680 Foreign Correspondents Find New York the Worlds Hottest Beat; Foreign Reporters Find the City a Hot Beat
Date: 22 November 1972
By JOHN L. HESS
John HESS
Article on correspondents for foreign newspapers stationed in NYC notes there are 680 foreign reporters in city; J Egginton (London Observer), A H Faulkner (London Daily Telegraph), J Gustincic (Politika), U Stille (Correire della Sera), L Foy (Agence France-Presse), S Ahman (Dagens Nyheter) and G Bauer (Springer Publications) comment on advantages of news gathering in NYC; illus of Foy, Ahman, Stille, Bauer and Faulkner
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REPORTER ON COAST WINS JAILING DELAY
Date: 22 November 1972
W Farr (Los Angeles Times), formerly reporter for Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, is ordered to jail on Nov 21 and then wins unexpected reprieve from Superior Ct Judge C Older, who originally cited Farr for contempt for refusing to reveal sources of story about C Manson murders; Older repts that Farr will remain free until Nov 27; says at that time he will summon all attys who were involved in Manson case and ask each of them under oath to say whether they gave Farr information for article
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Pressmen at Two Papers In New Haven Go on Strike
Date: 23 November 1972
Special to The New York Times
Members of Printing Pressmen's Union on Nov 22 walk off jobs at New Haven Journal-Courier and New Haven Register; union pres F J Rak says main issues include proposals to reduce number of pressmen and to alter scheduling
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Harvard's Specialist on Vietnam; Samuel Lewis Popkin
Date: 22 November 1972
Special to The New York Times
Biog of Prof S L Popkin
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MISTRIAL IS ASKED IN ELLSBERG CASE; Defense Says Agnew Made 'Inflammatory' Remark
Date: 22 November 1972
Attys for D Ellsberg on Nov 21 file motions for mistrial in Pentagon papers case on ground that Vice Pres Agnew has made 'highly inflamatory' remarks comparing Pentagon papers case to Watergate bugging incident and has used word 'steal' to describe both incidents during int on ABC program Issues and Answers; Fed Dist Judge Byrne will hear petition on Nov 30 along with motions offered earlier to dismiss jury and select new panel; Ellsberg's atty L Boudin says he is filing material to support defense contentions that during period that case has been delayed (since Aug 7) jurors must have been exposed to prejudicial publicity about trial
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NEWSWOMEN NAME WINNERS OF AWARDS
Date: 22 November 1972
Newswomen's Club of NY on Nov 21 announces winners of '72 Front Page awards; winners are T Wilson (NY Daily News), E Graham (Wall St Journal), R Amon (Newsday), G Hall (Yonkers Herald Statesman), F duPlessix Gray (New Yorker), B Rose (New York), M Sanders (ABC), B Lamont (WINS) and author F Fitzgerald; winners will receive awards on Dec 1
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3 From Washington Post Win Award for Reporting
Date: 22 November 1972
Washington Post reporters C Bernstein, R Woodward and B Sussman get Drew Pearson Foundation awards for their series on pol sabotage and espionage relating to break-in at Dem party hq in June
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Tyranny by Picket
Date: 23 November 1972
Ed on decision of Sup Ct Judge H Korn which prevents AFTRA, to which CBS newsmen belong, from forcing newsmen off air against their will in technicians labor dispute that does not directly concern them; holds decision is based on special considerations of technical nature which leave unchallenged basic threat to free flow of information; holds union requirement of newsmen represents standing danger to press freedom, even though there is nothing unusual about requirement in terms of traditional trade union practice
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Deepening Shadow
Date: 23 November 1972
ed on jailing by Dist Judge W A Garrity of Prof S L Popkin for his refusal to answer grand jury questions about Pentagon papers holds that jailing is step toward legitimizing misuse of grand juries as instruments of pol intimidation; holds that Popkin's jailing has had 'chilling effect' on freedom of research in controversial areas of public policy; repts that continuation of present trend in judicial decisions will make it increasingly difficult for reporters and scholars 'to penetrate the wall of official secrecy behind which public officials can hide their errors and transgressions'
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Harvard Professor Jailed In Pentagon Papers Case; HARVARD SCHOLAR ORDERED TO JAIL
Date: 22 November 1972
By BILL KOVACHSpecial to The New York Times
Fed Judge W A Garrity on Nov 21 orders Prof S L Popkin to begin serving sentence for contempt of Fed grand jury, Garrity says there is no immunity for either scholars or newsmen in testifying before grand jury; Harvard Univ pres D Bok receives permission from ct to argue motions on behalf of Popkin; US Atty J N Gabriel says Bok's statement is technically correct but if Popkin agrees to testify grand jury will be called back in to receive testimony; Popkin's wife S Shirk reads husband's statement before TV cameras in which he says that he has no knowledge of distribution and pub of papers; Popkin says questions which he refuses to answer are those he believes have 'no bearing on the stated purpose of the grand jury' and that to answer questions would 'betray my personal and scholarly ethics' and would create dangerous precedent by allowing scholars to be questioned without restriction about their sources; US Atty R Bachman says that only by agreeing to answer questions without any qualifications will Govt drop its insistence that Popkin be sent to jail; illus of Popkin, handcuffed, being taken to jail from Boston Fed Ct
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