were killed in assault, but Govt acknowledges some deaths and numerous wounded; curfew set; pol police occupy and shut down Brit news agency Reuters; damage in Lima described; offices of 2 leading newspapers, particular target of rioters, destroyed; illus (M)
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Top Saigon Political Cartoonist Is Reported Held
Date: 08 February 1975
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
Nguyen Hai Chi, Saigon's leading pol cartoonist who uses pen name Choe, has reptdly been arrested by mil policemen; was subsequently turned over to civilian natl police on Feb 6; Maj Gen Nguyen Khac Binh denies arrest and says Choe was not involved in alleged Communist plot to infiltrate Saigon press corps; in space that English-language Saigon Post usually reserves for Choe's cartoons, notice of arrest appears; Choe illus (S)
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2 Philadelphia Newspapers Closed in Delivery Dispute
Date: 08 February 1975
Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia News on Feb 7 suspend publication indefinitely after truck drivers refuse to deliver papers on Feb 6 and 7 despite injunction ordering them back; paper spokesman Bill Wright comments
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Saigon Says It Found Communist Ring on Newspapers
Date: 07 February 1975
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
Saigon Govt on Feb 6 holds long news conf in which it presents 'live evidence' that it has cracked ring of Communist agents who had infiltrated S Vietnamese press; conf features 2 men who claimed they were former Communist agents who had specialized in subverting Saigon's press; Vietnamese and foreign reporters were not permitted to question men after they had spoken; Information Min Ho Van Cham denies that there is any connection between pol attack on Pres Thieu and arrests and newspaper closures; Maj Gen Nguyen Khac Binh cays that 18 confirmed Communists have been arrested; list of names does not include Vo Trong Luong who told conf that he had infiltrated newspaper Dien Tin on Communist orders; list of Communists includes names of Nguyen Duc Dung and Ky Ninh; illus of journalists at news conf
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A.P. SHIFTING FOCUS AWAY FROM CAPITAL
Date: 07 February 1975
AP pres Wes Gallagher repts AP has shifted its news coverage emphasis from Washington to 'grassroots' coverage of US, now that Watergate scandal has subsided, annual message to AP members (S)
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THE TIMES PROMOTES TWO ON NEWS STAFF
Date: 08 February 1975
NY Times managing editor A M Rosenthal names John Noble Wilford dir of science news, succeeding Henry R Lieberman, who is named asst to managing editor (S)
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Notes on People; Betty Ford Cancels 2 Briefings
Date: 08 February 1975
Chrysler Corp exec Arthur J Schultz Jr leaves co to become associate Deputy Admr of Veterans Adm (S)
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