Issue and Debate A Flurry of Legislation as Congress Ponders Curb on Searches of News Organizations; The Background No Special Press Rights For Legislation Against Legislation The Outlook
Date: 30 June 1978
By JOHN HERBERS Special to The New York Times
John Special
Analysis and comment on Sup Ct decision giving law enforcement authorities right to search files of news orgns as well as others; notes ruling precipitated flurry of protective legis in Cong; diversity of members in both Houses, including Sen Robert Dole and Repr Robert F Drinan, were disturbed enough by decision to submit legis (M)
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South Africans Rescind a Ban On Black Church Weekly Paper
Date: 30 June 1978
Govt lifts ban on black ch wkly The Voice (S)
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An Act of Soviet Insecurity
Date: 29 June 1978
ed condemns action of USSR against Whitney and Piper
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Guild Assails Soviet Over Two Newsmen
Date: 30 June 1978
Special to The New York Times
Newspaper Guild, meeting in Detroit, adopts resolution condemning Soviet proceedings against Whitney and Piper (S)
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2 U.S. NEWSMEN GET SOVIET LIBEL CHARGE; TV Agency Files Suit Stemming From Dispatches About Dissident Written Response Is Due Tomorrow 2 U.S. NEWSMEN GET SOVIET LIBEL CHARGE Georgian Set Up Rights Group TV Statement Was Found Baffling Piper's Dispatch Treated Similarly
Date: 29 June 1978
By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times
David SHIPLER
Whitney is formally accused in Moscow ct of having libeled Soviet state TV by writing articles about imprisoned dissident's televised 'confession' that his friends and relatives believed had been fabricated (S)
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Those Moscow 'Trials'; WASHINGTON
Date: 30 June 1978
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston comment on Soviet libel case against Whitney and Piper
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2 REPORTERS GUILTY, SOVIET PRESS SAYS; Item by Tass Gives Verdict Before Hearing in Libel Case First Case of Its Kind in Soviet
Date: 30 June 1978
By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times
David SHIPLER
Communist Party daily, Pravda, and 10 other Moscow papers print article declaring that Whitney and Piper are guilty of libel; article appears 5 days before scheduled ct hearing in unusual action brought by Soviet authorities; Western reporters rept tires of their cars had been deflated while they were waiting outside courthouse covering trial of dissident Iosif Begun; 3 people were spotted behind camera on tripod at open window of vacant bldg photographing office of NY Times bur across st; Piper and Whitney pors (S)
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Moscow Libel Case Stirs Concern Over Potential Curb on Reporters; Professor Speaks of Precedents
Date: 29 June 1978
By TOM GOLDSTEIN
Tom GOLDSTEIN
newspaper execs and experts on Soviet law react with concern to libel charges brought against Amer reporters Craig R Whitney (NY Times) and Harold D Piper (Baltimore Sun); those commenting include A M Rosenthal (NY Times), John Hughes (Christian Science Monitor), Alan M Dershowitz (Harvard Law School), Donald H Patterson Sr (Baltimore Sun), Benjamin Bradlee (Washington Post) and William Thomas (Los Angeles Times) (M)
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World News Briefs; Vietnamese Reported Attacking Cambodia North Korean Boats Accused of Intrusion Ethiopia Tells of 9 Tries On Mengistu's Life Basque Newspaper Editor Slain by 3 Gunmen
Date: 29 June 1978
Newpaper editor Jose Maria Portell is shot and killed by 3 gunmen believed to be ETA members, setting off demand for strong govt action to curb pol violence (S)
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