Legal Obstacles Blocking Boston Grand Jury in Its Investigation of the Release of Pentagon Papers
Date: 01 November 1971
By ROBERT REINHOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Boston Fed grand jury probe into unauthorized distribution and publication of Pentagon study blocked by legal obstacles; Sen Gravel seeks to stop probe on ground that it violates his legis immunity; Fed Dist Ct stays R R Stavins's appearance before jury after he offers affidavit from Dr Rodberg which tells how Rodberg and C R Wallace detected a wiretap on Stavins's phone; chief targets of probe, so far, appear to be Dr Ellsberg, NY Times reporter N Sheehan and Mrs Sheehan; Boston and Los Angeles grand jury probes seen also aiming at persons who helped Ellsberg or had had access to study before it became public; targets of probes charge 'a fishing expedition' into the antiwar movement; acad community, where many of subpoenas have been issued, is disturbed; Profs Chomsky, Falk and Popkin and D Halberstam, K D Gifford and Dr Rodberg among those called; most have raised const objections; typical routine of witnesses refusing to testify described
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STRIP-MINING FOES ATTACK RADIO ADS; Ask F.C.C. for Chance to Reply to Coal Industry
Date: 31 October 1971
By BEN A. FRANKLINSpecial to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLINSpecial
W Va Black Lung Assn, Assn of Disabled Miners and Widows, Citizens to Abolish Strip Mining and Mountaineers to Save W Va file complaint with FCC against Univ Broadcast Service and radio station WHAR, Morgantown, W Va, charging they declined to promise broadcast time under fairness doctrine to oppose strip mining and answer coal assn's 'propaganda'; ask FCC to invoke fairness doctrine and equal time rule; J L Boettner Jr, lawyer for Appalachian Research Defense Fund Inc, to represent orgns
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2 Urban Families Flee to Southern Town
Date: 01 November 1971
Special to The New York Times
R Arnold and S Meseroll, who left NYC and became publisher and ed respectively of Glenville (W Va) Pathfinder and Glenville Democrat, comment on advantages of small-town life; papers are identical except for masthead; Arnold says unusual situation exists because Pathfinder is Republican and has 100 partisans who will not buy The Democrat
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$380 Minimum Approved At Washington Daily News
Date: 01 November 1971
Washington Daily News reaches agreement with ANG; contract raises minimum pay for journeymen newspapermen to $380 a wk by Dec '73
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SPAIN THREATENS TO CLOSE A PAPER; Aims to Force Replacement of Its Liberal Editor
Date: 31 October 1971
By RICHARD EDER
Richard EDER
Spanish Information Ministry advises Madrid (newspaper) to replace ed A Fontan, considered liberal; has begun investigation into 'irregularities' in original listing of paper's stockholders and says it may have to cancel registration and close paper; action was begun after publisher R Calvo Serer published article as pol split in Cath lay orgn Opus Dei; Govt suggested J M Alfaro replace Fontan but publisher refused and Govt withdrew suggestion; Madrid management says it will replace Fontan if new editor is acceptable; Informacion (Madrid newspaper) is also reptd to be under Govt pressure with possible replacement of dir
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Writing Awards Announced
Date: 31 October 1971
C G McDaniel (AP) and S Pesmen (Chicago Daily News) receive awards for interpreting psychoanalysis to public
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3 Win Cabot Awards at Columbia
Date: 01 November 1971
Columbia Univ M M Cabot Prizes for inter-Amer journalism to go to G A Geyer, J S Garcia and J C Colombres
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Executive Promoted By Scripps-Howard
Date: 01 November 1971
Scripps-Howara Newspapers names E W Estlow gen mgr to succeed F B Powers, who continues as vp and dir
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Iraq, North Korea in Pact
Date: 31 October 1971
Iraq and N Korea reach new trade agreement
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Negro Named to Cabinet Of Massachusetts Chief
Date: 31 October 1971
Gov Sargent appts Boston Councilman Atkins, Negro, as Mass Communities and Development Sec, $32,500-a-yr post
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