Last Battle for a Free Press in Uruguay; The Guest Word
Date: 12 May 1974
By SUZANNE JILL LEVINE
Suzanne LEVINE
Suzanne Jill Levine article revs pol background to Uruguayan Govt's closing down of leading leftist critical journal Marcha and imprisoning of its editors Hugo Alfaro and Juan Carlos Onetti, central figure in development of Latin Amer novel; illus (M)
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Talks Put Off Until Today By Printers and Publishers; Electricians Without Pact Reassessment Is Due
Date: 13 May 1974
By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER
Emanuel PERLMUTTER
ITU Local 6 and NY Times, News and Post on May 12 conduct daylong negotiations but fail to reach agreement on new contract that would end printers work stoppage at News; Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger issues statement that talks have reached critical stage and repeats earlier pledge that Times will make every effort to help News publish
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Dissident Periodical Is Revived in Soviet; Moral' Issue for Dissidents Few Issues Circulated
Date: 13 May 1974
By CHRISTOPHER S. WRENSpecial to The New York Times
Christopher WRENSpecial
Soviet underground newsletter Chronicle of Current Events has been revived 18 mos after crackdown by secret police forced it to halt publication; recent appearance of 3 successive issues is taken as indication that some dissidents have resolved to reassert themselves in organized fashion despite expulsion of Solzhenitsyn in Feb and scattering of other prominent dissidents through emigration or prosecution by Soviet authorities; by Oct '72 issue of Chronicle, its last, pub was already target of vigorous crackdown by KGB; toward to 28th issue confirmed that publication and distribution had been stopped because of alleged threats to KGB; 28th, 29th and 30th issues of newslr, made available to Western newsmen on May 12 recapitulate what has occurred since last issue beginning with death of poet Yuri Galanskov on Nov 2, '72 and continuing up to last Dec; 1 prominent dissident confirms that new issues are genuine but there is no indication whether it will continue to appear every 2 mos
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' Sexism' and Lack Of Ms.'s in Press Stir Women's Ire
Date: 13 May 1974
Writer Ellen Cohen comments on news media's attitude towards women, A J Liebling Counter-Conv, May 12, at panel entitled Women: In the News and Newsroom; women speakers complain about what they consider 'sexism' in news-gathering indus, noting that few women hold mgt jobs and that few major newspapers will use Ms instead of Miss or Mrs; Cohen holds that gen press refusal to use Ms is 'unquestionably political' and that although White House will remove such words as 'Jew boy' and 'wop' from transcripts of tapes finally released by Pres Nixon, they would not remove what she considers equally bad words like 'broad' and 'girls' rather than women
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Who Drew the Moustache on the Presidential Image? Not TV News; The Presidential Image
Date: 12 May 1974
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
John J O'Connor holds Pres Nixon's Apr 29 '74 nationally televised speech was successful in context of TV 'presentation' and compares it with Nixon's Sept 13 '52 'Checkers' speech; says Nixon both times used TV as successful instrument for pol survival; notes Nixon used 'visual aids' in both speeches; holds TV networks are compelled, not legally but effectively, to give Nixon time and in this case they were justified; suggests perhaps most important difference between '52 and '74 can be found in expandion of network news operations; discusses coverage by ABC, NBC and CBS Inc of transcripts story (L)
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Publishers Tell I.T.U. Dispute Can Be Resolved by Negotiations; A Deadline Tomorow
Date: 12 May 1974
By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER
Emanuel PERLMUTTER
NY Daily News vp Walter K Graham and NY Times sr vp John Mortimer, in telegram to ITU execs A Sandy Bevis and Joseph Bingel, rept they believe their contract dispute with local printers can be resolved through negotiation rather than 'continuing confrontation'; telegram is in answer to 1 sent on May 10 by ITU officers to Fed meditiator Theodore Kheel saying that strike at News had not been authorized
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Liebling Press Session Attended by 1,300 Here; Mere Shoeshine Boys' Hiss on Security Honors Paid
Date: 12 May 1974
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
is panelist at 3d annual A J Leibling Counter-Conv
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COLUMBIA U. MAKES JOURNALISM AWARDS
Date: 12 May 1974
Columbia Univ presents special citations to NY Times reporters B Drummond Ayres Jr, Paul Delaney, Ernest Holsendolph, Jon Nordheimer and Ronald Smothers
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Chinese Long Shot Runs For 12 Days, Loses $10,000; Chinese Long Shot Loses $10,000
Date: 12 May 1974
By GERALD ESKENAZI
Gerald ESKENAZI
G Eskenazi on aborted Chinese-language newspaper, Chinese Racing Daily, losing $10,000 in 2 wks; paper's head Bo-ngung Dong comments; illus (M)
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