29 juni 1979 was een vrijdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♋. Het was de 179e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Jimmy Carter.
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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)
Date: 29 June 1979
Memorial service for ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart to be held June 29, Society for Ethical Culture, NYC: speakers to include ABC News anchorman Frank Reynolds, CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite and Andrew Young, US representative to UN (S)
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)
Date: 29 June 1979
Editorial on question of whether Federal Government has become too open for its own good; holds no other democracy has ventured so far in assuring access to secret documents; notes freedoms implicit under Freedom of Information Act; says it was by tapping files that English journalist William Shawcross could write 'Sideshow,' which relies on cable traffic of highest security classification to describe cover-up of 1969-70 bombing raids in Cambodia; holds that if open Government has its excesses, they are incidental footnote to new chapter of freedom
Date: 29 June 1979
By James Reston
James Reston
James Reston comment on London, England, without newspaper The Times (M)
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)
Date: 29 June 1979
Text of communique issued in English by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at end of its ministerial meeting in Geneva; conference has given general support to idea of establishing international news agency, OPECNEWS (S)
Date: 30 June 1979
East Ger enacts laws penalizing persons for passing nonclassified information or texts, manuscripts or tape recordings to foreigners (S)