CONVICTION OF PAPER IS UPHELD IN VIRGINIA; Norfolk Concern Fined for Article on State Inquiry into Judge
Date: 05 March 1977
Va Sup Ct upholds criminal conviction of Landmark Communications Inc for publishing in Norfolk Virginian-Pilot '74 article about state probe of juvenile ct judge; co pres Frank Batten says he plans to appeal decision (M)
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PRAGUE INTENSIFIES DRIVE ON DISSIDENTS; Police Spray 2 Foreign Reporter With Tear Gas in an Effort to Isolate Protest Group
Date: 05 March 1977
Czech leadership, displeased over Foreign Min Stoel's interest in human rights, cancels meeting with Pres Husak; Stoel is on official visit to Czech (S)
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Philadelphia Papers Return
Date: 05 March 1977
Newspaper Guild employees of Washington Star vote to accept 3-yr contract (S)
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Mondale Opposes C.I.A. Director On Criminal Penalties for Leaks
Date: 05 March 1977
Vice Pres Mondale says he is 'personally opposed' to CIA Dir Stansfield Turner's proposal to impose criminal penalties on Govt officials who permit intelligence secrets to become public, newspaper int (S)
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Soviet Links Dissidents to C.I.A.; Arrests Expected
Date: 05 March 1977
By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times
David SHIPLER
Izvestia on Mar 4 accuses several leading dissidents, all Jews, of working for CIA; Jewish sources say apts of several dissidents have been searched and arrests are immiment; named in open lr, purportedly written by former dissident Dr Sanya L Lipavsky, are Anatoly Shcharansky, Vladimir Slepak, Vitaly Rubin, and Aleksandr Lerner; Shcharansky and Slepak deny charges; Shcharansky links Govt campaign against dissidents to Carter Adm pressure; Izvestia accuses Amer diplomats Melvin Levitsky and Joseph A Presel of persuading dissidents to provide defense-related information; reiterates charges that US correspondents Alfred Friendly Jr, formerly of Newsweek, and George Krimsky of AP, are CIA agents (M)
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Judge Drops Cunningham Charge Of Trying to Coerce Bronx Paper
Date: 04 March 1977
By LESLIE MAITLAND
Leslie MAITLAND
NYS Sup Ct Justice Leonard H Sandler dismisses charges that Bronx Dem chm Patrick J Cunningham, Councilman Stephen Kaufman and former Bronx Dem dist leader Jerome Glanzrock tried to compel Co-op City newspaper City News to cease printing articles critical of Glanzrock and Kaufman by threatening to cut off legal ads in paper (S)
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At ABC, the Winds of Change Are Blowing
Date: 04 March 1977
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Harry Reasoner denies repts that he will resign as co-anchorman on ABC Evening News; William Sheehan's status as pres of news div is clouded by repts that Roone Arledge, head of ABC Sports, will be given charge of news as well; Arledge has criticized Reasoner and praised Barbara Walters; ABC TV pres Frederick S Pierce will disclose in 2 wks what changes he contemplates for news div; illus of Walters and Reasoner (M)
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