REPORTERS LOSE BID TO PROTECT RECORDS
Date: 19 August 1976
Fed Dist Judge June L Green on Aug 17 rules that news reporters have no special protection under 1st Amendment that would require Fed investigators and phone cos to tell them when investigators have subpoenaed their toll-call records; Govt disclosed that while suit by Reporters Com for Press Freedom and number of individual reporters was pending its agencies twice asked for long-distance records of columnist Jack Anderson and for those of 1 reporter each from NY Times, Knight Newspapers and St Louis newspaper, once (S)
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Brazil Press Office Bombed
Date: 20 August 1976
Bomb explodes in offices of Brazilian Press Assn in Rio de Janeiro; Brazilian Anti-Communist Alliance claims responsibility (S)
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Journalists at France-Soir Protest Takeover of Paper
Date: 19 August 1976
Special to The New York Times
strike continues (S)
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Poles Ban China Newsman
Date: 20 August 1976
Poland has withdrawn accreditation of chief correspondent of Chinese press agency Hsinhua, accusing agency of distorting repts of worker disturbances in Warsaw in June; agency repr says correspondent Lio Pin-chiang will return to Peking on Aug 20 (S)
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Ford's Doleful News
Date: 20 August 1976
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston article says that while both pol parties have Pres candidates worthy of respect, nomination of Dole as Vice-Pres candidate appears to be based mainly on his ability to attack Jimmy Carter; says choice minimizes Ford's reputation as objective, decent, 'Presidential figure,' and dramatizes desperation of Repub Party
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