MITCHELL ASSURES NEWSMEN ON FILES; Will Seek Agreements With Mass Media Before Any Subpoenas Are Issued MITCHELL ASSURES NEWSMEN ON FILES
Date: 06 February 1970
Assures newsmen that Justice Dept will issue no more subpoenas to news orgns without first attempting to reach agreement on scope of subpoenas
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5 Opposition Publications Are Banned in Lesotho
Date: 06 February 1970
Jonathan bans 5 opposition publications
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Reprimand Given In Saigon Incident Of False Newsmen
Date: 07 February 1970
US command announces person who placed agents in Saigon press corps has been reprimanded and transferred to new assignment; does not identify person, gives no reason for masquerade
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Mitchell and Press Problems
Date: 06 February 1970
By MAX FRANKEL Special to The New York Times
Max Special
M Frankel comments on Mitchell's statement and on special problems subpoenas can raise for members of press; notes special arrangements and privileges allowed to reporters and cameramen to facilitate pursuit of information; says unusual problems have arisen in covering activities of radical, militant and race-conscious groups, whose members demand special trust in newsmen, holds trust can be ruined by Govt demands for confidential information, even when these demands are resisted by media; says desire on part of media and Govt to avoid confrontation in cts has led to pattern of mutual nonaggression with each case worked out as it develops, leaving important questions of law unresolved
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Bonn Aide Calms Newsmen After His Attack on Springer
Date: 06 February 1970
Ahlers meets with newsmen, softens earlier charges; admits it would be difficult to prove that news had been falsified
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FOUR LONDON PAPERS SAID TO LOSE MONEY
Date: 06 February 1970
Natl Bd for Prices and Incomes repts at least 4 natl papers are losing money, declines to name them; papers believed to be London Times, Guardian, Sun, and Daily Mail or Daily Sketch
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Editorial Article 3 -- No Title; ...Good News in Argentina
Date: 06 February 1970
hailing Internatl Fed of Newspaper Eds and Publishers Golden Pen of Freedom award to La Prensa ed Dr A Gainza Paz
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Reporters Are Allowed To Watch Theodorakis
Date: 07 February 1970
Press Dept arranges trip for foreign correspondents to Oropos detention camp to refute repts that composer M Theodorakis is dying; Theodorakis appears healthy
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Editorial Article 2 -- No Title; Bad News From Peru...
Date: 06 February 1970
scoring press law; holds press will again be free when Velasco and his advisers are out of govt
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