Times and News Put Off Deadline For Pressmen and Paperhandlers
Date: 28 June 1978
NY Times and Daily News postpone 4th of July weekend deadline they set for concluding complete contract with pressmen's and paperhandlers' unions; word of postponement is given by H J Kracke, exec dir of Publishers Assn of NYC; NY Typographical Union Local 6 repts that Times and Post have offered retirement and severance incentives to persuade printers to leave; Times exec vp Walter Mattson comments (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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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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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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2 U.S. Reporters Summoned to Court in Moscow; Case Reported Linked to Libel Suit--Soviet Frees Businessman No Precedent in Soviet Is Recalled Prison and Exile for Dissident
Date: 28 June 1978
By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times
David SHIPLER
Reporters Craig R Whitney (NY Times) and Harold D Piper (Baltimore Sun) are ordered to appear at Moscow ct to answer unspecified charges, possibly involving recent articles they have written; Foreign Min Press Dept official Vitaly Zhuravlev told 2 correspondents by phone that charge against them involved slander; main dispatch they have written on subject of broadcasting was rept from Tbilisi quoting family and friends of imprisoned Georgian dissident, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, as having asserted that televised confession by him had probably been fabricated by authorities (M)
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Dobrynin Says Press Can Work at Olympics
Date: 28 June 1978
Soviet Amb to US Anatoly F Dobrynin promises that there will be no harassment of Western reporters covering 1980 Olympics in Moscow, speech to more than 100 journalists at Soviet Embassy (S)
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Vance Seeks Details on Case
Date: 28 June 1978
Special to The New York Times
NY Times correspondent in Moscow, Craig R Whitney, is ordered to appear at Moscow ct to answer unspecified charges, possibly involving article he wrote (S)
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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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