India Will Undo Merger Of Four News Agencies By Gandhi Government
Date: 15 November 1977
Desai Govt, which is pledged to restore dem insts, announces 4 news agencies that were forced to merge during emergency rule of Indira Gandhi will be reconstituted as ind units (S)
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SECRET RESEARCH FRONTS ELIMINATED C.I.A. SAYS
Date: 15 November 1977
CIA Dir Turner says agency no longer uses secret orgns as fronts for financing human behavior research, news conf; says he absoultely opposes use of such tactics (S)
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F.C.C. Report on Blackout Urges Steps to Protect News Operations
Date: 14 November 1977
By ERNEST HOLSENDOLPH Special to The New York Times
Ernest Special
FCC says disruption of AP and UPI service during July 13-14 blackout could have become serious; says radio and TV networks and private wire services functioned with minimum interruption because of their access to auxiliary power equipment; chides NYC for being slow to activate emergency information system (M)
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PBS Rejection of Film on Plutonium Stirs Dispute
Date: 14 November 1977
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
PBS is under fire for rejection of independently produced documentary film, Plutonium: Element of Risk, which was commissioned by PBS and KCET, Los Angeles; $124,000 used to produce it will be returned to special public-TV fund for documentaries; PBS vp Chloe Aaron says program was rejected because it was one-sided; among objections were use of Jack Lemmon as narrator and absence of spokesman for nuclear power indus; Don Widener, producer, and KCET defend program and suggest that PBS yielded to pressure from proponents of nuclear power; PBS pres Lawrence K Grossman denies charge; Dan Keller says The Last Resort, documentary he produced on occupation of Seabrook, NH, nuclear power plant site, was rejected by PBS because it presented a point of view; PBS denies charge (M)
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