Narrow Focus on TV News; Books of The Times
Date: 05 April 1973
By JOHN J.. O'CONNOR
John O'CONNOR
Epstein, Edward Jay: Book News From Nowhere: Television and the News, by E J Epstein, revd by J J O'Connor
Vanessa Demouy Birthday, Date of Birth
Vanessa Demouy (born 5 April 1973) is a French actress and model. She began modelling at age seventeen and later began acting.
She is primarily known for her role as Linda in a French sitcom Models in Paradise (Coeurs caraïbes). She was also the third model for Lara Croft coming after Rhona Mitra and before Nell McAndrew.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Thursday, April 5, 1973
- Place of Birth
- Moulins
- Age
- 52
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 5, 1973 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 94 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 52 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, April 5, 2025, 212 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, April 5, 2026, in 152 days. You have lived for 19,205 days, or about 460,937 hours, or about 27,656,274 minutes, or about 1,659,376,440 seconds.
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5th of April 1973 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 5, 1973
Ellsberg Trial Told Data Did No Harm; Safe Was Installed
Date: 05 April 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
D S Luce testifies, Apr 4, at Pentagon papers trial that disclosure of information about the 'strategic hamlet' and 'pacification' programs in Vietnam did not damage those programs; both programs were operated by US; Luce says hamlets program wa over by '63, that it became the pacification program, which in turn, by '69, became Vietnamization program; comment on Luce role in helping uncover in '70 the tiger cages'--small cells jammed with prisoners in S Vietnam
HAYDEN TESTIFIES IN ELLSBERG CASE; Antiwar Activist Is Critical of U.S. Peace Efforts
Date: 06 April 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
T E Hayden on Apr 5 testifies at Pentagon papers trial that 'a lot of diplomacy on the part of the US was stage-managed to create the image that the US was seeking peace when it was not'; reads from 4 vols of so-called diplomatic papers; quotes then Amb H C Lodge as saying that if the bombing of N Vietnam continued 'there would be nobody left in N Vietnam on whom to put pressure' for peace; D S Luce testifies on his work in Vietnam for the World Council of Chs and the Meth and Presb chs and about articles he wrote about 'tiger cages' he helped uncover in a S Vietnamese prison in '70
Brazil Censors a Report By Paper on Censorship
Date: 05 April 1973
Brazilian Govt censors lengthy rept describing press censorship made by J Mesquita Neto on Apr 3 before Inter-Amer Press Assn that was appear in his newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo; lrs to editor were substituted on internatl news page to fill space alloted to material
Vietcong Welcome U.S. Visitors Guardedly; Vietcong-Held Hamlet Hospitable to U.S. Visitors but Controls Them Strictly Vietcong Flags Displayed Looking to the Election Relatively Secure' Village
Date: 05 April 1973
By JOSHEPH B. TREASTERSpecial to The New York Times
news team of 3, including NY Times correspondent J B Treaster, cruising down Mekong River, are in invited by a Vietcong guerrilla squad to visit a 'liberated hamlet' when boat stops at a clearing; hamlet is 5 mi from Saigon; visit is tightly controlled; Vietcong, since start of cease-fire, have welcomed journalists to their areas; most newsmen rept considerable supervision, but most have also been taken on lengthy tours and tell of having seen hundreds and thousands of people; Vietcong described as showing sense of dedication and purpose that is almost unknown among S Vietnamese troops; Saigon officials say they regard the village as being under their control and had classified it as 'relatively secure'; map; illus of young Vietcong guerrillas
2 U.S. Journalists Held 2 Days By Vietcong and Then Released
Date: 05 April 1973
Amer journalists D Southerland and F FitzGerald, on assignment for New Yorker (pub), rept on Apr 4 that they had been held prisoner by Vietcong for 2 days and released in hamlet near northern provincial capital of Quang Ngai; Southerland says they were treated well by their captors
EL DIARIO'S SALES HALTED BY STRIKE; Deliverers Honor Picketing by Two Other Unions
Date: 06 April 1973
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
El Diario-La Prensa fails to reach NYC newsstands on Apr 5 as result of strike by pressmen and stereotypers, protesting co's attempt to have Apr 5 edition of paper printed in plant in Wayne, NJ; unions hold that many jobs would be jeopardized by move
Democrats Plan a Fight on Nixon's Proposed Defense Information Curbs
Date: 06 April 1973
By WARREN WEAVER Jr.Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Dem Sens are preparing strong counterattack next wk against Nixon Adm's new proposal to impose restrictions on dissemination of Govt information on natl defense and foreign relations; Atty Gen Kleindienst will be challenged at hearings on Govt secrecy opening on Apr 10 to justify establishing fines and jail sentences for persons who relay or publish classified information even if it should never have been classified; Govt proposals include: making it felony to communicate knowingly 'information relating to natl defense' to unauthorized person; requiring authorized holder of such information, subject to same penalties, to rept to his superiors any such communication to unauthorized person by someone else; providing that no one accused of these offenses can avoid punishment on ground that information was improperly classified when it was 1st classified or when it was divulged; defining 'natl defense information' as including any facts, regardless of their source, relating to 'conduct of foreign relations affecting natl defense
Some Africans Feel French Aides Are on Too Lofty a Pedestal; Lives So Much Better' French Attitudes Vary
Date: 06 April 1973
By THOMAS A. JOHNSONSp.ecial to The New York Times
Thomas JOHNSONSp
Article on complaints among many Africans in former French colonies of West Africa that French citizens still living in African countries enjoy privileged situations; says while some Africans insist French presence is essential to indus development, many others maintain such relationships benefit French far more than Africans; notes French residents exhibit variety of attitudes about their roles; French role in several former African colonies noted; recent demonstrations in Senegal in part from student dissatisfaction with French role and forthcoming Sup Ct case brought by Senegalese journalist A R Cisse, whose publication accused French cooperants at Univ of Dakar of responsibility for dismissal of Senegalese linguistics expert, noted
F.B.I. Wants to Retain Records of Reporters' Calls
Date: 05 April 1973
US Atty J F Rudy, in hearing before Judge J J Sirica on suit filed by columnist J Anderson and his asst L Whitten to get back from FBI all copies of what they contend are names and phone numbers of their confidential news sources, notes that FBI has already returned originals of phone toll calls to local phone co; says he will not agree to Anderson's request that all duplicate copies be destroyed because FBI plans to keep them on file as part of its record in investigation of charges against Whitten, later dropped, of possession of papers stolen from Bur of Indian Affairs