Straus Company Appeals Reprimand by the F.C.C.
Date: 12 June 1975
Straus Broadcasting Communications Inc, owner of NYC radio station WMCA, files appeal in US Appeals Ct, DC, of reprimand station received from FFC for allegedly violating Fairness Doctrine; FCC contended violation occurred in '73 when radio station personality Bob Grant made personal attack against Repr Benjamin Rosenthal concerning meat boycott and when station failed to notify and give adequate air time for Rosenthal to reply (S)
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RULING IS DELAYED ON TIMES NEWSMAN
Date: 12 June 1975
NYS Sup Ct Justice Joseph D Quinn Jr reserves decision on whether NY Times reporter Joseph B Treaster must testify at pretrial hearing of Robert Monroe and Richard Smith; they were arrested in Dec '74 with reputed drug dealer Leroy Barnes, who allegedly offered $130,000 bribe to NYC police officer (S)
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The Rocky Report: Better Than Expected; IN THE NATION
Date: 13 June 1975
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker lauds Rockefeller CIA comm rept as being better than expected in exposing illegal CIA programs and procedures and in condemning such actions; says it remains to be seen how much comm learned about CIA involvement in murder plots against foreign leaders as that part of rept has been withheld from publication; says rept did not fix responsibility on individuals, its recommendations do not go far enough and it affirmed need for CIA operating substantially as always, save for illegal domestic operations; cites some recommendations
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Workers Stage a Protest March Through Paris; Complaints Include the Use of Police Dogs to Guard Strikebound Factories
Date: 13 June 1975
thousands of French workers, protesting layoffs, plant closings and use of teams of private detectives with police dogs to guard strikebound factories, march through Paris streets; demonstration is sponsored by country's major labor feds; worker sit-in at Le Parisien Libere newspaper over threatened dismissal of 500 employes as part of effort by management to curb rising costs continues; strikes by prostitutes in Paris continues; Interior Min Michel Poniatowski's role in police actions against strikers described (S)
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Justice Aide Opposes Information Bill
Date: 13 June 1975
By WARREN WEAVER Jr. Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Asst Atty Gen Mary C Lawton says Justice Dept opposes legis designed to encourage Fed employes to make public any evidence of waste and corruption in Govt agencies without fear of retaliation by their superiors, Sen Subcom on Adm Practice hearing; Ralph Nader and Reporter's Com for Freedom of Press testify that bill does not go far enough in eliminating bureaucratic obstruction of information and insuring 'truth in govt'; Nader calls for stronger penalties for Govt officials who suppress legitimate public information; says Sen E M Kennedy's bill serves to counteract proposed revision of Fed Criminal Code; reporter's com dir Jack C Landau calls for broader legis that would permit release of information that an official or agency was disobeying laws or Const or that Govt was taking actions that were contrary to its public policy statements; Sen H D Scott suggests civil servants 'go through the system first' (S)
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BRAZILIANS ORDER SILENCE ON A-PACT; News Blackout Is Imposed on Deal With West Germany
Date: 12 June 1975
By MARVINE HOWE Special to The New York Times
Marvine Special
Brazilian Govt, apparently concerned over criticism from abroad of its pending nuclear fuel deal with W Ger, has ordered news blackout on agreement until after it is signed at end of June; Foreign Min Antonio Azeredo da Silveira has said only that nuclear fuel cycle Brazil is buying will be restricted to peaceful uses and that accord is being subjected to all safeguards of Internatl Atomic Energy Agency; fears in US that Brazil will use materials and tech for nuclear weapons have been dismissed in Brazil, conscious of Argentina's lead in nuclear power and repts that Argentina is talking about producing atomic bomb; Brazil's leading newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo, backing deal with W Ger fully, says Brazil should have bomb if other nations have it; Brazil's 1st nuclear power plant is being built at Angra dos Reis, 60 mi southwest of Rio de Janeiro, with Westinghouse supplying steam supply system (M)
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