Deliverers and 2 Papers Negotiate Past Deadline
Date: 23 October 1975
By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER
Emanuel PERLMUTTER
joint negotiations between newspaper deliverers' union and Daily News and NY Times continue on Oct 23, past midnight deadline set by union for strike at News; deliverers' union pres Carl Levy repts settlement is near, and Fed mediator Herbert L Haber says substantial progress has been made, but issues concerning 'operating and working conditions' are still unresolved; major stumbling blocks to contract settlement are publishers' efforts to reduce overtime and manpower and union's reluctance to accept changes; negotiations with 7 other craft unions and Newpaper Guild continue (M)
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Japanese Correspondent Expelled by South Vietnam
Date: 23 October 1975
S Vietnam asks Koichi Hamazaki, correspondent of Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, to leave Saigon by Nov 20, in keeping with policy of expelling foreign correspondents who were in Saigon before Communist takeover (S)
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Mediator Says Times and News Are Close to Pact With Drivers; Mediator Says Times and News Are Close to Pact With Drivers
Date: 24 October 1975
By LEE DEMBART
Lee DEMBART
Herbert L Haber, mediator, says on Oct 23 that NY Times and NY News have reached accord with deliverers union on all but handful of contract issues and union has dropped threat of strike against News; says that 3-yr contract will provide pay rises of $25 a wk in 1st yr, $20 in 2d and $20 in 3d; cost-of-living increase provided for if Consumer Price Index rises more than 6% in 1st or 2d contract yrs; publishers hope tht 8 other unions will accept same wage pkg; deliverers union pres Carl Levy says that strike will not be necessary; sources say that union would have gotten more money if it had agreed to manpower cuts (M)
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Notes on People; TV Aide Finds Nixon 'Vibrant'
Date: 23 October 1975
Samuel Bronfman 2d and FBI NY head J Wallace LaPrade attend Appeal of Conscience Foundation Awards dinner, NYC; LaPrade's agents freed Bronfman after his father paid $2.3-million in ransom to kidnappers; others attending dinner noted (S)
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Long Branch Paper Closing
Date: 23 October 1975
Long Branch Daily Record pub Walter B Potter says paper will cease publication on Oct 25 because of declining revenues (S)
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Pastore Will Hold Hearings On Recent Decisions of F.C.C.
Date: 24 October 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Sen communications subcom chmn John O Pastore tells FCC that he will hold oversight hearings on agency to examine why certain of its rules were modified to reduce regulation of radio and TV; says 1 of 5 issues he is concerned with is FCC's decision to exempt news confs and pol debates between major candidates from provisions of equal-time provision of Communications Act; says issues that will be focal in hearings are those that were recently raised by number of natl religious orgns in their requests to Cong coms for hearing on FCC; will examine FCC proposals to exempt small stations from filing Equal Employment Opportunity repts and to experiment with suspension of fairness doctrine (M)
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