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: 17 March 1975
By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY
Paul MONTGOMERY
Journalist Vincent Sheean dies; por (L)
Date: 17 March 1975
widow of Paul Leandri, Agence France Presse correspondent who was killed by Saigon police, has reptdly lodged complaint of premeditated murder; questions have arisen about official police rept of incident which held Leandri was accidentally shot (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: 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: 17 March 1975
NYC Uniformed Firefighters Assn announces winners of awards to newsmen for coverage of fires and events in lives of firemen; winners listed (S)
Date: 17 March 1975
Colby Coll to present its 22d annual Elijah Parish Lovejoy award to NY Times columnist James Reston (S)
Date: 18 March 1975
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker on suit brought by authors Victor L Marchetti and John D Marks in US Supt Ct to overturn ruling that permitted stringent Govt censorship of their book, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence; revs case history; says if lower ct decision is allowed to stand, it would vastly expand Govt's power to classify information; says if ruling applies across the bd to all Fed agencies that require secrecy contracts of their employes it will prove to be major new restraint on flow of Govt information to public; notes practice of classifying information rests on no statutory authorization whatever, only on series of exec orders