Driver Dispute Disrupts Delivery of Papers Here
Date: 21 February 1974
Dispute involving 100 Newspaper Deliverers Union drivers at Met News Co on Feb 20 is settled later in day but stoppage affects delivery of Wall St Journal, Journal of Commerce and some foreign-language dailies; NY Times spokesman repts paper used its own trucks for delivery and NY Daily News and NY Post rept they were unaffected by work stoppage (S)
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HEARING ON BREAK-IN POSTPONED A MONTH
Date: 21 February 1974
Superior Ct Judge Gordon Ringer, at request of defense attys for former White House aides John H Ehrlichman, David R Young Jr and G Gordon Liddy, postpones pretrial hearing in case involving burglary of office of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding until March 25 because of delay in serving subpoena on Pres Nixon; Presiding Judge Harold H Greene has set hearing on projected subpoena for March 15
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N.B.C. Sues F.C.C. Over 'Pensions' Fairness Ruling WASHINGTON, Feb. 21
Date: 22 February 1974
US Appeals Ct on Feb 21 hears arguments by NBC that FCC was misusing fairness doctrine in its ruling on complaint filed by Accuracy in Media over allegedly biased NBC documentary Pensions: The Broken Promise; Accuracy in Media spokesman Stanley H Kammerow tells ct that real test of program's fairness is how program seemed to a man under pension system; holds that climate NBC tried to create made him uneasy; CBS joins NBC in ct saying that ruling would significantly hamper broadcasters' efforts to inform public on controversial issues; FCC gen counsel John W Pettit and Ellen S Agressm member of office of communications of Church of Christ, comment; NY Times has filed amicus curiae brief in Ct of Appeals to support NBC's suit; repts that paper believes FCC opinion to be act of censorship, contrary to 1st Amendment (M)
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Atlanta Constitution Editor Kidnapped; 'Revolutionary Army' Seeks $700,000; Excerpts from the Murphy tape recording, Page 34 Special to The New York Times EDITOR'S CAPTORS DEMAND $700,000 Atlanta Victim Says on Tape Right Wing Revolutionaries Plan Guerrilla Warfare
Date: 22 February 1974
By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr
J Reginald Murphy, editor of editorial page of Atlanta Constitution, is kidnapped on Feb 21 by abductors who describe themselves as members of Amer Revolutionary Army and claim they are displeased with 'too leftist and too liberal' Amer news media
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Admiral Denies Telling Yeoman To Take Highly Classified Data; Special to The New York Times Admiral Denies Ordering Yeoman to Purloin Papers
Date: 22 February 1974
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Rear Adm Welander, in Feb 21 testimony before Sen Armed Services Com, says he did forward to Adm Moorer in July '71 documents purloined by Radford shortly after Kissinger returned from his trip to China and Asia; makes no mention of specific document meant privately for Nixon on Kissinger's confs with Chou En-lai (S)
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