South Africa Detains a Journalist Over Data on Murder of Official
Date: 22 May 1980
Ken Owen, assistant editor of Johannesburg Sunday Times, is questioned by police and ordered to appear in court for refusing to say who gave him information about Government monetary expert whose subsequent murder in '77 has not been solved; says he was asked to identify Government official he had mentioned in testimony before commission investigating South Africa's slush-fund scandal that led to resignation of Pres John Vorster (S)
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Hostage Issue Recedes As the Administration Mutes Its Crisis Status; Hostage Issue Recedes as President Stops Treating It as a Major Crisis Steps Toward De-emphasis Opinions on Carter Actions Unanswered Questions
Date: 23 May 1980
By JOHN HERBERS
John HERBERS
Subject of American hostages in Iran has receded as leading item in news and as issue in political campaign because of Carter Administration's decision to stop treating it as major crisis (M)
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LaChance Agrees to a Union Leave; Letter From Union Cited
Date: 22 May 1980
By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH
Arnold LUBASCH
Douglas LaChance declares through his lawyers that he has suspended himself from all duties as president of newspaper deliverers union to comply with court order; position is presented at hearing before Judge Milton Pollack in Federal District Court in Manhattan; defense lawyer John J Tigue Jr stresses that LaChance is taking vacation from union that will 'totally dissociate' him from his position, pending appeal of his conviction; Tigue cites letter from union lawyer, Kevin B McGrath, that asserts that LaChance now has 'nothing to do with union activities'; letter appears to leave union's leadership for time being in hands of Lawrence May, vice president, and other officers of independent union; LaChance por (S)
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Top Jersey Court Moves to Protect Reporter's Notes; Confidentiality Is Upheld a 2d Time by 6-to-1 Vote Said It Was Available Elsewhere
Date: 22 May 1980
NJ Supreme Court, 6-1, rules for second time that Goldstein's notes and materials from prosecution informer Patrick Pizuto should remain confidential if information is available from other sources; defense attorneys have sought to review letters (M)
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Around the Nation; St. Louis Integration Order Is Viewed as Unprecedented New Hampshire High Court Rules Against a Newspaper Judge Bars Graduation From a Church in Idaho Prosecution Rests Case In Utah Murder Trial Federal Judge Dismisses Job Bias Suit Against Sears
Date: 23 May 1980
Federal District Judge Robert Varner dismisses suit by EEOC that accused Sears Roebuck & Co of racial discrimination in hiring; says commission failed to satisfy Federal law requiring agency's commissioner to verify any charge brought by commission (S)
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Notes on People; Gloria Vanderbilt Sues River House on Co-op Rebuff Brother and Sister Getting Air Force Academy Wings He's Counted Out Cronkite Ailing
Date: 22 May 1980
Judith Cummings Albin Krebs
Judith Albin
Gail and Vaughn Benjamin Jr are 1st brother and sister to graduate; they comment (S)
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Soviet 'Peace Offensive': Mood in Europe Grows Fearful; News Analysis
Date: 23 May 1980
By FLORA LEWIS Special to The New York Times
Flora Special
News analysis of USSR's peace offensive, notably Giscard-Brezhnev meeting; holds flurry of diplomacy and declarations of recent weeks has shown that Russians are not interested in negotiations, intending instead to increase nuclear arsenal targeted on Western Europe while implying that Europe could become scene of nuclear devastation without direct involvement of US; notes USSR has sought to mobilize public opinion against Western denunciations of Afghan invasion through fear of confrontation, and is offering continued detente and peaceful relations with Western Europe provided it pulls away from US leadership; holds Soviet moves have caused fright in Europe
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Miami's Racial Trouble Points to Gap in City's Leadership; News Analysis No Prevailing Influence Leadership Discouraged
Date: 23 May 1980
By JON NORDHEIMER Special to The New York Times
Jon Special
analysis of recent riots; attributes racial problems partly to gap in city's leadership and partly to city's social history (M)
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