POST IN AGREEMENT WITH MAILERS UNION
Date: 26 March 1976
Mailers union and NY Post on Mar 25 reach agreement on new 2-yr contract to replace 1 that expired in '75; negotations had been stymied by Post's insistence that it could not afford to pay 3d-yr increase of $20 a wk that both NY Times and Daily News had agreed to pay their employees; mailers union pres George McDonald comments (S)
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$150,000 IS VOTED FOR HOUSE INQUIRY; Unit Looking Into Disclosure of Spy Report to Begin Quizzing Witnesses
Date: 26 March 1976
By RICHARD D. LYONS Special to The New York Times
HR Adm Com raises to $150,000 the special request of HR Com on Standards of Official Conduct for funds to probe leak of HR Select Intelligence Com's secret rept; ethics com originally sought $350,000; it has about $1-million of other, unspent funds at its disposal to pay salaries of additional staff aides, such as investigators; leak by Schorr revd (M)
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New Junta Imposes Prior Censorship On Nation's Papers
Date: 25 March 1976
Argentina's mil authorities impose prior censorship on newspapers; editors receive orders from junta's press secretariat requiring that galley proofs be submitted in triplicate for censorship before articles are published (S)
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Chileans Arrest A Radio Executive And Plan His Exile
Date: 26 March 1976
Chile's mil Govt on Mar 25 repts it has arrested gen mgr of Christian Dem Party's controversial radio station Belisario Velasco and will exile him to remote community near Peruvian border; says station's news programs are biased and 'liable to produce alterations of public order' (S)
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A House Panel, on TV, Rejects Plan for Television From Floor
Date: 25 March 1976
By RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times
Richard MADDEN
HR Rules Com votes, 9-6, to shelve, and probably kill, proposal permitting TV and radio coverage of HR floor action; TV covers proceedings; Repr J B Anderson accuses HR Dem leadership of not wanting broadcast coverage of HR and of using 'excessive arm-twisting' to kill proposal; proposal's provisions noted; role of Repr B F Sisk noted (S)
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LE MONDE ASSAILS A CRITIC IN FRANCE; Book Charging Leftist Bias Is Denounced as an Effort to Discredit the Paper
Date: 25 March 1976
By FLORA LEWIS Special to The New York Times
Flora Special
Michel Legris book The World, As It Is has attacked French newspaper Le Monde for persistent leftist bias and distortion and Le Monde has replied with front-page denunciation of Legris; paper's editors have consistently denied that paper had point of view and insisted that each sr writer is free to rept as he sees fit; Legris repts that paper's dir gen Jacques Fauvet sought to prevent publication of book by threatening to refuse revs in paper to all books from any publishing house that brought it out; Legris in book named 2 persons at Le Monde, Fauvet and editor in chief Andre Fontaine (M)
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SECRECY LABELING IS FOUND LIMITED; Panel Says Number of Aides Who Classify Documents Dropped 75% in 4 Years
Date: 25 March 1976
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
Interagency Classification Rev Com says number of Fed officials with power to stamp Govt documents 'top secret,' 'secret,' or 'confidential' has declined by more than 3/4 over last 4 yrs; com exec dir Robert W Wells comments; recent controversy over classification of information as result of investigations of 2 Cong coms probing intelligence community and unauthorized disclosures of information noted; com says 83% of Defense Dept officials with classification powers before exec order was signed have since been divested of that authority; in State Dept, reduction has been 69%; in CIA, 45%; in Justice Dept, 39%; in White House, 82% (M)
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