Cultural Arrogance
Date: 12 May 1975
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis comment hails Sydney Schanberg articles in NY Times describing forced evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, following takeover by Communists; discusses Amer correspondents difficulties in seeing Indochina war through non-Western eyes and holds cultural arrogance of top Amer officials in assuming that Amer way of life could prevail was major factor in disaster in S Vietnam; cites Prof Alexander Woodside's view that Vietnamese decision making is based on historical precedent, while Amer's seek to avoid thinking in historical terms and that this split was factor in US folly in Vietnam (M)
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Judge Voids Order To Editor to Write Antigun Editorials
Date: 13 May 1975
Judge Richard F Connors, who ordered Alfredo Izaguirre Horta, editor and pres of El Mundo de Hoy, who was convicted of weapons charge to editorialize against use of illegal hand guns, drops that part of sentence on May 12; Horta repts he had already run 1 anti-hand gun editorial, and will write others voluntarily; Connors continues 3-yr's probation for Horta and Antonio Angel Parajon, paper's photographer; Connors acted after criticism by Gov Byrne who wrote to Chief Justice Richard J Hughes (S)
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Three on WABC-TV Honored For Willowbrook Program
Date: 13 May 1975
Robert F Kennedy journalism awards to Geraldo Rivera, Martin Berman and Peter Lance (WABC), Mike Masterson (Hot Springs Sentinel Record), Loretta Schwartz (Phila Magazine) and Terence Gurley (WWVA) (S)
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Papers Seek to Set Distributors' Ceiling Prices
Date: 13 May 1975
Los Angeles Times exec vice pres and gen mgr Robert E Nelson, and Birmingham (Ala) News asst gen mgr William C Greene testify before Sen Antitrust Subcom considering repeal of fair trade legislation, that newspapers anywhere should be permitted to set maximum prices that independent distributors may charge; basic argument by both witnesses was that if newspapers were not allowed to set maximum price, distributors would increase price in populated areas and stop serving less populous ones; Sen Roman L Hruska (Nebraska) asks whether it could be shown that more papers failed in states without fair trade laws than in states with them (M)
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U.S. Newsmen Visit Soviet Space Center
Date: 13 May 1975
By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN Special to The New York Times
Christopher WREN
USSR permits foreign newsmen to visit main flight control center, Kaliningrad, for 1st time in preparation for joint Apollo Soyuz Project; center described; tech dir Albert V Milstein says center was built in '70 and was 1st used on manned flight to direct flight of Soyuz 12; center is believed to handle unmanned Cosmos missions; Milstein says press corps will not be allowed in center during actual mission; Amer technicians already installed at center in preparation for flight; map (M)
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Israel Bars Publication of a Manuscript Disclosing Secret Remarks of Kissinger
Date: 13 May 1975
By TERENCE SMITH Special to The New York Times
Terence Special
Premier Rabin has blocked publication of book that reptdly contains secret minutes of conversations between Sec Kissinger and Israeli mins in which Kissinger allegedly made disparaging remarks about leaders of Egypt, Syria, USSR and other countries; reptdly told Cabinet that Kissinger would have to resign and that Israeli-US relations would be seriously damaged if material was made public; sources say Govt censor blocked publication of boook on ground that it might threaten flow of US arms and aid to Israel (M)
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