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Ex-Ambassador To Ireland Dead bb5 Apr. 27, 1973 PPESS, Binghamton, N.Y. 9-B Anti-Secrecy Act Plans to Get Airing WASHINGTON (AP) The administration's sition on proposals to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act is to be presented at congressional hearings early next month. The act, passed in 1966, was He also was a potent force in Democratic politics. For seven years he was national treasurer, raising more than $20 million.

"A successful builder has to be a good organizer," he once said. "Everything has to have a system. When the steel arrives, the nuts and bolts better be there. This is also true of. politics." McCloskey is credited with introducing $100-a-plate dinners to political fund raising.

His first, in 1934, drew 12 takers, but a- year later almost 2,000 turned up at a testimonial for James A. Farley, then' Democratic national chairman. In 1961, the late President John F. Kennedy appointed McCloskey ambassador to Ireland. Starting as an errand boy at 15, McCloskey built one of the 10 largest construction companies in the country.

The company's credits include the Philadelphia Convention Hall, the House Office Building in Washington, and the extension of the east front of the Capitol. He is survived by his wife, Helen, three sons, three daughters and 26 PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Matthew H. McCloskey former U.S. ambassador to Ireland and a long-time Democratic party fund raiser, is dead at 80. McCloskey died Thursday at a suburban Philadelphia hospital.

The grandson of Irish immigrants, McCloskey was born in Wheeling, W. Va. He was one of eight children. Short and stocky, McCloskey founded a construction com- MATTHEW II. McCLOSKEY JR.

pany which changed much of Philadelphia's skyline. A jovial friend of presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt, McCloskey worked hard for his party and contributed generously to the Philadelphia archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church. mm "'X. I- brought to force release of in- formation under the act.

Agency interpretation Of. the present law as requiring'' that requested information be specifically identified by title file number something', generally not available to', newsmen and others outside the government. The legislation would re-; quire agencies to respond to-requests for "records which;" are reasonably described." The refusal of the courts to examine in private the contents of classified documents withheld by government agencies to determine if they' properly fell within the national security field or other statuatory exemptions. The proposed amendments; would expressly empower the courts to conduct such exam-. inations to assure judicial re view and oversight of agency classification.

Other amendments would al- low the courts to award costs; and attorneys' fees to successful private litigants; prevents releasable information from intended to assure greater public access to government information, but efforts to make use of it have been described as often frustrating and costly. Identical proposals to amend it have been introduced in the Senate and the House, with Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, and Rep. William S.

Moorhead, as the chief sponsors. A 1 1 Gen. Richard G. Rleindienst is to testify on them May 9 at hearings on government secrecy being conducted jointly by three Senate subcommittees. Staff aides said his testimony also will deal with a recent administration proposal to tighten present criminal law against disclosure of classified documents by federal employes.

A House subcommittee headed by Moorhead is to start hearings on the Freedom of Information Act amendments May 2, with as yet un-named administration witnesses testifying the next week. At hearings held by the Senate subcommittees in mid-April, obstacles that have been encountered in realizing the purposes of the act were described in considerable detail. They included: Long delays in agency responses to requests for information, plus additional delays when an appeal is taken from an initial denial. The proposed amendments would require agencies to respond to original requests within 10 working days and to appeals from denials within 20 working days. They also would require the government to respond within 20 days to court actions CLEARING AWAY ROOF'-Workers in Hilo, on island of Hawaii, clear debris of roof that caved in on a frame building during earthquake that shook Hawaiian Island chain Thursday.

One man suffered a broken leg when he was pinned briefly under the debris. Japanese Get Strike Holiday Haivaii Earthquake Damage Moderate It's AU But Let's Take a Look Associated Presi WIREPHOTO. The most serious injury reported to police was a broken leg. That injury occurred when the roof of a frame building collapsed, pinning a man beneath the debris for a time. Structural damage -caused by the quake was confined to the Hilo area, Shanks said.

He said many stores in the downtown area suffered broken display windows. being comingled with confidential information in a single file, and further restrict, the types of information ex-. empt from disclosure. Harding F. Bancroft, execu- tive vice president of The New York Times, testified the amendments would "increase, although not guarantee, the ability of the press to contain government information which should properly be in hands of the public." Ralph Nader, who has been, active with his associates in- seeking information under the.

act, generally endorsed the amendments but also called for additional remedies. SALE AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Some Texas lawmakers have asked for a private showing of "Deep Throat" and "Last Tango in Paris" so they can see, uh, just how bad they are. The Intergovernmental Affairs Committee of the Texas House voted 12 to 1 Thursday night to subpoena the films. Rep.

Billy Williamson, D-Tyler, said the committee should see them and then vote for his bill to allow cities to license theater operators. Licenses could be revoked if X-rated films were shown to persons under 18. "I'm here to challenge this committee to subpoena some of the current filth that is circulating in our land, that would subvert the morals of our youth," William said. He said a newsman told him "Deep Throat" was such a film, "and something called "You all will be so inflamed that you A burst of laughter interrupted him. "You're looking for the word said Rep.

James Raster, D-EI Paso, chairman, of the committee. "So incensed," Williamson continued, "that you would Again the room rocked with laughter. Raster completed the sentence for him, Vote your bill out." LAFAYETTE CLEARANCE SALE ENDS SA TURD A rested outside a Tokyo station and charged with obstructing police. The big department stores and many other businesses did not open. Many offices were closed.

Some companies got their employes to work by car or special buses, while others laid out mattresses on the premises for those who refused to go home Thursday night. Auto traffic was unusually heavy but moved relatively briskly. One of the two major domestic airlines was struck. The sleek, high-speed trains of the o-Osaka-Okayama line thinned out to one every two hours; normally they leave Tokyo and Osaka every 15 minutes. In contrast to Tuesday and Wednesday, when enraged commuters went berserk because of a workers' slowdown on the National Railways, no serious violence was reported.

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But the 250,000 employes of the National Railway stayed out as negotiations continued on their demands for an average hike of $78 monthly, the right to strike for themselves and all other government employes, and an admission from the government that past dis: ciplinary action against them' was too harsh. More than 24 million people were unable to get to work. The private rail workers agreed to settle early in the afternoon, but by then nearly 18,000 trains had been immobilized. About 380 helmeted radical students demonstrating in support of the strikers were ar- Changing Times Saga Splits States By the Associated Press Most of the nation will lose an hour this weekend to make summer days seem longer. Daylight Saving Time goes into effect at 2 a.m.

Sunday. Those who remember will set their clocks ahead one hour. The conversion applies throughout or in parts of 43 states, with Hawaii and Arizona the last complete holdouts. In Indiana and Michigan, on the border between Central and Eastern Time, the situation varies among different counties. In Indiana, 12 counties in the Central time zone will observe Daylight Saving Time, but the other 80 counties, in the Eastern zone, will officially remain on standard time.

Seven of those 80 counties, however, unofficially observe daylight time in order to go along with the nearby cities of Louisville, and Cincinnati, Ohio. In Michigan, most of the state observes Eastern Daylight Saving Time, but four counties bordering on Wisconsin will not change their clocks. Instead, they will switch permanently to Central Time by order of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The idea is to promote business ties with Wisconsin.

Officials of the four counties had asked for the change. In Oregon, a state Senate committee has reported out a resolution urging Congress to make Daylight Saving Time a nation-wide standard throughout the year. HILO, Hawaii (AP) An earthquake which shook the Hawaiian island chain did moderate damage to structures in Hilo, the state's second largest city. Police said eight persons were injured, but no deaths were reported. The tremor struck Thursday with its epicenter located a dozen miles north of Hilo a sea coast town of 26,000 personsat a depth of about 25 miles, said Bob Shanks, chief of the state civil defense agency in Honolulu.

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