PRESS OMBUDSMAN DESCRIBES WORK; Libel Is Main Complaint Very Liberal Options Swedish Aide Acts onBehalf of People and Corporations Documents Are Public
Date: 23 September 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
L Groll, Swedish press ombudsman visiting US to give seminars on press freedom, comments of status of press in Sweden; says that press freedom is such accepted fact of life in Sweden that Swedish Freedom of Press Act not only grants journalists right to protect their news sources, but makes it crime to reveal their sources; says his job consists of acting on behalf of groups of citizens and corps and responding to complaints filed against press by those who are hurting after their names appear in print; Groll por
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Tunisians Report Moves to Expel 2 Soviet Envoys
Date: 23 September 1973
Tunisian news agency says on Sept 22 that Tunisia has declared 2 unidentified Soviet diplomats unwelcome; alleges that 'faced with irrefutable proof, they admitted responsibility for manipulation involving Tunisia and a neighboring brother country'; repts that Soviet correspondent for Novosti press agency V Kouzavrov is under arrest on charges of spying
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Small-Town Weeklies of All Kinds Thriving; Revolution in Weeklies
Date: 23 September 1973
By BILL D. ROSS
L Burns, exec dir of NJ Press Assn, comments on success of small-town wkly newspapers in NJ; notes that Amer Newspaper Reprs Inc lists 204 NJ wklys with paid circulation of 1,361,805 and estimated readership of 5,447,220; says papers' popularity involves vast tech advances in printing, changing editorial concepts and modernized mgt approaches
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SOVIET ARRESTS JEW DETAINS A NEWSMAN
Date: 24 September 1973
Special to The New York Times
Soviet authorities on Sept 23 arrest Latvian Jew A Shpilberg for demonstrating outside Communist party's Central Com bldg and detain AP correspondent R Leddington for 90 mins; Shpilberg has requested permission to emmigrate to Israel to join his wife and child; his family was permitted to leave for Israel, while Shpilberg was completing 3-yr prison term on charges of complicity to hijack Soviet airliner to flee to Israel; Shpilberg reptdly told friends that officials said he would not get visa because he has refused to plead guilty at his trial; Leddington says that plainclothes agents and special Central Com guards apprehended him and took his film after he repeatedly refused to surrender it; claims that Soviet officials also refused his repeated requests for permission to telephone US Embassy
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World News Briefs; Italy Given Apology In Libyan Strafing
Date: 23 September 1973
Special to The New York Times
IRA says on Sept 22 that it has killed Roman Cath James Brown from Londonderry, N Ireland, for spying for Brit Army; says Brown confessed to giving information to Brit that led to army raids and arrest of orgn's men; Brown's body was found in Londonderry st on Sept 21; J Bryson, sr officer of Provisional wing of IRA who as wounded in gun-battle with Brit troops 3 wks ago, dies in hospital; latest deaths death toll to 886 in 4 yrs of sectarian strife in N Ireland
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News Summary and Index; The Major Events of the Day
Date: 24 September 1973
correction story notes article failed to say that Dr I S Cooper developed operation to relieve disorder known as dystonia; notes that operation is described in his new book The Victim Is Always The Same
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K.&B. Plans Jersey High-Rise; News of the Realty Trade
Date: 23 September 1973
Investors Funding Corp of NY names Dr R M Dansker vp of bd, E G Fielding as exec vp and controller, R Dale and S D Haymes as exec vps
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