POST LOSES A FIGHT TO RESCIND PAY RISE
Date: 04 August 1972
Fed Pay Bd denies challenge by NY Post of 11% deferred increase due its unionized employes effective Mar 31 under existing collective bargaining agreements; says that under regulations 'a deferred increase may only be challenged by the Pay Bd or a party at interest' and that bd's gen counsel ruled that Post 'is not a proper party at interest'; Post labor counsel S Orenstein says ruling was apparently based on view that Publishers Assn of NYC was bargaining repr of all its members
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Paper Under Bias Inquiry
Date: 05 August 1972
Calif Fair Employment Practices Comm orders investigation of hiring practices of Los Angeles Times on complaint of 2 women's groups
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U.P.I. TO SEEK PACT ON VISIT TO PEKING
Date: 05 August 1972
UPI repts on Aug 4 that party of newsmen led by UPI pres R W Beaton plans to visit China on Aug 18 on invitation from Chinese news agency Hsinhua to discuss news and news pictures agreement; other accompanying Beaton include Mrs Beaton, H L Stevenson, W G Landrey and wife and R Schnitzlein
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Officials Who May Classify U.S. Data Cut 63%
Date: 04 August 1972
Interagency Classification Rev Com chmn J S D Eisenhower repts on Aug 3 that number of Govt officials allowed to stamp 'top secret' on documents has been cut by more than 1/2; meets with Pres Nixon for progress rept on Nixon's new order aimed at trimming Govt's security classification system; says he has no precise estimate of how much this would shrink Fed production of secret papers; White House staff aide in charge of declassification program D Young says that check is being made into how much reduction in flow of classified documents had resulted from program
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A Senator Proposes Bill to End Secrecy In the Government
Date: 05 August 1972
By MARJORIE HUNTERSpecial to The New York Times
Sen Chiles on Aug 4 urges 'govt in sunshine law' that would require open meetings of all Cong coms and Govt agencies except in matters relating to natl security and defense, matters required by law to be kept confidential, matters relating solely to agency's internal mgt and disciplinary proceedings that would adversely affect an individual's reputation; outlook for passage seen slim
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Contempt Citation Upheld
Date: 05 August 1972
Maryland Ct of Special Appeals on Aug 4 upholds civil contempt citation of D M Lightman (Baltimore Eve Sun), who refused to reveal to grand jury a store where he had been offered marijuana; says Lightman went into store as private citizen and did not identify himself as reporter
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New Snag Marks Freehold Opening
Date: 05 August 1972
Special to The New York Times
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Due Bills Total $30,000
Date: 04 August 1972
Nevada Athletic Comm votes to release $30,000 of $75,000 deposit made by local promoter B Miller to pay outstanding bills from M Ali-J Quarry fight program June 27; Mills tells comm that he has not yet been paid $17,490 due him as his share of live gate receipts of $349,800
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Sierra Leone Team Gets Help
Date: 04 August 1972
Guest in Munich Foundation member M Inzinger announces that foundation has offered to pay expenses of Sierra Leone team to '72 Olympic Games in Munich; Sierra Leone had withdrawn from '72 Games because it could not afford to send its teams of 5 athletes and 2 officials to Munich; Inzinger says that fed will also try to help Phillipines, which withdrew its basketball team in order to give money to victims of recent floods
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Bruins Sue to Bar 2 From Jumping
Date: 05 August 1972
Boston Bruins of NHL file suit in Suffolk Superior Ct, Boston, on Aug 4 to prevent former team members D Sanderson and G Cheevers from playing in new World Hockey Assn
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