2 juli 1979 was een maandag onder het sterrenbeeld ♋. Het was de 182e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 03 July 1979
Supreme Court refuses, over 2 dissents, to order speed-up in appeals court hearings on The Progressive magazine case, involving suppression of article on how to build hydrogen bomb; US Court of Appeals for 7th Circuit has set case for argument on Sept 10, when its new term opens, despite requests by article's author Howard Morland and 2 editors; dissenting were Justices Byron R White and William J Brennan Jr (S)
Date: 02 July 1979
By YOUSSEF M.IBRAHIM Special to The New York Times
Islamic Revolutionary Government of Iran orders expulsion of Los Angeles Times correspondent David Lamb in what appears to be 1st crackdown on foreign press since February revolution; Ali Behzadnia, director of foreign press affairs, says there will be other cases with other correspondents (M)
Date: 03 July 1979
Special to The New York Times
spokesman for Iran Government outlines plans for new code to be followed by foreign news organizations in reporting on country's Islamic revolution; Ali Behzadnia says that Government intends to go ahead with plans to tighten supervision over foreign correspondents and that new code of behavior will be published soon; says resident correspondents will have to renew visas every 2 months instead of yearly, and that visas already granted for longer periods will be canceled; says dispatches by correspondents will be monitored by Iranian consulates abroad and evaluated before further accreditations or visas will be granted (S)
Date: 03 July 1979
By LINDA GREENHOUSE Special to The New York Times
Linda Special
US Supreme Court, ruling that 'members of the public have no constitutional right under 6th and 14th Amendments to attend criminal trials,' grants trial judges broad discretion to order courtrooms closed to press and public; 5-to-4 decision affirms ruling of NYS Court of Appeals, which had upheld power of trial judge to close pretrial hearing if he found reasonable probability' that pretrial publicity would hurt defendant's chance for fair trial; Court opinions appear to go considerably further; majority, although sometimes limiting discussion to pretrial proceedings, extends analysis to actual trials, thereby suggesting that they as well can be closed upon agreement by defendant, judge and prosecution; also, there is no requirement in Associate Justice Potter Stewart's majority opinion that judge, before barring public from courtroom, make preliminary finding that open proceeding will be harmful to defendant (M)
Date: 03 July 1979
By WARREN WEAVER Jr. Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
Sup Ct's decision arouses strong criticism from both press and legal profession; generally, authorities on civil rights and press freedoms argue that Ct had gone too far in name of curbing prejudicial pretrial publicity, failing to consider lesser remedies that would not have limited so severely public access to criminal jury system; comments by American Newspaper Publishers Assn chmn Allen Neuharth, ACLU, American Society of Newpaper Editors official Charles W Bailey and others noted (M)
Date: 03 July 1979
By Justice Stewart
Justice Stewart
Date: 02 July 1979
Special to The New York Times
career sketch of Chen Yun; por (M)
Date: 02 July 1979
Inter-American Baseball League ceasing operation because of financial problems (S)