Wilkes-Barre Strike Ends
Date: 10 December 1973
Striking members of ITU on Dec 9 agree to return to their jobs at Wilkes-Barre Publishing Co, which prints Wilkes-Barre Times Leader and Wilkes-Barre Evening News Record; papers to resume publishing on Dec 11
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Italian Newspapers, Little-Read and Unprofitable, Are River by Ownership Battles; LAW STAMPA l'Unitaa 5 Million Copies a Day More Readers but No Profits Imessaggero ?? Rema CORRIERE DELLA SERA Salaries Are High IL GIORNO
Date: 10 December 1973
By PAUL HOFMANNSpecial to The New York Times
article on press in Italy, part of series on press in various countries; most Ital newsmen are currently engaged in struggle, backed by printers, for stronger voice in editorial policy and in apptmt of editors; many larger newspapers are undergoing shifts in ownership, particularly Il Messaggero, which has come under control of Fiat Motor Co; almost all country's 80 daily newspapers are operating in red; many news execs hold this is due to fact that price of newspaper (most newspapers cost only 15c) does not make allowances for steep rise in labor costs and newsprint and chronic scarcity of ad; Corriere Delia Sera, which costs 23c to produce, must be sold for 15c because Govt dictates price; is expected to run up losses of $6.6-million in '72; is 1 of 1st Ital newspapers to practice investigative reptg, analyzing natl and social trends; L Barzini, 1 of managing editors of Il Messaggero, admits that most newspapers survive on handouts; illus of mastheads of La Stampa, Il Messaggero, L'Unita, Corriere Delia Sera, and Il Giorno
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Des Moines Paper at 40c
Date: 10 December 1973
Des Moines Register repts on Dec 9 that it will increase its newsstand price by 5c to 40c to meet rising production costs
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Weinberger Bars Speeches At Discriminatory Places
Date: 09 December 1973
HEW Dept Sec C W Weinberger instructs all Dept employes to decline invitations to speak before groups or in locations that discriminate after he realized he had been invited to address group at Chicago Club, private all-male club, that had barred a female newspaper reporter from entering
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White House Refuses To Join Study on News
Date: 09 December 1973
White House deputy press sec G L Warren on Dec 8 repts that White House will be 'unable to join in any cooperative research study' regarding press and news broadcasting as urged by Natl News Council; council had asked Pres Nixon's press sec R L Ziegler for further information and specifics regarding Nixon's reference at recent news conf to 'vicious, distorted reporting'
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WATERGATE SPURS JOURNALISM ON TV; News Increases Locally Wider Coverage Medium Regains Credibility Broadcast Survey Finds
Date: 09 December 1973
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Annual rept of A I du-Pont-Columbia Univ Survey in Broadcast Journalism, made in conjunction with '72-'73 duPont-Columbia broadcast news awards, finds Watergate was fountainhead for enlivening of TV journalism over last yr, restoring credibility of medium with much of public and creating new atmosphere for investigative reptg
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7 ARE APPOINTED NIEMAN SELECTORS
Date: 09 December 1973
com to select Nieman Fellows in journalism for '74-'75 academic yr is named; members include M I Bunting, F A Daniels Jr, E O Guthman, E Shanahan, C U Daly, T F Pettigrew and J C Thomson Jr
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Nixon's Active Role on Plumbers: His Talks With Leaders Recalled; Nixon's Active Role on Plumbers: 71 Talks With Leaders at White House Recalled Young Reportedly Met The President Regularly Ehrlichman Picked Krogh given Job Lie-Detection Tests Political Tinge Discerned Operation Set Up Krogh-Young Rivalry High-Level Meetings Fears About Ellsberg Memo on Getting Files Use of Materials Tells of Forcing Lock Difference on Details
Date: 10 December 1973
By SEYMOUR M. HERSHSpecial to The New York Times
NY Times series on plumbers, secret White House investigative unit, notes Nixon Adm was upset by NY Times dispatch alleging that US arms were being shipped to Pakistan in apparent violation of Adm ban
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The President and the Plumbers: A Look at 2 Security Questions; President and the Plumbers: a Look at 2 Security Questions Reported Involved Prosecutors' View Source of Alarm A Seeming Change Secret Trip to China Brezhnev Conversations No Evidence on Soviet Open Questions' Taken In by Him' The Picture Was Murky' Plan Was Revised Denials by Kissinger
Date: 09 December 1973
Special to The New York TimesBy SEYMOUR M. HERSH
article, assessing role of former secret White House investigative force known as plumbers, suggests that Pres Nixon was concerned that highly placed Soviet agent of KGB, operating as US counterspy, would be compromised by continued inquiry by Watergate special prosecutor and Sen Watergate Com into case of D Ellsberg; states that agent informed his FBI contacts that set of Pentagon papers had been delivered to Soviet Embassy in Washington shortly after Fed ct had ordered NY Times to stop printing its series of articles on papers; sources say that Nixon Adm feared that any extensive investigation by Watergate prosecutors would expose Soviet spy and endanger communications and espionage secrets; well-informed sources noted that Nixon Adm failed to develop evidence to support belief that Ellsberg ever considered passing any information to foreign power; pointed out that KGB agent, whose existence is one of FBI's most guarded secrets, has long been considered of dubious loyalty and value by counterintelligence experts in CIA; NY Times in several ints has found that some plumbers, notably Natl Security Council aide D R Young r, believed that highly classified Natl Security Agency interception operation involving satellite capable of picking up radio-telephone conversations of Soviet leaders had been compromised by information contained in Pentagon papers but not published by Times; informed sources say that no evidence has been produced to substantiate this belief; former CIA Dir R Helms and head of CIA's counterintelligence operations J Angleton believe KGB man is agent provocateur, rather than authentic informer; sources agree, however, that agent's information was accepted by Nixon and Sec of State H A Kissinger; major findings of NY Times ints detailed
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