Bermuda Stops Paper From Printing Article About a Public Figure
Date: 18 March 1980
Newspaper The Mid-Ocean News has been barred by Bermuda's Supreme Court from printing investigative article about a public figure; newspaper's editor Gavin Shorto says continued freedom of the press has been jeopardized; adds that his lawyers have advised him not to disclose contents of the article or judge's order (S)
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Editor of Riyadh Paper Is Ordered Dismissed
Date: 18 March 1980
Saudi authorities have ordered dismissal of Turki Abdullah al-Sudari, chief editor of Riyadh newspaper Al Riyadh, and banned him from writing (S)
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8 TAIWAN DISSIDENTS GO ON TRIAL TODAY; Accused of Sedition in Connection With Anti-Government Rioting in Kaohsiung on Dec. 10 Kennedy Sees Ties Endangered Links With New York Group
Date: 18 March 1980
By JAMES P. STERBA Special to The New York Times
James STERBA
8 Taiwan dissidents, accused of sedition in connection with anti-Government rioting in Kaohsiung in Dec '79, go on trial; 7 of defendants are accused of collaborating through Formosa magazine with New York-based Taiwan independence group, World United Formosans for Independence (M)
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Taiwan Dissidents Charge Coercion as Trial Opens
Date: 19 March 1980
By JAMES P. STERBA Special to The New York Times
James STERBA
trial of 8 Taiwan dissidents opens in military court, Taipei, with defense arguments that police interrogators coerced confessions of seditious acts from defendants; 8 are charged with using their publication, Formosa magazine, as legal cover to organize opposition movement to ruling Kuomintang Party; human rights groups observing trial see it providing indicator of level of opposition Kuomintang will tolerate in future (M)
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Papers in Raleigh, N.C., Borrow Equipment to Publish After Fire
Date: 18 March 1980
Raleigh News and Observer and Raleigh Times, after 4 1/2-hour fire that knocked out presses, borrow equipment from Durham Herald and Sun to print 8-page papers without advertising; News and Observer vice president Claude Sitton and publisher Frank Daniels Jr comment (S)
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U.S. Monitoring Board Thrust Into Public Eye
Date: 19 March 1980
Special to The New York Times
reports came from Foreign Broadcast Information Service, little-known branch of Central Intelligence Agency, a monitoring service which publishes reports on activities in all parts of world (S)
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In Brooklyn, an Eagle Eye for Lore; 'The Voice of Brooklyn' $1.25 a Week in 1920
Date: 18 March 1980
By CLYDE HABERMAN
Clyde HABERMAN
Former editors, reporters, photographers, advertising salesmen, printers and truck drivers, who worked for Eagle, gather at River Cafe, Brooklyn, to commemorate 25th anniversary of paper's closing; Henry W Connors, Eagle's last city editor, comments; illus of last front page and of Richard J Roth and Harold Harris (M)
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Judge Tells Broadcasters To Yield Synanon Data
Date: 19 March 1980
14 radio and TV stations in California are ordered by Superior Court, Los Angeles, to turn over news broadcasts of alleged Synanon Foundation plot to hide rattlesnake in mailbox of Los Angeles atty Paul Morantz (S)
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Omission in Transcript of Carter News Conference; Omitted Question Following Question
Date: 18 March 1980
part of transcript of Carter's Mar 14 news conference was omitted; text
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Soviet Says the Olympics Are On Despite Any Boycott; Preparations in Full Swing
Date: 19 March 1980
By CRAIG R. WHITNEY Special to The New York Times
Craig WHITNEY
Pravda editorial says US has been trying to spoil Moscow Olympics ever since '78 trial of dissident Anatoly Shcharansky (S)
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