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Date: 09 December 1973
HEW Dept Sec C W Weinberger instructs all Dept employes to decline invitations to speak before groups or in locations that discriminate after he realized he had been invited to address group at Chicago Club, private all-male club, that had barred a female newspaper reporter from entering
Date: 09 December 1973
White House deputy press sec G L Warren on Dec 8 repts that White House will be 'unable to join in any cooperative research study' regarding press and news broadcasting as urged by Natl News Council; council had asked Pres Nixon's press sec R L Ziegler for further information and specifics regarding Nixon's reference at recent news conf to 'vicious, distorted reporting'
Date: 09 December 1973
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Annual rept of A I du-Pont-Columbia Univ Survey in Broadcast Journalism, made in conjunction with '72-'73 duPont-Columbia broadcast news awards, finds Watergate was fountainhead for enlivening of TV journalism over last yr, restoring credibility of medium with much of public and creating new atmosphere for investigative reptg
Date: 08 December 1973
Special to The New York Times
S Korean Pres Park Chung Hee on Dec 7 orders that all students being held for recent anti-Govt demonstrations be freed at once, and that those expelled from school be reinstated; Culture and Information Min Yun Chu Yung tells S Korean publishers and editors that S Korean CIA will no longer interfere with the press, and that operations of news media will be left to their 'self-control'; most S Koreans laud Govt moves, but are uncertain whether moves indicate end of repressive policy or are a temporary step to placate widespread discontent
Date: 09 December 1973
com to select Nieman Fellows in journalism for '74-'75 academic yr is named; members include M I Bunting, F A Daniels Jr, E O Guthman, E Shanahan, C U Daly, T F Pettigrew and J C Thomson Jr
Date: 08 December 1973
By ALDEN WHITMAN
Alden WHITMAN
Book The World and the 20's: The Golden Years of New York's Legendary Newspaper, Edited, with Introduction, by J Boylan, revd by A Whitman
Date: 08 December 1973
Assn of Voluntary Agencies on Narcotics Treatment (AVANT) on Dec 7 awards NY Times correspondent J M Markham annual media award for his 'balanced and timely stories on drug use and its relation to society' written 'zealously and with uncompromising devotion to facts'; will also present award to Dr D F Musto (Yale Univ) for book The American Disease: Origins of Narcotics Control
Date: 08 December 1973
Dec 7 NY Times article incorrectly identified chmn of bd of dirs of Greater Newark (NJ) Chamber of Commerce; chmn is E R Eberle
Date: 09 December 1973
Special to The New York TimesBy SEYMOUR M. HERSH
article, assessing role of former secret White House investigative force known as plumbers, suggests that Pres Nixon was concerned that highly placed Soviet agent of KGB, operating as US counterspy, would be compromised by continued inquiry by Watergate special prosecutor and Sen Watergate Com into case of D Ellsberg; states that agent informed his FBI contacts that set of Pentagon papers had been delivered to Soviet Embassy in Washington shortly after Fed ct had ordered NY Times to stop printing its series of articles on papers; sources say that Nixon Adm feared that any extensive investigation by Watergate prosecutors would expose Soviet spy and endanger communications and espionage secrets; well-informed sources noted that Nixon Adm failed to develop evidence to support belief that Ellsberg ever considered passing any information to foreign power; pointed out that KGB agent, whose existence is one of FBI's most guarded secrets, has long been considered of dubious loyalty and value by counterintelligence experts in CIA; NY Times in several ints has found that some plumbers, notably Natl Security Council aide D R Young r, believed that highly classified Natl Security Agency interception operation involving satellite capable of picking up radio-telephone conversations of Soviet leaders had been compromised by information contained in Pentagon papers but not published by Times; informed sources say that no evidence has been produced to substantiate this belief; former CIA Dir R Helms and head of CIA's counterintelligence operations J Angleton believe KGB man is agent provocateur, rather than authentic informer; sources agree, however, that agent's information was accepted by Nixon and Sec of State H A Kissinger; major findings of NY Times ints detailed