California Is Using Taped Interviews As News Releases
Date: 31 December 1972
Calif information Broadcast Service is producing tape-recorded ints with state officials to go along with mimeographed news releases traditionally issued to press; radio station can dial special toll-free number in Sacramento and receive ready-to-air recorded int between state-paid interviewer and official who may be in news; 3 selections a day are made available, each about 60 seconds long; service head B McCafferty repts service will be nonpolitical and noncontroversial, with articles restricted to hard news subjects
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Four More Papers Closed By Cambodian Government
Date: 31 December 1972
Cambodian Govt on Dec 30 closes 4 more newspapers for publishing articles considered detrimental to natl security; Cambodian readers are left with 20 dailies
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Marchetti v. United States
Date: 30 December 1972
By Kenneth McCormick
Kenneth McCormick
Doubleday sr consulting editor K McCormick comments on Govt proceedings against V L Marchetti, former CIA agent, from whom Govt required release of all writings, even fictional, which related to intelligence, intelligence activities, or intelligence sources and methods; repts that ct opinion allows CIA full discretion to prevent pub of any material which is 'classified' and not in public domain; holds that ct decision abrogates important role of judiciary to protect 1st Amendment rights of the people and undermines purpose of 1st Amendment by weakening concept of responsible govt, vital in democracy
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Uganda Acts to Curb Press
Date: 31 December 1972
Ugandan Pres I Amin on Dec 30 signs decree empowering Govt to ban any newspaper for 'specified or indefinite period'
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News of the Camera World
Date: 31 December 1972
-- BERNARD GLADSTONE
GAF Corp introduces GAF 220, camera which uses same 110 film cartridges used by Kodak Pocket Instamatics; camera illus
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Transcript of White House News Conference on the Bombing Halt
Date: 31 December 1972
transcript of Dec 30 news conf at which G L Warren announced halt to bombing of Hanoi-Haiphong area and a renewal of private Paris peace talks
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Daily News Rejects Staff Members' Ad On Vietnam Peace
Date: 30 December 1972
NY Daily News rejects ad paid for and signed by 151 of its ed employes that calls on Pres Nixon to make peace in Vietnam 'without further delay'; group decides to place ad in NY Times, which will run it; News official C A Felt Jr says paper exercised 'publisher's prerogative not to run the ad'; news reporter F Loetterle coordinated gathering of signatures for ad; some signers of ad listed; News in May '70 also rejected antiwar ad by 65 News ed employes
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To Our Readers
Date: 31 December 1972
NY Times note to readers says that because of changes in production schedules for holiday weekend, Week in Rev sec was printed early and therefore did not include news or ed comment on Vietnam bombing halt ordered Dec 30 by Nixon
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Flu Strikes English Soccer
Date: 30 December 1972
5 Eng Football (Soccer) League games scheduled to be played on Dec 30 are postponed because of influenza epidemic, bringing to 14 number of games postponed this season
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U.S.C. Wins Sugar Bowl Regatta
Date: 30 December 1972
USC on Dec 29 wins annual Intercollegiate Sugar Bowl Sailing Regatta on Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans
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