POLICE FACE SUIT IN KENNEDY CASE; CBS Wants Secret Data on Slaying of the Senator
Date: 02 August 1975
Paul Schrade, ex-Repr Allard K Lowenstein and CBS-TV say they will sue to force disclosure of police evidence in '68 assassination of Sen R F Kennedy; official Police Comm says it will not release secret 10-volume summary of investigation; Schrade was shot in forehead when Kennedy was killed; CBS-TV atty Howard Privett says CBS is filing suit separately under Freedom of Information Act; ct rules in favor of evangelist Oliver B Owen, who charged that he was slandered when a Los Angeles TV exec accused him of criminal involvement in slaying (S)
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Reuters Bids Soviet Halt 'Harassment' of Newsmen
Date: 01 August 1975
Gerald Long, managing dir of Reuters, on July 31 asks USSR Min Andrei A Gromyko to intervene to stop what he calls harassment of foreign correspondents; says in lr that available records forced him to belief that harassment occurred when correspondents reptd what Soviet authorities would prefer not to be reptd or when their work was otherwise displeasing to authorities; says harassment took form of physical attack, detention, press campaigns and accusations of personal nature (S)
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Protests Over Censorship Avoided by India's Press
Date: 01 August 1975
Indian press does not carry stories on July 31 of statements by W Ger Govt and Internatl Press Inst deploring India's rigid censorship; Ger statement said that possibility that recent censorship measures will have negative effect on W Ger public could not be excluded; country is 1 of India's major trading partners; press inst warns that foreign news orgns may have to pull out of India if censorship is not relaxed
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Laos Denies Visas to A.P. And Times Correspondents
Date: 01 August 1975
Laotian Govt denies visas to AP correspondent Dennis D Gray and NY Times journalist David A Andelman; is 1st time Western newsmen have been barred from Laos since Communist-led Pathet Lao gained control of coalition Govt during spring of '75; no reasons for denial are given (S)
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The News Names 0'Neill as Editor
Date: 01 August 1975
NY Daily News names Michael J O'Neill editor, succeeding Floyd Barger, who retired; por (S)
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F.C.C. to Speed Washington Star Case
Date: 01 August 1975
Joe L Allbritton, who has contributed millions of dollars in effort to keep Washington Star from going bankrupt, is trying to gain control of radio and TV stations WMAL, owned by Washington Star Communications Inc (S)
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