Broadcast Industry Backs Challenge to Florida Law
Date: 02 March 1974
Natl Assn of Broadcasters and NBC on March 1 ask Sup Ct to declare unconst Fla statute compelling newspapers to provide free space to pol candidates who have been criticized in its pages; case involves challenge by Miami Herald and arguments before 9 Justices are scheduled for April
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Printers Union to Appeal Strike Ban Reinstatement
Date: 02 March 1974
Typographical Union Local 6 pres Bertram Powers on March 1 says that he has asked union's atty to seek rev by US Sup Ct of NY Appeals Ct ruling reinstating permanent no-strike injunction against typographical employes at NY Times
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So Much for Conventional Wisdom
Date: 03 March 1974
Excerpts from recent editorial in Webster City, Iowa, Freeman-Journal concerning paper's participation in 90-day news blackout on reptg of local crimes of vandalism in hopes that vandalism episodes would cease; editorial in paper notes that during period incidents rose by 36.5%; says reptg incidents will resume
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Paper Stirs a Dispute; Special to The New York Times
Date: 02 March 1974
By JAMES T. WOOTEN
James WOOTEN
Wilmington, Del, policemen have organized boycott of Wilmington Morning News and its sister newspaper Wilmington Evening Journal, protesting newspapers' hiring of convicted murderer, Tom Winsett, as columnist; paper repts having recd angry lrs and having subscriptions canceled; has published 2 of Winsett's columns since Feb 13, both critiques of country's penal system and people's attitudes toward it; Sgt Thomas F Gears, head of Fraternal Order of Police, says his group is asking members to urge advertisers to curtail their business with the 2 (M)
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SOVIET EMIGRANTS SAID TO DECREASE; A Seasonal Fluctuation 17 Jews Arrested Fewer Jews Are Reported to Leave This Year
Date: 03 March 1974
Special to The New York TimesBy HEDRICK SMITH
Soviet authorities on March 2 detain AP correspondents Roger Leddington and Stephens Broening and Reuters correspondent Richard Wallis who were reptg on Soviet security police arrest of 17 Soviet Jews who had tried unsuccessfully to deliver petition protesting Soviet emigration policies to hq of Communist party's Central Com
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Times Reporter's Notes Are Returned by Saigon; Special to The New York Times
Date: 02 March 1974
South Vietnamese Govt on March 1 returns notes and film of NY Times Saigon bur chief James M Markham
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New Indictments Expected To Cite Role of 'Plumbers'; Other Possible Areas No Hint of Sirica Move New Indictments Are Expected To Cite Role of the 'Plumbers'
Date: 03 March 1974
Special to The New York TimesBy ANTHONY RIPLEY
Activites of White House plumbers, responsible for '71 break in at office of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding, will be among subjects of further indictments expected during wk of March 12 in broadening inquiry by special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski
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Broadcast License Opposed Over Ties to Newspapers
Date: 03 March 1974
Justice Dept on march 2 asks FCC not to renew broadcasting licenses of 3 WCCO radio-TV stations in Minneapolis because of their newspaper connections with Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co, which owns 47% of Midwest Radio-TV, parent co of WCCO outlets
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