Article 82 -- No Title
Date: 19 July 1977
Nassau County Dist Atty's office is making inquiry to determine whether there was anything illegal in granting of press passes to people who do not represent news media; Dist Atty's office spokesman says that if it is found that custom, practiced in both Towns of Oyster Bay and Hempstead, is violation of law, criminal investigation would follow; Edward Bricknell, dir of town beach div of Oyster Bay town govt, reptdly issued beach press passes to as many as 400 individuals; Bricknell says passes went to people who needed or deserved them; Oyster Bay press officer Frank DeStafano and William LaMarca, candidate for Oyster Bay Town Supervisor, comment (M)
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DISMISSED OFFICER DENIES 'REAL' MOB TIE; Fights for Job, Saying He Infiltrated Underworld for WCBS-TV News
Date: 19 July 1977
By MAX H. SEIGEL
Max SEIGEL
Former policeman Edward T Flotard has filed suit challenging his dismissal because of his organized crime connections; says he developed them while doing undercover work for WCBS-TV News reporter Chris Borgen (S)
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East Germany Confirms Defection Of Editor of British Miners' Paper
Date: 19 July 1977
E Ger confirms Maurice Jones, Communist ed of Yorkshire Miner, Brit miners' newspaper, seeks asylum; Jones charges Brit police threatened his family during questioning after he was arrested in picket line, lr to miners' leader Arthur Scargill (S)
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Columbia Says Mobil Oil Will End Aid for Project In Dispute Over Director
Date: 19 July 1977
Columbia Univ repts Mobil Corp has withdrawn its financial support of fellowship program at Columbia Univ Graduate School of Journalism because it does not like econ views of recently-apptd project dir Chris Welles; Columbia dean Elie Abel says Mobil informed him that it would not renew its $50,000 contribution to Walter Bagehot Fellowship Program in Econ and Business Journalism because of apptmt; Mobil vp for public affairs Herbert Schmertz says that while Welles's past writings have not been fair to oil indus, that is not main reason support was withdrawn; Abel says he has been in touch with other potential contributors to compensate for loss (S)
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Deputy Mayor Criticizes Post's Blackout Coverage As a 'Disaster' in Itself
Date: 19 July 1977
NYC Deputy Mayor Osborn Elliott criticizes NY Post's coverage of NYC blackout, lr to publisher Rupert Murdoch; singles out July 15 headline, '24 Hours of Terror'; Post ed defends coverage, noting that headline was taken from Mayor Beame (S)
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Siegal Named News Editor of Times
Date: 20 July 1977
NY Times names Allan M Siegal news editor, succeeding Lawrence G Hauck (S)
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