U.S. PUBLISHERS SEND PLEA TO INDONESIAN ON WRITER
Date: 11 November 1977
Amer Publishers Assn's Freedom to Publish Com sends lr to Indonesian Pres Suharto requesting probe of imprisonment of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, writer in penal exile on small island of Buru (S)
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WASHINGTON NEWSMAN, 85, MISSING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Date: 10 November 1977
NH police are searching for 85-yr-old Washington news correspondent Lawrence Fernsworth, who has been missing since he went for walk 16 days ago; Fernsworth runs Fernsworth News Service, which appears in Tenn and Calif newspapers (S)
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SMEAR AGAINST KOCH ATTEMPTED IN RACE; A.P. Discloses Pressure on Press to Portray Him as Homosexual He Assails the Rumor
Date: 10 November 1977
behind-the-scenes attempt, during final days of NYC mayoral campaign, to get press to depict Edward I Koch as homosexual is disclosed; no evidence--only vague rumor--was ever presented to support allegation; some politicians suspect that rumor had spread from people on fringes of Mario M Cuomo's campaign; Cuomo denounces it when reporter first tells him of it and deplores its publication; AP, which had prepared but had not circulated initial story alluding to rumor, transmits post-election story summarizing what had happened (L)
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World News Briefs; Seven U.S. Senators Visit Torrijos's Home Associated Press Editor In Argentine Vanishes Sakharov's Stepson Ousted From Teachers College State Dept. Confirms Soviet Defection to U.S.
Date: 11 November 1977
Oscar Serrat, Argentine newspaperman employed by AP, disappears on his way to work, leading to fears that he has been abuducted; AP repts of abduction (S)
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NBC Chief Suggests Networks Act Jointly in Projecting Winners on Election Night
Date: 10 November 1977
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
NY Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger criticizes competition rev bill, introduced in Cong by Repr Morris K Udall, that proposes establishment of 3-yr comm to study if concentration of ownership in certain key industries, such as book publishing, is restraining competition, speech, Audit Bur of Circulations annual meeting; says book publishers do not suffer from any lack of competition (S)
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