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President Nixon's plans for continuing wage-price restraint after the freeze ends Nov. 13 passed their first major hurdle last week when labor leaders agreed to go along with Phase II-at least for a while. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council decided to let five labor representatives sit on Nixon's proposed Pay Board, which will also have five business and five "public" members. The board will set general rules for pay increases and hear pleas for exemptions...
...Aalgaard, Norwegian Ambassador to Peking at the time and now assistant delegate to the U.N., commented recently at a press seminar of the Committee for a New China Policy that the implications of the Nixon Doctrine intrigued Peking. Each nation became alert to such subtle signs as Peking's restraint in public denounciations of Nixon and Washington's use of the proper name the "People's Republic of China" instead of Red China. These changes led to the reopening of the Warsaw talks...
...Phase II program of wage-price restraint breaks down, the destructive force most likely will be a rebellion by organized labor. Union chieftains are most apprehensive about Phase II, and their anxiety is being fanned by Administration refusals to let contracted wage increases be paid during the freeze. A.F.L-C.l.O. President George Meany has threatened noncompliance with post-freeze policy, and the United Auto Workers have scheduled a special convention on Nov. 13, the last day of the freeze, to decide their stand...
...restrained from publishing the Pentagon papers under the First Amendment's guarantee of press freedom. Since then the initial euphoria has faded. The Columbia Journalism Review rates the decision as a "severely qualified victory," and most editors agree. After all, three of the Justices thought prior restraint on publication was called for in that case, and individual opinions showed that a majority might favor its use in other circumstances. With the death of Justice Hugo Black, who felt the First Amendment gave the press blanket protection, future court votes might go even farther in the direction of restriction...
...recalled that before the favorable Supreme Court decision on the Pentagon papers, the press was in fact restrained for 15 days until it was allowed to publish. Representative Ogden Reid, former publisher of the now-defunct New York Herald-Tribune, emphasized that "this is the first time . . . that prior restraint has been sought by the Federal Government." As for the broadcasting industry, Walter Cronkite of CBS charged that because it is beholden to the Government for its right to exist, "it is at the mercy of politicians and bureaucrats. Its freedom has been curtailed by fiat, by assumption...