Rhodesia to Set Up Panel With Power Over Press
Date: 23 September 1975
Rhodesian Govt has announced new emergency powers to control press; regulations give Law and Order Min power to prohibit and regulate printing and publishing of any pub inside Rhodesia as well as prohibit possession, sale or distribution of any pub brought into country (S)
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Saigon Economy Strained, Refugees Say; REFUGEES REPORT VIETNAM STRAINS
Date: 22 September 1975
By FOX BUTTERFIELD Special to The New York Times
Fox Special
Refugees coming out of South Vietnam rept that resistance radio broadcasts daily; former soldier Vo Van Dinh says he has heard radio broadcasts every morning, but that he had not listened to it himself; according to him and other refugees, radio has called on Vietnamese to join resistance in 'mountains and jungle in the west' (S)
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CURBS ARE TIGHTER ON SOUTH KOREANS; Park Using Fear of Attack From North to Suppress Almost All Dissidence
Date: 22 September 1975
By RICHARD HALLORAN Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
S Korean journalist Chang Chun Ha recently died under questionable circumstances with some opponents of S Korean Govt suggesting privately that he was murdered by Govt agents; but now proof has come to light (S)
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INDIA COURT BACKS FREEDOM OF PRESS
Date: 23 September 1975
New Delhi ct on Sept 22 upholds freedom of press in case involving controversial dismissal of B G Verhese, editor of Hindustan Times; some journalists charge that paper's proprietor K K Birla, who discharged Verhese, was acting at Govt's behest (S)
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Paper's Indictment Raises Question of Duty to Police
Date: 23 September 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Fla ct case involving Ft Myers News-Press is raising question of what obligation press has to cooperate with law enforcement officials in criminal investigations; case involves tape recordings that News-Press reporter made of 2 conversations with suspect in murder case; tape recordings were later erased; after erasures newspaper was indicted on charge of destroying evidence, which is felony; authorities contend that evidence could have been used to prosecute suspect; Frances D Williams, reporter involved in case, did testify before grand jury under grant of immunity from prosecution; so, too, did 4 of her editors; Dan Paul, Miami atty for newspaper, said that if he had been involved in case from beginning, he would not have allowed reporter or editors to testify, and would have challenged Sup Ct to rule again on that legal point; Paul has attributed dispute to pol motives, because newspaper has published some hard-hitting articles about local law enforcement officials; newspaper's defense is based on 1st Amendment guarantee of press freedom; state is using Watergate precedent to support its argument; maintains that if Pres Nixon was forced to reveal his tapes, newspaper should not be allowed to destroy its tapes with impunity; prosecutor Joseph P D'Alessandro has said that Watergate proved that privilege has to yield to orderly running of Govt (M)
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Hunt Said to Link Nixon Aide in Plot To Kill Anderson
Date: 22 September 1975
Washington Post repts that E Howard Hunt, serving jail term in Fla for his role in Watergate burglary, has told associates that he was asked by sr official in Nixon White House to assassinate columnist Jack Anderson; neither Hunt nor his atty William A Snyder would comment on article; Anderson says he does not believe rept; Post repts assassination plot was alive for several days in Dec, '71, or Jan, '72, and canceled at last min; in his book, An American Life, Jeb Stuart Magruder, former Nixon campaign aide, wrote that G Gordon Liddy, convicted Watergate conspirator, had taken him seriously when he offhandedly remarked that he would like 'to get rid of Anderson (S)
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Morton Refuses Data on Arab Boycott
Date: 23 September 1975
Repr John E Moss, chmn of HR Subcom on Oversight and Investigations, threatens to cite Commerce Sec Rogers C B Morton for contempt of Cong after Morton refuses to give names of US cos that were contacted by Arabs about boycotting Israeli trade; says subcom will decide soon on whether to cite Morton; at issue are repts that US concerns have been filing with Commerce Dept since '68 telling of any instances in which Arab nations asked for information about cos trading with Israel; subcom is seeking to determine how much pressure was applied to boycott Israel and how many concerns complied; Morton says he ignored com subpeona for cos' repts after Atty Gen Edward H Levi gave him legal opinion that law barred disclosure of such 'proprietary information' unless natl interest required it; Amer Jewish Cong files suit against Morton, seeking to force his dept to make public names of US cos that complied with Arabs; suit, filed in US Dist Ct under Freedom of Information Act, seeks injunction to bar Commerce Dept officials from withholding their files on US cos that were asked to comply (M)
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