TAIPEI EDITOR TO GO TO SAVE MAGAZINE
Date: 18 February 1974
Special to The New York Times
Chang Chun-hung, editor of Tawain pol journal The Intellectual, says on Feb 17 that he will resign because Govt authorities have threatened to close pub unless he removes himself from staff; pub has been under periodic Govt pressure to tone down its criticism, but its conflict with Govt reached height in Dec when Intellectual published editorial calling for ruling Nationalist party to end its monopoly on pol orgn and permit formation of active opposition party (S)
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F.B.I. Director Promises Regular News Conferences
Date: 17 February 1974
FBI Dir Clarence M Kelley pledges to hold 3 or 4 news confs a yr on regular basis and call extra ones when news developments warrant it (S)
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' It Is Us And Them And TelevisionIs Them'; TV's news executives are mostly white, male and middle class. Does that, in effect, make for an ivory tower view ofwhat is and isn't news? Television
Date: 17 February 1974
BY CARYL RIVERS
Caryl RIVERS
Caryl Rivers comments on recent TV show called The Credibility of Television News, presented by WBZ-TV; notes that various news execs appearing on show, who included Av Westin (ABC), Ed Fouhy (CBS) and Les Crystal (NBC), are white, male and middle class; questions whether news coverage, which they oversee, is just and representative of what is actually taking place in world; drawing (L)
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Times to Increase Newsstand PriceStarting on Feb. 24
Date: 17 February 1974
NY Times to increase newsstand price of Sunday edition from 50c to 60c later in Feb if it receives favorable rulings by Cost of Living Council; will increase price from 75c to 90c for papers distributed outside 50-mi radius from city; price of daily Times outside 50-mi radius will rise to 20c except for eastern LI where price will remain 15c; publisher A O Sulzberger comments (S)
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Saigon Is Still HoldingTimes Man's Material
Date: 17 February 1974
Special to The New York Times
Saigon Govt on Feb 16 continues to retain notes and film taken from NY Times bur chief James M Markham on Jan 28 after he emerged from wk's visit to Vietcong-held area in Binh Dinh province; Markham says he has written 4 lrs about confiscated material to Comr Gen Hoang Due Nha and subordinate Trinh Quang Binh but has reed no response (S)
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No Warrants, No Taps; IN THE NATION
Date: 17 February 1974
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker comments on IRS summoning certain records of phone calls made from NY Times Washington bur by reporter David E Rosenbaum from Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Cos; holds that IRS is not investigating Times but apparently is investigating possible leak of some information from 1 or more if its employes to Rosenbaum; holds that agency does not have authority to obtain such records to maintain its own internal security
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