Papers In 'War' On Fire I.
Date: 01 July 1979
By ROBIN YOUNG ROE
Robin ROE
Comment on competition to win readership by newspapers published on Fire Island; papers include Fire Island Tide, published by Warren McDowell, Fire Island, started by Peter McKenna and published by Katherine Divis, Fire Island News, published by Bee Garfield, and The Villager, published by Andrew Kirtzman (M)
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Washington Post and Employees Reach a Pact After Three Years
Date: 30 June 1979
Negotiators for Washington Post and news and commercial employees have reached tentative agreement on 3-year contract that would raise top-scale wages by $82 to $585 a week; unit leadership committee of Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild recommends that guild members at Post approve pact (S)
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Publisher Indicted
Date: 01 July 1979
By MARTIN GANSBERG
Martin GANSBERG
Grand jury in NJ has indicted Alex Bidnik Jr, owner and editor of Clifton, NJ, Independent Prospector, for allegedly impersonating police officer in gathering information and for extorting advertising; Passaic County Prosecutor Burrell Ives Humphrey will decide if Bidnik will be brought to trial; Bidnik's lawyer William DeMarco has challenged indictments (S)
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Thorpe Case Raises Some Ethical Issues in Britain; Fat Contract With Key Witness
Date: 01 July 1979
By WILLIAM BORDERS Special to The New York Times
William Special
British lawyers, journalists and politicans, in aftermath of Jeremy Thorpe's acquittal on charges of conspiring to commit murder, are discussing ethical issues raised by trial; at center of discussion is so-called checkbook journalism, practice of paying for newspaper articles, in this case stories of principal prosecution witnesses; trial is also raising questions on campaign financing and criminal procedure, with challenges to long-accepted ways of doing things; controversy over contract signed in '78 by prosecution witness Peter Bessell with Sunday Telegraph to publish stories on Thorpe and trial discussed; Bessell was to have been paid $100,000 if Thorpe was found guilty and stories were published and $50,000 if Thorpe was found innocent and articles were not published; issue of whether Bessell's arrangement with newspaper was strong inducement to shape his testimony toward conviction is matter of much controversy (M)
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Appeals Court Rejects Complaint That CBS Coverage Was Unfair
Date: 30 June 1979
Federal appeals court rejects American Security Council Education Foundation complaint that CBS violated Govt's fairness doctrine for broadcasters with 'dovish' coverage of national security issues in '72 (S)
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Colleagues and President Honor ABC Reporter Slain in Nicaragua; The Dictators' Enemy
Date: 30 June 1979
BY WALTER H. WAGGONER
Walter WAGGONER
more than 300 people attend memorial service for Stewart; messages from Pres Carter, Vice Pres Mondale and Chief Justice Warren E Burger are read; speakers at service include UN representative Andrew Young, Frank Reynolds (ABC), Walter Cronkite (CBS), and Richard Dudman (St Louis Post-Disptach) (S)
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Good News Switch for the Bad-News Dow
Date: 01 July 1979
change in makeup of Dow Jones industrial average revd (S)
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