TWO UNIONS RATIFY NEWSPAPER PACTS
Date: 08 December 1975
photoengravers and stereotypers on Dec 7 ratify new 3-yr contract with Daily News and NY Times; negotiators for Mailers Union also reach tentative agreement; work slowdowns by members of Pressmen's Union Local 6 led NYS Mediation Bd chmn Vincent D McDonnell to intervene; he schedules pressmen's meeting for Dec 9 (S)
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Striking Pressmen Reject Washington Post's Offer
Date: 08 December 1975
Striking pressmen at Washington Post on Dec 7 overwhelmingly reject paper's final contract offer; union spokesmen maintain paper is trying to break union; newspaper exec vp and gen mgr Mark Meagher calls co pffer final (S)
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Le Figaro to Move
Date: 08 December 1975
Paris newspaper Le Figaro to move into central Paris next summer, alongside its printing plant, to save money (S)
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China Hand Says Tape Is Red, Too
Date: 07 December 1975
By ROSS H. MUNRO The Globe and Mall, Toronto
Ross MUNRO
Newsman R H Munro comments on treatment he recd while visiting Peking (M)
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MADRID ARRESTS PARDONED PRIEST; Incident Reflects Confusion of Post-Franco Period
Date: 07 December 1975
By HENRY GINIGER Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Foreign Press Assn is refused permission to meet with Spanish Socialist leader Felipe Gonzalez, and members of assn were threatened with arrest if they tried to meet with him (S)
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Dissident Spanish Labor Leader, Freed a Week Ago, Is Rearrested
Date: 08 December 1975
By HENRY GINIGER Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Spanish police arrest ABC team consisting of Dean Johnson, Vincent Gaito and Theodore John; team was picked up while walking in Carabanchel prison area without equipment; Johnson is told to leave country but no effort is made to expel him (S)
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TV Coverage of Ford in China: Was It Journalism?
Date: 08 December 1975
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
J J O'Connor analysis of network coverage of Pres Ford's trip to China; holds that because networks found little in way of 'breaking news' they were generally reduced to delivering 'picture postcards' of carefully selected Chinese sites; holds that even if Chinese had allowed visiting newsmen broader itinerary, controls over what was shown would doubtless have been no less rigid; coverage by networks star anchormen, John Chancellor, Walter Cronkite and Harry Reasoner discussed (M)
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World News Briefs; Independence Group Backed by Saharans Laos in Trade Pact With Vietnam Santiago Clerics In Protest Cuba Meeting Set On Constitution Ethiopia Lifts Crisis Decree Iceland Reports Ramming Incident
Date: 07 December 1975
Santiago, Chile, auxiliary bishops suspend religious services to mark Dec 8 Feast of Immaculate Conception in protest against Govt ban on all marches and pilgrimages; Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez notes friction between ch and mil rulers; Chilean newspaper rejects US Sen com rept that CIA paid $1.6-million to keep it publishing during era of late Allende (S)
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Ideas & Trends; Education, Earth Sciences, Law The Farmers' Old Tricks With Crops New Evidence Relating Diet And Cancer Another Test of Fair Trial vs. Free Press More Scientists Out to Get the Drift--of Earth
Date: 07 December 1975
comment on Canadian chemist Dr Allan E Smith and Prof Diana M Secoy survey finding that farmers 2,000 yrs ago used almost every method of pest control and crop improvement that are in use today (S)
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PAPERS EXAMINE CITIES' FINANCES; New York's Problems Cause Some Local Investigations
Date: 07 December 1975
By FRANK J. PRIAL
Frank PRIAL
Atlanta, Ga, newspapers, reacting to near-bankruptcy of NYC, say local finances are not overly desperate (S)
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