Peru Is Calm Again After Riots; Death Toll Is Placed at 100
Date: 08 February 1975
By JONATHAN KANDELL Special to The New York Times
Jonathan Special
Calm returns to Lima, Peru, on Feb 7 after 2 days of rioting and looting that left about 100 persons dead; rioting linked to anger over army's heavy-handed tactics against striking police and reptdly was fed by underlying public antipathy to 6-yr-old mil Govt; inflation reached 20% in '74, and public employes and miners have staged strikes during wks preceding police walkout; pol and econ overtones of outburst are overshadowed by widespread looting and vandalism; Govt announces that more than 650 people are under detention for vandalism; new police chief Lt Gen Gaston Zapata de la Flor to take all actions necessary to solve problems of police force; one condition set by striking police is removal of former police chief Lt Gen Roberto Acosta Rodriguez, but there is not indication that Govt has met police wage demands; Govt deports Reuters news agency employes Patrick Buckley and Andrew Tarnowski on charges of having reptd 'false information'; Govt officials and local newspapers under Govt control blame 'counter-revolutionaries' and 'reactionaries' for disorders; some newspapers allege that US CIA and 'ultraleftists' were behind rioting; damage from looting and burning is estimated in millions; curfew continues in Lima and all constitutional guarantees remain suspended (M)
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Top Saigon Political Cartoonist Is Reported Held
Date: 08 February 1975
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
Nguyen Hai Chi, Saigon's leading pol cartoonist who uses pen name Choe, has reptdly been arrested by mil policemen; was subsequently turned over to civilian natl police on Feb 6; Maj Gen Nguyen Khac Binh denies arrest and says Choe was not involved in alleged Communist plot to infiltrate Saigon press corps; in space that English-language Saigon Post usually reserves for Choe's cartoons, notice of arrest appears; Choe illus (S)
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2 Philadelphia Newspapers Closed in Delivery Dispute
Date: 08 February 1975
Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia News on Feb 7 suspend publication indefinitely after truck drivers refuse to deliver papers on Feb 6 and 7 despite injunction ordering them back; paper spokesman Bill Wright comments
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Reporter's Notebook: A Look At Equal Rights and Hockey; Islanders Reporter's Notebook: Equal Rights and Hockey
Date: 09 February 1975
By ROBIN HERMAN
Robin HERMAN
Article by R Herman (NY Times) on her struggle to become' 1st woman hockey writer to enter NHL dressing rooms to int players; comments on herself and Marcelle St Cyr being allowed to enter dressing rooms after NHL all-star game in Montreal; illus (L)
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Free Newspapers Sue to Void Laws That Bar Them From Getting Legal Ads
Date: 09 February 1975
By WILLIAM P. BARRETT Special to The New York Times
William BARRETT
North Jersey Suburbanite, free-circulation newspaper, has filed class-action suit seeking to overturn state laws barring free-circulation newspapers from receiving legal ad; at stake in suit is redistribution of estimated $3-million that is spent annually on legal ad, survival of some small newspapers that depend on legal-ad revenue for bulk of their income and added value to newspaper of 'legal' status; suit has divided state's usually united 280 newspapers into 2 distinct factions: those that are now eligible to receive legal ad and those that are not, with cos owning papers of both varieties somewhere in middle; bulk of defense in suit is being undertaken by NJ Press Assn; assn gen mgr Lloyd Burns comments; suit was originally brought by Morris County News which withdrew when it was acquired by Austin C Drukker, owner of several paid-circulation newspapers; motion to dismiss suit was rejected in '74 by Superior Ct Judge Scott M Long Jr; bill to make free-circulation newspapers eligible for legal ad has been introduced by Assemblyman Morton Salkind (M)
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Commission Calls Hearing on Lack of TV Coverage of State
Date: 09 February 1975
Comm to Study Adequacy of TV Coverage in NJ will hold its 1st public hearing in Mar, with initial witness to be repr of NJ Coalition for Fair Broadcasting; comm chmn State Sen John M Skevin says group is considering whether to request testimony from repr of FCC, which has authorized its own investigation into ways of providing better TV coverage of state; NJ officials and public-interest groups have been demanding for yrs that Phila and NYC stations provide more news and public-affairs coverage of state (M)
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Letters to the Editor
Date: 09 February 1975
WICB-TV News Dir Henry C Kavett lr contends that NJ Legis and various citizens groups considering news coverage that NJ gets on NYC and Phila TV stations should place their efforts toward improving state's existing channels; says capital outlay of $2.4-million is needed to build 3 more broadcast studios at Public Broadcasting transmitter points
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THE TIMES PROMOTES TWO ON NEWS STAFF
Date: 08 February 1975
NY Times managing editor A M Rosenthal names John Noble Wilford dir of science news, succeeding Henry R Lieberman, who is named asst to managing editor (S)
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Notes on People; Betty Ford Cancels 2 Briefings
Date: 08 February 1975
Chrysler Corp exec Arthur J Schultz Jr leaves co to become associate Deputy Admr of Veterans Adm (S)
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In Summary; Mr. Kissinger Is Shuttling Once Again Oil Importers Make a Strictly Short-Term Pact Thieu Decides To Act Like Thieu Again Canada Wants to Limit Newcomers Strike in Peru
Date: 09 February 1975
summary article notes recent repts that Cambodia does not need $222-million in aid requested by Ford Adm will lead to tough Cong stand against approval of further aid; Ford Adm has denied repts that aid request will act as buffer against further aid cutbacks in '76 (S)
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