FOREIGN NEWSMEN ASSAILED IN SAIGON; Army's Paper Asserts They Play 'Major Part' in the Communist Successes
Date: 03 April 1975
By FOX BUTTERFIELD Special to The New York Times
Fox Special
South Vietnamese army newspaper Tien Tuyen has demanded that Govt take strong measures against foreign correspondents because they are in 'major part' responsible for Communists' successes; describes foreign newsmen as 'the enemy within'; calls for strict censorship of foreign newsmen and of communication of foreign embassies; impunity with which Saigon press has reptd country's disasters appears reflection of Govt's breakdown; usually busy censors seem to have given up; Chinh Luan, conservative journal, has been particularly candid about army discipline incident in province of Binh Tuy; US Embassy, at direction of Amb Graham Martin, has largely closed its doors to newsmen, providing no information on 6-day visit by Gen Frederick C Weyand or on evacuation plans for Amers and Vietnamese (M)
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Networks Reviewing Policies on Paying for Exclusive Interviews
Date: 02 April 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
CBS, NBC and ABC are examining their policies regarding exclusive ints as result of controversy over televised int with H R Haldeman, for which he was paid $50,000; networks profess to be against paying for ints but there have been number of recent instances of it; persons such as Sirhan B Sirhan, William L Calley Jr, John W Dean 3d, G Gordon Liddy and Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn have recd money for network news appearances; number of cases of paid access to newsmakers in relatively brief time has caused concern among network officials who fear that activity could lead to checkbook competition, with dangerous implications for quality of journalism; concern is heightened by fact that several of persons paid have been convicted of crimes; mail recd by CBS indicates that payment to Haldeman angered many viewers, but 2 competing networks are displeased with CBS for what they consider breach of ethics; accuse CBS of streching its policy permitting news figures to be paid only for memoirs, book rights and equivalent of magazine articles; ABC News pres William Sheehan calls int 'outright buy of a news exclusive'; NBC News exec producer Reuven Frank, NBC News pres Richard C Wald, CBS pres Arthur R Taylor and CBS News sr vp Bill Leonard comment (M)
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Overseas Press Club Gives Photo and Reporting Prizes
Date: 02 April 1975
Overseas Press Club names winners of '74 awards: Robert G Kaiser (Washington Post), W Eugene Smith, Lou Cioffi (ABC), John Palmer, Tom Streithorst, Phil Brady and Liz Trotta (NBC), Ovie Carter (Chicago Tribune) and Phillip W Whitcomb (Christian Science Monitor) (S)
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Byrne Says He Offered Job To Figure in Investigation; But Governor Explains Police Inquiry Found Information That Caused Him to Withhold State Post for Nero
Date: 03 April 1975
By RONALD SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times
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NJ State Lottery Comm repts on Apr 1 that ticket sales for Jersey Sweepstakes Hdcp, to be run on Apr 26 at Garden St Pk, has reached $1-million (S)
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Advertising; A Bulova-Paramount Venture
Date: 03 April 1975
By PHILIP H. DOUGHERTY
Philip DOUGHERTY
Posse (Movie): Opening of film Posse, starring, produced and directed by Kirk Douglas, is being set by Bulova Watch Co to coincide with co's promotion of its 'Centennial Collection' of pocket watches and clocks; film will be released in May and most of ad will promote film and dept stores that have agreed to participate; Paramount Pictures repts 25 stores have enlisted; Douglas is scheduled to make dept store appearances (M)
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