CHURCH'S PANEL TO ASK C.I.A. CURB; Congress Would Get Notice on Key Covert Operations Church Unit Seeks C.I.A. Curb By Telling Congress of Secrets
Date: 15 January 1976
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
Sen Frank Church, chmn of Sen Select Com on Intelligence, pledges that his com will make public in its final rept names of any news orgns that supply news to US, at which CIA had paid reporters or infiltrated agents; CIA, according to sr intelligence officials, had some 40 men on its payroll around world who posed as journalists; sources say in 5 cases they worked for major news-gathering orgns; CIA has refused to make public names of individuals who might have posed as newsmen (S)
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Advertising; Cable TV May Be Near Success
Date: 15 January 1976
By PHILIP H. DOUGHERTY
Philip DOUGHERTY
Dow Jones & Co to increase subscription price of Wall St Journal from $42 to $45 and Barron's from $25 to $28, beginning Feb 15 (S)
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The Dead-Key Scrolls
Date: 15 January 1976
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire, commenting on Sec Kissinger's assigning secretaries to listen in on phone conversations, notes that Kissinger showed him transcript of conversation with reporter for Christian Science Monitor in which Kissinger chided him for less-than-adulatory article; since Kissinger was planning to send transcript to Pres Nixon, rough draft had 'corrections' marked by Kissinger, adding to loyalty of his own remarks (S)
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Ecuadoreans Oust a Reporter Over Narcotic Issue
Date: 15 January 1976
Head of immigration dept in Ecuador Col Noel Mesias on Jan 14 orders UPI correspondent Pieter van Bennekom to leave country for having asked Vice Adm Alfredo Poveda Burbano about repts in NY Times that he had intervened to protect narcotics dealer from prosecution; Times article on April 21 said that after arrest of Luiz Rivadeneira with more than 4 lbs of cocaine paste in his possession, Burbano called police and ordered them to change evidence so that charges would have to be dropped; Burbano denies he has had any ties to drug traffickers (S)
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British Weekly Names 3 in U.S. Embassy as 'Spies'
Date: 15 January 1976
By ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr. Special to The New York Times
Times of London foreign editor Louis Heren says on Jan 14 that Washington Post London correspondent Bernard D Nossiter endangered Brit foreign correspondents by asserting that some of them are spies; Heren condemns assertion made by Nossiter in recent article on Brit Secret Intelligence Service that said that number of Brit correspondents abroad were Brit agents financed by Brit intelligence service (S)
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Judge Voids $7.75 Million Libel Award
Date: 14 January 1976
By WALLACE TURNER Special to The New York Times
Wallace Special
Calif Superior Ct Judge Byron Arnold reverses Nov 10 verdict verdict that KNBC-TV producer Don Widener was libeled by lr from Pacific Gas & Elec Co and which awarded him $7.75-million; lr was critical of Widener's handling of filmed int with co engineer J C Carroll for documentary on safety of nuclear power plants; Widener lawyer David E Pesonen calls reversal 'outrageous'; says case will be appealed (M)
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The Third World Rapidly Turning Into a Closed World for the Foreign Correspondent
Date: 14 January 1976
By HENRY KAMM Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Much of 3d world is gradually joining Communist nations in closing itself off from critical inquiry, demonstrating suspicion toward correspondents and reducing their access to sources of news; conditions in various countries noted (L)
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