ADAM POWELL'S SON DISMISSED BY WRVR
Date: 13 August 1972
Radio station WRVR dismisses asst news dir A C Powell 3d for allegedly 'rifling' gen mgr's confidential files; Powell repts his departure from station has been pending for 3 wks; sources familiar with WRVR station rept there are no confidential files in station's main office
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Editorial Article 1 -- No Title; Nixon and Press: Why the Heat Is Off
Date: 13 August 1972
-- ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr
Nixon's campaign tactic of avoiding open attacks on press revd
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Times Correspondent Gets Award From News Agency
Date: 14 August 1972
Third World Media News, orgn specializing in news of interest to minority groups, presents award to E Caldwell (NY Times) for his refusal to answer subpoenas before grand jury about activities of Black Panthers; awards citation to NY Times for supporting Caldwell in case
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The case of the O.E.O. office
Date: 13 August 1972
-- S.S
S Sheehan, in article on columnist J Anderson, discusses what Anderson concedes to be his error in reptg in '69 that then-OEO Dir Rumsfeld used some of money he had saved by cutting antipoverty programs to fit out his office with such luxuries as a bedroom and a private bathroom; no such refurbishing had taken place; Sheehan details her efforts to trace origins of error
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The Enquirer Profits by Uplift in News
Date: 13 August 1972
Comment on Natl Enquirer's rise in circulation, which has tripled in 3 yrs to 2.9-million; publisher G Pope Jr attributes success to change in news content of paper; notes that news of gory accidents attracted readers but kept circulation under 1-million
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The Anderson strategy: "We hit you -- pow! Then you issue a denial, and -- bam! -- we really let you have it"; Anderson Cranking up the "Merry-Go-Round" The grand old man
Date: 13 August 1972
By Susan Sheehan
Susan Sheehan
S Sheehan (New Yorker) article on syndicated columnist J Anderson, who has become news personality through recent disclosures in his column concerning documents indicating Nixon Adm duplicity during India-Pakistan war and D Beard memo implicating Justice Dept in out-of-ct settlement of ITT merger case
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DEMOCRATS SEEK END TO EQUAL TIME; Press for Free Broadcasts Without Sharing Them With Fringe Parties
Date: 14 August 1972
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Dem Pres nominee Sen McGovern presses for approval of bill stalled in HR that would repeal equal-time law, which requires broadcasters to give same treatment to fringe and major party candidates; although White House has made it clear that Nixon will not participate in any debates even if law is repealed, networks have offered instead to provide equal air time for 2 major parties; NBC has set aside 8 hrs to be divided equally between Nixon and McGovern, CBS has offered 4 prime-time half hrs to each, and ABC has promised unspecified amount of free time; total free time is valued at some $1.2-millon and would not be counted in $8.4-million TV-radio spending limit set by new Fed Election Campaign Act; repeal bill passed Sen last March but is now stalled in HR Commerce Com because of running feud between Chmn Staggers and CBS over its documentary The Selling of the Pentagon; Speaker Albert says he favors repeal but has been unable to persuade Staggers to bring bill up for com action; other Dems have tried to persuade Staggers to leave Washington temporarily so that 2d-ranking Dem on com, Repr Macdonald, could get bill to floor in his absence; whether Nixon would sign bill seen doubtful because of his previous statements that he would approve bill only if it applies to Cong as well as natl candidates, which HR probably would not accept
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Sculler, Crew Show Olympic Form
Date: 14 August 1972
Comment on Aug 13 events at Middle States Rowing Regatta, Philadelphia
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Soviet Fair Set in Jakarta
Date: 13 August 1972
USSR Embassy to hold industrial fair in Jakarta, Indonesia, during Aug, 1st since abortive coup staged by Communists in '65
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Nonaligned Nations End Guyana Parley
Date: 13 August 1972
By Reuters
Mins at Georgetown, Guyana, conf of nonaligned nations issue declaration Aug 12 condemning US policy in Indochina and supporting peace proposals put forward by Cambodia's exiled Govt led by Norodom Sihanouk and Pathet Lao in Laos
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