Television Reports Of Siege Limited By Area Blackout
Date: 21 January 1973
comment on TV coverage of 47-hr siege by 4 gunmen at John & Al's sporting goods store in Bklyn; live TV coverage of police action outside store was not possible on Jan 19, 1st day of siege, because police had prohibited use of TV lights at scene; in addition, police had cut off power to st lights; some local radio stations, however, provided live on-spot coverage with gunmen among listeners
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COAST PAPERS GET AUTOMATION PACT; An Arbitration Panel Settles Dispute on Typesetting
Date: 21 January 1973
Special to The New York Times
Arbitration panel in Los Angeles on Jan 20 makes award settling dispute over introduction of new equipment in composing room of San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner; problem arose when San Francisco Newspaper Printing Co announced plans in March '72 to automate by installing optical scanners, which can read copy produced on electric typewriters by editorial and ad personnel and enable computers to produce tape that operates typesetting machines without intervention by human printer; award permits installation of new equipment under certain conditions, but Typographical Union Local 21 obtains guaranteed lifetime jobs for 443 printers
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4 PAPERS DISPUTE U.S. ON PRESS CURB; Judge's Ban Ignored Assert Pentagon Case Did Not Set Legal Precedent Citation Viewed as Void
Date: 21 January 1973
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Newspapers that temporarily suspended pub of Pentagon papers under ct order, NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and St Louis Post-Dispatch, warn that they do not feel bound to observe such injunction in future; editors of papers, A M Rosenthal, H Simons, T Winship and E A Graham Jr, sign affidavits that are filed in US Ct of Appeals as part of brief submitted by Reporters Com for Freedom of Press in Louisiana case in which 2 reporters for Baton Rouge Morning Advocate have been convicted of criminal contempt for writing articles about open Fed ct hearing despite order by Dist Judge E G West that prohibited any coverage of proceedings by media
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Toward Defining The Real Issues; Ellsberg Trial
Date: 21 January 1973
MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Rev of opening testimony in Pentagon papers trial in which defense has attempted to prove that material in papers that was released by Ellsberg and Russo was already made public through other documents; illus of Lt Gen W G DePuy, prosecution witness
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ELLSBERG JUDGE OFFERS HIS VIEW; 'Tentative Thoughts' Seen as Pentagon Trial Key
Date: 22 January 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Jdg Byrne gives his 'tentative thoughts' on Jan 21 concerning espionage laws as they apply to case; defendants Ellsberg and Russo are charged with 15 counts of espionage, theft and conspiracy; Byrne suggests that both prosecution and defense attempt to define phrase 'related to national defense', which prosecution contends Pentagon papers are; asks 2 sides to consider whether papers do in fact relate to natl defense and further, whether that relationship, if any, is 'direct and reasonable rather than strained and arbitrary'
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'Fantasies' Laid to a Soviet Newspaper; ?? They Never Saw Yurts
Date: 22 January 1973
Special to The New York TimesBy HEDRICK SMITH
Article in Trad, USSR newspaper, on Far Eastern fishing village of Nekrasovka is criticized by village residents as being 'too rosy'; describes village as booming modern town engaged in successful salmon fishing; map
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Booooo Team!; WHO'S TO JUDGE?"
Date: 21 January 1973
EDWARD W. TAYLOR
Edward TAYLOR
M B Horowitz lr scores abundance of football games being televised during holidays
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