Linton Wells, Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 82
Date: 01 February 1976
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Linton Wells, foreign correspondent in '20s and '30s, dies; was 82
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ROSENTHAL WARNS ON CURBING PRESS
Date: 31 January 1976
Warns that recent judicial rulings restricting press constitute 'latest and perhaps most dangerous threat to the existence of the free press,' speech, Fordham Law Alumni Assn; disputes assertion made by many judges that there is conflict between 1st Amendment right of free press and 6th Amendment right of fair trial (S)
INDIA NEWS AGENCIES ARE QUIETLY MERGED
Date: 01 February 1976
4 Indian news agencies merge into 1 monopoly service on Feb 1 under name of Samachar; there is no formal announcement of merger; agencies include Press Trust of India, United News of India, Hinudstan Samachar and Samachar Bharati; Gopalan Kasturi, editor of The Hindu, is named chmn of new agency (S)
Press, TV and Politics; Iowa Caucuses Point Up the Roles In Deciding Who Won and Who Lost
Date: 31 January 1976
By JOSEPH LELYVELD Special to The New York Times
Joseph Special
Joseph Lelyveld analysis of how media can affect pol results; notes that Iowa Dem precinct caucuses were 'media event,' in which discussion of results overwhelmed and obscured relative unimportance of event; recalls headlines proclaiming Jimmy Carter as 'newest media star,' when in reality Carter won fewer than 1/3 of votes of 1/10 of Dems in small state of Iowa; predicts that question of what is media event and what is pol reality will be staple of entire '76 campaign; notes press appears to be more self-conscious about its role in selection process than ever before (M)
Texts of Opinions Striking Down Gag Order by Judge in Carson Murder Case; Opinion of the Court
Date: 31 January 1976
text of decision; (M)
C.I.A. Tried in 50's to Recruit Times Man
Date: 31 January 1976
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
CIA documents obtained by NY Times show that CIA in early '50s attempted to recruit NY Times reporter Wayne Phillips as uncover operative abroad; Phillips, in int, recalls that he was 1st approached in '52 by CIA repr Richard S Suter while working for Times in NY and attending Russian Inst at Columbia Univ; says Suter told him CIA could arrange for Times to assign him to Moscow if he agreed to be 'helpful' to CIA; says Suter said CIA had 'working arrangement' with then Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger in which other reporters working abroad had been placed on agency's payroll; says he never told any Times official about approach, and CIA itself has so far declined any comment on matter; then Times managing editor Turner Catledge says in int that he hever heard of any such arrangement by Sulzberger or anyone else and does not believe 1 existed; Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger says he had never heard of Times being approached either in his capacity as publisher or as son of late Sulzberger (M)
Press of Americas Reported Facing Tighter Controls
Date: 01 February 1976
Inter Amer Press Assn exec com rept holds press in the Americas is under increasingly severe stress, and there is decline in number of countries where newspapers are permitted to rept or comment freely; rept is by German E Ornes, chmn of assn's com on Freedom of Press and Information and was presented to assn exec com meeting, Sarasota, Fla (S)
The World; In Summary U.S. Vetoes, as Expected, a New West Bank State India's Permanent Censorship The Post-Franco Changes Fall Short of Drastic U.S. Decides It Owns 200 Miles Of Fishing Rights A New Day for Multinationals Oil Consumers Pick a Price
Date: 01 February 1976
Nearly-final approval by India's Parliament to measure that makes permanent Govt censorship of India's privately-owned newspapers noted (S)
Appeals Court Overturns Gag Order in Carson Case; Gag Order Overturned in Carson Case
Date: 31 January 1976
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
NYS Sup Ct's Appellate Div, Bklyn, unanimously strikes down gag order issued against press in murder trial of Robert C (Sonny) Carson and 5 other defendants; ct rules on procedural grounds and says that under certain circumstances, such constraint against press could be imposed by cts in criminal trial; ruling detailed; NY Times exec vice pres James C Goodale comments; illus of Starkey (M)
The Region; In Summary In Re Nadjari, Carey Acts the Plaintiff's Role Hartford Suburbs Must Obey Rules To Get U.S. Aid Carey Will Try To Giveth What He Would Taketh Yonkers Job Actions The Gag Order
Date: 01 February 1976
summary of Fed Dist Ct ruling in Hartford suburbs case; Hartford claimed that many middle-class residents and businesses had left city centers for suburbs and pay their taxes there; with shrinking tax bases, city has had to cope with deteriorating housing and increasing cost of services; map (S)