'Useful' or 'Delicate' News; FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Date: 17 November 1973
By C. L, Sulzberger
C. Sulzberger
C L Sulzberger, in dispatch datelined Peking, comments on role of press and other media in China; says function of media is to direct people toward a selected light rather than giving people light so they may find their own way; cites Chmn Mao Tse-tung's remarks yrs ago to staff of Shansi-Suiyuan Daily: 'The role and power of the newspapers consist in their ability to bring the party line, the party's general and specific policies, its tasks and methods of work before the masses in the quickest and most extensive way'; says Mao told newsmen their job is to educate the masses to enable them to know their own interests, their own tasks and the party's policies
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Nixon Hostility to TV Press Is Assailed
Date: 16 November 1973
HR Subcom on Communications and Power Chmn Repr T MacDonald on Nov 15 denounces Nixon Adm's treatment of electronic press and says that Cong is insulation between hostile exec branch and news media, speech, Natl Press Club; calls for abolishment of White House Office of Telecommunications Policy
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Seoul Students Clash With Police as Anti-Park Protests Mount; Classes Are Boycotted Apology Made to Japan Students Are Defiant 3 Seminaries on Strike" Park's Ouster Demanded Army Loyal to President
Date: 16 November 1973
By RICHARD HALLORANSpecial to The New York Times
Some 4,000 students at Korea Univ stage 4-hr demonstration Nov 15, the most violent and sustained outburst yet in defiance of Govt of Pres Park Chung Hee; illus; clashes with police quelled by tear gas; dean and 8 faculty members of Hankuk Theological Seminary shave their heads like Buddhist monks to protest Govt restrictions, including ban on men wearing long hair; most students of Seoul Univ are on strike; on Nov 14, 70 students at Korea Univ and 20 at Sung Kyun Kwan Univ go on hunger strike; some 500 students at Yonsei Univ hold rally to approve anti-Govt resolution, threaten to strike if authorities fail to reply; student actions apparently embolden others; opposition parties in Natl Assembly demand resignation of Premier Kim Jong Pil and his Cabinet over handling of Kim Dae Jung abduction case; newspapers begin resisting censorship imposed by S Korean CIA; reporters at one of leading dailies, Donga Ilbo, have twice held all-night vigils to protest presence of CIA agent in newsroom; speculation on whether Pres Park Chung Hee can overcome dissent by making some concessions; speculation on possible confrontation between police and students; test of strengths seen possible in the spring, traditionally a time of discontent; students and riot police illus at main gate of Korea Univ
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Watergate's Effect on the Press: Good and Not So Good.; Practice Resuming 'Obscene Affection' Agnew Investigation Led to Watergate Story
Date: 16 November 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Article on effect Watergate disclosures have had on news media, which was largely responsible for current Watergate investigations; Washington journalists believe Watergate has had profoundly positive and even invigorating effect on their work; investigative reptg is looked on with new respect
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Judge in Krogh Case Bars Dismissal of the Charges
Date: 16 November 1973
Decision by Judge G Gesell on Nov 15 refusing to dismiss criminal charges against E Krogh Jr, who headed White House 'plumbers' unit, clears way for Krogh to be tried on 2 counts of making false declarations in connection with Watergate grand jury's investigation of plumbers unit activities
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Letters to the Editor; Vice-Presidential Considerations The Peacemaker Not-So-Independent Fed The Clinton 'Savers' Of Probation, Rearrests and 'Criminal Careers' 'Nit-Picking' at Buchanan
Date: 16 November 1973
(Assoc. Prof.) PETER LINZERALAN DERSHOWITZHOWARD E. SHUMANCAMILLE TRUCHELJOHN F. BASSLER.MEG WHITTLE WHITCOME
Harvard Univ Prof A Dershowitz lr says that argument that Pres Nixon has been playing brinksmanship in Middle East to divert attention from his domestic troubles must be laid to rest; holds that even those who are critical of Nixon over Watergate must realize that his actions, and those of US Sec of State H A Kissinger, are right ones in face of USSR's attempt unilaterally to interpose its forces into Middle East; says placing US mil forces on alert was appropriate response designed to show USSR that US will not stand idly by and watch nuclear power hostile to US interests intrude itself into position of mil superiority in vital part of globe; notes that USSR's acceptance of UN Security Council's peace-keeping proposal suggests that Nixon's action was successful; says that if USSR were to introduce its forces into Middle East, conflict would become its Vietnam; notes that no other Pres, including US Sen G S McGovern, would have acted differently in face of Soviet threats; drawing
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