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Date: 04 January 1974
By PAUL HOFMANNSpecial to The New York Times
Arab Boycott Com reptdly has requested that Fiat Motor Co, which owns Italian newspaper in which unflattering article on Libyan Pres Muammar el-Qaddafi appeared, dismiss newspaper's managing editor and authors of article: episode is affecting Mideast interests of Fiat (S)
Date: 05 January 1974
Officials of Pittsburgh Press Co and Teamsters local on Jan 4 announce that 700 delivery truck drivers and circulation employes who walked off jobs on Jan 3 will return to work while negotiations continue on new contract; work stoppage has halted publication of both Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Press
Date: 05 January 1974
Special to The New York Times
Italian Foreign Min, responding to request by Cairo-based Arab Boycott Office, says on Jan 4 that Govt action to dismiss Italian newspaper editor Arrigo Levi is 'not conceivable' because it would violate constitutional freedom of press; Levi, managing editor of La Stampa of Turin, which is owned by Fiat Motor Co, published article in Dec by 2 humorists, Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, that Libyan leader Col M el-Qaddafi found insulting; Foreign Min says that dispute could be settled 'through the appropriate channels' (S)
Date: 05 January 1974
Washington Post has increased its home delivery subscription prices, effective Jan 1, because of substantial rise in publishing costs (S)
Date: 05 January 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
NYS Appellate Div on Jan 4 reverses, 3-to-2, State Sup Ct order that had enjoined Typographical Union Local 6 from striking or taking other job actions at NY Times; decision is handed down as union and publishers of Times, NY Daily News and NY Post prepare to meet on Jan 7 to begin negotiations with printers on issue of automation, which is regarded as crucial to current contract talks; Times does not make any immediate comment on ct decision or say whether or not it will seek stay of Appellate Div's decision and carry appeal to Ct of Appeals; Appellate Div majority, Justices Emilio Nunez, Francis T Murphy Jr and A Steuer, rule that previous contract between Times and union expired last March 30 as result of termination notices filed by both newspaper and union; vacate injunction against strike or job action obtained by Times; 2 dissenting justices, Harold A Stevens and Louis J Capozzoli, say that conditions prevailing prior to expiration of contract continue, including no-strike and arbitration provisions in issue; local pres Bertram A Powers is found guilty of contempt and fined $250 as result of work stoppages in '73; says that Appellate Div ruling 'should be salutary' in on-going negotiations (M)
Date: 04 January 1974
Majority of news media orgns and HR Judiciary subcom have reached gen agreement on bill to protect newsmen against forced disclosure of confidential information; agreement is result of mos of discussions between subcom and reprs of media and clears way for attempt to move bill through Cong in coming session; subcom originally approved bill last June but chmn Robert W Kastenmeier delayed further action to seek support of media; Kastenmeier has said that he will try to move amended version of bill through Cong in coming yr; bill would provide that no newsman should be required to disclose confidential information or its source to Fed grand jury or in any pretrial proceeding; such disclosure in actual trial would only be required if party seeking information satisfied ct that information was indispensable to prosecution or defense of case could not be obtained from any other source, and that there was compelling public interest in disclosure; in addition to most major news media, participants in negotiations include NY Times, NBC, CBS, Newsweek, Scripps-Howard and Newspaper Guild (M)
Date: 05 January 1974
Los Angeles Superior Ct Judge A J McCourtney on Jan 4 approves distribution of $700,000 settlement to family of newsman R Salazer (KMEX), who was killed Aug 29, '70, when he was struck in head by tear gas shell fired into a bar by deputy sheriff during not by Mex-Amers (S)
Date: 04 January 1974
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Confidential Gallup poll indicates that public supports press's adversary role in dealing with Govt and that majority believe that Govt tries to keep too many secrets; repts that 62% of those questioned agreed that news reporters should be protected from being forced to disclose confidential sources--increase of 5% points over similar Gallup poll in Dec '72, before most of Watergate disclosures; notes that 40% of those questioned agreed with criticism that 'newspapers often make innocent persons look guilty before they appear in court,' and 37% more partly agreed; repts much of public agrees that newspapers devote too much space to what is wrong with Amer and not enough space to what is right; public for most part agrees that newspapers 'are not careful about getting their facts straight'; observers note that total poll results make it difficult to assess impact that Nixon Adm's attacks on press have had on public; poll indicates that public is nearly exactly split over whether newspapers do good job in presenting both sides of controversial issue; shows economically that outlook for newspapers is not bad; details (L)
Date: 05 January 1974
Dispatch of the Times, London
Peter Pratt and Jan Guillou, editors of Fib Kulturfront, left-wing Swedish pub, on Jan 4 are found guilty of espionage activities and sentenced to 1 yr's imprisonment for publishing series of articles last summer disclosing existence of secret intelligence agency, Information Bur, that editors claim violated Swedish Const and neutrality by collaboration with various Western intelligence agencies