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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Southeast Asia Steps Up Curbs On Journalists From the West
Date: 06 March 1977
Foreign correspondents appear to be under increasing pressure from govts in Southeast Asia; several have been expelled, threatened with expulsion or denied re-entry; curbs on news coverage have been imposed; some examples cited (M)
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Soviet Expulsion of A.P. Reporter Called Helsinki Violation by Senate
Date: 06 March 1977
US Sen approves resolution terming expulsion of Krimsky violation of Helsinki declaration regarding rights of journalists (S)
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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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Watergate Is a Big Part of It; These Are Boom Times In Schools of Journalism
Date: 06 March 1977
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Article on journalism studies in US; enrollments increased 93% between '70 and '75, and 481% between '60 and '75; new figures show there may be slakening of student interest in journalism programs; Prof Paul V Peterson (Ohio State Univ), who compiles such figures, comments; Newspaper Funa repts more journalism graduates seem to be getting jobs than before; Gerald Sass (Gannett chain) and Jay T Morris (Northwestern Univ) comment; (M)
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Soviet Jewish Dissidents Call Charges of Spying 'Slanderous'
Date: 06 March 1977
Soviet Jewish dissidents score Izvestia allegations that some of them were paid US agents; US Embassy denounces charges (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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