Ponovno predvajanje nedelja, 18. februar 1973

30 Cases Cited in Which Police or Courts Allegedly Threatened Free Press; News Room Searched The Watergate Case SUBPOENAS Block-Busting at Issue Unused Tapes Sought POLICE ACTION AND CRIMINAL CHARGES COURT ORDERS

Date: 18 February 1973

Special to The New York TimesBy DAVID K. SHIPLER

Reporters Com for Freedom of Press compiles list of 30 recent cases in which subpoenas, ct orders or police action have allegedly threatened 'free flow of news to the public'; J Landau (Newhouse News), member of com, told HR subcom recently that he was especially concerned about attempts to identify reporters' confidential sources; holds if reporters violate their confidentiality they may not be able to operate effectively in their news-gathering pursuits; list of recent cases in which newsmen and scholars resisted subpoenas or ct orders, or were objects of police action or criminal charges involving their ability to gather and publish information

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Official Secrets; AT HOME ABROAD

Date: 19 February 1973

By Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis

A Lewis comment on Pentagon papers trial holds that if US Govt is able to prosecute defendants D Ellsberg and A J Russo for releasing papers to public, it will have created its own replica of GB's Official Secrets Act, making it a crime to publish even trivial facts of official life without permission; holds that Amer press has been generally complacent about prosecution of Ellsberg and Russo because it has not understood implications involved

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Editor Urges Shield Law, Calls for Government Noninterference; Panelist Disagrees Other Three Listed 16 Cases Cited

Date: 19 February 1973

By PETER KIHSS

Peter KIHSS

M S Hayden, editor of Detroit News, says that US Sup Ct ruling last June requiring reporter E Caldwell (NY Times) to disclose confidential information made him believe in 'the necessity of a Federal shield law', speech, C Edison Memorial Youth Fund conf for young journalists, NYC, Feb 18; says in gen he wants to have all legislatures 'keep their noses out of our business'; J G Campaigne (Open Ct Publishing Co) argues that passing law might create worse problems, citing Freedom of Information Act which he says has resulted in formally closing off access to some information; favors relying on 1st Amendment free-speech guarantees; Caldwell charges that there is move by Govt to 'stop the flow of information'; reporter W Farr (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) says of his jailing for refusing to disclose source of story to Superior Ct Judge C Older, that he had relied on statement by Older that Califs shield law would give him immunity even if he published his planned story; says he found himself jailed by 'loophole' in law, when Older decided he was no longer protected after leaving Herald-Examiner; reporter J Nelson (Los Angeles Times), whose article on Watergate bugging led to brief jailing of his Washington bur chief until recordings involved were released, charges Nixon Adm has 'used the Federal Courts to undermine the First Amendment'; J D Ehrlichman, Nixon's chief domestic-affairs advisor, in int published in US News and World Rept, says members of press tend to think of themselves as 'an estate set apart from society, with overriding rights'

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GIBSON PRESSES BID ON A NEWARK PAPER

Date: 18 February 1973

Newark, NJ Mayor K A Gibson says on Feb 17 that he has asked 80 publishers across US to start 2d newspaper in Newark, but has recd almost no favorable response, speech, North Jersey Press Assn; Newark has had only 1 paper, Newark Star-Ledger, since Aug 31, '72, when Newark Evening News ceased publication; Gibson repts that he has so far been contacted only by NY Post and paper is still undecided

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AN ITALIAN DAILY USES FACSIMILE; U. S. Papers Use System Savings Anticipated System Explained Many Are Subsidized After a Fight, Turin Paper Transmits Rome Edition

Date: 18 February 1973

Special to The New York Times

La Stampa, newspaper of Turin, Italy, starts facsimile edition in Rome which involves transmitting of 20-page newspaper over 400 miles of telephone circuits; La Stampa dir G Giovannini says that acceptance of venture by organized labor and publishers of local dailies marks advance in Ital press history; says he had to persuade unions one by one; printers union sec A Giampietro says unions are not against technological innovations on condition that that mgt guarantees employment level and pays for training workers in new methods; La Stampa expects to save almost 1/2 cost of shipping copies dailies by air from Turin to Rome

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Saigon Tells Newsmen M.P.'s Shoot Intruders

Date: 18 February 1973

Special to The New York Times

S Vietnamese authorities, Feb 17, warn newsmen they could be shot for seeking to int Communist reprs on Joint Mil Comm at their base at Tan Son Nhut Airport; cites incident of NBC TV crew using pass improperly to enter base in attempt to film party being given by Vietcong delegation; crewmen were stopped and ejected

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Newsman, a Critic of Police' Is Arrested in Newark

Date: 19 February 1973

TV newsman R Porambo (WNET) is arrested on Feb 18 after he allegedly refused to obey police order not to intervene in investigation of rept of sick woman in front of tavern in Newark, NJ; denies police repts that he had become disorderly and was drunk; is released on $250 bail pending hearing on Feb 20; Porambo is under indictment for allegedly trying to bribe police officer to obtain photographs for his book, which is critical of Newark police

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New Political Front Is Formed by Saigon

Date: 18 February 1973

Special to The New York Times

Saigon Govt announces, Feb 17, formation of a natl pol body, People's Front to Safeguard Peace and to Realize the People's Right to Self-Determination, to oppose the Natl Liberation Front in the coming pol struggle; new orgn came into being at a meeting under the chmnship of Pres Nguyen Van Thieu; Govt spokesman Pham Duong Hien stresses that non-Communist Opposition to Thieu was represented at the meeting and had joined in unanimous approval; a number of Opposition legislators privately make known their opposition and their disbelief in the pol universality of the new group; Phan Huy Quat, who attended meeting, says he believes Thieu felt need to broaden the base of his support; says some speakers had called on Thieu to loosen govt restrictions on the activities of pol parties and the press, but received no assurances from him; Thieu indicated that new orgn will play role in natl elections called for in the Paris cease-fire accord and in choosing Govt members of the Natl Council of Natl Reconciliation and concord, to be established by Saigon, the Vietcong and neutralists

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KISSINGER MEETS MAO FOR 2 HOURS; Accord on Trade Reported Specific Results Expected Atmosphere 'Unrestrained,' White House Says

Date: 18 February 1973

Peking correspondent of Tokyo Asahi Shimbun repts on Feb 17 that Kissinger and Chou have agreed in Peking confs on establishment of a permanent US trade office in China and an exch of newsmen

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NEWS INDEX

Date: 19 February 1973

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