Affidavits Censored in Bomb Article Case; Atomic Energy Act Cited
Date: 21 March 1979
By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND Special to The New York Times
Douglas KNEELAND
US Atty's office suppresses large portions of affidavits submitted by Harold Morland to explain in detail how he had gathered material for his article and reached conclusions he did about how bomb works; Judge Robert W Warren has scheduled hearing for March 26 on Govt's motion for preliminary injunction; Progressive publisher Erwin Knoll comments on affidavits (M)
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Author of Article About H-Bomb Gives Affidavit in Magazine Fight
Date: 20 March 1979
Howard Morland, author of article on hydrogen bomb that Justice Dept wants to suppress, gives Govt his affidavit in fight to publish article in The Progressive magazine; Asst US Atty Fred Erhardt says his office and Govt scientists will study affidavit and decide by noon March 20 whether any or all of it can be made public; says original of affidavit will be filed in Fed Dist Ct in Milwaukee where Judge Robert W Warren is presiding (S)
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Lima Journalists Begin a Fast
Date: 20 March 1979
Special to The New York Times
4 Peruvian journalists lock themselves in crypt of Lima's cathedral in hunger strike to protest press censorship and mil Govt's closure of their publications (S)
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Private Detective Rank Is Backed for Reporters
Date: 21 March 1979
Mass HR gives preliminary approval to bill that would force investigative news reporters to register with state as private detectives; bill is introduced by Sen Denis L McKenna (S)
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Around the Nation; Four Found Not Guilty In Slaying of Polygamist
Date: 21 March 1979
Contempt of ct citation issued against Norfolk Ledger-Star reporter David Chandler is dismissed after Circuit Ct Judge James B Wilkinson decides that enough information had been obtained from Chandler to allow grand jury to proceed on its own (S)
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Letters; Jean Monnet, a Modern Man for the Ages To Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater One-Man Decisions On Foreign Policy The Great Promise Of a SALT Treaty Limits of 'Self-Defense' in Global Law Amtrak Era Children's Drink
Date: 20 March 1979
GEORGE W. BALLELIO GASPARISTEPHEN SCHOEMANEDWARD LAMBALFRED R. RUBINGREGORY BATTCOCKHARRY POLIKOFF
George BALLELIO
Prof Elio Gaspari lr on temporary restaining order imposed on Progressive
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World News Briefs; Commons Acts to Blunt Strike in Scottish Courts
Date: 21 March 1979
Prosecutor asks for acquittal of 4 former Nazi guards accused of murdering 250,000 Jews in Majdanek, Poland, concentration camp; holds evidence against defendants, Dr Heinrich Schmidt, Hermine Boettcher, Rosa Suess and Charlotte Meyer, is 'too inexact for verdict'; says proceedings will continue against 9 other defendants, including Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan (S)
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COMPANY NEWS; Big Oil Sand Project Is Sought in Alberta
Date: 21 March 1979
Internatl Shell group and its Canadian partners to begin regulatory process to obtain permit to build and operate commercial oil sand plant in NE Alberta at cost of almost $4 billion (Canadian); demand tax concessions worth about $400 million on top of approx $1.2 billion already pledged in various incentives to insure fast payout of investment and subsequent royalty and tax payments; map (M)
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