KAUFMAN OPPOSES COURT CUTBACKS; Judge Asserts Some Cases Should Not Be Removed on a Permanent Basis
Date: 30 April 1976
By TOM GOLDSTEIN
Tom GOLDSTEIN
NY Times managing ed A M Rosenthal expresses concern over erosion of 1st Amendment rights, speech at conf on Amer Law at NYU School of Law; referring to recent 'epidemic' of judicial restraining orders against press, Rosenthal says too many judges have begun to act as censors (S)
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The Post and Stereotypers Reach Accord on Contract
Date: 30 April 1976
NY Post reaches agreement with NY Stereotypere Union, subject to union membership vote; newspaper's labor counsel Sidney Orenstein comments (S)
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Bureau Accused of Trying to Manipulate News Media
Date: 29 April 1976
By PHILIP SHABECOFF Special to The New York Times
Philip Special
Sen Select Intelligence Com says FBI repeatedly and covertly attempted to manipulate news media in effort to influence public opinion and discredit citizens and orgns that were its 'targets'; com rept presents evidence of pervasive and frequently successful efforts by FBI to use news media to attack such targets as Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr and individuals in what is described as 'new left'; says FBI, through 'good friend' who was chmn of bd of natl magazine, killed unfavorable article about FBI that was scheduled to appear in that magazine; says FBI officials approached reporters, including 1 from a major magazine and offered to play tape recordings 'embarrassing' to King; says freelance writer was furnished by FBI with photographs depicting a radical group's apartment as a 'shambles with lewd, obscene and revolutionary slogans displayed on the walls'; says Washington bur chief of a major news orgn was allegedly given discrediting information about atty defending Dr Daniel Ellsberg in Pentagon papers case; FBI's efforts to use news media were generally part of bur's cointelpro, or counterintelligence, program (M)
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2 JOURNALISTS WIN THE BERGER AWARD
Date: 30 April 1976
Columbia Univ names NY Times reporter Israel Shenker and Village Voice staff writer Howard Blum as winners of 16th annual Mike Berger Award (S)
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HOUSE UNIT VOTES INQUIRY ON SIKES; But Panel on Ethics Limits Scope in Interest Case
Date: 29 April 1976
By RICHARD D. LYONS Special to The New York Times
HR ethics com chmn Repr J J Flynt Jr says com has heard progress rept on its investigation into unauthorized disclosure of rept of HR Select Intelligence Com (S)
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GUILD ANNOUNCES PAGE ONE AWARDS
Date: 30 April 1976
NY Newspaper Guild announces winners of its Page 1 Awards; winners listed
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EXCERPTS FROM SENATE INTELLIGENCE REPORT; Excerpts: Panel Questions the Protective Value of Many Intelligence Activities Excerpts: Proposals Include Curbs on Mail Opening and Unauthorized Break-Ins
Date: 29 April 1976
excerpts from final rept of Sen Select Com on Intelligence Activities, citing manipulation of media by FBI
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