A Key Report in Scandal Is Upheld in South Africa
Date: 03 April 1979
Special to The New York Times
S African Govt inquiry gives 1st official confirmation that Information Ministry attempted to gain control of Washington Star as part of worldwide effort to defend country's racial policies; inquiry panel repts that project was funded by $10 million transfer from Defense Ministry's secret fund to Union Bank of Switzerland in Sept '74; panel, headed by Judge Rudolf P Erasmus, makes disclosure in rept that absolves Prime Min P W Botha and members of his Cabinet of responsibility for 'irregularities' in Information Ministry's secret projects (S)
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West Germans Try 11 Terrorists
Date: 03 April 1979
11 young people who took over news agency office in Frankfurt to get publicity for 2 jailed urban guerrillas go on trial charged with supporting terrorist orgn (S)
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Cairo Paper Is Said to Ask Eban To Do a Regular Political Column
Date: 04 April 1979
Israeli newspaper Maariv repts editor of Cairo newspaper Al Ahram has invited former Israeli Foreign Min Abba Eban to write regular column
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Reporter's Notebook: Nuclear 'Event'
Date: 03 April 1979
By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr. Special to The New York Times
Newsmen working in vicinity of Three Mile Island nuclear plant have been issued individual radiation detectors as backup to detectors in grid (S)
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The Region; Milk Strikers Refuse Binding Arbitration
Date: 04 April 1979
Conn Gov Ella Grasso signs into law bill prohibiting surprise police searches of newsrooms in Conn, effective Oct 1 (S)
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CARTER MAPS POLICY TO PROTECT PRIVACY; Bids Congress Reverse High Court and Ban Newsroom Searches CARTER MAPS POLICY TO PROTECT PRIVACY Claim Called Legitimate Two Principles Cited
Date: 03 April 1979
By MARTIN TOLCHIN Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
Pres Carter, calling for legis to protect Amers from threats to privacy, reverses stand and asks for passage of bill to overturn Sup Ct's decision in Stanford Daily case; decision upheld police searches of newspaper offices; Carter sees dangers to free press; Asst Atty Gen Philip B Heyman comments on Carter shift
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Notes on People; British Enter Broadway Battle With Trafalgar A Party for a 'Quintessential New Yorker' A Castle 'Just for Fun' Mario Who? Lecture Series at N.Y.U. Will Honor Chet Huntley
Date: 04 April 1979
Clyde Haberman Albin Krebs
Clyde Albin
Lecture series honoring former NBC anchorman Chet Huntley has been established at NY Univ; lectures are being jointly sponsored by NBC News, NYU and ad agency of Levine Huntley Schmidt Plapler & Beaver Inc (S)
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In Plant Vicinity, Suspicion and Doubt; Relieved by News
Date: 03 April 1979
By ALAN RICHMAN Special to The New York Times
Alan Special
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COMPANY NEWS; Posner Discloses 11.7% Share in APL
Date: 04 April 1979
Mesa Petroleum to sell its 2 British subsidiaries, Mesa Eastern Inc and Mesa (UK), to state-owned British National Oil Corp by June 30; companies also agree that British National will acquire 13% of Mesa's Beatrice Field interest for itself (S)
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