Times and News Put Off Deadline For Pressmen and Paperhandlers
Date: 28 June 1978
NY Times and Daily News postpone 4th of July weekend deadline they set for concluding complete contract with pressmen's and paperhandlers' unions; word of postponement is given by H J Kracke, exec dir of Publishers Assn of NYC; NY Typographical Union Local 6 repts that Times and Post have offered retirement and severance incentives to persuade printers to leave; Times exec vp Walter Mattson comments (S)
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Knock At the Door: II; IN THE NATION
Date: 27 June 1978
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker comment on proceedings at Sen Birch Bayh's Subcom on Const that held hearings on recent Sup Ct ruling that even innocent parties--including newspapers and broadcasters--are subject to police searches for evidence of crime; positions taken by Sens Charles Mathais, William Scott, Repr Dan Quayle and Philip Heymann, special asst to Atty Gen Bell, noted (M)
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2 U.S. Reporters Summoned to Court in Moscow; Case Reported Linked to Libel Suit--Soviet Frees Businessman No Precedent in Soviet Is Recalled Prison and Exile for Dissident
Date: 28 June 1978
By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times
David SHIPLER
Reporters Craig R Whitney (NY Times) and Harold D Piper (Baltimore Sun) are ordered to appear at Moscow ct to answer unspecified charges, possibly involving recent articles they have written; Foreign Min Press Dept official Vitaly Zhuravlev told 2 correspondents by phone that charge against them involved slander; main dispatch they have written on subject of broadcasting was rept from Tbilisi quoting family and friends of imprisoned Georgian dissident, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, as having asserted that televised confession by him had probably been fabricated by authorities (M)
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Court Rules Press Has No Right of Access to Prisons; Different Methods
Date: 27 June 1978
Special to The New York Times
Sup Ct rules that press has no const right of access to jails and other govt facilities beyond access permitted to public at large; Assoc Justice Potter Stewart, 4th and crucial vote for plurality, did not join in main opinion written by Chief Justice Warren E Burger; filed separate concurrence based on view that although Const did not guarantee press right of access 'superior' to that of gen public, press did have const right of 'effective access to facilities once they are opened to public at large; other judicial opinion noted (M)
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Dobrynin Says Press Can Work at Olympics
Date: 28 June 1978
Soviet Amb to US Anatoly F Dobrynin promises that there will be no harassment of Western reporters covering 1980 Olympics in Moscow, speech to more than 100 journalists at Soviet Embassy (S)
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Vance Seeks Details on Case
Date: 28 June 1978
Special to The New York Times
NY Times correspondent in Moscow, Craig R Whitney, is ordered to appear at Moscow ct to answer unspecified charges, possibly involving article he wrote (S)
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Around the Nation; Chicago Officials to Appeal Ruling on Rally by Nazis Decision on a New Trial In Brooke Divorce Delayed Official Testifies on Impact Of Newsroom Search Rule Former Rep. Passman Is Found Fit for Trial
Date: 27 June 1978
Special to The New York Times
Perera gives Brookes 18 hours to settle their divorce dispute without 2d trial (S)
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News Summary; International National Metropolitan
Date: 28 June 1978
NY Times survey on decline in number of entering graduate students cites Med Colls Assn rept of 10% drop in mod school applications (S)
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