New Hearing, New Wrinkles In Appeals on H-Bomb Case
Date: 16 September 1979
By ANTHONY LEWIS
Anthony LEWIS
Anthony Lewis comment on issues involved in Government's prior restraint case against The Progressive; notes argument posed by counsel for Government, Deputy Assistant Atty Gen Thomas S Martin, states: disputed material in article by Howard Morland is not concerned with policy or ideas, but is technical information on weaponry, which is not protected by 1st Amendment; holds possible harm is so grave that it outweighs inability to show direct causation; holds case is different from Pentagon Papers because it comes under statute explicitly allowing prior restraint of publications that disclose nuclear weapons data; Earl Munson, counsel for Progressive, argued that essence of article has already appeared elsewhere and material is in public domain; Morland por (M)
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SALVADORAN POLICE FIRE ON PROTESTERS; 3 Youths Are Killed and 30 Injured as Government Move Raises Tensions in the Capital
Date: 15 September 1979
By ALAN RIDING Special to The New York Times
Alan Special
Salvadoran security forces open fire on anti-Government protest march by militant students and teachers; among those injured is Kathy Barber Hersh of ABC Radio (S)
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Judge Bars Newspaper On Coast From Using Letter About H-Bomb; Judge Bars Coast Paper From Printing H-Bomb Letter
Date: 16 September 1979
Justice Department obtains Federal court order barring Daily Californian, student-run newspaper in Berkeley, from publishing letter by Charles Hansen that Government contends includes secrets about hydrogen bomb; Judge Robert H Schnacke says he signed order after department lawyers requested temporary restaining order; newspaper editor-in-chief Tom Abate says he will not comment on order until he has discussed it with lawyers; Justice Department officials say they filed suit at request of Energy Sec Charles W Duncan Jr; Milwaukee Sentinel says that Energy Department asked it to sunender its copy of letter; says it refused, but has no intention of publishing any classified information from letter; Sentinel editor Robert Wills comments; Mark Sheehan, Justice Department spokesman, says it will be up to Energy Department to decide whether to act against Sentinel (M)
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Time Magazine Erred in Calling Facility in Cuba a Soviet Station; 'Electronic Monitoring Complex'
Date: 15 September 1979
Facility described as 'Soviet-built intelligence station in Cuba' pictured in Sept 17 issue of Time magazine apparently is instead installation built by ITT in '57 to relay telephone calls between Cuba and US (S)
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Senator Asked to Surrender Letter
Date: 16 September 1979
Federal officials ask Sen Charles H Percy to sunender letter mailed to him by Hansen; Percy at 1st said he would keep letter, but later announced he would turn it over to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (S)
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Rights Group Visiting Argentina Pleased at Coverage by Its Press
Date: 15 September 1979
By JUAN de ONIS Special to The New York Times
Juan de ONIS
Inter-American Human Rights Commission members investigating conditions in Argentina are surprised by wide coverage of their work in Argentine press (M)
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Follow-Up on the News; German Whodunit
Date: 16 September 1979
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
Follow-up item on American contract bridge experts Richard Katz and Larry Cohen, who were suspected of cheating during '77 American Contract Bridge League tournament; Katz and Cohen sued league and 3 officials in March '77, asking reinstatement in league and $48 million in damages, contending they were falsely accused and were pressured into resigning; lawyer Lewis Burger says antitrust suit will be filed against league, arguing that organization is only one that can be joined professionally to play contract bridge in US (M)
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World News Briefs; 2,500 in El Salvador March In Funeral of 2 Leftists
Date: 16 September 1979
China charges that Cuba discriminated against Chinese journalists at recent meeting of 3d-world nations in Havana, and accuses USSR of organized eavesdropping on other journalists there; New China News Agency says in commentary that Chinese reporters were barred by Cuban authorities from covering certain events at meeting (S)
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