PIKE PANEL SEEKS HOUSE VOTE IN BID FOR SECRET FILES; White House Offers Papers With Deletions Inquiry Asks Unlimited Access
Date: 30 September 1975
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
HR Select Intelligence Com votes, 10-3, to seek resolution from full HR supporting its demand for unimpeded access to classified documents and other materials that com has subpoenaed from CIA Dir William E Colby; com chmn Repr O G Pike says if HR approves resolution and information sought is still not forthcoming, he will favor asking HR to find Colby in contempt of Cong; Colby says he cannot agree to transfer of sensitive material in response to subpoena in absence of some agreed procedure as to its possible disclosure; under draft agreement proposed by White House and made available by com, Ford Adm agrees to supply materials com seeks but with deletions of identities of secret agents, 'sources,' persons and orgns involved in sensitive operations and of 'specific details' of some intelligence methods; proposed restrictions would also cover information provided to US in confidence by foreign intelligence services; White House press sec Ron Nessen says he believes considerable progress has been made (L)
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BOYCOTT OF SPAIN URGED BY MEXICO; Echeverria Asks Action by U.N. to Cut All Links With Madrid Over Executions
Date: 30 September 1975
Mexican communications adm on Sept 29 in another anti-Spanish move, cuts all transmission circuits of Spanish Press agency EFE and gives agency's 2 correspondents 48 hrs to leave country (S)
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C.I.A. YIELDS DATA TO HOUSE INQUIRY; Provides All but 50 Words of Materials Panel Sought in Battle With Ford
Date: 01 October 1975
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
CIA delivers bulk of natl security documents subpoenaed 2 wks ago by HR Select Intelligence Com; move appears to resolve stalemate between com and Pres Ford; 50 words of materials on intelligence community's repts prior to Tet offensive in S Vietnam in '68 are omitted as are State Dept documents; covering lr stipulates conditions upon which Ford Adm is making documents available; they include condition that com provide 'reasonable notice' if it plans to make any portion of material public; source says CIA is now basically 'in total compliance' with subpoenas and possibility that CIA Dir William E Colby or anyone else will be held in contempt of Cong has diminished; illus of Reprs Pike, W Lehman and R McClory conferring with William G Hyland, head of State Dept's Intelligence Bur (M)
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A SENATOR WARNS OF SINAI IMPASSE; Case Says Full Disclosure of Assurances Is Needed for Congress to Act
Date: 30 September 1975
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
Sentiment in Cong is overwhelmingly in favor of approving Amer presence in Sinai, but issue that has taken up much of Sen Foreign Relations Com's time is that of getting Adm to make public full record of private, unpublished assurances in course of negotiations; texts of most have already been leaked to press and published, but Adm, contending that official publication would cause diplomatic problems and break confidences, particularly with Pres Sadat of Egypt, has resisted publishing documents (S)
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Portugal's Premier Removes Troops From Radio and TV Stations
Date: 01 October 1975
By FLORA LEWIS Special to The New York Times
Flora Special
Portugal Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo calls off mil occupation of leftist-controlled radio and TV stations, reversing recent move he made to counter rising threats of disorder (M)
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'Thru' Is Through As Chicago Tribune Ends Spelling Fight
Date: 30 September 1975
Chicago Tribune drops campaign to simplify spelling of Amer language; will no longer spell 'through' as 'thru,' and will use Webster's 3d as authority (S)
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Coors TVN to End News Film Service To Stations Oct. 31
Date: 30 September 1975
TVN Inc will shut down its news network in wake of indications from Sen Commerce Com that it would approve Joseph Coors's nomination to Public Broadcasting Corp's bd if he resigns as TVN chmn (M)
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LISBON OCCUPIES RADIO-TV STUDIOS HELD BY LEFTISTS; Declares 'Provocative' Effort by Information Organs Endangers Revolution PREMIER SEES SEDITION But Some Stations Persuade Soldiers Sent by Cabinet to Allow Broadcasts
Date: 30 September 1975
Portugal Premier Vice Adm Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo orders troops to occupy leftist-controlled radio and TV stations to halt 'provacative campaign of seditious attitudes' against Govt; illus of leftist civilians protesting against occupation of radio station (L)
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Church May Be Named A National Historic Site
Date: 30 September 1975
Repr Richard L Ottinger introduces resolution in Cong to have Natl Park Service restore and maintain St Paul's Ch, Eastchester, Mt Vernon, NY, as natl historic site; in 1733, Ger immigrant printer John Peter Zenger became focus of free-press trial when he published acct of how Royal Gov of NY had tried to rig election held at St Paul's Ch (S)
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