PRINTERS LEADERS ARE FOUND GUILTY; 3 Are Fined $250 Each for Stoppages at The Times
Date: 17 October 1973
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
NYS Sup Ct Justice V A Massi on Oct 16 finds ITU Local 6 pres B A Powers and union officials D W Crockett and M Brody guilty of criminal contempt for interfering with and delaying operations of NY Times on Oct 12 and 13; levies $250 fines against each man; rejects motion by Times to find men and their union in civil contempt and liable for damages, put at $92,000 by Times witnesses; local's sec-treas T W Kopeck, 4th defendant named in show-cause order, is not found guilty; Times atty J Canoni says that Massi had signed order making permanent an injunction enjoining officers and members of local from striking, picketing, slowing down or interrupting operations in Times composing room
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Authorization for a Strike Backed by Top Guild Panel
Date: 18 October 1973
NY Newspaper Guild exec vp J E Deegan says on Oct 17 that union's exec com has recommended that strike action against NY Daily News and NY Times be authorized by Guild's Representative Assembly; assembly is scheduled to meet on Oct 24
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Hunt to Use Issue Pivotal for Ellsberg
Date: 17 October 1973
By ANTHONY RIPLEYSpecial to The New York Times
Watergate conspirator E H Hunt Jr will cite improper Govt conduct in efforts to win new trial; S S Sachs, Hunt's atty, says on Oct 16 that materials from Hunt's safe at Exec Office Bldg were never turned over to Hunt for preparation of his defense, despite ct order directing release; says that as result evidence available to support his defense was withheld from him before he entered his guilty plea and he was 'entitled to it'; some of evidence may have been destroyed by ex-FBI Acting Dir Gray, who has said he burned 2 envelopes of information from Hunt's safe; Hunt's contention is that break-in at Dem Natl hq on June 17 '72 was either done legally or that he had reason to believe it was legal and thus did not act with criminal intent
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Chile's Highest Jurist Affirms His Support for Military Coup; Self-Defense Cited Some Errors Happen'
Date: 18 October 1973
By JONATHAN KANDELLSpecial to The New Times
Pres of Chilean Sup Ct E Urrutia Manzano affirms his support for mil coup of Sept 11, indicating that he has no objection to dissolution of Cong, abolition of Marxist parties, suspension of other pol parties or imposition of press censorship, int; hopes mil will permit eventual return to legal norms and institutions; gives as legal justification for coup his belief that Govt of S Allende was planning counter-coup and that mil had to act out of self-defense; says Allende Govt lost its legitimacy by acting on margin of law, ignoring ct decisions and refusing to authorize police to dislodge workers from illegally occupied factories and peasants from illegally seized farms; says mil was also forced to act because of 'econ and moral chaos' of country; hopes proposed const is offered in form of plebiscite instead of by decree, as junta members have hinted; believes that most of those killed since coup were resisting armed forces or attacking security forces
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Christian Science Monitor To Halt Saturday Editions
Date: 18 October 1973
Christian Science Monitor editor J Huse repts on Oct 17 that paper will temporarily drop its Saturday editions during newsprint shortage
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Israeli Press Curb Illustrates Problems in Coverage of War; Data Often Conflict Problem for Newsmen
Date: 17 October 1973
By TERENCE SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
Israeli mil authorities on Oct 16 bar newsmen from Sinai Peninsula, where major battle of war remains to be fought, because of heavy fighting; Israeli mil officials censor all news articles and film; purpose of censorship is to find information they regard as useful to enemy and to sustain public morale; internatl press corps that gathered in Israel this wk is 1 of largest ever assembled anywhere; more than 600 newspapers and magazine reporters, photographers and TV personnel from more than 30 countries have been accredited since war broke out on Oct 6
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British Newsman Killed By a Rocket in Syria
Date: 18 October 1973
Sunday Times of London reporter N Tomalin is killed on Oct 17 when rocket strikes his car on Syrian front; is 1st foreign newsman killed in war; Israeli mil spokesman says photographer for W Ger magazine Stern and Israeli escort officer were wounded
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Youth Charged in Shooting
Date: 17 October 1973
16-yr-old youth has been charged with armed robbery and aggravated assault in shooting of Atlanta Const's sports editor J Outlar on Oct 7
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Meany Bars Nonunion TV Men From A. F. L . C. I. Convention
Date: 18 October 1973
Special to The New York Times
Meany on Oct 17 bars nonunion TV-news cameramen from attending and covering labor fed's biennial conv at Americana Hotel, Bal Harbour, Fla; AFL-CIO spokesman asserts that Meany took action at request of Internatl Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employes, which represents many TV station cameramen; spokesman, in response to questioning about several nonunion newspapermen attending conv, replies that fed received no requests from Newspaper Guild to bar nonunion reporters and that they therefore would be admitted
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From Percy to Press: Praise and a Caution; Notes on People
Date: 17 October 1973
ALBIN KREBS
Albin KREBS
Sen Percy chides press on Oct 16 for its part in disseminating 'leaks' on grand jury investigation involving ex-Vice Pres Agnew
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