Saigon Shooting 'Accident'
Date: 18 March 1975
S Vietnamese Govt spokesman on Mar 17 describes killing of Paul Leandri (Agence France Presse) as 'unhappy and regrettable event' (S)
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Date: 18 March 1975
S Vietnamese Govt spokesman on Mar 17 describes killing of Paul Leandri (Agence France Presse) as 'unhappy and regrettable event' (S)
Date: 18 March 1975
Channels 2, 4 and 7, covering hearing of Sen Comm on Adequacy of TV, leave shortly after 1st witness, former Gov Cahill, finished his presentation; witness David B Sachsman says stations' behavior is typical (S)
Date: 19 March 1975
Special to The New York Times
Bill submitted to S Korean Natl Assembly seeking to punish any S Koreans who spread 'distortion' about Govt to foreigners either at home or abroad, may make S Korean newsmen working for foreign pubs liable to legal action (S)
Date: 18 March 1975
John D Ehrlichman on Mar 17 asks for new trial in White House plumbers case on grounds that he was not permitted to claim natl security as defense and that testimony was not taken from former Pres Nixon; says that US Dist Judge Gerhard A Gesell, 'by gestures and facial expressions,' may have created impression of disbelief among jurors about his own and other defense testimony (S)
Date: 19 March 1975
Fed Reserve economist Reed J Irvine says he was warned by Fed Reserve gov to keep his extracurricular duties with group that monitors news media separate from his duties at Fed Reserve, testimony before House Banking subcom on domestic monetary policy hearing into charges that Irvine used his Fed Reserve post for purposes of outside group (S)
Date: 19 March 1975
US Appeals Ct, acting on FCC suggestion that its case had become moot, reinstates ruling that '72 NBC-TV documentary 'Pensions, The Broken Promise,' had not violated FCC's fairness doctrine; ruling, handed down in Sept '74 by 3-judge panel, had been vacated by full ct pending appeal by Accuracy in Media Inc, which filed original complaint against NBC; Accuracy in Media Inc dir Reed J Irvine accuses FFC of undermining its position by filing suggestion of mootness, phone int; adds that ruling by 3 judge panel made fairness doctrine 'virtually unenforceable'; view is challenged by FCC gen counsel Ashton R Hardy who argues that ruling was narrowly focused on single case and had no broad effect; FCC, in suggestion of mootness, argued that enactment of pension legis in Sept had removed pensions from category of controversial issues and that it would be absurd to require NBC to air opposing views on issue that had already been settled (S)
Date: 19 March 1975
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
Newly released FBI documents show FBI harassed Socialist Workers party for decade with efforts to have members dismissed from their jobs, with leaks to news media of unsavory ??? about their personal lives and attempts to press petty prosecutions; documents are released as result of ct order in civil suit brought in Fed Dist Ct, NYC; documents include information on 41 operations of FBI's Counterintellgence Program against party; despite 3 decades of intensive investigation and at least 1 period, from '61 to '71, of covert efforts to destroy party and frighten its members, there is no indication that FBI brought any charges; most of investigations of party and its members appear to have been conducted under authority of Fed statutes covering rebellion and insurrection, seditious conspiracy advocating overthrow of Govt, Internal Security Act of '50 and Communist Control Act of '54; documents reveal several operations where FBI secretly tried to bring members of party under local police and state pressure; FBI made several attempts to put pressure on party members who were not connected with pol activity or a given party function; papers show there was constant attempt to disrupt internally the party's activities and to put it against other orgns in left and civil rights movement (L)
Date: 18 March 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Article on Accuracy in Media Inc (AIM) notes journalists tend to think of AIM as right-wing pol orgn and not as a legitimate press critic; orgn head Reed J Irvine says there is 'some truth to charges that AIM is pol propagandist group (M)
Date: 18 March 1975
By RICHARD PHALON Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
Former NJ Govs William T Cahill and Robert B Meyner fault TV news coverage of NJ as inadequate and say that lack of coverage makes it more difficult for them to govern; are questioned by Sen John M Skevin, head of Sen Comm on Adequacy of TV Coverage; Cahill suggests getting own station; others testifying include Thomas F Leany (WCBS), John J Iselin (WNET), and Richard N Hughes (WPIX); 18 civic groups have petitioned FCC to explore how NJ can get stations of its own (M)
Date: 19 March 1975
Cincinnati Bengals player Bob Maddox is charged with assault by photographer Jo Anne Easley, who claims he twice pushed her camera in her face while she was covering his ct appearance on drug charge (S)