Nixon's Charge of 'Vicious' Reporting On TV to Be Studied by News Council; Asks for Specifics
Date: 31 October 1973
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Natl News Council will look into and appraise Nixon charges; says both White House and networks have been invited to participate in study; council exec dir W B Arthur says council will ask White House for list of specific charges and that it will then examine tapes and other recordings of broadcasts around those dates; ABC News pres E Lower, NBC New pres R C Wald and CBS pres R Salant comment
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Vorster Preparing New Laws to Curb South Africa Press
Date: 31 October 1973
S African Prime Min J Vorster on Oct 30 is pushing ahead with formulation of new laws to curb S African press and has rejected request to discuss issue with country's publishers' assn, Newspaper Press Union; assn, which includes almost all newspapers in S Africa, requested meeting with Vorster after he delivered series of attacks on press in Sept and gave orders to 'put their houses in order'; assn pres L Slater comments
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NIXON IS REBUTTED BY TV NEWS EDITOR
Date: 31 October 1973
Radio-TV News Dirs Assns pres B Johnson says in int on Oct 30 that Pres Nixon was wrong to blame mood of nation on TV networks; says that communications media did not create issues now facing US--they reptd them; says he is concerned that such statements 'may serve to distract the people from the serious issues in Washington right now'; declares that network affiliates retain complete freedom of choice over network news shows
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GUILD AND 2 PAPERS STEP UP THEIR TALKS
Date: 01 November 1973
Negotiators for NY Times and NY News on Oct 31 intensify their efforts to resolve their differences and avert strike threatened for Nov 5; guild sources rept some progress in separate talks but guild vp J E Deegan says subcom representing guild units at both newspapers will meet with local officers on Nov 1 to decide hr for strike and to consider which newspaper should become target; Allied Printing Trades Council meets on Oct 31 to rev status of various negotiations; notes that only 3 of 10 newspaper unions have reached agreements with city's major newspapers
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White House Officials and David Eisenhower Continue President's Attack on the News Media; Policy Decision Seen
Date: 31 October 1973
By DOUGLAS E. KNEELANDSpecial to The New York Times
Douglas KNEELANDSpecial
Adm campaign against media appears to observers to be result of White House policy decision; deputy press sec G L Warren on Oct 29 spent time talking with reporters about responsibility of press and defending Nixon's Oct 26 attack on media; K Clawson, head of White House Office of Communications, has been putting forth various people to speak to media in Nixon's defense; among these are D Eisenhower, who appeared on NBC Today show, to say there is too much 'reptg without applying any perspective to it at all'; Eisenhower adds that irresponsibility' of media 'has been matched by the irresponsibility of the people they may quote'
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When Homer Nodded; ABROAD AT HOME
Date: 01 November 1973
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
A Lewis says White House effort to turn A Cox's indiscretion into high crime and misdemeanor is ironic in that no one has run more discreet operation than Cox did during his 6 mos as special Watergate prosecutor; says there were no leaks of substance; compares this with what happened during investigation of then-Vice Pres Agnew when leaks were profuse
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Newark Star-Ledger Ends Election Endorsements
Date: 31 October 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Newark Star-Ledger says on Oct 30 it will no longer endorse pol candidates
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Mr. Nixon and the Press: A 27-Year Conflict; A view that he is not well informed. A view that he is not well treated.
Date: 01 November 1973
By Ben H. Bagdikian
Ben Bagdikian
B H Bagdikian article and excerpts from P J Buchanan's Oct 29 int by D Rather and R Pierpoint on CBS News on Pres Nixon's relationship with press; Bagdikian asserts Nixon may be most elaborately briefed Pres in US history on what news media say and yet he may be most badly informed; holds that in '71 D Oberdorfer, then White House correspondent for Washington Post, obtained copy of 1 of Nixon's daily news briefings; says rept was full of inaccuracies about what news media actually had said and it systematically omitted public condemnations of Pres; cites specific inaccuracies; Buchanan says mood at Nixon's Oct 26 news conf was that of 'Tijuana bullring' and he thought that in that mood Pres expressed feelings that he had gathered over period of time; holds Pres is not well treated by press; Rather disagrees about 'Tijuana bullring' atmosphere and says he believes mood was created by Pres; holds that networks have gained position of power and dominance over flow of ideas and information to Amer people which he thinks is excessive
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PRINTERS IN TRUCE WITH TWO PAPERS; Dec. 31 Deadline Set, With Kheel as Pact Mediator Confrontation Threat Lifted Printers Informed
Date: 31 October 1973
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
labor mediator T W Kheel on Oct 30 says he will devote his full efforts to promoting passage of NYS transportation bond issue
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WATERGATE ROLE OF C.I.A. SCORED; Special House Unit Reports Activities 'Had No Support in Reason or Law' Watergate Role of C.I.A. Scored In Special House Unit's Report Evaluation of Data
Date: 31 October 1973
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUMSpecial to The New York Times
David ROSENBAUMSpecial
HR Armed Services Com Special Subcom on Intelligence, in 1st formal rept of a Cong panel investigating Watergate scandal, says unanimously on Oct 30 that CIA operated in way that 'had no support in reason or law'; says CIA and its highest officials were unwitting dupes for purely domestic White House staff endeavors that were beyond realm of CIA authority; com concludes that it was 'abuse of CIA facilities' for orgn, at insistence of top White House officials, to prepare psychological profile of Dr D Ellsberg; that CIA did not know it was being used for improper purposes and resisted later efforts to involve agency; that ex-White House counsel J W Dean 3d put 'tremendous pressure' on FBI and CIA to limit early Watergate investigation; that ex-White House aides H R Haldeman and J D Ehrlichman also tried to 'deflect' FBI's work 'by invoking nonexisting conflicts with CIA operations'; that requests from top-level White House aides in present Adm were, almost without exception, taken as orders from people who were speaking for Pres; that these aides avoided then-CIA Dir R Helms and dealt instead with his deputies, Gen R Cushman and later Gen V Walters; both of whom owed their positions to Pres Nixon; subcom says it is preparing legis that will prohibit CIA from participating in any domestic functions without personal authorization of Pres; illus of Com Chmn L N Nedzi
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