PRINTERS SAY PAPERS RENEGE ON CONTRACT; Times and News Refusing Raises Under Current Pact Because of 'Inability to Pay,' Powers Says Strike Deadline Set
Date: 01 June 1978
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
Bertram A Powers, pres of NY Typographical Union Local 6, says that NY Times and Daily News refuse to give increases to printers under existing contract 'because of their inability to pay'; says under contract running to 1984, printers were to get 3% in wage increases every Mar 31, plus cost-of-living adjustments every 3 mos; says that NY Post publisher Rupert Murdoch will not challenge formula; strike deadline against News has been set for June 6 at 2 PM; Post has declared impasse in talks with Guild; Times says it will support News, without specifying how (S)
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Searches and Newspapers; Supreme Court Ruling Is Viewed by the Press As Major Setback on First Amendment Rights Analysis Editors' Spokesman Fearful Material Not Sought
Date: 02 June 1978
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
decision viewed by press attys as major setback to protection afforded by 1st Amendment; news orgns object to issuance of search warrants primarily because procedure does not even give newspaper chance to present its reasons as to why it thinks it should not be subjected to search; those commenting include ASNE atty Richard M Schmidt Jr, Freedom of Information Com chmn Anthony Day, atty Floyd Abrams and Deputy Atty Gen Benjamin R Civiletti (M)
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A Letter To the Whizzer; WASHINGTON
Date: 02 June 1978
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston open lr to Justice White holds ruling would have made it easy for Richard Nixon to get ct order to raid NY Times; says publication of Pentagon papers would have been blocked; cites Watergate crisis as another illustration of dangers of Ct's decision; says sources of information will cease
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Excerpts From Court Opinions on Newsroom Search; Majority Opinion Balance in the Amendment Preconditions for a Warrant Justice Stewart's Dissent
Date: 01 June 1978
excerpts from Sup Ct opinions
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High Court Bars Newspapers Plea Against Search; 5-3 Ruling Says Notice Is Not Required Lower Courts Reversed Fourth Amendment Cited HIGH COURT UPHOLDS NEWSPAPER SEARCHES More Time Under Subpoena Protest From Reporters
Date: 01 June 1978
By WARREN WEAVER Jr. Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Sup Ct upholds ct-approved searches of newspaper offices by police, in 5-to-3 vote; majority holds that person who is not involved in crime has no more right than suspect to resist search of bldg he owns or occupies for evidence of someone else's crime; ruling reverses decisions by 2 lower Fed cts in case of student-run daily at Stanford Univ; Assoc Justice Byron R White writes in majority opinion that 4th Amendment, which bans search and seizure, does not provide authority for lower ct rulings; Assoc Justices Potter Stewart, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens dissent; Assoc Justice William Brennen is absent; in separate dissent Stevens argues that search of Stanford Daily was unconst because application for search warrant did not claim that any newspaper employees were wrongdoers or would destroy evidence if warned; Reporters Com for Press Freedom dir Jack C Landau decries ruling; claims police conducted 10 newsroom searches in Calif and recently raided TV station in RI and wire service office in Montana (M)
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News Is Key to ABC Drive for Affiliates; News Analysis Agonizing Over Decision Reluctant to Trade Down Salant's Retirement Looms 'Piano Bar,' a Revue, Is at Chelsea Westside
Date: 02 June 1978
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Analysis on how ABC-TV's efforts to rebuild its news orgn and redesign nightly newscast are related to recruiting of CBS and NBC affiliates (M)
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Advertising; Bates Awaits Decision By Schlitz Standard Brands, Picks D.D.B. and Wells, Rich Nadler & Larimer Wins Lightron Account People Addenda Accounts
Date: 02 June 1978
Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
Acquisition by partnership of John C Thomas Jr, W Pendleton Tudor and Kenneth Fadner is finalized (S)
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