Strike to End at Indian Paper
Date: 22 August 1979
New Delhi Times will reappear on Aug 23, ending 9-week-old strike (S)
21 Ağustos 1979, Salı yıldız işaretinin altında bir ♌ idi. Yılın 232 günüydü. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Başkanı Jimmy Carter idi.
Bu günde doğduysanız, 46 yaşındasınız. Son doğum gününüz 21 Ağustos 2025 Perşembe, 325 gün önceydi. Bir sonraki doğum gününüz 21 Ağustos 2026 Cuma gün sonra, 39 günü. 17.127 gün veya yaklaşık 411.067 saat veya yaklaşık 24.664.057 dakika veya yaklaşık 1.479.843.420 saniye yaşadınız.
Date: 22 August 1979
New Delhi Times will reappear on Aug 23, ending 9-week-old strike (S)
Date: 21 August 1979
Iran's religious leaders shut down 22 opposition newspapers; among newspapers silenced are official outlets of centrist National Democratic Front, Tudeh, or Communist, Party and Marxist People's Fedayeen guerrilla group; Turkish-language paper is also shut down (M)
Date: 22 August 1979
Iranian authorities, in continuing crackdown, order journalists Towyn Mason (BBC), Andrew Whitley (London Financial Times), Jerome Dumoulin (L'Express) and 2 from West Germany to leave country (S)
Date: 21 August 1979
William Dedrick, vice president of Franklin Bank in Paterson, NJ, has filed suit against WNEW-TV charging his wife's life was unnecessarily endangered in July when news crew followed him as he was meeting her abductors' demands; suit, filed against Metromedia Inc, Mark Monsky, WNEW-TV news director, and 5 unnamed camera-crew members, seeks $200,000 damages on each of 3 counts of unlawful eavesdropping of radio communications (S)
Date: 22 August 1979
Topics Column editorial lauds trend throughout US of courts opening up their proceedings to TV cameras
Date: 22 August 1979
Special to The New York Times
East Germany announces arrest of West German journalist Peter Felten on charges of espionage; it is 1st such case to become known since East German Government put into effect 3 weeks ago new restrictions that West Germany has criticized as hampering East-West ties (S)
Date: 22 August 1979
By RICHARD J. MEISLIN Special to The New York Times
Richard MEISLIN
New Government announces sweeping bill of rights for its citizens, promising them equal rights under law, orderly process of justice and, with some limits, right to free expression; civil liberties exempt from suspension provisions are prohibitions against torture, slavery, imprisonment for debt, use of compulsory methods of changing thought or religious beliefs and arbitrary revocation of nationality; bill becomes effective immediately for all but those people who are under investigation for possible crimes committed during Somoza regime; Government simultaneously announces that order giving it emergency power to rule has been extended for 30 days; bill also abolishes death penalty; other specifics of bill noted (M)
Date: 22 August 1979
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
NBC vice chmn Richard S Salant reportedly has decided to replace Lester Crystal as pres of news division (M)