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Date: 19 May 1979
Jean-Eudes Barbier, chief of Mauritanian office of Agence France-Presse, is expelled from Mauritania; he had written 3 articles on political opponents of Government and recent scuffles between policemen and students (S)
Date: 19 May 1979
Supreme Court announces series of restrictions on reporters' access to Court building in effort to stem preliminary news leaks about Justices' deliberations; within matter of hours, however, ABC-TV News correspondent Tim O'Brien goes on air to report in advance on one of Court's upcoming decisions; says Court would rule in next few weeks that judges could bar news reporters and public from pretrial hearings; ABC report says that Justices, over Potter Stewart's dissent, would affirm a NY court's decision in case involving Gannett Co Inc that reporter could be ejected from pretrial hearing on suppression of evidence in a murder case (M)
Date: 18 May 1979
Nevada Supreme Court, 3-2, upholds contempt-of-court judgment against Las Vegas Sun reporter Dan Newburn for refusing to answer questions about will of late Howard Hughes (S)
Date: 19 May 1979
request by Progressive magazine for faster review of Federal court order barring its publication of article about workings of hydrogen bomb has been denied in ruling by US Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit; Chief Judge Thomas E Fairchild disqualifies himself from case (S)
Date: 18 May 1979
Government publishes long-expected bill clamping down on press publication of allegations of state corruption and maladministration; bill forbids publication of reports of misuse of state money until they have been investigated by specially appointed government official (S)
Date: 18 May 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
US Energy Dept is trying to round up copies of a classified document; Washington Star says it has obtained a copy of report entitled Weapon Development During June 1956, which was prepared by University of California Radiation Laboratory (M)
Date: 18 May 1979
Rita Reif
Rita Reif
Sotheby Parke Bernet to hold auction of ancient Egyptian art and Greco-Roman antiquities; some items noted; illus (M)