Colombia Halts A.P. Operations
Date: 11 January 1979
Govt has suspended operations of AP, accusing agency of failing to have proper accrediations and transmitting 'frankly tendentious and inexact' news (S)
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Date: 11 January 1979
Govt has suspended operations of AP, accusing agency of failing to have proper accrediations and transmitting 'frankly tendentious and inexact' news (S)
Date: 12 January 1979
Newspaper Guild sues NY Daily News in Fed Dist Ct seeking to prevent dismissal of 12 employees of newspaper's NJ edition; Judge Milton Pollack refuses to grant temporary restraining order to prevent dismissals, noting that parties were scheduled to meet with arbitrator (S)
Date: 11 January 1979
52-day strike against St Louis Post-Dispatch ends when dockhands unanimously ratify new contract with Pulitzer Publishing Co; co spokesman says Post-Dispatch and Globe-Dem will not return to newsstands immediately; Jerry Husgen, business agent for dockhands, says union will hon picket lines set up by truck drivers at Post-Dispatch; Nicholas G Penniman, asst gen mgr of Post-Dispatch, comments (S)
Date: 11 January 1979
By ALAN RIDING Special to The New York Times
Alan Special
Memorial masses, demonstrations and nationwide strike mark 1st anniv of murder of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, popular opposition newspaper editor whose death sparked pol unrest and violence that have gripped Nicaragua for last yr; Abp Miguel Obando y Bravo presides over commem mass; march to Chamorro grave turns into noisy pol protest as more than 10,000 people representing opposition groups carry banners and chant slogans denouncing Govt (M)
Date: 12 January 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Pamela O'Shaughnessy, reporter for Kings Courier (NYC), is sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $250 for refusing to answer questions in narcotics trial about 1 of her sources for article on drug trafficking; her attys, later in day, obtained stay of sentence until Jan 17 to give time to file appeal; Michael Zagarino, 1 of alleged drug dealers mentioned in article, is now standing trial on charges of selling narcotics; chief witness for prosecution is undercover agent who brought about Zagarino's arrest; agent testified that he was not source for article; defense, in attempt to cast doubt on agent's credibility by showing that he was 1 of O'Shaughnessy's sources, subpoenaed O'Shaughnessy's notes for article and asked her to appear as witness; illus (M)
Date: 11 January 1979
Clyde Haberman Albin Krebs
Clyde Albin
Mayor Koch entertains UN press corps at breakfast at City Hall; occasion was organized by Gillian Martin Sorensen; Danish correspondent Lisbet Jorgensen comments (S)
Date: 11 January 1979
By C. GERALD FRASER
C. FRASER
Samuel Rabinove, legal dir of Amer Jewish Com, commenting on anti-Semitism in US, cites NY Amsterdam News, which he says repeatedly publishes anti-Semitic material (S)
Date: 12 January 1979
By HOWELL RAINES Special to The New York Times
Howell Special
White House press sec Jody Powell publicly denies that Pres Carter shares any of views of brother Billy Carter that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic; controversy stems from rept in Atlanta Journal that quoted Billy Carter, who is conducting tour for Libyan businessmen and officials close to Col Muammar el-Qaddafi, as attributing Libya's poor internatl image to fact that 'Jewish media tears up the Arab countries full time, as you well known' (S)
Date: 11 January 1979
By PAUL LEWIS Special to The New York Times
Paul Special
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's exiled Shiite Moslem leader, says that Islamic regime will allow only qualified freedom to news orgns (S)
Date: 12 January 1979
Delivery truck drivers at St Louis Post-Dispatch vote to reject what co says is its final offer, prolonging shutdown at Post-Dispatch and Globe-Democrat (S)