Nixon's Aides Held To Have Weighed Drugging Columnist
Date: 09 June 1976
Sen Select Com on Intelligence, in special supplement to final rept, on June 8 repts that Nixon White House was considering plan in Mar '72, to discredit columnist Jack Anderson by drugging him so he would appear incoherent in public appearance; E Howard Hunt lunched with retired CIA physician at Washington restaurant near White House in Hopes of obtaining drug for project; project was dropped after it was determined to be impracticable; com says it found no evidence to support Washington Post rept by Bob Woodward, Sept 21, '75, that Nixon White House had attempted to assassinate Anderson (S)
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Time Publishes Issue; Labor Talks Slated Today
Date: 08 June 1976
Time (pub) publishes 80-page issue dated June 14 despite strike; Fed mediator George V Byrnes arranges for Time Inc and strikers to resume negotiations on June 8 (S)
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A.T. & T. Sued by 12 Reporters On Subpoena of Phone Records
Date: 09 June 1976
12 reporters and 4 orgns on June 8 ask Fed ct to order AT&T to inform newsmen when their phone records are subpoenaed by Govt; charge that 1st Amendment was violated when phone records were secretly handed over to Govt because, it was alleged, disclosure 'drastically curtails the plaintiffs ability to gather and disseminate news'; Reporters' Com for Press Freedom and other plaintiffs have requested that phone co give members of news media at least 5 days' notice before their records are given to Govt; defendants in case are AT&T and Chesapeake & Potomac Co; plaintiffs' atty David Anderson, Govt atty Stanley Wright and AT&T atty David Ginsburg comment; Fed Dist Judge June L Green takes case under advisement; other plaintiffs noted (M)
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New Indictment Charges Coercion by Cunningham; Cunningham Is Indicted on a Charge of Attempting to Coerce a Bronx Newspaper
Date: 08 June 1976
By MARCIA CHAMBERS
Marcia CHAMBERS
Patrick J Cunningham is accused in indictment on June 7 of threatening Co-op City News in Bronx with financial retribution unless it silenced its criticism of Bronx politicians Councilman Stephen A Baufman and former Dem dist leader Jerome Glanzrock; politicians are also indicted and charged with attempting to apply pressure on Bronx Surrogate Bertram R Gelfand to withdraw legal ad from newspaper as way of whipping paper into line; defendants plead not guilty
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GAF Takes Over WNCN, Names General Manager
Date: 08 June 1976
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
GAF Corp on June 7 officially assumes ownership of classical-music station WNCN; completes $2.2-million purchase from Starr Broadcasting Group; hires Robert E Richer as gen mgr (M)
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News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day
Date: 09 June 1976
ed says US, Israel and other outside powers should avoid any step that might further inflame Lebanese confrontation; says Syrian forces in Lebanon have avoided any actions that could be seen by Israelis as threat
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News Groups Protesting Costs For the Democratic Convention
Date: 09 June 1976
News orgns planning coverage of Dem Natl Conv, Madison Sq Garden, NYC, protest to Dem Natl Com officials on June 8 about variety of problems, particularly 'exorbitant' prices for construction work in Garden for news media's work areas and for rental of office equipment; AP exec newsphoto ed Hal Buell scores fees charged, reptd to be $46,420, for installation and removal of equipment; Dem Natl Chmn Robert S Strauss pledges to consult immediately with Garden owners and contractors and labor unions involved in construction and delivery of equipment; says he will ask NYC Mayor Abraham Beame and NYS Gov Hugh Carey to solve some of problems raised by newspaper reprs; orgns are also concerned about security of work areas in Garden and Statler Hilton Hotel, conv hq, access around clock to news work areas and equipment delivery complications; Deputy Mayor Stanley Friedman to call meeting of 'all appropriate parties'; Charles Uribe, vp of A J Contracting, which is doing reconstruction work inside Garden and coordinating arrival of rented material, comments on charges (M)
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Letters to the Editor
Date: 08 June 1976
Henry G Coopersmith lr notes that although results of monthly meetings of Open Mkt Com of Fed Reserve Bd are supposed to be made public after 30 days, summary for April 20 meeting was not released for 34 days; notes that chmn Arthur F Burns is contesting ct order requiring immediate disclosure of monetary policy decisions by com each mo
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