UNESCO NEWS STUDY ASSAILS CENSORSHIP; Report on Two-Year Global Study Also Condemns Imbalances in Gathering of Information Wide Area of Agreement Won Some, Lost Some Committee to Study Report
Date: 02 December 1979
UNESCO commission ends 2-year study of global communications and news-gathering by approving compromise final report that condemns censorship and what it terms imbalances in international news flow; report, which will not be released until March, urges that journalists everywhere be given access to sources in political opposition, according to UNESCO chairman Sean MacBride; proposals that will be examined noted; report, including dissenting views to be submitted by Jan 5, will be sent to UNESCO Dir Gen, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow; commission members Mustafa Masmoudi, Juan Somavia and Sergei Losev comment; international committee of broadcasters and journalists is to be formed by International Institute of Communications and 20th Century Fund to evaluate proposals involving press and broadcasting coverage of 3d world nations (M)
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Iran Misuses 2 Old Photos to Allege U.S. Brutality
Date: 02 December 1979
Kayhan, leading Teheran newspaper, uses 11-year-old photograph to illustrate charges that American police were brutally mistreating Iranian students during crisis over Americans being held hostage in Teheran; demonstrators shown in photographs are American antiwar protestors in '68; illus (S)
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Let's Abolish News Conferences
Date: 02 December 1979
By J. Kyle Goddard
J. Goddard
J Kyle Goddard comment on news conferences holds they are journalistic frauds which should be abolished; holds that after staging many such events and attending many, facts are rarely divulged in such setting; drawing (M)
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Zambian Military and Food Situation Growing More Acute; Australian Journalist Wounded
Date: 01 December 1979
By GREGORY JAYNES Special to The New York Times
Gregory Special
Article on worsening military and food situation in Zambia notes that 2 employees of Australian Broadcasting Commission attempting to photograph site of blown up bridge were interfered with by military; 1 was shot and the other detained (S)
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Dismissed Iran Minister Critical of Khomeini Policy
Date: 02 December 1979
Former Acting Foreign Min Abolhassan Bani-Sadr charges Iran's radio and television, controlled by his successor Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, with spreading false propaganda, forging news and slandering UN Sec Gen Kurt Waldheim in pursuing hard-line policy against US, interview in Teheran daily newspaper Ettelaat (M)
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The Cloud of Censorship Is Darkening The Caribbean
Date: 02 December 1979
By JO THOMAS
Jo THOMAS
Freedom to publish articles criticizing Government is coming under increasing attack in nations in and around Caribbean; Haiti, responding to foreign criticism, announced new human rights section will be set up in Foreign Affairs Department; repressive new press law apparently is being held in partial abeyance; news situations in Grenada, Jamaica and Guyana also noted; Commission on Freedom of Press, reporting to Inter-American Press Assn, calls outlook 'gloomy'; drawing (M)
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