U.S. Finances News Guild's Latin Unionizing Drive; Fight Was Bitter
Date: 22 May 1979
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
Newspaper Guild has embarked on Latin American unionization program with US Government funds; international president Charles A Perlik Jr says union has received $100,000 from Agency for International Development, funneled through American Institute for Free Labor Development; as result, dispute has arisen within union over whether to take Government money; Louis M Calvert, 1 international vice president, says he will attempt at guild convention in Boston in July to overturn authorization that Perlik obtained; Perlik sent Gerald Maraghy, president of Portland, Me, local, and Alberto Schtirbu, secretary of Inter-American Federation of Working Newspapermen's Orgns, on exploratory trip to Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Barbados (M)
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Newsroom-Search Bill Passed
Date: 23 May 1979
Nebraska Legislature passes and sends to Gov Charles Thone bill to curb issuance of warrants to search newsrooms; bill would allow such warrants to be issued only when there is probable cause to believe that news person or orgn has committed or was committing crime (S)
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Times Writer Shares Gerald Loeb Award
Date: 23 May 1979
N R Kleinfield (NY Times) and R C Longworth and Bill Neikirk (Chicago Tribune) to share top Gerald Loeb Award for business and financial journalism; awards are administered by Graduate School of Business Management of University of Southern Calif; other winners are Phillip Moeller (Louisville Courier-Journal), William Tucker (Harper's), Robert Heilbroner (New Yorker) and Robert Bartley (Wall Street Journal) (S)
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Martin Reported Settling Suit
Date: 23 May 1979
Hagar reptdly has agreed to drop criminal complaint of battery against Billy Martin; Martin, in return, is expected to offer Hagar $8,000 and an apology for hitting him during interview (S)
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Dismissal Denied in Photo Bribe
Date: 22 May 1979
By DAVID BIRD
David BIRD
NYS Sup Ct (Bklyn) Justice Ernst H Rosenberger denies motion to dismiss bribery charges against James Mitteager, freelance writer accused of bribing correction officer Herbert Clarke to get pictures of David Berkowitz for NY Post (M)
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The City; Rohatyn Will Return As M.A.C. Chairman
Date: 22 May 1979
NYS Sup Ct rules Mastropieri must appear before NYC Investigation Dept for questions on whether he is illegally living outside NYC (S)
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42 NUCLEAR PAPERS ARE CITED BY A.C.L.U.; Public Data Called More Sensitive Than Article in Progressive Court Action Threatened
Date: 23 May 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
ACLU publicly identifies 42 documents relating to nuclear weapons that are available to public at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; says documents would be more helpful to country wanting to build thermonuclear weapon than classified document that Government recently removed from public shelves at Los Alamos, saying it had been placed there erroneously; Thomas S Martin, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, wrote to ACLU and assured it that removed documents would not be destroyed (M)
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WASHINGTON The News Back Home
Date: 23 May 1979
By James Reston
James Reston
James Reston on Pres Carter's sagging popularity; claims American people expect more than Pres Carter has the power to deliver; notes that even James Fallows, former Carter speech writer who wrote articles critical of Carter, says he would vote for Carter's re-election because Carter 'is still the best hope' for Amer (M)
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