Soviet Customs Officials Seize Research Material From U.S. Correspondent
Date: 05 March 1978
Special to The New York Times
Soviet customs officers seize more than 50 items of research material from Amer correspondent Harold D Piper (Baltimore Sun), as he is re-entering USSR from Poland; seized material includes clippings from Internatl Herald Tribune, research repts prepared by Radio Free Eur and Radio Liberty, and teletype dispatches of Tass; Piper says authorities claimed he had ideological literature (S)
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3 PAPERS AND UNIONS INTENSIFYING TALKS; Times, News and Post Are Seeking Productivity--Printing Council Uneasy at Lack of Progress Changes in Management Guild Asking One-Year Pact 'Manning' Too High'
Date: 05 March 1978
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
NY Times, Daily News and Post are scheduled to step up pace of their negotiations for new contracts to replace those expiring Mar 30; unions are seeking substantial pay increases and numerous other contract improvements, while newspapers are looking for increased efficiency and productivity; NY Trib is not involved in negotiations; George McDonald, pres of Allied Trades Council, calls bargaining situation serious and outlook bleak; 3 newspapers, which are banded together as Publishers Assn of NYC, are negotiating with each of craft unions; Douglas La Chance (Newspaper Deliverers Union), H J Kracke (Publishers Assn), William J Kennedy (Printing Pressmen's Union) and Betram Powers (Typographical Union) comment (M)
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Chicago Paper Dies as It Lived: Breezy Toughness and Poet's Soul; More Than a Little Bogart Eight Years in a Bag Hostility 'Has Stuck' A 'Chicago-style Wake'
Date: 05 March 1978
By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND Special to The New York Times
Douglas KNEELAND
Absorbs some 90 from ed staff of Chicago Daily News, which ceases publication; will dismiss 31 present employees
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5 Charleston, W.Va., Journalists Arraigned on Report on Juvenile
Date: 05 March 1978
Chilton, Marsh, Milam, Maurice and reporter Mary Schnack are arraigned (S)
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Appeals Court Says CBS Is Liable For 'Trespass' in Mistral Filming; $250,000 Award Set Aside No 'License to Trespass'
Date: 04 March 1978
By TOM GOLDSTEIN
Tom GOLDSTEIN
Appellate Div of NYS Sup Ct finds CBS guilty of trespass, and accountable for damages, when camera crew entered Le Mistral restaurant without permission and began filming; decision is 1 of 1st by appellate ct applying traditional interpretation of trespass to news media; ct held that CBS must pay $1,200 in damages suffered by restaurant; says CBS may be exposed to much greater liability in form of punitive damages; decision was written by Justice Vincent A Lupiano and concurred in by Justices Myles J Lane, Arthur Markewich and Leonard H Sandler; Justice Francis T Murphy issues partial dissent (S)
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Times Writer, Called as a Witness, Barred as Curare Trial Reporter; Testimony in Private Suggested Articles Led to Investigation Subpoena 'Not Whimsical' Precedents Feared
Date: 04 March 1978
By ROBERT HANLEY Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
NY Times reporter M A Farber, who has written extensively on case of Dr Mario E Jascalevich, accused of murdering 5 patients at Riverdell Hospital in Oradell, NJ, in '65-66, is barred, at least temporarily, from covering Jascalevich's trial because defense attys had subpoenaed him as witness (M)
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Topics New Man, New Life and the 'General'; The Gas of Pure Communism Headline News The Place Where Louie Dwells
Date: 05 March 1978
ed comments on Atty Gen Louis J Lefkowitz's decision not to seek re-election; holds Lefkowitz's tenure can be faulted in only 1 major respect: he has not helped voters of state understand what Atty Gen does nor how to know whether he does it well or not
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Speaker O'Neill Assails The Press and Praises Administration Gains
Date: 05 March 1978
Special to The New York Times
Dem Party holds annual Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey fund-raising dinner, Hartford, Conn; HR Speaker Thomas P O'Neill Jr is keynote speaker; backs Sen Abraham Ribicoff's appeal for party unity in upcoming elections (S)
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