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Date: 20 October 1973
Ed on recent meeting of Inter-Amer Press Assn notes that for 1st time in assn's history US also faces serious challenge to press freedom, including subpoenas, now withdrawn, that were issued by attys for then Vice Pres Agnew in effort to uncover sources for articles that disclosed charges against Agnew
Date: 20 October 1973
By JOSEPH LELYVELDSpecial to The New York Times
Philippine press, which has been operating under strict restrictions issued by Pres Marcos, has since last May had to submit all news stories to Media Advisory Council; council was established by Pres decree and must enforce guidelines which are all subject to Pres approval; guidelines declare that press freedom is 'one of the most fundamental human rights'; says that except in most blatant and important instances of corruption, there should be limited effort on part of mass media to discredit Govt; forbids articles that provoke discontent or arouse distrust in Govt or public authority; orders fullest respect be accorded Pres and office he represents; unwritten rule prohibits reptg of crimes before they have been solved by police
Date: 20 October 1973
Los Angeles Superior Ct Judge J G Kolts on Oct 19 refuses to dismiss charges of conspiracy and burglary against former Pres adviser J D Ehrlichman and 3 other former White House aides; does dismiss on grounds of insufficient evidence 1 count of solicitation to commit burglary against E Krogh Jr; defense counsel argued for dismissal on contention that burglary of office of D Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr L J Fielding does not fit legal definition of that crime because nothing tangible was taken; Deputy Dist Atty S Trott and R Altman successfully argued that photographing of Ellsberg's psychiatric records, the purpose of break-in, constituted burglary
Date: 20 October 1973
By WILL LISSNER
Will LISSNER
ITU Local 6 pres B A Powers on Oct 19 tells members of its NY Times unit that he has agreed to join with Times mgt in asking labor mediator T Kneel to assist in union's negotiations with city's major newspapers, including NY Post and NY Daily News
Date: 21 October 1973
By AL MARLENS
Al MARLENS
Book The Anderson Papers, by J Anderson with G Clifford, revd by A Marlens
Date: 21 October 1973
By MARVINE HOWESpecial to The New York Times
Chilean mil authorities order expulsion of 1 French and 2 Spanish priests from Chile on Oct 20; Revs A Sampere and L Navarro Baeza of Spain and Rev F Frischt of France were charged with engaging in 'extremist activities' and with resisting mil; bulletin of Santiago archbishopric issues lengthy list of priests and nuns arrested, expelled or detained; 3 Amer priests, Revs F Flynn, J Doherty and C P Welsh, are among 20 priests listed as having been expelled by end of last wk; bulletin repts that large number of churches have been raided by mil authorities looking for arms but stresses that nothing 'compromising' has been found; ch sources say that while some of priests expelled had connections with left-wing groups, many had nothing to do with pol movements; Cardinal Silva Henriquez, Abp of Santiago, is leaving for Rome for regular meeting of Liturgical Comm and will reptdly inform Vatican of ch's efforts to protect human rights in Chile; arrests and expulsions of foreigners, especially journalists, continue; G Vicario of L'Unita and wife A Galleani are arrested on Oct 19; Dagens Nyheter correspondent B Sourander, who was imprisoned for 9 days, is expected to be released on Oct 20 and to leave country, according to Swedish Embassy
Date: 21 October 1973
Preliminary findings of study by Dr A Padawer-Singer and Dr A H Barton of Columbia Univ's Bur of Applied Soc Research show that prejudicial news coverage of pretrial evidence adversely affects jury verdicts; study indicates that jurors exposed to prejudicial news stories were 66% more likely to find defendants guilty than jurors who read objective news repts; finds that jurors not screened for impartiality through customary voir dire examinations are more likely to return guilty verdicts; Dr Padawer-Singer says that strenuous efforts should be made throughout nation's cts to educate jurors away from their personal biases as well as from effects of prejudicial news stories; study was financed by Natl Science Foundation, Columbia Broadcasting System, NY Times, Russell Sage Foundation, Walter E Meyer Research Inst of Law and L E Wien Foundation; 2d grant from Natl Science Foundation will finance study of merits of 6-person and 12-person panels and compare advantages of unanimous and non-unanimous verdicts
Date: 21 October 1973
Chicago Tribune reporter D Kirk and Reuters reporter F Bridgland are deported from Syria on Oct 20; are accused of contravening wartime security regulations by traveling outside Damascus, Syria, without official authorization; Kirk and Bridgland say they were not informed that authorization was needed
Date: 20 October 1973
Diario de Noticias, only Portugese daily newspaper in Amer, publishes its last edition on Oct 19; publisher J R Rocha blames newsprint shortage, rising taxes and falling readership
Date: 20 October 1973
illus of Kosygin and Sadat on Oct 19 in Cairo, Egypt, after talks