STRIP-MINING FOES ATTACK RADIO ADS; Ask F.C.C. for Chance to Reply to Coal Industry
Date: 31 October 1971
By BEN A. FRANKLINSpecial to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLINSpecial
W Va Black Lung Assn, Assn of Disabled Miners and Widows, Citizens to Abolish Strip Mining and Mountaineers to Save W Va file complaint with FCC against Univ Broadcast Service and radio station WHAR, Morgantown, W Va, charging they declined to promise broadcast time under fairness doctrine to oppose strip mining and answer coal assn's 'propaganda'; ask FCC to invoke fairness doctrine and equal time rule; J L Boettner Jr, lawyer for Appalachian Research Defense Fund Inc, to represent orgns
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Court Halts Jury's Inquiry on Pentagon Papers to Consider Appeal by Gravel
Date: 30 October 1971
By ROBERT REINHOLDSpecial to The New York Times
US Appeals Ct, Boston, halts for at least a wk grand jury probe into press publication of Pentagon study; takes action after emergency appeal by Sen Gravel who contends that secret testimony may damage const rights of free speech and violate separation of powers between 3 branches of govt; Govt contends that it is not concerned with Gravel but with criminal acts of others; Fed Ct agrees to quash temporarily subpoenas for Chomsky and Falk; denies Popkin motion that he is protected by First Amendment from testifying about confidential sources; appearance of D Halberstam postponed to allow his atty to prepare briefs; Govt asks that Mrs Marx, Ellsberg's mother-in-law, be jailed for contempt for silence before jury; ct orders her bail revoked but delays entering order for a wk to give her another chance to purge herself by testifying
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SPAIN THREATENS TO CLOSE A PAPER; Aims to Force Replacement of Its Liberal Editor
Date: 31 October 1971
By RICHARD EDER
Richard EDER
Spanish Information Ministry advises Madrid (newspaper) to replace ed A Fontan, considered liberal; has begun investigation into 'irregularities' in original listing of paper's stockholders and says it may have to cancel registration and close paper; action was begun after publisher R Calvo Serer published article as pol split in Cath lay orgn Opus Dei; Govt suggested J M Alfaro replace Fontan but publisher refused and Govt withdrew suggestion; Madrid management says it will replace Fontan if new editor is acceptable; Informacion (Madrid newspaper) is also reptd to be under Govt pressure with possible replacement of dir
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Writing Awards Announced
Date: 31 October 1971
C G McDaniel (AP) and S Pesmen (Chicago Daily News) receive awards for interpreting psychoanalysis to public
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H.E.W. SAID TO BAR DATA FROM PUBLIC; Suits Filed on Welfare and School Desegregation
Date: 30 October 1971
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Center for Natl Policy Rev files suit, Fed Dist Ct, against HEW Dept requiring dept to disclose information on its investigation of school desegregation in 33 slates outside South; center dir W L Taylor says center is studying how effectively dept is observing requirement in '64 Civil Rights Act that it discontinue aid for school dists practicing racial discrimination, but says center has been unable to get information from dept after 8 mos of trying; says center is interested in why so little enforcement action has resulted from revs undertaken by dept
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Iraq, North Korea in Pact
Date: 31 October 1971
Iraq and N Korea reach new trade agreement
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Negro Named to Cabinet Of Massachusetts Chief
Date: 31 October 1971
Gov Sargent appts Boston Councilman Atkins, Negro, as Mass Communities and Development Sec, $32,500-a-yr post
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2 Slain in Toll-Booth Holdup In a Bronx Subway Station
Date: 31 October 1971
2 holdup men are killed in gun battle with NYCTA plainclothes men following attempt to rob Simpson St IRT subway station change booth; 3d suspect escapes
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PRODUCER PLEDGES LIBRARY UNIT AID
Date: 30 October 1971
Off Bway producer G Feist pledges 1 night's gross receipts from each of his 3 productions this season to help save Research Library, which needs $250,000 for operating expenses by Jan 1 or it will close; urges other producers to take similar action
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