The December 11, 1975 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 344 day of the year. President of the United States was Gerald R. Ford.
If you were born on this day, you are 49 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 271 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 11, 2025, in 93 days. You have lived for 18,169 days, or about 436,064 hours, or about 26,163,863 minutes, or about 1,569,831,780 seconds.
11th of December 1975 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 11, 1975
Washington Post Is Hiring Nonunion Pressmen; Paper Tells Striking Workers It Will Start Replacing Them Permanently on Sunday
Date: 11 December 1975
Washington Post on Dec 10 announces it is recruiting temporary nonunion pressmen and will begin hiring permanent replacements for striking pressmen by Dec 14 unless management's latest contract offer is accepted; union indicates it will ignore ultimatum; Mark Meagher, Post vp and gen mgr, says nonunion pressmen are arriving from other newspapers and landing by heliocopter on roof of paper's bldg; says nonunion crew may be living at paper to avoid any confrontation with pressmen; union pres James Dugan says union will fight step (S)
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ANGOLANS RELEASE TWO CBS NEWSMEN; Leftist Faction Had Detained Them Since Nov. 22
Date: 12 December 1975
By Reuters
CBS on Dec 12 repts that correspondent Don Webster and cameraman Bill Mutschmann, detained in Angola, have been released and are in Lisbon; had been held on unspecified charges by Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola; CBS news sr vp and dir William J Small and Webster comment (S)
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F.B.I. Holds Convict Who Offered Tip on Hoffa
Date: 11 December 1975
Special to The New York Times
FBI agents arrest Clarence N Medlin, escaped convict who disappeared in Fla on Dec 5 with $9,000 paid by CBS News for information he stated he had on location of James R Hoffa's body; suprise Medlin in New Orleans hotel room after receiving information on his whereabouts from James K Glassman, editor of Figaro, newspaper that Medlin had approached to offer 'big story' about Teamsters union; find $3,100 in room; Medlin por (M)
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Guild Unit at Washington Post To Reassess Its Stand on Strike
Date: 12 December 1975
By DIANE HENRY Special to The New York Times
Diane Special
Newspaper Guild pres Calvin Zellers says members of Newspaper Guild at Washington Post will meet on Dec 15 to reassess their decision to continue working during strike by pressmen; says he recd fresh indications that guild members want to reconsider their position on strike in light of publisher's decision to begin hiring nonunion personnel to replace striking pressmen; Donald Baker, head of group called Washington Post Majority, which includes that who have decided to cross picket lines and continue working, says he does not detect widespread dissatisfaction among working guild members (S)
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News Publisher Honored
Date: 11 December 1975
W H James, pres and publisher of NY News, is given 1st Amendment Freedom Award by Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith on Dec 10 (S)
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India's Editors Ask Regime to Review New Press Curbs
Date: 11 December 1975
By WILLIAM BORDERS Special to The New York Times
William Special
newspaper editors in India, in what some fear may be last battles they will be permitted to fight against Govt, on Dec 10 criticize sweeping new fed controls imposed earlier in wk on country's newspapers; papers include Indian Express and Indian Financial Express (S)
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Key Word In Lisbon: Discipline
Date: 11 December 1975
By MARVINE HOWE Special to The New York Times
Marvine Special
new atmosphere in Portugal since Nov 25 left-wing mil uprising is reflected on radio and TV and in press; almost all newspapers of far-left have vanished from stands and, according to Govt decision, are to be 'reorganized'; Communist party wkly Avante still is appearing but it has changed tone, asking cooperation and unity and no longer calling for ouster of Govt of Pres Francisco da Costa Gomes and Premier Jose Pinheiro dc Azevedo; left-wing radio stations have been nationalized and are silent pending reorganization; state TV network is presenting more popular movies and fewer talks on socialism; several left-of-center leaders, including Foreign Min Ernesto Melo Antunes and Socialist party chief Mario Soares have hastened to defend principles of revolution and to warn against 'blind anti-Communism' in wake of uprising (M)
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The Press And Trials
Date: 11 December 1975
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
A Lewis discusses press outrage over Assoc Justice Blackmun's refusal to set aside curbs set by Neb ct on pretrial reptg of murder case; says that case is of type likely to arouse violent prejudice against defendant and that curbs apply only until jury is selected; notes that not only freedom of press but right to fair trial are involved; holds order not unreasonable but says what may worry press is possible impact of precedent, noting recent trend in cts to restrictive orders; says that issue should not have priority which should be given to secrecy in Fed Govt
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Unfunny Gags
Date: 11 December 1975
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire article on fair trial vs free press issue in light of 'gag order' issued by Neb judge concerning press reptg of murder case; notes that Sup Ct Justice Blackmun has sustained order and that Sup Ct is considering matter (M)
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Goodman Asks a State Inquiry Of 'Illegal Grand-Jury Leaks
Date: 11 December 1975
By TOM GOLDSTEIN
Tom GOLDSTEIN
NYS Sen Roy M Goodman asks NYS Investigation Comm probe of 'illegal grand jury leaks,' says they jeopardize civil liberties, Dec 10 news conf, NYC; ACLU NY chap exec dir Ira Glasser joins call; disclosure of grand jury information by prosecutors, ct stenographers or grand jurors is misdemeanor in state (S)
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