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NEWSMEN WARY ON PRIVACY LAW; Ask Balance in Rights of Press and of Individuals

Date: 23 January 1976

Witnesses testifying before Fed Privacy Study Comm on effect of Privacy Act describe new Fed laws and regulations designed to protect individual rights to privacy as 'dangerous step toward the wholesale conversion of public records to private records'; say that free access by press to records of govt agencies is only assurance that public will know how billions of dollars in tax money is being spent; Jack Landeau, representing Reporters Com for Press Freedom, says govt agencies are citing Privacy Act as grounds for denying newsmen access to records; others commenting include James E Donahue (ANPA), Emanuel Kay (Natl Newspaper Assn), Richard M Schmidt Jr (ASNE) and Sen Robert J Tennessen (M)

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Correspondent From U.S. Is Ordered to Leave India

Date: 24 January 1976

Lawrence S Lifschultz, Far East Econ Rev correspondent, reptdly has been ordered to leave India; says order was issued because of Govt objections to his articles; is 7th correspondent to be expelled from India since press censorship was imposed June 26 (S)

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A 'Double Standard' in Reporting News From Portugal

Date: 24 January 1976

By Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti

Comment on US reptg on strife in Portugal holds that media have displayed little of pluralism and diversity of opinion they deem so essential for Portuguese dem; holds that former pro-Socialist Govt of Gen Vasco Goncalves was unfairly portrayed in US press as antagonistic to dem, while existing pro-business Govt of Prime Min Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo is portrayed as dem (M)

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Anti-Americanism in Greece

Date: 23 January 1976

By Taki Theodoracopulos

Taki Theodoracopulos

Taki Theodoracopulos sees murder of CIA station chief in Athens, Richard S Welch, as indirect result of anti-Americanism advocated by Greek press, article; sees strong evidence that USSR, through infiltration of press and trade unions, has moved Greece further from US; links USSR to agitation being waged against Prime Min Caramanlis; says there are approximately 25 KGB officers under diplomatic cover in Greece, led by Serge Grigorevich Trokhin; holds KGB apparent infiltration of press is factor in anti-Amer line but that Greek press has propensity for blaming others for self-induced disasters; drawing

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CARSON JURY TOLD OF '74 TESTIMONY; Statements by Defendants Read at Murder Trial

Date: 23 January 1976

By DENA KLEIMAN

Dena KLEIMAN

trial; prosecutor Peter Schwartz, referring to testimony given by defendants at '74 trial in Nassau County, tells jury that 5 of 6 defendants had previously admitted being involved in events that led to murder of Philip Williams (M)

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Pose as Journalists Laid to 11 in C.I.A.; Pose as Journalists Is Laid to 11 in C.I.A.

Date: 23 January 1976

By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times

sources rept HR Intelligence Com has obtained evidence that as of '75, 11-full time CIA officers were posing as journalists overseas in connection with their intelligence-gathering work; draft rept based on com's yr-long investigation of Fed intelligence agencies, portions of which have been made available to NY Times, states that some 15 news-gathering orgns have cooperated with CIA over last 3 yrs in providing journalistic view for Amer intelligence operatives; says as late as '73 CIA had at least 5 full-time agents working under journalistic cover, but those arrangements had been halted under orders from CIA dir William E Colby after agency's use of news orgns became public; HR com source says that no CIA operatives are now employed as full-time correspondents of news orgns; news agency execs comment; various instances cited (M)

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NEWS MEDIA PLAN 'ATTITUDE' POLLS; Editors Say Election-Year Surveys Are Designed to Avoid Affecting Votes

Date: 23 January 1976

By MARTIN ARNOLD

Martin ARNOLD

News orgns to use public opinion polls in attempt to measure and rept upon attitudes of public in '76 elections; news media has discarded 'prediction' polls in recent yrs because of their frequent inaccuracy, and for fear poll results were influencing election outcomes; orgns planning to publish or broadcast poll results include NY Times and CBS, in joint venture, as well as Time and Newsweek (M)

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COURT'S GAG RULE PRESSED BY STATE; 'Integrity' of Trial is Cited in Backing Carson Order

Date: 24 January 1976

By MARTIN ARNOLD

Martin ARNOLD

NYS Atty Gen's office says on Jan 23 that gag order 'is necessary to preserve integrity of trial'; says, in papers filed with State Sup Ct's Appellate Div, Bklyn, that absence of that order would threaten trial with 'highly prejudicial publicity which could undermine both defendants' right to fair trial and state's compelling interest in ensuring fair adm of criminal justice system' (M)

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House Unit on Intelligence Votes, 9-4, to Issue Report; 'Minor Changes' Made in Initial Draft, but Pike Panel Is Said to Have Kept Basic Findings Despite Protests

Date: 24 January 1976

By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times

HR Select Intelligence Com votes, 9-4, to approve publication of final rept summarizing its yr-long investigation of Fed intelligence system; vote follows discussions between HR com and CIA reprs, who were concerned about conclusions in draft rept and degree to Milford (L)

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News Summary and Index

Date: 24 January 1976

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