Elizabeth Newspaper Strikers Put Out Own Daily; Workers From Out of State
Date: 13 August 1979
By DAMON STETSON Special to The New York Times
Damon Special
Striking members of Elizabeth, NJ, Journal, continue to publish Community Paper; key issue in strike appears to be insistence by paper's owner, Hagadone Newspapers, that members of management exempt from union membership continue to be permitted to do work that only guild members are allowed to do under old guild contract; Newspaper Guild local president James G Kelly comments; striking workers have also complained of use of out-of-state workers to publish Journal during strike; guild filed charges against publisher John F McGaugh charging he had violated state law; illus (M)
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Coast Shopper's Paper Stakes Out Turf as Daily; Shopper on Coast Stakes Out Turf as Daily
Date: 14 August 1979
By PAMELA G. HOLLIE Special to The New York Times
Pamela HOLLIE
Comment on Valley News, suburban Los Angeles newspaper, which may pose serious challenge to Los Angeles Times; paper has established itself as dominant in San Fernando Valley; emphasizes local news; paper will begin publishing 7 days a week on Sept 10; illus of editor Bruce Winters, president J Scott Schmidt and executive vice president Thomas J Culligan; map; graph of circulation (M)
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IRAN IMPOSES CURBS FOR FOREIGN PRESS; New Rules Bar Unsupervised Talks With Officials--Warning Given Against 'Biased' Articles
Date: 14 August 1979
Iran's revolutionary Government issues severe rules for foreign correspondents, including ban on unsupervised interviews with Government officials and requirement that reporters apply for press cards every 3 months; thousands of demonstrators march from Teheran University to Prime Min Bazargan's office to protest new press code for domestic media (S)
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KHOMEINI'S BACKERS RAID HEADQUARTERS OF IRANIAN LEFTISTS; MOSLEMS ACT IN RETALIATION New Restrictions on Press Cause the Sharpest Strife in Teheran Since Islamic Revolution The Protest Sunday Islamic Militants Raid Iranian Leftist Offices Over Protest for Press
Date: 14 August 1979
leftist demonstrators in Teheran protest press law (S)
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Cuba Resumes A.P. News Service
Date: 14 August 1979
AP reports have been returned to Cuba after 10-year interruption during which country received no regular reports by agency; contract for distribution of AP dispatches by Prensa Latina is signed by AP vice president Stanley M Swinton (S)
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A TEHERAN PROTEST ON PAPERS' CLOSURE ERUPTS INTO RIOTING; HUNDREDS REPORTED INJURED Leftist Demonstrators, in a March to the Premier's Office, Clash With Islamic Militants
Date: 13 August 1979
hundreds of people are reported injured when Islamic militants clash with leftists protesting alleged suppression of press; rioting is most serious since overthrow of Shah 6 months ago; secular National Democratic Front called march; illus (M)
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Non-Communist Editor's Newspaper Is Flourishing in Ho Chi Minh City; Returned After Fall of Thieu Paper Achieved Quick Success 'Solution' for the Discontented
Date: 13 August 1979
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH Special to The New York Times
Article on Tin Sang, non-Communist newspaper that publishes in Ho Chi Minh City; editor Ngo Cong Duc comments on his return from exile to Saigon on May 29, 1975, 1 month after Communist takeover of city; notes that more critical news has been published under current Government than under regime of Nguyen Van Thieu; por (M)
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Bar Convention Debates Issue of TV in Courtrooms; 25 States Permit Use of TV
Date: 14 August 1979
By TOM GOLDSTEIN Special to The New York Times
Tom Special
Whitney North Seymour and Floyd Abrams argue US Supreme Court's decision in Gannett v DePasquale before mock panel of 'judges' at Amer Bar Assn annual meeting, Dallas; Seymour says Court struck down main argument for presence of media at criminal proceedings; Abrams says case applies only to pretrial hearings (M)
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Powell Says Court Has No Hostility Toward Press; 'Dependent on the Media'
Date: 14 August 1979
By LINDA GREENHOUSE Special to The New York Times
Linda Special
Supreme Court Assoc Justice Lewis F Powell Jr, in panel discussion at Amer Bar Assn annual meeting, Dallas, responds to question about judges in 2 cases who had cited Court's opinion (in Gannett v DePasquale) in barring press but not public from courtroom hearings; notes that opinion was based on anaylsis of Sixth Amendment right to public trial and did not reach issue of rights of access under First Amendment (M)
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