Judge Fines Publisher on Refusal To Answer Questions on Funds; Denies Being Foreign Agent
Date: 01 August 1979
Special to The New York Times
Federal District Judge Charles B Renfrew fines newspaper publisher John McGoff $10,000 for not answering questions about source of funds for his '74 purchase of Sacramento Union; fine comes at pretrial hearing, at which McGoff is not present, on $43 million antitrust suit filed by McGoff against Sacramento Bee in early '78; suit charged that Bee monopolized Sacramento news media market; Bee attorneys, earlier in July, won court approval to question McGoff about funds he used to buy Union; move came after report was released in June by South African Government stating that secret government propaganda fund had provided McGoff with $11.5 million for purchase of newspapers in US (S)
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Washington Post and Guild Sign Contract After 3-Year Wrangling
Date: 31 July 1979
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
Washington Post and Newspaper Guild sign new contract, ending frequently embittered 3-year lapse during which company bargained intermittently and largely disregarded terms of expired contract; new contract provides for wage increases that average $18 a year; Charles R Babcock, Guild unit co-chairman, and Lawrence Wallace, who signed contract for Post, comment (S)
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Appeals Court Upsets Conviction Of Reporter Withholding Source; Amendments in Conflict
Date: 31 July 1979
Brooklyn appellate court, without addressing constitutional issues, unanimously reverses conviction on contempt charges of Pamela O'Shaughnessy, reporter for King's Courier, who had refused to identify confidential source in drug case (S)
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Soviet Denies Intention To Expel U.S. Reporter
Date: 31 July 1979
Special to The New York Times
Soviet newspaper Izvestia denies any decision has been made to expel Satter (S)
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World News Briefs; Editor for Opposition Party Arrested in South Korea Italian Police Bar Guards From Attacking Prisoners French Police Seek Bandits After Armored-Car Holdup Sadat Weighs Visit to China In September After Japan
Date: 01 August 1979
South Korean Government appears to be intensifying its pressure on opposition New Democratic Party by seizing copies of party's newspaper, Democratic Front, and jailing editor Pu Shik (S)
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Iran Limits Payments Due Foreign Investors; Currency Revision Set; Iran Planning Monetary Revisions
Date: 31 July 1979
By YOUSSEF M. IBRAHIM Special to The New York Times
Last report filed from Iran by Youssef M Ibrahim
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Notes on People; Kissinger to Face Questioning by Frost Buyer of 'Haunted House' in Amityville Not Dispirited Dr. Teller Attributes Ill Health to Foes of Nuclear Power Ottinger to Marry Russell Means Released 'Officer Obie' (Continued)
Date: 01 August 1979
Barbara Basler Albin Krebs
Barbara Albin
To marry Sharon Frank, Washington consumer advocate (S)
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Union Against Resuming Strike at Newport News; Appeal Is Company's Second
Date: 31 July 1979
USWA decides not to resume strike against Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co in move that angers hundreds of members attending 3-hour meeting, Newport News, Va; meeting was called to consider resuming strike in response to shipyard's appealing union's election victory to Federal court; company has asked court to overturn NLRB's certification of union election in Jan '78, in which union ousted Peninsula Shipbuilders Assn as bargaining agent (M)
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