Newsmen Protest Curbs
Date: 30 September 1972
Lt Charles, back home in San Diego, Sept 29, occupies a suite normally reserved for capts and adms at Balboa Naval Hosp, Calif; newsmen, kept 40 ft away, protest without avail, that Charles was not even allowed to tell them he was happy to be home
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British Panel Asks Reform Of Old Official Secrets Act
Date: 30 September 1972
By ALVIN SHUSTERSpecial to The New York Times
Official com in GB, headed by Lord Franks, proposes on Sept 29 that Official Secret Acts, controversial law protecting Govt documents, be reformed to permit easier flow of information; various editors hold proposal does not go far enough and note that GB will retain 1 of toughest secrets laws in West; Franks proposal suggests elimination of secrets disclosure section from act and enactment of new Official Information Act that would reduce threat of criminal prosecution for publishing Govt information; former security chief E M F Jones says suggested changes will be 'damaging to the security of the state'; Franks com was estab after prosecution of Sunday Telegraph ended with acquittal and judge's comment that suit should not have been brought; case involved document on Nigerian civil war that prosecution acknowledged had no bearing on GB's security; J Aitken, 1 of journalists who was acquitted, scores proposal
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Manila Imposes Strict Censorship on News Media
Date: 29 September 1972
Special to The New York Times
Officials in Sydney, Australia, rept they have recd copy of directives on policies and guidelines issued by Dept of Public Information in Manila concerning measures taken on pub of news since martial law was declared in Philippines on Sept 23; order says that newspapers, radio and TV stations must print and broadcast accurate, objective, straight news repts of positive natl value that are consistent with efforts of Govt to meet dangers that it says brought on proclamation of martial law; says none of these media may issue any editorial opinion, commentary or asides, or any pol, unauthorized or objectionable ad under rules; bans soc news and extraneous material in sports or entertainment articles or broadcasts; prohibits what it terms materials that tend to incite or inflame people against Govt; bars dissemination of material that it considers seditious, without definitely established, well-identified, verifiable sources, or material based on allegation or conjecture rather than fact; says foreign correspondents in Philippines will be bound by same rules that apply to domestic news media; says all material for publication internally or abroad must be cleared by Dept of Public Information; Daily Express, 1 TV station and several radio stations remain open as mouthpieces for Pres Marcos; newsmen arrested include: J Roces, M Soliven and R Galang (Manila Times), A Doronila (Daily Chronicle), R Ordonnez (Daily Herald), T Locsin and N Rama (Free Press), L M Mauricio (Wkly Graphic) and Rev C Lagerway, editor of catholic pubs; illus of Chronicle ed A Doronilla
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Marcos Steps Up His Purge Of Government Employes
Date: 30 September 1972
By TILLMAN DURDINSpecial to The New York Times
Philippine Pres Marcos announces his new reform program will include judiciary, radio-TV broadcast, Manila; says he has dismissed all but 2 judges of Industrial Relations Ct and that he has asked some judges of lower cts to resign; lower ct judges reptdly have long been targets of charges of taking bribes and other corrupt action; illus of Justice Ruiz Castro with Sens Rodrigo, Aquino, Mitra and others who have been detained under martial law decree; censorship of dispatch noted
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Advertising: News of Promotion
Date: 29 September 1972
By PHILIP H. DOUGHERTY
Philip DOUGHERTY
Comment on Amer advertising in Moscow during Team Canada-USSR hockey series
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POWELL PROPOSED BUSINESS DEFENSE; Wrote a Memo for Chamber Before Nixon Named Him
Date: 29 September 1972
By FRED P. GRAHAMSpecial to The New York Times
Fred GRAHAMSpecial
US C of C releases on Sept 28 a hitherto-confidential memo by Sup Ct Assoc Justice Powell, written in Oct '71,2 mos before his nomination to Ct, urging C of C mount campaign in schools and news media, particularly TV, to counter criticism of free enterprise system; memo urges aggressive program to present business's views in friend-of-ct briefs in Sup Ct, a panel of acad experts to lecture on campuses, and screening of textbooks for anti-business bias; memo was not discovered by FBI in its check of Powell following his nomination to Ct and he was not questioned on his business views during Sen confirmation hearings; C of C releases memo after columnist J Anderson runs excerpts from it in his Sept 28 column; spokesman for Powell says he drafted it at request of E B Sydnor Jr, a C of C official; memo lists R Nader among those who 'openly seek destruction of the system'
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Breedlove Building New Vehicle
Date: 29 September 1972
C Breedlove announces on Sept 26 that he has financial backing to start building a supersonic land-rocket to race against USSR and Australia; says that vehicle will cost about $500,000 and take about 1 yr to build; vehicle described
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Football Group to Be Investigated
Date: 30 September 1972
Middlesex County (NJ) prosecutor's office announces on Sept 29 that it is conducting full-scale probe of Natl Football Foundation, which was supposed to build its hall of fame on campus of Rutgers Univ in New Brunswick, NJ; orgn, which has been collecting money for project, recently announces that it has shifted site of proposed bldg to NYC; Rutgers has donated more tham $320,000 into hall since '49
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