Guidelines on Court Coverage Assailed
Date: 25 October 1975
news media reprs, testifying at Amer Bar Assn Reporters Com for Freedom of the Press, say that guidelines proposed by Amer Bar Assn could encourage rather that curb ct orders restricting trial coverage; proposed recommendation is that judges, before entering restrictive orders, give newsmen and others chance to testify about them at hearing; testimony noted (M)
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PAPERS CONTINUE CONTRACT TALKS; Confer With 3 Craft Unions, With Accords Pending
Date: 25 October 1975
By LEE DEMBART
Lee DEMBART
NY Times and Daily News meet on Oct 24 with Stereotypers Union, Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union and Mailers Union to discuss new contracts; offer stereotypers $25-$20-$20 wage pkg that deliverers union accepted; deliverers continue informal talks but fail to come to terms on remaining contract items; Times meets separately with Newspaper Guild; guild repts deadlock reached; asks Fed mediator Mason Wye to intervene; guild negotiating com head Rose Edwards comments (S)
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Mediator Says Times and News Are Close to Pact With Drivers; Mediator Says Times and News Are Close to Pact With Drivers
Date: 24 October 1975
By LEE DEMBART
Lee DEMBART
Herbert L Haber, mediator, says on Oct 23 that NY Times and NY News have reached accord with deliverers union on all but handful of contract issues and union has dropped threat of strike against News; says that 3-yr contract will provide pay rises of $25 a wk in 1st yr, $20 in 2d and $20 in 3d; cost-of-living increase provided for if Consumer Price Index rises more than 6% in 1st or 2d contract yrs; publishers hope tht 8 other unions will accept same wage pkg; deliverers union pres Carl Levy says that strike will not be necessary; sources say that union would have gotten more money if it had agreed to manpower cuts (M)
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Pastore Will Hold Hearings On Recent Decisions of F.C.C.
Date: 24 October 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Sen communications subcom chmn John O Pastore tells FCC that he will hold oversight hearings on agency to examine why certain of its rules were modified to reduce regulation of radio and TV; says 1 of 5 issues he is concerned with is FCC's decision to exempt news confs and pol debates between major candidates from provisions of equal-time provision of Communications Act; says issues that will be focal in hearings are those that were recently raised by number of natl religious orgns in their requests to Cong coms for hearing on FCC; will examine FCC proposals to exempt small stations from filing Equal Employment Opportunity repts and to experiment with suspension of fairness doctrine (M)
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GRAIN PRICES OFF AFTER EARLY RISE; News of Soviet Corn Deals Also Affects Soybeans
Date: 25 October 1975
By ELIZABETH M. FOWLER
US Agr Dept lowers its estimate of '75 Soviet grain production to 160 million tons, which would be 25% below Moscow's original goal of 215.7 million tons; says new estimate, down 10 million tons, reflects lower than previously estimated harvest in Kazakhastan (M)
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