The Financial Times, One of Britain's Top Papers, Plans Staff Cuts and Computerization
Date: 16 July 1975
By BERNARD WEINRAUB Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
London Financial Times will reduce its staff by 1/3 and computerize production in move that is viewed with broad interest in Brit newspaper indus; 9 nationally distributed dailies and 7 Sunday newspapers, as well as regional papers, are troubled by rising costs of newsprint, declining ad, overstaffing, poor mgt, steeply climbing wages and costs as well as inability to exploit computer technology for production; Times chief exec Alan Hare says paper's plan is most radical and imaginative in GB newspaper indus; other financially troubled newspapers include Observer, Daily Express, Evening News, Times and Guardian; Sunday Times says that with introduction of photocomposing number of newspaper employes could be reduced by 10,000; Financial Times says that its computer technology would enable it to operate with fewer than 2/3 of its 1,396 employes; Times finance dir Michael Gorman comments; Joseph Wade, asst gen sec of Natl Graphical Assn, says introduction of new technologies should not lead to dismissals (M)
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May Craig, Feisty Capital Writer, Dies
Date: 16 July 1975
By MURRAY ILLSON
Murray ILLSON
illus of Johnson with news woman May Craig in '66
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BOYCOTT IS ENDING FOR SEOUL PAPER; Renewal of Advertising Is Expected by Leading Daily
Date: 16 July 1975
Advertisers appear to be ending 7-mo boycott of South Korean newspaper Dong-a Ilbo that had reptdly been inspired by Govt; newspaper's sources rept that business reprs told them that they would now advertise because paper had returned to fold of natl unity; advertisers will reptdly also resume buying commercials on Radio Dong-a Ilbo; charges have circulated during past 7 mos that Govt of Pres Park Chung Hee inspired boycott as means of trying to halt publication of news of opposition activities or other material critical of it; Govt has denied charges; S Korean press is being prohibited from criticizing Govt under new emergency decree issued 2 mos ago; over last several mos 130 reporters and other employes have been dismissed or indefinitely suspended from their jobs, and they contend they were removed by paper so that it might strike compromise with Govt; 2 newsmen are in jail on charges of having violated emergency decree banning acts that are considered detrimental to natl unity; newspaper, during 7 mos, reptdly lost about $4-million in ad revenues (S)
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Lisbon Dissolves Coalition After 2d Key Party Quits; Lisbon Dissolves Coalition After 2d Key Party Quits
Date: 17 July 1975
By HENRY GINIGER Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Portuguese mil rulers dissolve coalition Govt, July 17, hrs after withdrawal of centrist Popular Dem party, 2d of nation's 2 moderate parties; centrists' withdrawal from Govt follows by less than wk, Socialist party's exit; 2 mins leaving Govt are Joaquim Magalhaes Mota, Min Without Portfolio, and Jorge Sa Borges, Social Affairs Min; Sa Borges had hesitated about joining Socialists in opposition to mil because he feared such a move could foster civil war; after meeting with Pres Francisco da Costa Gomes, centrist party natl com decided that its demands for guarantees on free press and on representative democracy had been rejected; armed forces' leaders are now expected to form mil Cabinet with civilian technicians; dissolution of Govt is not surprising; withdrawal of popular Dems signifies widening of breach between armed forces and exponents of parliamentary democracy; incidents leading to Govt's collapse revd; includes seizures by Communist party and far-left groups of Socialist party newspaper Republica; far-left groups demonstrate to demand constituent Assembly's dissolution and application of armed forces' new pol plan; thousands of Socialists also demonstrate, shouting 'people are not with armed forces'; ruling High Council of Revolution is expected to convene to decide fate of Premier Vasco dos Santos Goncalves (L)
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FOUNDATION HELPS JOURNALISM STUDY
Date: 16 July 1975
trustees of Scripps Howard Foundation authorize scholarships and cash grants of more than $200,000 on July 15 in field of journalism; foundation pres Matt Meyer says record high number of 132 students would have part of their coll expenses paid in '75-'76 through scholarship aid while 60 colls and univs would receive grants of $1,000 each; trustees also authorize continuance of awards in journalism-graphic arts at Rochester Inst of Tech, and special projects at Amer Press Inst's Columbia Univ Seminars, Inter-Amer Press Assn Student Exch Fund and ABC (a Better Chance), program supporting black students in colls and preparatory schools (S)
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Communist Portugal?
Date: 17 July 1975
ed holds Portugal's mil leaders and Communist allies have taken sharp turn toward authoritarian 'popular democracy' of Eastern Eur type and away from their pledges of dem socialism, representative govt and a parliamentary regime; holds dissolution of Govt following resignation of Socialist and center-left Popular Dems dramatizes widening gap between Portuguese people and Moscow-backed mil-civilian minority; notes Socialist break came after mil failed to return party's principal newspaper Republica; asserts that paper's seizure clearly was means chosen by Communist leader Alvaro Cunhal to force showdown and mil repudiation of Apr elections, which gave Communists only 18% of vote; asserts that effort by Socialists and other moderates, mil and civilian, to preserve dem gains achieved by Apr '74 coup will continue; holds struggle deserves more support from Western Eur dems and US than it has been receiving
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Lying In State: II
Date: 17 July 1975
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis article, 2d in series on lying in Govt as threat to dem premises, revs proposal by Peter D W Heberling and Prof Amitai Etzioni of Center for Policy Research to make it felony for exec branch employe to lie to Cong or Cong com or order another to lie; urges Ford to oppose official untruth (M)
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Mission Brings Forth Large Soviet Headlines
Date: 17 July 1975
headlines from Pravda and Izvestia about Apollo-Soyuz mission noted (S)
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Federal Election Agency Yields To Pressure to Open Meetings
Date: 16 July 1975
Fed Election Comm says all future business meetings will be open to public and press shortly after Sen Mike Mansfield threatens to amend law that created comm if its members persisted in holding secret sessions; others protesting comm's secret sessions include Reporters Com for a Free Press, Common Cause, and Sigma Delta Chi, newspaper society; comm also adopts code of ethics that prohibits members and employes from engaging in any kind of partisan pol activity (M)
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Carey Says Budget Gap Could End Up Cut in Half
Date: 17 July 1975
Carey holds news conf, Albany
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