City Will Set Up A Central Bureau For News Service
Date: 10 November 1975
Mayor Beame repts new NYC News and Information Bur will open Dec 1 to coordinate news operations for city agencies at yrly savings of $800,000; says it will replace publicity staffs of some of smaller agencies and supplement efforts of bigger ones and will be headed by Edward Silverman, present head of budget bur publicity; Silverman's survey of city press relations that led to restructuring proposal found public relations in mayoral agencies involved 150 persons at cost of $2.25-million; he says plan will cut staff by 50 (S)
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Times and Guild Intensify Talks In Bid to Avert Strike Tomorrow
Date: 10 November 1975
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Newspaper Guild and NY Times on Nov 9 begin intensified negotiations in effort to reach agreement on contract and avert strike threatened for Nov 11; most critical phase of bargaining on issues relating to wage increase, job security, pension and welfare benefits and other proposed contract improvements is scheduled to get under way and will probably continue through night; mediator Theodore Kheel says he and mediators Hezekiah Brown and Mason Wye are deploying available manpower effectively to resolve differences; guild has already made strike plans, setting up picket line assignments, naming strike coms and distributing application forms for strike benefits (M)
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Washington Post Impasse
Date: 11 November 1975
negotiations between Washington Post and striking pressmen recess on Nov 10 with both sides deadlocked; Fed mediator Kenneth Moffett comments (S)
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5 Are Selected for Cabot Awards
Date: 10 November 1975
Columbia Univ to present 37th annual Maria Moors Cabot prizes in inter-Amer journalism to Sam Summerlin (AP), Enrique Z Gibson (Caretas Peruvian Magazine), David Kraiselburd (El Dia Argentine Newspaper), Walter Everett (Amer Press Inst) and Norman Ingrey (Buenos Aires Herald); Summerlin and Gibson pors (S)
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GUILD-TIMES TALK AT CRITICAL STAGE; Contract Negotiations Race Strike Deadline Today
Date: 11 November 1975
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
NY Times and Newspaper Guild continue negotiations into Nov 11 in attempt to avert strike; Times made offer to guild which guild negotiating com rejected; mediator Theodore W Kheel comments; negotiations between guild and NY News continue as well as negotiations between Mailers Union Local 6 and News and Times; Times exec vp Walter Mattson declines to comment on possibilty that Times will publish if there is strike; News pres and publisher W H James, asked if News would suspend publication if Times was struck, says circumstances will be examined; some of guild's contract proposals noted (M)
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Hearing Nears on $630 Million Libel Suit Involving Coast Resort
Date: 10 November 1975
By ROBERT LINDSEY Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
$630-million damage suit has been lodged against Penthouse Internatl Ltd, publisher of Penthouse magazine, and freelance writers Jeff Gerth and Lowell Bergman, for Penthouse article asserting that Rancho La Costa resort, Los Angeles, is brainchild of racketeer Meyer Lansky, that it was financed by questionable loans from Teamsters union and that, in gen, it is haven for mobsters; La Costa's principal officers are Morris B Dalitz, Allard Roen, Mervyn Adelson and Irwin Molasky; Adelson and Molasky are principal officers of Lorimar Productions, which produces TV series The Waltons (M)
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TV: The 'MacNeil Report,' a Sharp Point of View
Date: 11 November 1975
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
MacNeil, Robert, Report (TV Program): J J O'Connor revs WNET news program The Robert MacNeil Report
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NEW C.I.A. REPORT HAS NO MORE PLOTS; Church Denies Additional Plans on Assassination Will Be Forthcoming
Date: 10 November 1975
By E. W. KENWORTHY Special to The New York Times
E. KENWORTHY
Sen F Church says he is thinking of leading effort to block confirmation of George Bush as CIA dir (S)
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