Il 19 agosto 1979 era una domenica sotto il segno zodiacale del ♌. Era il 230 ° giorno dell'anno. Il presidente degli Stati Uniti era Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 19 August 1979
Michael Scammell, founder and publisher of London-based periodical Index on Censorship, says that press restrictions have cased in key countries in '70s, but that growing worldwide awareness of human rights has made situation seem worse than it is (S)
Date: 20 August 1979
Ray Jenkins, editor of Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal, will be named assistant to White House press secretary Jody Powell (S)
Date: 20 August 1979
By JO THOMAS Special to The New York Times
Jo Special
Comment on political scene in Grenada; notes there has been undercurrent of suspicion that US has been trying to undermine Government; accusations have mostly centered on The Torchlight, newspaper that was 1 of critics of Sir Eric Gairy, former leader; Torchlight, in July, reprinted article from a West German publication that base for Soviet warships was under construction in Grenada and that American spy planes had discovered vast areas of interior cleared for installation of missile bases; a letter to editor accused CIA of being responsible for article in effort to undermine Grenada (S)
Date: 19 August 1979
By ANTHONY J. PARISI
Anthony PARISI
Profile of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly and its publisher, Wanda Jablonski; por (M)
Date: 20 August 1979
By FRANK LYNN Special to The New York Times
Frank Special
Pres Carter says he does not expect Young to have role in his re-election campaign
Date: 19 August 1979
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
Martin Greenwald, college teacher who won right to sell excess power generated by his windmill to Orange & Rockland Utilities, is not happy with contract that utility has proposed (S)
Date: 20 August 1979
Masie is arrested (S)
Date: 19 August 1979
Red Smith
Red Smith
Red Smith article on career of late jockey Conn McCreary; illus (M)