COURT BACKS PRESS ON JUDICIAL HEARING; Says States Cannot Fix Sanctions for News Report on Confidential Proceedings Against Judges Paper Was Fined $500 Punishment Held Unjustified Two Did Not Participate
Date: 02 May 1978
By WARREN WEAVER Jr. Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
US Sup Ct rules that states may not impose criminal sanctions on newspapers that print accurate repts of confidential disciplinary proceedings against judges; case (Landmark Communications Co vs Va) involved provisions in Va Const and statutes making it misdemeanor for any person to divulge information concerning investigations of state judges by state's Judicial Inquiry and Rev Comm; Norfolk Virginian-Pilot was indicted for identifying judge as comm target and was found guilty and fined $500; Ct's ruling, seen as qualified victory for news media, detailed; Sup Ct agrees to rev decision that reporters could be excluded from hearings on suppression of evidence that precedes criminal trials to prevent public circulation of 'tainted evidence' (M)
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2 DETAINED BY PAKISTAN IN NEWSPAPER PROTEST
Date: 01 May 1978
22 journalists and other newspaper workers are detained shortly before they are to start hunger strike in defiance of martial law; they include Nisar Usmani, sec gen of journalists union, whose pres, Minhaj Baran was detained last night and then expelled from Punjab Province (S)
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Ennui Under the Elms; OBSERVER
Date: 02 May 1978
By Russell Baker
Russell Baker
R Baker humorous comment on news coverage of rumor that 'something has happened' in Washington
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Canadians Protest Prosecution Of Newspaper for a Spy Report; Revisions in Law 'Based on Vindictiveness'
Date: 01 May 1978
By ROBERT TRUMBULL Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Toronto Sun has been charged with violating Canada's stringent Official Secrets Act on 2 counts for publishing details of 'secret' rept on Soviet spies in Canada; action has caused backlash against Govt secrecy among publishers and editors across country; resolution adopted by Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers' Assn at its annual conv accused Govt of 'discriminatory action' in prosecuting Sun, paper consistently critical of Prime Min Trudeau; points out that natl TV network CTV and opposition member of Parliament, Thomas C Cossitt, had made same material public earlier and had not been prosecuted; Justice Min Ronald Basford ruled that Cossitt was immune from prosecution because of his Parliamentary status; Sun editor in chief Peter Worthington quoted from same source as Cossitt; Toronto Globe and Mail managing editor C W Davey and Edmonton Journal publisher JP O'Callaghan comment (M)
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25 Are Arrested at May Day Event Near North Carolina State Campus
Date: 01 May 1978
25 persons, including 2 newsmen, are arrested at May Day event near univ; 4 others are injured, none seriously, when police move in to disperse crowd for purported unlawful assembly (S)
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Notes on People
Date: 02 May 1978
ALBIN KREBS
Albin KREBS
Woods, in NYC to receive Overseas Press Club award, sees racial civil war in homeland in next 3 to 5 yrs unless Vorster Govt ends apartheid policy (S)
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Towns Where Scaffold Victims Lived Burying Their Dead; Second Son Killed in Accident Safety Cannot Be Assured Inquiry Into Accident Continues
Date: 01 May 1978
By IVER PETERSON Special to The New York Times
Iver Special
Reporters are excluded from funeral services of 4 Steele brothers killed when scaffold on which they were working at Monoga Power Co, Willow Is, W Va, collapsed; 4 W Va state troopers seized and destroyed film of NY Times photographer who had been taking pictures of funeral (S)
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World News Briefs; Amin Dismisses Leader Of a Prized Regiment Czechoslovakia Expels American Reporter Fukuda Arriving for Visit With U.S. Officials U.S. Reassured Egyptians On Its Mideast Position
Date: 02 May 1978
AP gen mgr Keith Fuller says Reid's expulsion makes mockery of Helsinki accords, AP annual meeting (S)
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Trial of 2 for Espionage May Inhibit Leaks of Government Information; 'Inhibiting Impact' Is Seen
Date: 01 May 1978
By DAVID BURNHAM Special to The New York Times
David Special
Espionage trial of USIA employee Ronald L Humphrey and Truong Dinh Hung is scheduled to begin on May 1 (M)
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Johnny Harris, Soviet Hero
Date: 01 May 1978
Ed comments on Ala prison warden's rejection of request by Soviet journalists to interview convict Johnny Harris, cause celebre in Soviet Union because of alleged Amer racism; says interview should have been granted
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