MINE UNION EXCLUDES TWO MORE REPORTERS; Official of Newsmen's Group Calls Convention Action a 'Classic' Violation of Constitution
Date: 28 September 1976
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
United Mine Workers conv on Sept 27 excludes reporters Frank Martin of Workers League pub Bulletin and Mark Lantz of Workers Vanguard of NY, raising total of excluded newsmen to 9; Reporters Com for Press Freedom exec dir Jack Landau says action appears to violate 14th Amendment (M)
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SCHORR, IN DISCORD, QUITS CBS NEWS JOB; Correspondent, Accused in Passing of Secret Document, Will Stay on the Payroll 2 Years
Date: 29 September 1976
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
CBS pres Richard S Salant comments (M)
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Ford Says He Finds No Bias in TV News
Date: 28 September 1976
Pres Ford, in int with TV Guide (pub) released on Sept 27, says he has not found any bias in TV news and believes medium's news coverage of his activities has been 'very fair and very broad' (S)
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News Summary
Date: 29 September 1976
Anderson names defendants in suit; defendants include Nixon and Sec Kissinger (S)
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Nixon, Aides Named In a $22 Million Suit
Date: 28 September 1976
Columnist Jack Anderson files $22-million damage suit on Sept 27 in which he accuses former Pres Nixon and 19 subordinates of conducting 5-yr campaign to destroy Anderson's credibility and take away his 1st Amendment rights; suit cites 17 different allegations of harassment, investigations or surveillance by CIA or by Plumbers (S)
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DEBATE CALLED HELP TO OTHER CANDIDATES; Lawyers Find Case Is Bolstered Because Affair Was 'Staged' and Not a News Event
Date: 28 September 1976
By WARREN WEAVER Jr. Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Attys for Pres candidates Eugene J McCarthy, Lester G Maddox and Peter Camejo hold fact that 1st Pres Ford-Jimmy Carter debate stopped when TV transmission was interrupted by mech breakdown and that theater in which it was held was redesigned into TV studio with ltd audience bolster their stand that debate was not 'news event' open to TV coverage but production staged for TV; hold debates should not be exempt from equal time requirement; Socialist Worker Party atty Eric Lieberman and McCarthy atty John Armor comment, ints; James Karayn, who dirs debates for League of Women Voters, says he tried to continue debate but was unable to because theater's sound system also stopped working (M)
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