News Gets Court Order On P.B.A. Disruptions
Date: 20 July 1978
NY Daily News says it has obtained temporary restraining order barring PBA and any of union's members from disrupting deliveries of newspaper; order is signed by Justice Hyman Korn of NYS Sup Ct; Mayor Koch decries earlier disruption as violation of 1st Amendment free speech guarantees; News publisher James comments (S)
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3D TENTATIVE PACT WITH P.B.A. REACHED AS CITY EASES STAND; DELEGATES' VOTE TODAY IS SET Progress Comes as Mayor Drops Two Demands, on Sick Leave and Flexible Work Shifts Two Prior Accords Rejected A TENTATIVE ACCORD WITH P.B.A. REACHED How It Averages Out
Date: 20 July 1978
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
New tentative contract accord between PBA and NYC is announced after Mayor Koch withdraws proposed curb on sick-leave abuses and more flexibility in working shifts; Koch explains reason for changes; assn pres DeMilia to recommend that delegate assembly accept accord; calls off demonstrations; Koch denounces some police demonstrators who blocked delivery of Daily News temporarily; orders suspension and disciplinary proceeding against demonstrators and any officer who failed to enforce law against such illegal actions; illus of Koch, Deputy Mayor Paterson and Comr McGuire (M)
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Off-Duty Officers Stop News Trucks in P.B.A. Protest
Date: 19 July 1978
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER
protesting off-duty policemen block delivery of early edition of July 19 Daily News for nearly 1 hr, giving way only after repeated appeals from PBA pres Samuel DeMilia and Chief William J Devine; assn selected News as protest site because of its reptd anti-police stance; publisher W H James denies charges illus (M)
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Notes From a Losing Office
Date: 20 July 1978
ed on 'paranoia' in news indus resulting from recent actions against newsmen including criminal contempt charge against Farber
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Curare-Data Hearing Today Set Reporter Is Free in $10,000 Bail; Judge Favors Higher Bail In Custody of Lawyer
Date: 19 July 1978
By LESLEY OELSNER Special to The New York Times
Lesley Special
Farber refuses to yield his notes for use in Jascalevich trial; ordered by trial Judge William J Arnold to appear in ct on July 19 for hearing on criminal-contempt citation and on July 21 on possibility of civil-contempt citation; posts $5,000 bond at each of proceedings to remain at liberty; illus (M)
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Times Reporter Balks at Pleading Before Jersey Court; Legal Representation Questioned Judge Admonishes Lawyer Judge Notes His 'Frustration'
Date: 20 July 1978
By LESLEY OELSNER Special to The New York Times
Lesley Special
Farber declines in Superior Ct in Hackensack to plead either not guilty or guilty to charge of criminal contempt of ct based on that refusal; acts on advice of attys, who contend that ct does not have jurisdiction over Farber on this matter; attys believe that legal papers that initiated contempt proceedings were not properly served on Farber; Judge Theodore R Trautwein then enters not guilty plea for Farber; Trautwein holds hearing on whether same attys can continue to represent both Farber and NY Times in proceedings involving subpoena; says he is concerned there might be conflict of interest; also seeks to learn whether Farber would agree to appear in ct whenever ct wanted, even if Farber's attys should advise against it; Farber resists answering (M)
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U.S. TO WARN SOVIET ON NEWSMEN RULING; State Department, Deploring Step Against 2 Reporters, Plans to Summon a Diplomat 'A Rather Delicate Warning' Tass Bureau Chief Not Advised Statement by Times Editor
Date: 19 July 1978
says Times will not print retraction of Whitney's May 24 dispatch, as was ordered by Soviet ct
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Soviet Judge Rules U.S. Reporters Libeled TV and Orders Retraction; Action Began Three Weeks Ago Judge Rules 2 U.S. Newsmen Libeled Soviet TV Georgian Brought In Under Guard Confession Was Televised May 19 TV Segment Is Shown Twice 'Anti-Soviet' Activities Disavowed Availability of Papers at Issue
Date: 19 July 1978
By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times
David SHIPLER
Soviet ct rules that Amer correspondents Craig R Whitney (NY Times) and Harold D Piper (Baltimore Sun) have libeled Soviet TV employees; reporters are ordered to publish retraction, either in Soviet or Amer press, and to pay equivalent of $1,647 each in ct costs; ruling follows testimony by convicted dissident, Zviad K Gamsakhurdia, that a televised confession attributed to him in May was genuine; case revd; illus (M)
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Seeking a Postal Alternative; Big Mailers Test Private Deliverers Big Mailers Seek Alternative to Postal Delivery 14 Cities Being Added 400% Increase for Books Savings Seen for Future
Date: 20 July 1978
By N.R. KLEINFIELD
N. KLEINFIELD
Nation's biggest mailers are increasingly looking to private delivery systems as alternative way of getting their publications to subscribers; publishers of newspapers, magazines and books have been hardest hit by steep ascent of postal rates; illus of John Sweeney Jr, Sweeney News Distributors gen mgr; chart shows rise in 2d-class mail rates (M)
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Carter, Reacting to Trials in Soviet, Will Control Oil-Technology Sales; Relation to Soviet Trials CARTER TO CONTROL OIL GEAR FOR SOVIET No Decision on Drill Bits
Date: 19 July 1978
By RICHARD BURT Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
White House officials rept Pres Carter has decided to cancel sale of Sperry Univac computer to USSR for use by press agency Tass; say decision is response to conviction and sentencing of Soviet dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Aleksandr Ginzburg (S)
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