Il 17 aprile 1979 era una martedì sotto il segno zodiacale del ♈. Era il 106 ° giorno dell'anno. Il presidente degli Stati Uniti era Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 18 April 1979
By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Special to The New York Times
London Times dismisses 3,000 workers it had temporarily rehired to get negotiations moving; union posing biggest obstacle to settlement, Natl Graphical Assn, will meet to decide whether to take dispute to arbitration (S)
Date: 17 April 1979
ABC says that Supreme Court will soon rule that journalists facing libel suits may be forced to tell what their state of mind was while they prepared contested news reports; repts Court has decided important free-press controversy and that Associate Justice Byron R White will write majority opinion
Date: 18 April 1979
NY Post publisher Rupert testifies he had no knowledge of arrangements made by Post editors with Mitteager (M)
Date: 17 April 1979
By LAURIE JOHNSTON
Laurie JOHNSTON
NY Post metropolitan editor Peter Michaelmore, testifying at pretrial hearing in NYS Sup Ct, Bklyn, at which freelance writer James Mitteager is seeking dismissal of charges that he bribed correction officer Herbert Clarke to obtain photographs of David Berkowitz in his cell at Kings County Med Center, says that he did not know at time that Mitteager was paying source inside prison (M)
Date: 17 April 1979
snag in talks with printers' union has forced London Times to abandon plans to resume publishing again on April 16 after break of 4 1/2 months; Times Newspaper Ltd general manager Dugal Nisbet-Smith says 'whole future is in doubt' (S)
Date: 17 April 1979
Guild repts talks break off; management personnel is being brought in from Hagedone Newspaper Co to help with work; executive editor Richard Hight comments (S)
Date: 18 April 1979
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
dispute over news-gathering methods reptdly helped block prize for Chicago Sun-Times for local investigative reptg; wide range of interviews shows that Sun-Times had been 1 of 4 choices submitted by nominating jury to Pulitzer Prize Bd; jury chmn Joseph W Shoquist says jury did not specify preference; bd member Clayton Kirkpatrick reptdly moved to give prize to Sun-Times; issue was over Sun-Times's buying and running bar under false name, as result of which it uncovered corruption and bribe-taking among city inspectors and private accountants; Benjamin C Bradlee (Washington Post) and Eugene C Patterson (St Petersburgh Times) contended newspapers should operate in open; majority of bd then voted to give prize to Gilbert M Gaul and Elliot G Jaspin (Pottsville Republican); jury in that category was headed by Norman E Isaacs (Natl News Council); jury preferences listed (M)
Date: 18 April 1979
By James Reston
James Reston
James Reston comment on award to Point Reyes Light
Date: 17 April 1979
both return to California (S)