Western Newsmen Complain
Date: 22 May 1975
Delegation representing 120 correspondents from 13 countries sends lr to Pres palace in Saigon asking permission for charter flight to Hong Kong to get news, photos and TV film out of S Vietnam; reporters complain of difficulties in meeting press officers of Provisional Revolutionary Govt and photographers are upset over increasing restrictions; newsmen from Cuba and E Eur reptdly have returned to Hanoi with material they presumably relayed home and to West (S)
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2 ENVOYS SOUGHT ASIA NEWS CURBS; Asked Voice of America to Play Down April Events
Date: 21 May 1975
Repr Bella Abzug reveals texts of messages from John Gunther Dean, former US Amb to Cambodia, and Graham A Martin, former US Amb to S Vietnam, asking Voice of Amer to play down news ot deteriorating situation in Indochina during early Apr '75, Govt Operations Subcom hearings; USIA deputy dir Eugene P Kopp and Voice of Amer news dir Bernard Kamenske do not question authenticity of messages; Abzug reads Apr 14 Voice of Amer ed directive ordering news writers dealing with Vietnam evacuation to use only official statements' from White House, Defense or State Depts and Cong actions until further notice (M)
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Ford Fund, WNET Decry Hoffman Fee
Date: 21 May 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
WNET officials and Ford Foundation broadcast consultant Fred W Friendly denounce payment of $3,000 and $800 video cassette player to fugitive former Yippie Abbie Hoffman for taped int on WNET on May 19; WNET officials, contending they were unaware of financial arrangements, call payments 'checkbook journalism' and inappropriate for public TV apart from question of helping to support fugitive from justice; WNET program adm dir George Page comments (M)
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Censorship Not Evident
Date: 22 May 1975
News material from AP correspondents in Saigon as received in NYC shows no evidence of censorship, but parts of article sometimes fail to reach NYC; communincations from Saigon, cut off completely on Apr 30 and partly restored on May 7, are reptdly improving gradually but remain erratic; direct AP circuit between hq in NYC and bur in Saigon was cut on Apr 30 and has not been restored (S)
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Lisbon's Socialists Threaten to Quit Coalition Over Closing of Paper
Date: 21 May 1975
Socialist party threatens to quit coalition following closing of newspaper Republica, one of few remaining non-Communist dailies; delivers ultimatum to Pres Francisco da Costa Gomes; Information Min Jorge Correia Jesuimo strongly attacks Socialist position; holds 3,000 Socialist demonstrators, who were led by Mario Soares and who kept all-night vigil outside newspaper's office, caused public disorder (M)
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LISBON SOCIALISTS PROTEST SEIZURE; Assert They Will Not Attend Cabinet Meetings Until Paper Is Reopened
Date: 22 May 1975
By RICHARD EDER Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
Portuguese Socialist party mins Mario Soares and Francisco Salgado Zenha threaten that party will boycott Cabinet meetings until its seized newspaper, Republica, is returned to its editor; paper was seized by Communist printers and shut down by Govt; Socialists, heavy winners in elections, are having problems with Communist power in the press and unions, and with antagonistic Armed Forces Movement members; Information Min Capt Jorge Correia Jesuino, Govt spokesman, says that increasing control of communications by single group is 'grave problem'; other newspapers, seen representing the under-publicized diversity of the Portuguese press, discussed (M)
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Security and Freedom
Date: 22 May 1975
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
A Lewis on security and freedom discusses legal issues and other questions raised by forced deletions by CIA and cts from book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by John D Marks and ex-CIA agent Victor Marchetti
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Kuhn Names Lang To Panel on Rules
Date: 21 May 1975
Baseball writers Jerome Holtzman (Chicago Sun Times) and Jack Lang (LI Press) apptd by Comr Bowie Kuhn to serve on official Scoring Rules Com (S)
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