REPORTERS LOSE BID TO PROTECT RECORDS
Date: 19 August 1976
Fed Dist Judge June L Green on Aug 17 rules that news reporters have no special protection under 1st Amendment that would require Fed investigators and phone cos to tell them when investigators have subpoenaed their toll-call records; Govt disclosed that while suit by Reporters Com for Press Freedom and number of individual reporters was pending its agencies twice asked for long-distance records of columnist Jack Anderson and for those of 1 reporter each from NY Times, Knight Newspapers and St Louis newspaper, once (S)
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Journalists at France-Soir Protest Takeover of Paper
Date: 19 August 1976
Special to The New York Times
strike continues (S)
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Indian Paper's Independence Imperiled
Date: 18 August 1976
By HENRY KAMM Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Statesman, last of India's English-language natl dailies not yet completely dominated by Govt, is under intense Govt pressure; ct hearing scheduled for New Delhi on Aug 20 may put presses of paper under Govt control; move involved order by Govt for newspaper to show cause why its presses should not be forfeited because they served to print recently closed monthly, Seminar; copies of show-cause order were presented individually to retired former chief justice of India, S R Das, who is chmn of paper's bd of dirs, and to each bd member; paper will contest Govt order (M)
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Viking Team, Pressed to Supply News, Sees Itself Practicing 'Instant Science'
Date: 18 August 1976
By VICTOR K. McELHENY Special to The New York Times
Victor McELHENY
Comment on speedy public disclosure of findings of scientists involved with Viking project; notes procedure is contrary to customary careful and deliberate evaluation cunducted by scientists in most fields; Viking team member Dr Norman Horowitz comments (M)
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Sports News Briefs; Weight Lifters Face 2d Drug Test West Indies Cricketers Beat England
Date: 18 August 1976
Internatl Weight Lifting Fed pres Oscar State says Dr Arnold Beckett, head of Internatl Olympic Com's med comm, will conduct 2d series of drug tests on Bulgarian Valentine Khristov, Poland's Zbigniew Kacmarek, Bulgarian Blagoi Blagojev, Amer Philip Gripaldi and Sweden's Arne Norrback, who had positive urine samples in preliminary test (S)
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