The Shack Closes as Police Reporters' Home; New Quarters for Reporters
Date: 06 October 1973
By MARCIA CHAMBERS
Marcia CHAMBERS
Closing of old NYC Police Hq also means closing of 'shack' where police reporters have worked for 3 decades; reporters reminisce about incidents occurring there; new room is provided for reporters in new Police Hq
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ACCORD ENDS STRIKE AT ST. LOUIS PAPERS
Date: 05 October 1973
Teamsters Local 610 on Oct 4 approves new contract and ends 45-day strike against St Louis Post-Dispatch and St Louis Globe Democrat
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Agnew Case: A Classic Battle on Fair Trials and Freedom of Press; Investigative Reporting Not Faced Squarely Pentagon Papers In Line of Fire
Date: 06 October 1973
BY CLIFTON DANIELSpecial to The New York Times
article analyzes Vice Pres Agnew's battle against charges of corruption made against him in Md; says 1 issue is free press vs fair trial, 1st Amendment vs 6th Amendment; says premise of Agnew's attys is that news media, exercising freedom of press, have published so many damaging allegations against their client that it will be impossible for him to get impartial treatment; notes that attys have obtained unprecedented authority from Fed judge to conduct their own investigation into alleged leaks of derogatory information to press from Justice Dept; says Judge Hoffman is apparently interested in hastening resolution between 2 Amendments; notes various cases in which this issue has been raised but not resolved
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What's Irresponsible?; IN THE NATION
Date: 05 October 1973
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker comment on Judge W E Hoffman's grant of subpoena power to Vice Pres Agnew's attys; says order makes point that identity of news source sometimes may be useful not to Govt or to prosecution but to a defendant; says whether press acted irresponsibly in bringing to public all that it could learn about criminal activities alleged to Vice Pres is value judgment; says real culpability, if any, may rather lie with those who made information available for purposes of their own; says greater case for irresponsibility of press could be made if it had taken upon itself decision not to print these allegations
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U.S. Attorney Designated For Potential Agnew Case
Date: 05 October 1973
US Atty J R Thompson is selected to represent Govt if hearings are held to investigate news leaks in Justice Dept's case against Vice Pres Agnew
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GUILD AT THE NEWS VOTES STRIKE POWER
Date: 05 October 1973
NY Newspaper Guild members on Oct 4 vote 696 to 5 to empower their union officials to call strike against NY Times, NY News and NY Post if negotiations for new contract are not successful
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On Family Arguments; WASHINGTON
Date: 05 October 1973
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston discusses controversy within Nixon Adm over whether Asst Atty Gen Petersen did or did not leak news that Vice Pres Agnew was under investigation; says Pres, who had power to resolve Petersen-Agnew argument, merely confused issue by supporting Agnew's right to presumption of innocence while declaring there was no 'clear evidence' that Petersen was responsible for leaks; deplores this new, avoidable row within Adm in midst of over 12 investigations, ct cases, grand jury investigations and interparty squabbles with which country is now beset
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U.S. to Widen Protection of Newsmen; New Guidelines'
Date: 05 October 1973
Justice Dept aide J W Hushen cites arrest of Boston Globe reporter T Oliphant in connection with Wounded Knee incident among moves damaging to media-Adm relations, speech, Sigma Delta Chi Mich Chapter
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Soviet Police Assault 2 U.S. Newsmen
Date: 06 October 1973
By HEDRICK SMITHSpecial to The New York Times
UPI correspondents C Ogden and G Joseloff are assaulted on Oct 5 by plainclothes Soviet officers as they photograph brief protest demonstration by 5 Soviet Jews outside of Interior Min; Jews are also arrested; correspondents say that they were roughed up and detained for 15 mins along with Time magazine correspondent J Shaw; incident suggests extreme sensitivity of Soviet authorities to publication abroad of pictures of Jewish demonstrations that have been held lately by groups of young Jews apparently blocked in their efforts to join Jews allowed to emigrate; Shaw is arrested as he urges officers to free other correspondents; newsmen are denied permission to call US embassy during detention; say their prompt release suggests that sr officials are anxious to avoid confrontation with US over such incidents while Cong is considering tariff legis affecting USSR; Amer embassy officials say they will take matter up with Foreign Min
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2 Youths Seized in Killing of Boston Man; 2 BOSTON YOUTHS SEIZED IN KILLING Broadcast Cited
Date: 06 October 1973
By ROBERT REINHOLDSpecial to The New York Times
2 teen-agers are charged on Oct 5 with murder and Boston police attempt to round up 50 other black youths believed to have stoned and stabbed to death 65-yr-old L L Barba on Oct 4 as he was fishing; Mayor K White moves to calm growing fears of racial war in city, chiding press for inflammatory treatment of wk's events; meets with top aides to deal with mounting tensions in black and white communities; says deaths of Barba and E Wagler are clearly not related, but indicates that same youths who attacked Barba were also involved in assaults on white woman and delivery man, also white, who was stabbed in back on Oct 4
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