Union-Company Accord Spurs Computerized Typesetting Here; 'Orderly' Automation Negotiations Under Way
Date: 15 February 1973
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
reprs of printing industry and typographical union demonstrate new computerized typesetting system that is in operation at Pandick Press, NYC; agreement between co and Typographical Union described; B Powers, head of union, says he believes union could reach agreement with newspapers; negotiations are proceeding between city's major newspapers and newspaper unions to achieve new contracts to replace those that expire Mar 30
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ROLE OF ELLSBERG IS CALLED SPECIAL; Defense Cites Authority He Had in Use of Papers Different Procedures Cited Permission for Movement
Date: 14 February 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Defense in Pentagon papers trial on Feb 13, through cross-examination of R H Best, chief of security for Rand Corp, attempts to show that defendant D Ellsberg was not only authorized to use Pentagon papers but that he also had special relationship to them that went well beyond Govt authorization; argues that copy of Pentagon papers that Ellsberg in turn copied and helped to make public did not belong to US but instead was private property of 3 former Defense Dept officials, P C Warnke, then Asst Sec of Defense for Internatl Security Affairs, L Gelb and M H Halperin, Warnke's assocs; Best, under cross-examination, admits that Rand's procedures in handling papers were different from standard procedures in handling of other 'top secret' documents; 4 documents are offered in evidence to support theory; 1 is memo from Rand pres H S Rowen that set forth terms of control and distribution of particular copy of Pentagon papers; 15 copies were made at time of their completion; memo says that access to and distribution of that copy of papers must be approved by 2 of 3 signers of memo; 2d document consists of Rand notes on where Pentagon papers were stored at Rand; 1 of those notes states that 'file No, 85' contains material to which Ellsberg, then Rand employe, may have access; 3d document, lr from Gelb to Rowen, gives permission to move papers from Rand's Washington office to Santa Monica 'for use by' Ellsberg; 4th document is control sheet listing 8 persons at Rand who had been given approval to use papers, including Ellsberg
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Pressure on the Press
Date: 14 February 1973
By Sam J. Ervin Jr
Sam Ervin
Sen S J Ervin, chmn of Subcom on Constitutional Rights, in speech to N Carolina Press Assn, says that there is substance to assertions made by press that Nixon Adm has shackled them with threats and restrictions that do not permit them to fulfill role that Const gives them; holds that actions of Adm appear to go beyond simple reactions to incidents of irresponsible or biased reptg, to efforts at wholesale intimidation of press and broadcast media; holds that threat of subpoena is another means of govt intimidation of press; calls for passage of statutory privlege for newsmen; holds that if sources of press's information are limited to official spokesmen within govt bodies, people have no means of evaluating worth of their promises and assurances; drawing
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1971-72 Crisis in Broadcast Journalism, DuPont-Columbia U. Survey Reports; N.B.C. Singled Out Research Time Over Year
Date: 14 February 1973
By ALBIN KREBS
Albin KREBS
4th annual A I DuPont-Columbia Univ Survey of Broadcast Journalism, dealing with '71-'72 season, finds that Govt assaults on TV news and public affairs programming, combined with nervousness on part of network officials reacting to attacks, places broadcast journalism in state of crisis more profound than it has faced in its 50-yr history; holds that much of blame for decline in news programming performance may be laid to mgt, but must also be shared by sponsors and public; notes that only NBC currently schedules regular news and public affairs hr in prime TV time; rejects allegations that news programs are biased, as was charged by White House Telecommunications Office dir C T Whitehead; survey rept was distilled from 1 yr of research into news and public affairs broadcasting by Columbia Graduate School of Journalism special projects div, directed by L Cowan and bd of 7 jurors headed by Dean E Abel; rept was edited by M Barrett
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ELLSBERG RULING AIDS PROSECUTION; Disputed Security Manual Is Admitted as Evidence Defense Argument Defense Evidence
Date: 15 February 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Fed Dist Ct Judge W M Byrne Jr, presiding over trial of Pentagon papers, on Feb 14 allows prosecution to submit as evidence manual that governs security arrangements between Defense Dept and private cos doing business with armed forces, entitled Industrial Security Manuals for Safeguarding Classified Information, and another entitled Security Manuals for the Rand Corporation; Govt will now be able to present evidence to jury to effect that copy of Pentagon papers that defendants allegedly misused was under protective cover of manual and therefore of Govt's regulations and laws pertaining to classified documents; Byrne says that manuals have been allowed into evidence only to show that Ellsberg and Russo had knowledge of certain security requirements and of restrictions placed by Govt on contractors such as Rand
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New News Hearings Set
Date: 14 February 1973
new Sen hearings scheduled on bills to shield newsmen from forced disclosure of confidential sources; 3 dozen witnesses expected to testify
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CHURCH UNIT SAYS PRESS IS ATTACKED; Arm of the National Council Scores Nixon Policies
Date: 14 February 1973
By DAVID K. SHIPLER
David SHIPLER
officials on Natl Council of Churches' Broadcasting and Film Comm on Feb 13 charge Nixon Adm with having made unprecedented attack on press freedom as guaranteed by 1st Amendment; rept they have begun nationwide campaign, through church groups, to alert public to what they term 'ominous threat to fundamental liberties' posed by some of Nixon's policies; comm exec dir Rev Dr W F Fore details instances of Adm action that threaten press freedom; comm chmn N Price comments
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Newspaper Devotes Issue to Censorship
Date: 14 February 1973
newspaper The Pottstown (Pa) Mercury devotes entire front page to discussion of press censorship and recent Sup Ct ruling that limits reporter's right to protect sources, prints pictures of newsmen who have been jailed or cited for contempt under bold-faced type of 1st Amendment to Const
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West German News Agency Is Permitted Office in East
Date: 15 February 1973
W Ger's main news agency, DPA, on Feb 14 says it has recd permission to open permanent office in E Berlin; is 1st W Ger press orgn authorized by E Ger Govt to do so; E and W Ger negotiators last wk held talks on reciprocal working facilities for accredited correspondents in 2 states, provided for under their good neighbor treaty
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