Leaving the Public Holding the Bag'; The Public Holding the Bag
Date: 18 March 1973
By EVERETT C. PARKER
Everett PARKER
comment by Rev Dr E C Parker, dir of Office of Communication of United Church of Christ, on Nixon Adm's apparent assaults on news media; holds that greatest threat of Govt interference to flow of information involves Adm's maneuvers to strip reporters of right to protect confidentiality of news sources; holds that action is deliberate attempt to deprive public of its access to information, and therefore of its ability to participate in making of pol decisions; cites attacks on broadcast media by Vice Pres Agnew and C T Whitehead as evidence that Govt counts on owners and mgrs of broadcasting to accept Govt offer of protection of broadcast licenses in exch for broadcasters' surrendering their 1st Amendment rights; calls on media to reject Govt offer and not to be tempted to trade freedom of speech for their own econ security
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LON NOL ORDERS STERN MEASURES; Suspends Press and Holds Some in House Arrest After Bombing Attack Lon Nol Suspends the Press, Orders Arrests After Attack
Date: 19 March 1973
By HENRY KAMMSpecial to The New York Times
Cambodian Pres Lon Nol on March 18 suspends publication of all newspapers and periodicals except those published by Govt as 1 of series of stern measures taken after attempt was made to assassinate him in bombing raid on Pres palace
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Letters to the Editor; Of Reporters, Sources--and Curbs on the People's Right to Know Thailand Role in SEATO Demographers' 'Disservice' U.N. and the Environment Repression in Belgrade Aid to Hanoi
Date: 18 March 1973
R. W. VAN DE VELDEA. J. LAMBERTONANAND PANYARACHUNJOSEPH ROSENBLOOMPORTER MCKEEVERSTANLEY HOFFMANNROBERT S. LOCKWOOD
R. VAN
Lr from Profs S Hoffmann, N Chomsky, J K Galbraith and 6 other scholars deploring arrest and sentencing of Yugoslav Prof M Djuric for statemnts he made in Feb '71 at Univ of Belgrade faculty meeting on proposed amendments to Fed Const of Yugoslavia
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BELGRADE ATTACK ON U. S. HEIGHTENS; Propaganda Drive Seen Newspapers Are Accused Diplomats, Voice of America and Press Are Targets
Date: 18 March 1973
By RAYMOND H. ANDERSONSpecial to The New York Times
Raymond ANDERSONSpecial
Yugoslav campaign against US influences sharpens this wk with new criticism of Amer diplomats, attack on Voice of Amer, disruption of Amer film show and denunciation of US news pubs; Yugoslav Student Union presidium, expanding upon earlier criticism, accuses Amer diplomats of extremely crude provocations' in ints with Yugoslav students seeking to participate in summer camp program in US; Belgrade paper Politika publishes cartoon linking camp program to CIA; Yugoslav mil journal Front charges that Voice of Amer permitted Yugoslav emigres, Ustahsi, to use its facilities to agitate for demonstrations and 'terrorist acts against our diplomatic reprs'; accuses NY Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine and other Amer pubs of conducting hostile propaganda campaign against Yugoslavia; criticizes NY Times for printing articles by M Mihajlov; charges Mihajlov and M Djilas have assumed role of 'traitors' to Yugoslavia; US Embassy 'categorically denies' accusation against Voice of Amer; embassy official meets on Mar 16 with D Budimovski, Fed Sec of Information, to discuss accusation and ban on showing of film by US Embassy to Yugoslavs in Novi Sad, on ground that permit was not obtained; issues detailed
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Letters; Variations on an economic theme
Date: 18 March 1973
MARK J. GREEN
Mark GREEN
Prof Galbraith lr on Collier Feb 18 article on his econ theories
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Sports News Briefs; Pearson Captures Carolina 500
Date: 19 March 1973
Carolina 500: D Pearson (Mercury) wins Carolina 500 stock car race on Mar 18 in Rockingham, NC
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World News Briefs; Police Criticized By Soviet Aide
Date: 18 March 1973
Special to The New York Times
24 people are killed and 31 injured on Mar 16 when train carrying 400 passengers derails and plunges into river in central Cuba; death toll may rise
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VIETCONG REJECT CHARGES BY NIXON; First News Parley Held South Is Charged U.S. Concedes Shipments General, at News Parley, Denies Illicit Resupply
Date: 18 March 1973
By FOX BUTTERFIELDSpecial to The New York Times
Lt Gen Tran Van Tra, chief Vietcong delegate to joint mil comm, rejects Nixon charges that Communists are infiltrating large quantities of men and weapons into S Vietnam in violation of the cease-fire, news conf, Mar 17, Saigon; insists instead that US violates accord by shipping 'great amounts' of munitions from Japan to S Vietnam; news conf is first that Communists have been allowed to hold since they arrived in Saigon at end of Jan; US officials in Saigon concede that US is shipping in munitions, but they insist their action is legal under the truce accord; accord allows replacement of used equipment on a one-for-one basis; Amers say Communists are actually building up their supply of weapons, bring in new ones at whatever points they want to, not at selected points of entry under the accord; Communist officers charge flights by S Vietnamese planes over their compound are deliberate; complain of their qrs; Tra charges Saigon Govt committed 46,188 violations of the cease-fire from Jan 28 through Mar 10; says final, 4th group of Amer POWs may be released before the end of the 60-day limit set by the truce accord; contends Vietcong controls vast areas of S Vietnam but refuses to be be specific
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