Utility Regulators Ask Curb On Use of Phone Records
Date: 04 March 1974
Natl Assn of Regulatory Utility Comms on March 3 urges phone cos to require ct order before keeping secret from customer that his toll call records had been turned over to govt agency; this action would go further than recent change of policy announced by AT&T that Bell System cos would give notification if agency certified that disclosure would impede criminal investigation
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PRINTERS CUT OFF NO-STRIKE ACCORD; Times and News Are Given Notice of Termination
Date: 04 March 1974
Typographical Union Local 6 announces on March 3 that it has sent telegrams to NY Times and NY Daily News terminating its agreement not to strike or interfere with production at 2 papers; union pres Bertram A Powers, who signed telegrams, says that he is giving papers 7 days' notice of termination, as required under agreement reached with 2 papers last Oct 30; says he is terminating agreement now because workers have been 2 yrs without wage increase
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So Much for Conventional Wisdom
Date: 03 March 1974
Excerpts from recent editorial in Webster City, Iowa, Freeman-Journal concerning paper's participation in 90-day news blackout on reptg of local crimes of vandalism in hopes that vandalism episodes would cease; editorial in paper notes that during period incidents rose by 36.5%; says reptg incidents will resume
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SOVIET EMIGRANTS SAID TO DECREASE; A Seasonal Fluctuation 17 Jews Arrested Fewer Jews Are Reported to Leave This Year
Date: 03 March 1974
Special to The New York TimesBy HEDRICK SMITH
Soviet authorities on March 2 detain AP correspondents Roger Leddington and Stephens Broening and Reuters correspondent Richard Wallis who were reptg on Soviet security police arrest of 17 Soviet Jews who had tried unsuccessfully to deliver petition protesting Soviet emigration policies to hq of Communist party's Central Com
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New Indictments Expected To Cite Role of 'Plumbers'; Other Possible Areas No Hint of Sirica Move New Indictments Are Expected To Cite Role of the 'Plumbers'
Date: 03 March 1974
Special to The New York TimesBy ANTHONY RIPLEY
Activites of White House plumbers, responsible for '71 break in at office of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding, will be among subjects of further indictments expected during wk of March 12 in broadening inquiry by special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski
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Broadcast License Opposed Over Ties to Newspapers
Date: 03 March 1974
Justice Dept on march 2 asks FCC not to renew broadcasting licenses of 3 WCCO radio-TV stations in Minneapolis because of their newspaper connections with Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co, which owns 47% of Midwest Radio-TV, parent co of WCCO outlets
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A dmiralSays Ehrlichman Asked His Confession in Spying Case; Ceramic Elephants'
Date: 03 March 1974
Rear Admr Robert O Welander on March 2 releases testimony before Sen Armed Services Com on Feb 20-21 that he had not been told results of lie detector test, but that former White House aide John D Ehrlichman later asked him to sign confession of 'polical spying in the White House'; says he had suspected Yeoman Radford of leaking documents to Jack Anderson
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