Syria Frees U.S. Newsman After Holding Him 3 Days
Date: 21 January 1975
Syrian security agents release AP correspondent Nicholas Ludington on Jan 20 after holding him for 3 days; Ludington is driven to Lebanese border and released there; Ludington and Louis Fares, Syrian part-time AP employe, were arrested in connection with dispatches Ludington wrote during recent visit by Saudi King Faisal; Fares was released Jan 18; repts say Ludington was not charged with any violation of Syrian law but was 'interrogated' about his dispatches (S)
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Article 3 -- No Title
Date: 22 January 1975
Illus of USSR reporters and photographers meeting with NJ Gov Byrne in Trenton on Jan 21; present are Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Nikolay Kiporenko, Nikolay Sokolov, Anatoly Voronov, Yuriy Shaposhnikov and Aleksei Burnistenko
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Press Freedom: Legal Threats
Date: 22 January 1975
By E. Barrett Prettyman Jr
E. Prettyman
E Barrett Prettyman Jr article warns that Dickinson doctrine is posing serious threat to traditional view of 1st Amendment; doctrine holds that reporter must, on penalty of being held in criminal contempt of ct, obey order not to publish accounts of open ct proceedings, even if that order is ultimately ruled unconst by appellate ct; article holds rule should be that press publishes at its peril in face of prior restraint until order is cither upheld or overturned; notes media are beginning to demand hearing, right to present evidence and argument, written order and immediate appeal when faced with gag order; calls for Sup Ct to overrule Dickinson doctrine; illus (M)
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HELMS REJECTED C.I.A ACTION IN U.S.; Told Senators in 1973 That Domestic Surveillance Was Not Agency Duty
Date: 22 January 1975
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH Special to The New York Times
Rev of previously published testimony shows then-CIA Dir Richard Helms assured Sen Foreign Relations Com 2 yrs ago that domestic surveillance of antiwar activists was not a proper function for CIA; Helms to testify before com Jan 22 about this and other possible conflicts in his testimony, taken in '73 when he was undergoing confirmation hearings on his nomination to be Amb to Iran; Sen J O Pastore introduces resolution, to create 11-member bipartisan select com to investigate all domestic and foreign operations of CIA and other Govt intelligence units; Sen M Mansfield comments (M)
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WMCA REPRIMANDED IN ROSENTHAL SLUR
Date: 21 January 1975
FCC has reprimanded radio station WMCA for violating 'personal attack' rule of Communications Act in incident involving Repr Benjamin S Rosenthal, in which station failed to notify Rosenthal of attack made on him by Bob Grant and for having failed to give him time to reply; drops $1,000 fina against station; WMCA pres R Peter Straus comments (S)
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Women Reporters Break the Ice
Date: 22 January 1975
Women reporters Robin Herman (NY Times) and Marcelle St Cyr (CKLM Radio) accept open-door invitation from coaches of Natl Hockey League All-Star game to conduct postgame ints in locker room, Montreal; comment (S)
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CBS Refuses Amnesty 'Spots,' Citing Fairness Doctrine Claims
Date: 21 January 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
CBS has refused Pres Clemency Bd's request for radio and TV time for public-service spot announcements encouraging Vietnam-era war resisters to participate in Pres Ford's Amnesty program before plan's Jan 31 expiration; CBS-TV vp John A Cowden explains spot announcements provoked claims for time from groups opposed to amnesty plan which CBS would have been required to grant under FCC fairness doctrine; holds amnesty issue is 'too complex' to be subject of 30-second spot and could be better presented in news broadcasts; CBS Broadcast Group spokesman says decision is consistent with co ban of ads containing editorial matter; Cowden says Natl Council for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty, Natl Council of Churches and ACLU had submitted legal claims for reply time; United Ch of Christ communications dir Everett C Parker, agitator for broadcast reform, terms CBS position 'height of elitism'; NBC and ABC have been carrying White House and Natl Council of Churches announcements; legal officials of both networks say they know of no claims for time from other orgns; NBC withdrew promise to carry White House spots during Super Bowl game on Jan 12 after Natl Council of Churches requested time during game; Clemency Bd chmn Charles E Goodell repts 'tremendous upsurge in applications' since Jan 6 beginning of broadcast campaign, with result that bd has asked for 6-mo extension of program (M)
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Notes on People; Virginia Court Disbars Colson
Date: 21 January 1975
Author and playwright Elie Wiesel receives 5th annual Rambam Award of Amer Mizrachi Women 'for his profound conveyance of Jewish values and tradition' (S)
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Notes on People; John Dean's Story Goes for $300,000
Date: 22 January 1975
Elvis Presley makes $75,000 down payment on Robert L Vesco's Boeing 707 jet, which was impounded after Vesco defaulted on payments; description of jet's custom-made interior (S)
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