Mrs. Gandhi Lifts Curbs on Press, Speeds the Release of Prisoners; Mrs. Gandhi Lifts Curbs on Press, Speeds Political Prisoner Release
Date: 21 January 1977
BY WILLIAM BORDERS Special to The New York Times
William Special
Govt announces that it is lifting press censorship and instructs state authorities to 'expedite' release of pol prisoners; leaders of 4 principal opposition parties announce that they will merge into united front to present electorate with natl alternative to Gandhi's Cong Party; Desai, who is acting as leader of effort to pull 4-party front together, says Jaya Prakash Narayan will join party discussions; Home Min says it has instructed state govts to allow public meetings for pol activity; Information Min V C Shukla urges press not to publish repts which may disturb law and order (M)
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U.S. Judge Asked By Times to Drop A Contempt Move
Date: 21 January 1977
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
NY Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, exec editor A M Rosenthal and reporter Seymour Hersh file legal papers asking Fed Dist Judge C Clyde Atkins to withdraw order seeking to hold them in criminal contempt (S)
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News Summary; The Inauguration
Date: 21 January 1977
illus, with Mrs Mondale and Sen Howard W Cannon looking on
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News Comes Late For Closed Hotel
Date: 20 January 1977
Discovery by Fed scientists that previously unknown bacterium apparently caused so-called legionnaires' disease comes too late for Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Phila, which closed in Nov because of bad publicity it recd over outbreak; Bruce Greenfield, pres of Bankers Security Corp, says hotel will not be reopened (S)
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Haig Says Soviet Retains Hope of A-War Victory
Date: 20 January 1977
NATO comdr Gen Alexander M Haig Jr, in int in Belgian magazine Knack, says reptd Soviet stress on civil defense means USSR has not abandoned concept of victory in nuclear war (S)
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A Potemkin Village for Machismo
Date: 20 January 1977
Ed offers advice to Carter; calls for daily news confs and internatl crisis in early days of Adm to give Carter feeling he has been tested
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