A Key Report in Scandal Is Upheld in South Africa
Date: 03 April 1979
Special to The New York Times
S African Govt inquiry gives 1st official confirmation that Information Ministry attempted to gain control of Washington Star as part of worldwide effort to defend country's racial policies; inquiry panel repts that project was funded by $10 million transfer from Defense Ministry's secret fund to Union Bank of Switzerland in Sept '74; panel, headed by Judge Rudolf P Erasmus, makes disclosure in rept that absolves Prime Min P W Botha and members of his Cabinet of responsibility for 'irregularities' in Information Ministry's secret projects (S)
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World News Briefs; British Survey Indicates Big Tory Majority Is Likely
Date: 02 April 1979
Australian Prime Min Malcolm Fraser cautions against publication of article about workings of hydrogen bomb that has been ordered supressed by Fed Ct in US; 2 Amer officials fly to Melbourne to help Australian authorities in their efforts to block publication of article, which Fraser says was given to Melbourne Sunday Observer; Observer editor Peter Isaacson says story was put in bank vault and was later handed to Govt officials (S)
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West Germans Try 11 Terrorists
Date: 03 April 1979
11 young people who took over news agency office in Frankfurt to get publicity for 2 jailed urban guerrillas go on trial charged with supporting terrorist orgn (S)
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Reporter's Notebook: Nuclear 'Event'
Date: 03 April 1979
By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr. Special to The New York Times
Newsmen working in vicinity of Three Mile Island nuclear plant have been issued individual radiation detectors as backup to detectors in grid (S)
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CARTER MAPS POLICY TO PROTECT PRIVACY; Bids Congress Reverse High Court and Ban Newsroom Searches CARTER MAPS POLICY TO PROTECT PRIVACY Claim Called Legitimate Two Principles Cited
Date: 03 April 1979
By MARTIN TOLCHIN Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
Pres Carter, calling for legis to protect Amers from threats to privacy, reverses stand and asks for passage of bill to overturn Sup Ct's decision in Stanford Daily case; decision upheld police searches of newspaper offices; Carter sees dangers to free press; Asst Atty Gen Philip B Heyman comments on Carter shift
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In Plant Vicinity, Suspicion and Doubt; Relieved by News
Date: 03 April 1979
By ALAN RICHMAN Special to The New York Times
Alan Special
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Amin's Hopes Now Rest on Libyans' Help; News Analysis
Date: 02 April 1979
By JOHN DARNTON Special to The New York Times
John Special
analysis of Tanzanian-Ugandan war notes Libya's intervention on Uganda's behalf now has changed situation into Libyan-Tanzanian conflict; holds Libya's intervention may stave off Amin's collapse for moment but it is unlikely he will survive because he has no army left; Libya head Col Muammar el-Qaddafi por (M)
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