Network Says Court Will Rule Against Journalists; No Comment From Court
Date: 17 April 1979
ABC says that Supreme Court will soon rule that journalists facing libel suits may be forced to tell what their state of mind was while they prepared contested news reports; repts Court has decided important free-press controversy and that Associate Justice Byron R White will write majority opinion
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Post Editor Testifies on Photographs of Berkowitz; Officer Granted Immunity
Date: 17 April 1979
By LAURIE JOHNSTON
Laurie JOHNSTON
NY Post metropolitan editor Peter Michaelmore, testifying at pretrial hearing in NYS Sup Ct, Bklyn, at which freelance writer James Mitteager is seeking dismissal of charges that he bribed correction officer Herbert Clarke to obtain photographs of David Berkowitz in his cell at Kings County Med Center, says that he did not know at time that Mitteager was paying source inside prison (M)
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World News Briefs; 44 Are Rescued in Baltic From Burning Polish Ship London Times Official Says Paper's Future Is in Doubt U.S. Cautions Grenada On a Military Tie With Cuba U.S. and Soviet Increase Indian Ocean Naval Forces
Date: 17 April 1979
snag in talks with printers' union has forced London Times to abandon plans to resume publishing again on April 16 after break of 4 1/2 months; Times Newspaper Ltd general manager Dugal Nisbet-Smith says 'whole future is in doubt' (S)
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The Region; Inspection Uncovers Defects on Rail Line Talks Break Off At Elizabeth Paper 400 Gravestones Vandalized in Jersey For the Record
Date: 17 April 1979
Guild repts talks break off; management personnel is being brought in from Hagedone Newspaper Co to help with work; executive editor Richard Hight comments (S)
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Around the Nation; 50 Arrested in Confrontation At Newport News Shipyard
Date: 17 April 1979
both return to California (S)
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The Region; Dump Called Peril At Greenwood Lake 2 Youths Extradited In Attack on Officer Struck Jersey Paper Says It Will Publish Parkway Gas Bribes
Date: 16 April 1979
Elizabeth, NJ, Daily Journal plans to publish on April 16, despite strike; Guild vice chmn Gene Picker comments (S)
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A Victory for Tanzania, a Worry for Africa; News Analysis
Date: 16 April 1979
By JOHN DARNTON Special to The New York Times
John Special
analysis of Tanzanian invasion of Uganda; notes that this is 1st time in history of independent African countries that 1 nation has toppled govt of another; says danger of aggression may have increased on continent in wake of Tanzanian triumph (M)
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Sketches of Winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, the Arts and Letters
Date: 17 April 1979
Jon D Franklin, Baltimore Evening Sun science writer, receives Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for 2-part report on brain operation; is 1st winner in new category (S)
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