Western Newsmen Complain
Date: 22 May 1975
Delegation representing 120 correspondents from 13 countries sends lr to Pres palace in Saigon asking permission for charter flight to Hong Kong to get news, photos and TV film out of S Vietnam; reporters complain of difficulties in meeting press officers of Provisional Revolutionary Govt and photographers are upset over increasing restrictions; newsmen from Cuba and E Eur reptdly have returned to Hanoi with material they presumably relayed home and to West (S)
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Censorship Not Evident
Date: 22 May 1975
News material from AP correspondents in Saigon as received in NYC shows no evidence of censorship, but parts of article sometimes fail to reach NYC; communincations from Saigon, cut off completely on Apr 30 and partly restored on May 7, are reptdly improving gradually but remain erratic; direct AP circuit between hq in NYC and bur in Saigon was cut on Apr 30 and has not been restored (S)
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LISBON SOCIALISTS PROTEST SEIZURE; Assert They Will Not Attend Cabinet Meetings Until Paper Is Reopened
Date: 22 May 1975
By RICHARD EDER Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
Portuguese Socialist party mins Mario Soares and Francisco Salgado Zenha threaten that party will boycott Cabinet meetings until its seized newspaper, Republica, is returned to its editor; paper was seized by Communist printers and shut down by Govt; Socialists, heavy winners in elections, are having problems with Communist power in the press and unions, and with antagonistic Armed Forces Movement members; Information Min Capt Jorge Correia Jesuino, Govt spokesman, says that increasing control of communications by single group is 'grave problem'; other newspapers, seen representing the under-publicized diversity of the Portuguese press, discussed (M)
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Security and Freedom
Date: 22 May 1975
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
A Lewis on security and freedom discusses legal issues and other questions raised by forced deletions by CIA and cts from book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by John D Marks and ex-CIA agent Victor Marchetti
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LISBON SOCIALISTS THREATEN TO QUIT COALITION CABINET; 50,000 Marchers Support Party's Challenge to the Ruling Military Council AN EMERGENCY UNITY BID Armed Forces Group, After, 10-Hour Session, Rules Out Any Political Dictatorship LISBON SOCIALISTS CONFRONT REGIME
Date: 23 May 1975
By RICHARD EDER Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
Portuguese Socialist party leader Mario Soares threatens that party will quit coalition Cabinet unless Armed Forces Movement stops 'discriminating in favor' of Communist party, press conf; calls for end to Communist take-overs in communications field and holding of local and secret union elections; 50,000 marchers support party's challenge, Lisbon; Reuters repts that Armed Forces Movment, after 10-hr meeting on May 16, ruled out pol dictatorship and called for natl unity (M)
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Carey Says Fiscal Crisis Must Be 'Depoliticized'
Date: 23 May 1975
By MAURICE CARROLL Special to The New York Times
Maurice Special
NYS Gov Carey, saying that his aim is to 'depoliticize' NYC fiscal crisis, involves bankers and business leaders in search for solution, news conf; attributes to Vice Pres Rockefeller role in rejection by Repub politicans in Washington and Albany of fiscal help for city; appts com of 4 advisers to suggest how to keep city from becoming 'ward of state'; says com will recommend most preferable of proposed city taxes; will meet with com, whose members are former Fed Judge Simon H Rifkind, Felix G Rohatyn, Richard R Shinn and Donald B Smiley; says David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan, Ellmore Patterson of Morgan Trust and William Spencer of 1st Natl City want to help city; (M)
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