Ex-Owner Seeks to Recover Paper From Gannett
Date: 13 April 1980
Robert McKinney, former owner of Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, will continue testifying in court in his attempt to recover newspaper from Gannett Co; is seeking recovery of paper or $25 million, or both; suit asserts that Gannett violated Feb 27, '76, merger agreement; at heart of dispute is employment agreement under which McKinney was to remain editor in chief, publisher, chief executive officer and chairman of board of newspaper for 5 years; McKinney is charging that Gannett breached that agreement by taking personnel actions without his consent and by publishing 2 editorials over his objections; testimony by attorney Kendyl Monroe noted (S)
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Journalists Are Not Spies
Date: 14 April 1980
editorial calls on American news editors to protest Turner's policy of enlisting journalists in secret missions; also calls on Pres Carter to think again before expressing support for Turner (M)
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ASSASSINATION PLOTS DESCRIBED BY LIDDY; Watergate Figure, in a New Book, Says Howard Hunt and Jack Anderson Were Targets Started With Novel Plot to Kill Anderson Statute of Limitations Expired 'Captain of the Ship'
Date: 14 April 1980
G Gordon Liddy, lone figure to keep silent on his participation in Watergate affair, writes book giving detailed account of break-in and its aftermath, and about peripheral activities he performed at behest of various Nixon Adm and Nixon campaign officials; excerpts from book published in Time magazine include Liddy's assertion that he was prepared to submit to his own assassination because of failed break-in; that he was ready to poison co-conspirator H Howard Hunt for cooperating with prosecutors, but did not because his 'supervisors' did not order him to; Liddy notes that because of statute of limitations, nobody can be implicated by his book, which is entitled 'Will' (M)
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Black Ministers in Detroit, Critical of Articles, Urge Boycott of Paper; Black Judges Criticized Approach Has Stirred Anger 'An Awful Lot of Smoke'
Date: 13 April 1980
By REGINALD STUART Special to The New York Times
Reginald Special
Black ministers throughout Detroit are calling on their congregations to support boycott of Detroit News; apeals are Tatest developments in what appears to be mushrooming criticism of News over its handling of series of articles about black judges and lawyers in Detroit; boycott was formally called earlier in week by Baptist Ministerial Alliance; News charges against several black Detroit Recorders Court judges, including chief judge Samuel C Gardner, noted (M)
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CONNECTICUT JOURNAL
Date: 13 April 1980
Richard L. Madden
Richard Madden
Comment on Conn Gov Ella Grasso's recent surgery and issue of reporting specifics of operation to news media (S)
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The Region; Black History Items Seized for Taxes L.I. Cameraman Hit Gov. Grasso Decides Against China Trip 900,000 Gallons In '79 Harbor Spills
Date: 14 April 1980
IRS seizes collection at Merabash Museum for nonpayment of taxes; artifacts of NJ's only black history museum are stored in building at Rutgers University and will be sold unless Merabash pays $11,000 in back employment taxes (S)
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Realty News Celanese Building Sold for $136 Million; Long Island City
Date: 13 April 1980
By CARTER B. HORSLEY
Rock Americas Inc, subsidiary of Rockefeller Center, sells Celanese Building at 1211 Av of Amers (NYC) to Demeter Real Estate Corp, investment subsidiary of Shell Pension Fund, for $136 million; illus (M)
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