ITALY'S NEWSMEN START A WALKOUT; Nationwide Strike Issues Are Pay and Decisions Press Freedom Cited
Date: 14 December 1974
Special to The New York Times
Ital journalists on Dec 13 hold nationwide strike that will leave country without newspapers for much of next wk; decision to strike follows breakdown in negotiations between journalists and publishers over renewal of contracts; journalists are demanding across-the-bd increase of about $35 a mo and greater participation in making decisions on their papers; have expressed concern that press freedom is threatened by fact that more big indus concerns are buying controlling interests in newspapers; cases involving Il Messaggero, bought by Montecatini Edison, and Corriere Delia Sera, bought by Rizzoli, noted (S)
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DELIVERERS PROTEST DECISION IN BIAS SUIT
Date: 13 December 1974
More than 100 newspaper deliverers who hold 'shaper' status rather than 'regular situation' and union membership, picket NY Daily News and NY Times on Dec 12 to protest compromise settlement in Fed Ct of discrimination suit, charging discrimination against minority and publication-delivery indus; settlement, which is under appeal, was accepted Sept 19 by Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union of NY, Times, News, NY Post and LI Press and 50 other publishers and distributors in met area; provides for hiring 3 minority-group members for every 2 nonminority persons for 'regular situations' until minority membership in union rises from 2% to 25%; shapers hold agreement is unfair to nonminority workers; atty Herman H Tarnow and deliverers repr Carl Levy comment (S)
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Soviet Ready for Space Link-Up But Secrecy Won't Be Lifted; Wearing Medals
Date: 13 December 1974
By CHRISTOPHER S. WRENSpecial to The New York Times
Christopher WRENSpecial
Vsevolod N Sofinsky, Soviet foreign ministry press official, appears to confirm Moscow's refusal to allow Western newsmen at Soyuz launching site next July; says newsmen will be allowed 'where it will be most rational to keep them informed' (S)
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2 Legislators to Offer 12 Kuh Measures to Alter Criminal Law
Date: 13 December 1974
By THOMAS P. RONAN
Thomas RONAN
NYS Sen Roy M Goodman and Assemblyman William F Passannante to sponsor 12 measures for changes in criminal law suggested by Manhattan Dist Atty Kuh, who will seek Legis sponsors for 3 other proposals that include lowering from 16 to 15 age at which person can be tried for murder; other proposals would bar law enforcement agencies from releasing prior criminal record of defendant and forbid newsmen to take pictures when defendant is booked at pct, repeal laws treating adultery and homosexual conduct by consenting adults as crimes, prohibit cross-examination of rape victim about her sex life, permit prosecutors to appeal unduly low bail in higher ct, and allow grand jury witnesses to bring lawyers into room (M)
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Betty Ford Cancels Her Martinique Trip; Notes on People
Date: 14 December 1974
Martha Graham speaks to aspiring dancers at HS of Performing Arts Dec 13
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