Times and News Say Pressmen Slow Down, and Give Warning
Date: 04 December 1975
By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER
Emanuel PERLMUTTER
NY Times and Daily News on Dec 3 warn NY Pressmen's Union that they will take 'appropriate action' if union does not stop alleged work slowdowns that they say have delayed production and caused financial losses; Times sr vp John Mortimer, in telegram to pressmen, warns against such actions; pressmen union pres William Kennedy denies allegations; says problem is caused by use of old paper in plants as result of newsprint strike in Canada that has cut off new supplies; Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and News pres and publisher W H James disclose situation in staff memos (M)
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Newspaper Guild Ratifies 3-Year Pact at The News
Date: 03 December 1975
members of Newspaper Guild at NY Times and Daily News on Dec 2 ratify new 3-yr contract; contract provisions noted (S)
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EMERGENCY ENDED FOR LISBON REGION; Scope of Coup That Failed and Names of Leaders Are Being Disclosed
Date: 03 December 1975
By MARVINE HOWE Special to The New York Times
Marvine Special
Portuguese Pres Francisco da Costa Gomes lifts stale of siege in Lisbon mil region after it is clear that attempted leftist coup has been smashed; Pres and ruling High Revolutionary Council had imposed crackdown wk ago when it was learned that revolt was part of plan to overthrow Govt; intelligence sources say that group of pro-Communist officers had been principal organizers; Govt sources say reasons for failure are unexpectedly strong response by Costa Gomes and other mil leaders, failure of former mil sec chief Brig Gen Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho to take over leadership of insurgency, refusal of other key mil units lo join uprising, last-minute failure of Communist party to support rebellion and inability of extreme leftist groups to raise mass civilian support for movement; Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo and Govt, as result of uprising, have come out of crisis reinforced; Communist party and United Revolutionary Front have taken heavy losses and most of newspapers and radio stations have been silenced; Reuters repts that Govt has nationalized all radio stations except for RC Radio Renascence and few local transmitters; Gen Carvalho, Army Chief of Staff Gen Carlos Fabiao and Navy Chief of Staff Rear Adm Armando Filgueiras Soares have been stripped of commands; Gen Staff has announced that warrants have been issued for arrests of 25 Army and Air Force officers, including Col Joao Barela Gomes and Capt Manuel Durao Clemente, who are said to have coordinated uprising (M)
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Portuguese Nationalize TV and Private Radio Stations
Date: 04 December 1975
By MARVINE HOWE Special to The New York Times
Marvine Special
Portuguese Govt announces nationalization of TV network and all private radio stations except that of RC Ch (M)
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Judge Asks Paper Not to Print Column on Dairy Antitrust Suit
Date: 04 December 1975
US Dist Judge John W Oliver has asked newspaper publisher voluntarily not to publish column by Louis M Kohlmeier concerning antitrust case in dairy indus rather than force him (Oliver) to decide whether it should be published; column, which appeared in St Paul Pioneer Press on Nov 11, has inspired petition for restraining order that would prohibit its republication in Dec issue of monthly paper published by Natl Farmers Orgn; connected antitrust case with Watergate and suggested that Pres Ford cancel Govt's acceptance of consent decree that settled case when it was before Oliver; case is now being appealed; Oliver ruled that decision to kill column would be justified on ground that column was inaccurate, but questions whether article or viewpoint should be suppressed because it might contain erroneous material; restraining order is being sought by Associated Milk Producers and Bank for Cooperatives of Houston; they contend that column was based on documents made available by bank for use in antitrust litigation with stipulation that they be kept secret except for use in lawsuit (M)
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Walter Sullivan Gets Medal From Society of Engineers
Date: 04 December 1975
Amer Soc of Mechanical Engineers presents NY Times science editor Walter Sullivan with its Ralph Coats Roe Medal (S)
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Seymour Hersh is Winner Of John Zenger Award
Date: 03 December 1975
Univ of Arizona's John Peter Zenger Award is won by NY Times reporter Seymour M Hersh; will be presented Jan 17 (S)
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Bad News for Columbus, Perhaps
Date: 04 December 1975
By Ivan Van Sertima
Ivan Sertima
Rutgers Univ Africana studies asst Prof Ivan Van Sertima comments on recent worldwide discoveries lending credence to theory that strains of Negroid race inhabited or at least traveled to parts of US and Western Hemisphere; findings of physical anthropologist Ernest Hooton, historian Frederick Peterson, craniologist Andrzej Wiercinski, archeologist Matthew Stirling, art historian Prof Alexander von Wuthenau, Arab historian Ibn Fadl Allah al-Omari, historian E W Bovill, botanist Karl Schwerin, Ger Dr Hannes Lindemann and anthropologist Alphonse de Quatrefages discussed; drawing
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The Blowsoft
Date: 04 December 1975
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire comment on things HR Select Intelligence Com Chmn Repr O G Pike could have uncovered and disclosed before or in lieu of Sen Select Intelligence Com; cites White House abuse of IRS; says Pike could have called to stand Bill Moyers and Walter Jenkins, Pres Johnson aides who passed orders and recd repts on FBI's illegal pol wiretapping and bugging of Repub and Dem Natl Convs in '64; says Pike could have called Johnson pol operative Marvin Watson to look into 'plumbers' operation, which Sen com seems to be glossing over; says Pike, instead, is seeking approbation of Dems by leading charge to cite State Sec Kissinger for contempt of Cong
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F.B.I. IS ACCUSED OF POLITICAL ACTS FOR 6 PRESIDENTS; Senate Intelligence Inquiry Names Leaders From Roosevelt to Nixon ROBERT KENNEDY CITED Secret Dossiers, Taps and Surveillance Reported-- Newsmen Affected
Date: 04 December 1975
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
Rept by Sen Select Com on Intelligence, based on data from FBI files and testimony of former officials and other witnesses, charges Pres Kennedy authorized FBI to wiretap 6 US citizens, including officials of domestic Govt agency, Cong staff member and 2 registered lobbyists for foreign interests, in probe of efforts by foreign interests to influence US econ policies (S)
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