Dominican's Killer Sought
Date: 20 March 1975
Govt of Dominican Repub on March 18 offers reward of $50,000 for information to resolve killing of Orlando Martinez, newman who was shot to death on Mar 17; Pres Joaquin Balaguer sends message of condolance to magazine Ahora, where Martinez had been publisher (S)
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COLUMNIST'S TARGET CLEARED IN INQUIRY
Date: 21 March 1975
Fed Reserve investigation clears Fed employe Reed J Irvine of charge that he abused his position at bd on behalf of group critical of news media (S)
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UNIONS ON PAPERS SEEK PAY RAISES; Publishers Asking Increase in Worker Productivity Long Bargaining Expected
Date: 20 March 1975
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Bargaining talks between NY Times, NY Daily News and 9 newspaper unions have begun in attempt to work out contracts to replace those expiring Mar 30; unions are seeking higher pay and greater job security while papers are seeking improved productivity; will be bargaining separately with NY Post, which has resigned from Publishers Assn of NYC; Typographical Union Local 6 negotiated 11-yr agreement with newspapers and will not be involved in bargaining; Times vp John Mortimer says paper will not settle until agreements are reached on productivity; Mailers Local 6 pres George E McDonald, Pressman's Local 2 pres William J Kennedy and Newspaper Guild exec vp Harry Fisdel comment; unions involved include Potoengravers, Stereotypers, Paper Handlers, Newspaper Deliverers, Electrical Workers, Machinists Lodge, Mailers, Pressmen and Guild (M)
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Political Propagandist Label Is Rejected by Press Critic
Date: 20 March 1975
Accuracy in Media Inc chmn Reed J Irvine disputes Mar 18 NY Times article which quotes him to effect that there was 'some truth' to charges that AIM is pol propagandist group and that its politics are conservative; says orgn is not pol propagandist group (S)
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The Submarine Story; IN THE NATION
Date: 21 March 1975
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker on press reaction to CIA Dir William Colby's efforts to suppress repts of clandestine Project Jennifer; holds papers' ind decisions to withhold pub reflect press's 'establishment' nature; suggests press's awareness of its role in Watergate colored decisions on approach to Project Jennifer
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Lisbon Reds Seek to Oust Centrists From Coalition
Date: 21 March 1975
By HENRY GINIGER Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Portuguese Communist party moves to eliminate Popular Dem party, major centrist group, and urges greater control over foreign press; Communists express 'reservations' about Popular Dems, who have been campaigning against Communist efforts to gain control over important sectors of public life in new Govt; article in Avante, official Communist organ, calls for surveillance of outgoing dispatches to defend revolution against sabotage and espionage; popular Dems and foreign press are treated by Communists as adversaries of 'democratic forces' carrying on Portuguese revolution; party says it favors continued coalition of parties with mil on condition that they 'show they are loyal allies of Armed Forces Movement and are fighting with determination against reaction and for construction of dem and progressive society' (M)
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CURB ON CRITICISM IS VOTED IN SEOUL; Bill Forbidding Any Adverse Comment to Foreigners Is Hastily Pushed Through Opposition Leader Protests Newsmen Could Be Affected
Date: 20 March 1975
Special to The New York Times
measure approved by S Korean Assembly Judiciary Com which forbids S Koreans to criticize their Govt to foreigners could be applicable to remarks made by opposition politicians to foreign journalists or to dispatches filed by S Korean newsmen working for foreign publications
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Nuclear Torpedoes Believed Found
Date: 21 March 1975
Ronald Reagan, member of blue-ribbon panel investigating allegations of CIA domestic spying, criticizes news media for 'irresponsible' disclosure of CIA efforts to retrieve sunken Soviet submarine, Mar 20 news conf (S)
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The Kennedy Transcripts
Date: 20 March 1975
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire column discussing Benjamin Bradlee's book Conversation With (John F) Kennedy, notes disclosure that at dinner party for Atty Gen Robert F Kennedy, Pres Kennedy referred to conversation with Republic Steel pres Thomas F Patton; Patton asked why income-tax returns of all steel execs were being examined, and Pres Kennedy told him allegation was unfair; Bradlee says that after 'Stanislavsky pause,' Pres Kennedy said, 'Of course, Patton was right'; book claims that Kennedy confided to Bradlee that billionaire J Paul Getty one yr paid only $500 in taxes; asked about tax reform to prevent this, Kennedy said 'maybe after '64' (S)
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