Printers' Settlement
Date: 29 July 1974
ed on ITU ratification of agreement to automate composing rooms of NY Times and Daily News holds action reflects welcome new maturity in relationships on newspaper labor front; says agreement can represent passport to mutually beneficial era of improved service to reading public
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WORKERS GET LOAN TO BUY SCOTS DAILY
Date: 28 July 1974
Special to The New York Times
Brit Govt has offered to lend $4.2-million to group of newspaper workers to buy plant of Scottish Daily Express that ceased publication and start their own cooperative; closing of paper cost jobs of 1,800 journalists and production workers
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Peru Takes Over 8 Major Newspapers; Action Deplored Here
Date: 28 July 1974
Peru's mil Govt on July 27 takes over country's 8 major ind newspapers and announces it will turn them over to Peruvian labor groups; announces move was made in natl interest but appears to be blow to freedom of expression
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Cautious Saigon Press Fails to Report Attacks on Thieu in Assembly Debate; Thieu's Resignation Asked More Moderate Version Given
Date: 28 July 1974
By DAVID K. SHIPLERSpecial to The New York Times
David SHIPLERSpecial
Despite assurances from S Vietnamese Premier Tran Thien Khiem that press could rept fully on July 26 questioning of Cabinet members by Natl Assembly, leading papers carry softened accounts that exclude attack on Pres Thieu; no paper repts declaration by opposition deputy Vu Cong Minh 'I hope that Pres Thieu resigns soon, in order to save the country'; other unreptd items including further attacks on Thieu cited; situation seen as case study of deeply ingrained censorship (M)
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Printers Approve New Contract, 1,009-41; Printers Vote Approval Of New Contract, 1,009-41 Wage Reopeners Allowed
Date: 29 July 1974
By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY
Paul MONTGOMERY
Members of ITU Local 6 on July 28 approve landmark contract opening way for automation of typesetting at NY Times and NY News; union pres Bertram Powers repts he is proud of contract and predicts 'more changes in the next ten years than any working men have ever seen'; contract has been described by both sides as signaling end of yrs of resistance by printers to use of computers and electronic typesetting machines to replace their craft; gives publishers free hand in introducing new equipment and in determining number of employes necessary to operate it; 1,400 regular printers and 385 full-time substitutes have recd virtual lifetime job security, with bonuses and other incentives if they choose to retire or go into another line of work; other contract provisions noted; union sec-treas Thomas Kopeck comments; illus of Powers (M)
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Rockefeller Praises Press For Exposing Watergate
Date: 28 July 1974
Former NYS Gov Nelson Rockefeller on July 26 says US owes great deal to press for uncovering Watergate scandals (S)
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Kissinger and the Taps
Date: 29 July 1974
By Daniel I. Davidson
Daniel Davidson
Daniel I Davidson, 1 of 17 Govt officials and newsmen wiretapped by Nixon Adm, says intitial reaction to State Sec H A Kissinger's demand for vindication of his honor demonstrates to him that many liberal Sens are willing to apply different standard when judging conduct of Pres and his State Sec; discusses possible violations of criminal law; discusses allegations against Kissinger; holds that if Sen Foreign Relations Com exonerates Kissinger they will in essence be proclaiming that normal rules of conduct are not applicable to Kissinger
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Jordan Ends Censorship
Date: 28 July 1974
Jordanian Govt on July 27 lifts censorship of country's 4 daily and 6 wkly newspapers which was imposed just before Oct '73 Middle East war (S)
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DEMOCRATS DRAFT A SECOND ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT; Members of Judiciary Panel : Work on Combined Version Alleging Abuse of Power SUNDAY CAUCUS IS HELD Byrd, Senate Majority Whip, Finds Chances Rising That Nixon Will Be Removed 'A Question of Words'. Democrats Draft Second Article Warning to the President 'Little Real Specificity'
Date: 29 July 1974
By RICHARD D. LYONSSpecial to The New York Time
Dems on House Judiciary Com draft 2d article of impeachment that accuses Pres Nixon of, among other things, creating so-called 'plumbers' unit and permitting it to use his re-election campaign funds to engage in 'covert and unlawful activities' (S)
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