CHANGES ARE URGED IN PRESS SHIELD LAW; Plan to Amend State Rules Would Let Judges Require Reporters to Reveal Their Sources Present Law Called Inoperable A 'Straw Man' Is Cited
Date: 25 November 1979
By LEE A. DANIELS
Lee DANIELS
Assembly subcommittee begins hearing testimony on proposed amendment to NYS law protecting confidentiality of reporters' notes and sources of information; amendment, sponsored by Steven Sanders, would establish procedure in criminal trials that could result in reporters' being compelled to divulge such information; most of those who testified at hearing, held in Manhattan offices of NYC Bar Assn, supported Sanders' contention that judicial decisions had effectively rendered state law inoperable; they generally approved of broadening protection of law to include freelance writers and authors of books; but most opposed establishment of any method enabling judges to order reporters to disclose information; witnesses include Jack Landau (Reporters Committee for Press Freedom), Justice Sybil Hart Kooper and A H Raskin (National News Council); Judge Hugh F McShane and subcommittee member Mark Alan Siegel comment (M)
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News Summary
Date: 24 November 1979
fog closes airport from 7AM to 11AM (S)
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ABC Is Sued by Insurance Agent In Hidden Filming of Sales Pitch
Date: 25 November 1979
Manager George Benford sues ABC for over $4 million charging network violated his privacy when it used hidden camera to film his sales presentation to 2 elderly women (M)
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COMPANY NEWS Penn Central in Pact To Buy Marathon
Date: 24 November 1979
Penn Central and Marathon sign definitive agreement (S)
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Follow-Up on the News; Firestone Recall Rights Legend Stricken Building
Date: 25 November 1979
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
Follow-up on conditions at Itel Corp (Sept 12 article); problems, caused by carbon monoxide in air-tight building, have been cleared up with improvements in building's circulation system (S)
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Sports News Briefs; Title Fight Is Canceled; Too Tall Scores Knockout
Date: 25 November 1979
AAU national cross country championships held; Alberto Salazar wins men's senior race; Margaret Groos wins women's race (S)
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World News Briefs; Pope Says Christian Unity Is Aim of Visit to Turkey Ceausescu Critic Ejected From Rumanian Parley Kidnapped Spanish Official Sends Letter to His Wife Blunt Quits Honorary Post At Cambridge University
Date: 24 November 1979
Pope John Paul II says his meeting with Patriarch Dimitrios I in Turkey is intended to further cause of Christian unity between Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches (S)
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