Judge Grants Ehrlichman A Delay in Perjury Trial
Date: 06 April 1974
Calif Superior Ct Judge Gordon Ringer on April 5 grants delay in opening of John D Ehrlichman's perjury trial; Ehrlichman says he needs more time to obtain transcripts of Fed grand jury hearing in Washington during which former White House aides Egil Krogh and David R Young Jr had testified
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3 Newspaper Publishers Offer Package toPrinters
Date: 06 April 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
publishers of NY Times, NY Daily News and NY Post on April 5 make public their full pkg offer to ITU, including proposal that would give newspapers right to automate their composing rooms while protecting jobs of regular full-time job holders and also giving new guarantees to nonregulars; contract talks have been recessed until next wk with union planning to go ahead with strike vote and NY Times publisher A O Sulzberger warning of possibly tragic consequences if no agreement is reached; ITU Local 6 pres Bertram Powers calls publishers' offer unsatisfactory, both with respect to wages and automation; says that secret-ballot strike vote will take place during next few days in newspaper composing rooms and commercial shops with final tally scheduled to be completed by April 10; Sulzberger, in memo to Times staff, notes impending strike vote and revs offer, noting that it is not final on publishers' part; Times distributes full text of proposals that were made to union on April 3 by Times, News and Post; proposal on automation and pay increases summarized
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Mediator to Enter Talks At the Washington Post
Date: 06 April 1974
Negotiators for Washington Post and Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild will meet on April 6 with fed mediator in hopes of averting strike by 860 editorial and commercial employes of newspaper; guild voted on April 4 to strike on April 8 if no progress is made toward agreement (S)
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Printers and Publishers Discuss 3 City Dailies' Contract Offer
Date: 05 April 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
negotiators for NY Times, NY Daily News and NY Post and ITU Local 6 discuss pkg contract offer put foward by publishers on April 3; union has announced that it will hold strike referendum if no settlement is reached by April 5; local pres Bertram Powers says that in talks on April 4 union sought clarification of various provisions in publishers offer particularly with regard to automation proposal (M)
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Federal Agencies Accused Of Lottery Harassment
Date: 05 April 1974
NH Sweepstakes dir Edward Powers says that Fed agencies have been harassing lottery ticket buyers and publishers of newspapers that carry sweepstakes information, Apr 3, Comm on the Rev of Natl Policy Toward Gambling; holds Cong should modify Fed lottery laws and Justice Dept and US Postal Service should form firm position on lotteries (S)
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Impeachment in the Living Room
Date: 05 April 1974
By Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus article on issue of televising any impeachment trial; notes arguments pro and con; says that if TV is barred from live coverage, it still will provide 2/3 of nation's adults with their basic information on impeachment proceedings as it has become dominant news force in US; holds Sen Watergate com members and HR Judiciary Com members have acted with admirable restraint in their TV appearances; holds that if anyone has used medium to distort matters it is Pres Nixon; drawing
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MOBIL ASKS LIMIT ON BACKING UP ADS; Urges F.T.C. Not to Extend Rule to idea' Series Petition by Legislators
Date: 05 April 1974
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Mobil urges FTC to reject petition of 6 US Congressmen that comm's ad-substantiation rules be extended to 'idea' ad of energy cos during energy crisis; says allowing FTC to question and challenge such controverial ad would interfere with 1st Amendment rights and charges that petition would not subject critics of oil cos to same requirement; oil indus criticism of news media's presentation of energy crisis and difficulty energy indus is experiencing in presenting own position on TV noted (M)
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A. P. TO PHASE OUT ITS LOCAL SERVICE; The Staff Will Be Absorbed by Agency's Other Units
Date: 06 April 1974
AP Local, news service covering NYC affairs and operated by AP for local newspapers and radio and TV stations, will be phased out over next several mos; NY Times, NY Daily News, AP, and NY Post have voted to end their support for the service; Times managing editor Peter Millones and AP vp Conrad Fink comment
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Soviet Attacks U.S. Press on Kissinger
Date: 05 April 1974
By HEDRICK SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
Pravda, on Apr 4, accuses NY Times, Washington Post and other Amer newspapers of 'obvious pol sabotage' of Soviet-Amer negotiations because of 'pessimistic' repts that Sec Kissinger failed to achieve negotiating breakthroughs during his rectnt talks in Moscow; attack, following earlier ones by L I Brezhnev on French and Western gen press, is directed particularly at suggestions Kissinger's mission failed because of Soviet intransigence; NY Times did not publish any comment to effect that mission failed because of Kremlin hard line; it is noted that newsmen aboard Kissinger's returning plane reptd pessimism; Pravda's Washington correspondent Boris Strelnikov says local observers see 'pol sabotage' (M)
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