Nessen Says Ford Reads Newspapers Throughout the Day
Date: 24 April 1975
White House press sec Ron Nessen repts Pres Ford's 1st action upon rising is reading Washington Post, even before reading overnight news summary and intelligence repts prepared by White House aides, CIA and others, then reads NY Times; last paper he reads is Washington Star, after reading about 12 others during day; papers noted (S)
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Cambodian Leaders Celebrate Victory but Mourn War's Dead
Date: 25 April 1975
News blackout in Phnom Penh continues for 7th day; informed sources say there has been no change in plight of refugees inside French Embassy in capital despite Apr 23 arrival of food and water supplies; refugees, including French diplomats, Internatl Red Cross and UN reprs and foreign newsmen, are being guarded by Khmer Rouge soldiers (S)
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4 NEWSMEN AWAIT APPEAL ON SOURCES
Date: 25 April 1975
4 Fresno Bee staff members, including managing editor and city editor James Bort Jr, have until May 23 to appeal indefinite jail terms over their refusal to disclose news source; have been ordered to jail until they disclose source of material from sealed grand jury transcript that Bee published (S)
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Stamford Publisher Disputes Charge of Suppressing News
Date: 24 April 1975
By LAWRENCE FELLOWS Special to The New York Times
Lawrence Special
Kingsley Gillespie, publisher of Stamford, Conn, Advocate and Greenwich Time and pres of WSTC radio, insists during FCC hearing that he had not used his power to suppress news or to deny forum for aspiring politicians who failed to win his personal approval; says there is no communication among news depts of his papers and radio station; is applying for renewal of broadcasting license for WSTC and was challenged by group, Radio Stamford, which made competing application for WSTC's license; group, headed by Alphonsus J Donohue Jr, contends that Gillespie's newspapers and station constitute 'undue concentration of mass media power; Advocate's defense James F Bingham comments
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FOUR NEWS GROUPS BACK SHIELD BILL; Proposal Would Still Limit Right to Stay Silent
Date: 25 April 1975
press shield bill sponsored by Repr Robert W Kastenmeier is endorsed by NBC News, CBS, Authors League of Amer and ANPA; groups urge communications indus to unite behind bill as substantial improvement and best protection for news media currently available; ANPA and Authors League had previously supported 'absolute' privilege (S)
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Seoul Deputies Clash With Police
Date: 24 April 1975
Opposition members of S Korean Natl Assembly on Apr 23 clash with riot police in several parts of Seoul as they defy police ban on selling their party newspaper, which is severely critical of Pres Park Chung Hee's Govt (S)
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Aboard the QE2, 1,000 Admen
Date: 25 April 1975
5-day cruise to Bermuda for ad agency execs on Queen Elizabeth 2, sponsored by New York Press, leaves on Apr 23; those aboard include Earnest A Jones, chmn of D'Arcy MacManus & Masius, Charles Moss, pres of Wells Rich Greene and Jerry Delia Femina, pres of Della Femina
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Newsmen's 'Shield' Bill Snagged Again
Date: 24 April 1975
HR Judiciary subcom headed by Repr Robert W Kastenmeier hears testimony from Justice Dept and from Reporters Com for Freedom of press on proposed newsman's shield law; Asst Atty Gen Antonin Scalia contends that law enforcement could not be maintained under restrictions against questioning of reporters contained in bill; Reporters Com argues that only absolute privilege of keeping confidentiality would provide adequate protection and that qualified measure is worse than no measure at all; reporter, under Kastenmeier bill, could refuse to disclose to any govt investigation any information he had recd as newsman and its source; at trial could be required to reveal information if it had not been given to him in confidence or if ct found it indispensible and not obtainable elsewhere; Scalia repts that from mid-1970 through early '73, dept approved subpoenas for 13 reporters; Repr Robert F Drinan calls figure 'explosive bombshell'; Jack Nelson of reporters com says group had discovered 46 cases in '74 in which reporters were served with subpoenas, 26 of them in Fed cases of which only 3 had been approved by Justice Dept (M)
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