17 Şubat 1979, Cumartesi yıldız işaretinin altında bir ♒ idi. Yılın 47 günüydü. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Başkanı Jimmy Carter idi.
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Date: 18 February 1979
By RICHARD BURT
Richard BURT
Article on Pres Carter's admonishment of aides to support his foreign policy decisions; notes suggestions by observers and critics that Carter displeasure stems from Adm's continuing problems in reaching foreign policy decisions and explaining them to public, drawing (M)
Date: 17 February 1979
Farmers drive more than 100 tractors to Washington Post to protest newspaper eds critical of their demonstrations and demands for higher crop prices; some farmers burn stacks of newspapers on sidewalks outside Post bldg; Post ed page editor Philip Geyelin comments (S)
Date: 18 February 1979
NY Times will raise price of Sunday issue outside 50-mi radius of NYC to $1.10 from $1, starting with issue of March 4, 1979 (S)
Date: 17 February 1979
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
FBI says Charles Breen Dwyer has been charged with attempting to extort $2 million from Harry J Smith Jr, who controls snipping agency St John Internatl, on threat of exposing alleged illegal foreign bribe payments; alleged extortion plot appears linked to documents supplied to The Washington Post and US and Jamaican Govts that became part of source material for series of articles in The Post; Dwyer reptdly called Smith and threatened to expose details of illegal foreign payments Smith allegedly had made in connection with grain shipments to Jamaica unless Smith deposited $2 million in bank in Monaco; Smith reptd extortion attempt to FBI; The Post managing editor Howard Simons comments (M)
Date: 18 February 1979
Virginia Adams and Tom Ferrell
Virginia Adams
rev of Amer Bar Assn's House of Delegates voting down proposal to soften assn's opposition to cameras in courtrooms (S)
Date: 17 February 1979
By HEDRICK SMITH Special to The New York Times
Hedrick Special
News analysis finds liberals and conservatives in Cong disenchanted with Pres Carter's handling of Taiwan after establishing diplomatic relations with China
Date: 18 February 1979
By JOSEPH F. SULLIVAN
Joseph SULLIVAN
Analysis of how upcoming '79 Assembly elections will affect redrawing of Cong dist lines, move that will follow '80 census; if Dems continue to control both houses of ' Legis, 11 Dem Congressmen should find their dists virtually intact or carefully redrawn to enhance their re-election prospects; 4 Repub Reprs may find their voting strength diluted, or worse (M)