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...Disruption Program" running from 1961 to 1969; a "limited national security electronic surveillance of certain plaintiffs" from 1945-1963; the placing of a "mail cover" on all correspondence to the SWP national headquarters from January to May 1973. The "SWP Disruption Program" was first made public by NBC newsman Carl Stern, who had obtained original FBI documents. And as far as the "national security" rationale--well, thanks to Watergate, we all know how that phrase is used. Perhaps the only question now bruited about in Washington is, "Will Nixon place a national security blanket on his tax returns...
Most major bureaus now have law school graduates adept at slicing through legalistic gristle. Among them: Carl Stern of NBC, Jack Landau of the Newhouse chain, Wayne Greer of the Wall Street Journal, Lesley Oelsner of the New York Times and David Beckwith of TIME. Several have gained special recognition for their Watergate coverage. Stern, 36, became familiar to millions of viewers of the televised Watergate hearings when NBC Anchor Man John Chancellor would turn to his colleague and inquire, "What's the law on that, Carl?" After one of Stern's lucid explanations on some fine point...
...NBC Presents: White Collar America. NBC examines the life of America's office workers and probably concludes what we all know: that such work usually involves either cut-throat competition or stifling boredom. Still this is probably worth watching. NBC documentaries are usually meticulously researched and well reported. Ch. 4, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
Shockley and Innis have debated only once, on the NBC-TV Tomorrow show last December. They were scheduled to debate at Princeton University in December, but Innis refused to speak and Shockley debated Ashley Montagu, a Rutgers University professor of anthropology, instead...
...newsmen are resigned to more of the same from "News Watch." Says NBC News President Richard Wald: "It doesn't sound like they're making an enormous effort to be fair." CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite adopts a more stoical attitude: "This is the meaning of a free press. They're certainly entitled to print any criticism they want." One network executive takes the same elitist stance that angers Buchanan: "No one with an IQ over 70 reads anything in TV Guide except the listings." Which is a cute quip, but not quite accurate; network brass read...