Protesters on the air

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33675, 26 October 1974, Page 20

Protesters on the air

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON. Four demonstrators, including a priest, slipped past a guard at the American Broadcasting Company’s newsroom in Washington tonight and made a brief on-the-air protest on behalf of political prisoners in Northern Ireland. The four — two men and two women — carried a petition protesting over what they called the failure of United States news media to report “the torture of political prisoners by the British in Northern Ireland.” The protest occurred during the A.B.C. evening news programme, and the demonstrators were seen on television screens in about 30 cities. The news programme was later retaped for broadcast elsewhere across the country. Police arrested the Rev. Sean McManus, aged 30; Mr Sean Walsh, aged 24; Miss Mary Baggarly, aged 29; and Miss Maria Fogarty, aged 24. All were released after paying fines of $lO each on charges of disorderly conduct. Chiropractic bill.—A bill to bring chiropractic services inside the social security system will be introduced in Parliament today by a Labour backbencher, Mrs D. C. Jelicich (Hamilton West). — (P.A.)