CBS Official Leads Fund Drive For Press Freedom Committee
Date: 30 May 1975
Reporters Com for Press Freedom names Arthur R Taylor, pres of CBS, chmn of 2-yr drive to raise $2-million to form 1st Amendment Research and Development Fund to help pay costs of legal research and information services in 1st Amendment cases and to expand its facilities; under plan $2-million will be put into trust fund and com will be able to use interest for its operations; Taylor comments (S)
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...and Individual Rights
Date: 29 May 1975
ed disagrees with Atty Gen E H Levi's contention that need for Govt secrecy is rooted in roughly same values as are rights of ordinary citizens to privacy; cites lesson of Watergate that unfettered govt power exercised in secret can easily be abused; notes Sen Select Intelligence Com request for documents from FBI and Atty Gen E H Levi's concern that disclosure of 'raw intelligence files' would compromise privacy of individuals named in files; holds com should get material after estab procedures to protect information in files
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Sports News Briefs; Dillon Reported Joining Rangers
Date: 30 May 1975
Barry Stebbins wins Natl Coll Div II decathlon champ; Stebbins, winner of 100-meter dash and long jump, also won 110-meter hurdles and tied for pole vault (S)
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Sports News Briefs; 'Duffers' Take U.S.G.A. to Court
Date: 29 May 1975
Theodore Kheel, testifying in Rozelle rule trial in US Dist Ct, says NFL's position is that there have to be some rules; says Players Assn is opposed to both the compensation rule in gen and to comr's setting of compensation; Rozelle-rule impasse led to players' strike last July (S)
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