TV News Service Is Feeling Strong Growing Pains
Date: 19 July 1973
By JOHN J. O"CONNOR
John CONNOR
Comment on Television News Inc (TVN), independent news service established by R R Pauley, which began operation on May 14; TVN has entered arrangement with Visnews Ltd, nonprofit trust jointly owned by Reuters, Australian Broadcasting Comm, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corp and New Zealand Broadcasting Corp for access to internatl news films; financing has been provided by A Coors Co; TVN originates its news feed from 4 burs and transmits to subscriber stations over leased audio and video lines
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Court Rules Papers in Florida Must Print Candidates' Replies; The Whole Story'
Date: 19 July 1973
Fla Sup Ct upholds on July 18 law requiring newspapers to print replies of pol candidates whom they criticize; reverses, in 6-1 opinion, ruling by Dade County Circuit Ct that ruled law is unconst violation of freedom of press; decision is handed down in case brought by P L Tornillo Jr, who sued Miami Herald for refusing to print his reply to critical ed during his unsuccessful race for State Legis in '72
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British Paper Loses Court Suit To Publish Thalidomide A article
Date: 19 July 1973
Brit House of Lords on July 17 rules that publication of article on children born with deformities after their mothers had taken drug thalidomide would be contempt of ct in view of prospective actions against Distillers Co; co produced and marketed drug in GB; decision means that newspaper cannot publish article until complex litigation involving Distillers and reprs of 400 children believed affected by thalidomide has been concluded; settlement of litigation is believed imminent; Times editor H Evans calls decision 'grave blow to freedom of press'; majority of parents involved have recently indicated that they are prepared to accept Distillers' offer of $50-million settlment
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Young Said to Refuse to Name Ehrlichman in Psychiatrist Raid; Supervised 'Plumbers Reluctance Stressed
Date: 19 July 1973
By MARJORIE HUNTERSpecial to The New York Times
former White House aide D R Young Jr reptdly refuses on July 18 to tell House Armed Services Subcom on Intelligence Operations whether his superior, J D Ehrlichman, had approved plan to burglarize office of D Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr L J Fielding; subcom officials rept that Young had refused to answer this and more than 40 other questions invoking 5th Amendment guarantee against bself incrimination; Govt sources rept that Young has given Fed Watergate prosecutors memorandum that he and former aide E Krogh Jr reptdly sent to Ehrlichman in late summer of '71, outlining plans to burglarize Fielding's office; illus of Young with atty A Lapham
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KROUGH PLEADS 5TH AT HOUSE INQUIRY; First Watergate Witness to Invoke the Amendment Dean Testimony Recalled Assistant to Haldeman
Date: 18 July 1973
By MARJORIE HUNTERSpecial to The New York Times
E Krogh Jr, ex-White House aide, invokes 5th Amendment on July 17, refusing to answer queries of HR Armed Services subcom; he is 1st of dozens of witnesses called before several Watergate investigating panels on Capitol Hill to invoke amendment; Repr Nedzi says that Krogh invoked amendment in response to 50 queries, answering only routine questions about personal and professional background; Krogh's atty S N Shulman tells subcom that Krogh is under investigation by grand jury in Los Angeles looking into Ellsberg break-in and by grand jury in Washington looking into break-in at Dem Natl Hq in Watergate
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Texas Publisher Named
Date: 19 July 1973
Marshall, Tex, News Messenger names P E Bolger pres and publisher, succeeding M M Johnson
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News U.S. Envoy Is in Saigon
Date: 18 July 1973
G A Martin arrives in Saigon on July 17 to take over as US Amb to S Vietnam
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Britons Worry About Losing Privacy- to Europe, Computers, Detectives and Press; Europe Entry Unpopular
Date: 18 July 1973
By RICHARD EDERSpecial to The New York Times
Article on recent flurry of debates, repts and investigations about threat to Brit privacy from computers, detectives and press; notes focus of problem last wk was in House of Commons, which debated rept drawn up 1 yr ago by comm headed by Sir K Younger; says Younger rept is extensive study of current dangers to privacy; notes Brit Home Affairs Min R Carr said that Govt would propose legis in line with number of points in rept, including criminal and civil penalties for illegitimate forms of surveillance
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