G.O.P. Assails Media on War Photos
Date: 16 May 1972
Repub Natl Com, in its newsletter Monday, assails UPI and NBC for transmitting photos and films supplied by N Vietnam without considering first whether they were in natl interest; com says it bases its conclusion on ints with UPI exec T Majeski and NBC exec W Westfeldt
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Jack Anderson Is Honored By Bill of Rights Foundation
Date: 17 May 1972
Bill of Rights Foundation hon J Anderson on May 16, dinner, NYC; D Ellsberg is featured speaker; money raised from dinner to be used for defense of Ellsberg and others facing charges for obtaining and making public secret Govt documents
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NEWSWEEK CHARGED WITH SEX BIAS BY 50
Date: 17 May 1972
50 women ed employes at Newsweek (pub) file complaint on May 16 with Fed Equal Employment Opportunity Comm charging pub with discrimination against women; rept group is taking action after 2 yrs of negotiations resulting from original complaint to EEOC because 'sex discrimination at the magazine remains substantially unchanged'; Newsweek spokesman repts that women's group and Newsweek entered into agreement 20 mos ago to assure women equal opportunities at pub; says in Oct group approached management with further demands including establishment of quotas
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House Unit Apologizes For Its Secret Session
Date: 16 May 1972
HR Govt Operations Subcom (Moorhead) informs Repr L L Wolff that it will have to go into secret session to hear his testimony because State Dept designated it 'classified'; Wolff was to have testified on part of briefing on internatl drug traffic that he and other Congressmen had recd from US Amb to Turkey W J Handley
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Chicago Tribune Seeks to Bar Subpoenaing of Reporters
Date: 17 May 1972
Chicago Tribune attys attempt to quash grand jury subpoena served on 6 Tribune reporters for their investigative series on voter fraud based on their eyewitness accounts of Mar 21 primary election in Ill during which they served as judges; argue that news media protection guaranteed under 1st Ammendment is 'threatened by widespread indiscriminate subpoenas' that violate const rights of freedom of speech; State's Atty charges that reporters were not working as newsmen at election so they should be subject to subpoena without ct order
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Federal Judge Rules That State Must Allow Prisoner Interviews
Date: 17 May 1972
Special to The New York Times
Judge J T Curtin rules, May 16, that NYS correctional officers must permit newsmen to int willing inmates unless there is 'clear and present danger of the breach of the security or orderly adm of the facility'; ruling comes in response to suit filed in Mar '71 prior to Sept revolt at Attica Correctional Facility in which news media reprs contended that state ban on ints was violation of their rights under 1st Amendment guarantee of press freedom; plaintiffs, who include T Wicker and D Burnham (NY Times), listed; Curtin rules that inmate may not be subjected to reprisal, retribution or retaliation because he grants int or because of what he says to interviewer; says prison officials can determine time, place and length of ints; prohibits guards from interrupting or interfering with int to comment on what is being said
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CABINET JOB IS GIVEN UP BY CONNALLY; SHULTZ GETS POST President Asserts He Plans to Give Texan New Assignments Connally Leaves Cabinet; Shultz Will Succeed Him
Date: 17 May 1972
By ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr.Special to The New York Times
Nixon holds press eonf with Treas Sec Connally and Mgt and Budget Dir Shultz to announce Connally resignation and Shultz apptmt as his successor, May 16, White House; illus
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Shorter Campaign Is Urged
Date: 17 May 1972
Sen B Goldwater urges shorter Pres election campaign and 1-day natl primary election to reduce pol violence in US, May 17 press conf, W Long Branch, NJ
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PARIS LISTS SURPLUS IN TRADE FOR APRIL
Date: 16 May 1972
French Min Giscard d'Estaing, May 15 news conf, notes Apr foreign trade surplus of $247-million; says exports were up 17.1% over Apr '71 to $2.13-billion, and imports were $1.89-billion
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