Auto Dealers and Papers End Oregon Battle on Ads
Date: 24 October 1971
By ROBERT A. WRIGHTSpecial to The New York Times
Robert WRIGHTSpecial
Portland Auto Dealers Assn, Ore, having withheld ad from S I Newhouse's 2 daily newspapers for over 2 wks because of M Royko column in which he said avg car salesman is 'sneaky liar' and called them 'double-talking, deceitful confidence men', plans to resume ad next wk; The Oregonian says boycott cost newspaper up to $200,000; dispute revd
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Editor Faces Trial
Date: 24 October 1971
Special to The New York Times
ed of Eng-language Athens newspaper faces 5 yrs in jail and fine for printing frontpage headline day after Agnew's arrival in Athens that said; Bombs, Recruited School Children Greet Agnew
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7 Papers Devoting Front Page To Attack on U.S. Bureaucracy
Date: 24 October 1971
E C Pulliam, publisher of 7 newspapers in Ind and Ariz, devotes entire front pages of his Sunday editions to ed attacking Fed bureaucracy, which he asserts is most serious threat to freedom in US; says same ed will appear on front pages of his afternoon papers and will be printed as paid ad in Washington Star and Washington Post; ed cites examples of what it describes as bureaucratic power in business, educ, employment and pollution control; Pulliam papers listed
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PAKISTAN OFFERS SEIZED TV FILMS; Distributes Footage From Newsmen for Propaganda
Date: 24 October 1971
By MALCOLM W. BROWNESpecial to The New York Times
Malcolm BROWNESpecial
A Azhar, gen mgr of Govt-operated Karachi TV station, discloses Govt offered him 2 cans of TV film confiscated from foreign news teams when they were expelled from E Pakistan in Mar, for inclusion in propaganda film; says he used none of material; movies purport to show Pakistan Army was justified in quelling revolt; army police reptdly have used notes, address books, texts of ints and similar material confiscated from foreign correspondents in tracing and prosecuting pol opponents; 1 rept says this material has been used as evidence against Mujibur Rahman; 3 E Pakistani newsmen are reptd by colleagues to have been called to testify at trial; all were reptdly compelled to make depositions against Mujibur and 1 was flown under guard to give evidence at trial; 2 others reptdly escaped and went underground
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Scholars Seeking Right Not to Disclose Sources
Date: 25 October 1971
By ROBERT REINHOLDSpecial to The New York Times
legal effort is being mounted, in reaction to continuing Govt probe into press publication of Pentagon study, to establish for scholars the same privilege to protect confidential sources as newsmen have won in some cases; question is being raised by Profs Falk, Popkin and Chomsky, called to testify in secret on study before Fed grand jury, Boston; lawyers for Popkin expected to present affidavits in Fed Dist Ct from 22 or so scholars backing academic privilege; profs' stand is based on case of NY Times reporter E Caldwell; Falk has already tried without success to invoke academic privilege to quash his subpoena
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U.S. Plum Island Lab Holds Its First Open House
Date: 24 October 1971
By BOYCE RENSBERGERSpecial to The New York Times
US Agr Dept's highly restricted animal-disease lab, Plum Is, NY, opened to pub for 1st time since its dedication 15 yrs ago
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Jersey Group Backs Lindsay
Date: 25 October 1971
Com for a Choice, citizens group backing Lindsay for Pres, formed in NJ
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