20 maart 1973 was een dinsdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♓. Het was de 78e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Richard M. Nixon.
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Date: 21 March 1973
By LAWRENCE FELLOWS
Lawrence FELLOWS
Chief Dist Ct Judge M J Blumenfeld rules on March 20 that publisher of Wallingford Post, G N Kelman, need not reveal names of confidential sources he used in article linking philanthropist and dog-track promoter, J M Linsey, with Mafia; Linsey is suing Kelman and newspaper for $5-million, claiming his reputation has been damaged
Date: 21 March 1973
By RICHARD MADDEN
Richard MADDEN
HR Judiciary subcom on March 20 ends 15 days of hearings on possible legis to protect newsmen's sources with its chmn Repr R W Kastenmeier observing that drafting of bill on subject would not be easy; says that during course of his subcom hearings reprs of news media have shifted their views toward support of absolute privilege to refuse to disclose confidential sources and information and for legis that would apply to proceedings before state and local as well as Fed authorities; says that task of his subcom has been clouded by suspicion; Nassau County Dist Atty W Cahn and Essex County prosecutor J P Lordi comment
Date: 20 March 1973
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Mailers Union Local 6 on March 19 intensifies negotiations with NY Daily News, NY Times and NY Post in effort to reach early contract agreement; local pres G E McDonald comments; Typographical Union Local 6 pres B A Powers says that no one of 10 newspaper unions has any priority in being 1st in settling
Date: 20 March 1973
Special to The New York Times
freelance journalist P Niewsewand goes on trial on March 19 in Salisbury, Rhodesia, for allegedly violating Rhodesia's Official Secrets Act, which makes it crime to collect, publish or transmit any information considered useful to an enemy; Magistrate J Hamilton refuses Niese wand's request that hearing be open, and bars press, public and Niewsewand's wife; Niewsewand has been held in jail since his arrest Feb 20
Date: 20 March 1973
By RONALD SULLIVAN
Ronald SULLIVAN
US Sup Ct on March 19 declines to rev contempt conviction of reporter P J Bridge (Newark Evening News) who was jailed for 21 days for refusing to disclose source of article he wrote; decision leaves standing lower ct rulings that 1st Amendment does not provide reporters with any privilege to remain silent when questioned about thier sources and that NJ 'shield' law in effect is inoperative if name of source appears in paper; Bridge illus
Date: 20 March 1973
By RONALD SULLIVANSpecial to The New York Times
NJ Gov Cahill on March 19 vetoes bill that would have effectively granted absolute immunity to newsmen in NJ, allowing them to refuse to disclose any news information, confidential or otherwise, to such bodies as grand juries, investigating comms or legis coms; bill was widely heralded as strongest news-source-protection legis in US; veto is expected to have impact on Cong efforts to draft parallel Fed news-source protection law in Washington; supports NJ's existing law that protects reporters from disclosing confidential news sources to investigative bodies; Cahill contends that new proposal goes too far; says there are other well-accepted rights of citizens that come into conflict with principle of press freedom; NJ chapter of ACLU calls veto 'cruel blow to a free press'; Sen J E Crabiel attacks veto and declares that he will support any legis effort to override it; Sen J H Wallwork says that he is disappointed with veto but does not intend to lead any fight to override it; says he will push for legis study of over-all problem of news-source protection, as urged by Cahill; rev of jailing of reporter P J Bridge for refusing to disclose his source; illus of Wallwork
Date: 21 March 1973
Govt of Cambodian Pres Lon Nol on Mar 21 arrests newspaper editors Bouy Sreng (Sangarous) and Po Kim (Seng) under state of emergency declared in Cambodia after air attacks on pres residence
Date: 21 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
W G Florence, former Air Force officer concerned with classification of Govt secrets, testifies at Pentagon papers trial on March 20 that there is no real way to tell whether papers were properly classified 'top secret-sensitive', partly because L Gelb, head of study group that compiled papers, did not have authority to give papers original 'top secret' classification; says that 1 of documents in case, '68 Joint Chiefs of Staff memo, would have been virtually useless to foreign intelligence because there was nothing in document itself to authenticate whether it was genuine
Date: 20 March 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Defense consultant, W G Florence, who has served 22 yrs in Army and Air Force as specialist in classification of secrets, testifies on March 19 at Pentagon papers trial that label 'top secret' on documents would be given little weight by foreign country because US Govt has 'ruined the integrity of the classification system'; says an analyst would know that classification was put on 'many times by an individual with no authority and by individuals for personal reasons'; says analyst would know that information might have been very outdated, that it could have been declassified long before and that 'much more information is classified than is ever declassified'
Date: 21 March 1973
By THEODORE SHABAD
Theodore SHABAD
USSR Min L A Kostandov, who has been criticized in official press for shortcomings in supply of mineral fertilizer for nation's hard-pressed agr, takes unusual step on Mar 20 by meeting with Soviet and foreign newsmen to defend himself against charges; says that newsmen misunderstood 'crisis' in fertilizer business; situation, even though taken lightly by Kostandov, was considered serious enough to result in publication of special decree of Communist party's Central Com on Mar 11 and convening of day-long policy meeting on fertilizer issue the next day; decree accuses Min of Chemical Indus of making poor use of its production capacity and turning out too much low quality fertilizer; at policy meeting, Kostandov publicly acknowledged criticism and promised to correct situation; Soviet fertilizer production has been increasing at rapid rate but has been consistently plagued by low efficiency; reliable harvests in USSR are thought to depend on better fertilizer supply; Kostandov holds that indus not only fulfilled its plan for last 2 yrs, but delivered to agr 1-million tons of fertilizer in excess of what was expected; concedes that some fertilizer plants are not meeting goals, either because of disruptions in supply of raw materials or because of antiquated equipment; claims that new fertilizer capacity being commissioned is designed for production of more advanced, concentrated and mixed fertilizers; adds that older plants will be gradually reconstructed and modernized; discloses that, far from being under cloud, he has been given additional responsibility of coordinating all fertilizer production