8 augustus 1978 was een dinsdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♌. Het was de 219e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 08 August 1978
Provincial authorities release 33 journalists, trade union workers and students who had been held after staging hunger strike at Karachi Press Club during last 2 wks; journalists' demands included reinstatement of 30 journalists arrested during April hunger strike and withdrawal of laws restricting press freedom (S)
Date: 08 August 1978
By ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ Special to The New York Times
Alfonso NARVAEZ
ACLU files friend of ct brief supporting right of group of residents to urge city to halt legal ad in Independent Prospector weekly newspaper, Passaic County Superior Ct; orgn aide Steven R Nagler notes that while citizens have right to petition, City Council would violate newspaper's const rights if it halted legal ad because of paper's ed content (M)
Date: 09 August 1978
By SHEILA RULE
Sheila RULE
CBS News pres Richard Salant, joined by NY Times exec ed A M Rosenthal and NBC News reporter Tom Brokaw, argue that case of M A Farber and Stanford Daily will have adverse impact on news gathering and reporting, ABA panel 'Search and Seizure of the Media', NYC; Asst US Atty Gen Philip B Heymann says subpoenaing material amassed in news gathering is very small problem; Internatl Assn of Chiefs of Police exec dir Glen Hill says barring of search warrants on press would put one interest above another and impede police investigation and rights of citizens to live as free from crime as possible; former NJ Gov Robert B Meyner says, in question and answer period, that issue in Farber case is not press freedom but right of accused to fair trial; scores NJ judge's move to inspect Farber's materials in chambers before deciding on Times-Farber challenges (M)
Date: 09 August 1978
By ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ Special to The New York Times
Alfonso NARVAEZ
Passaic County Superior Ct Temporary Judge William J Marchese denies The Independent Prospector, Clifton, NJ, wkly newspaper, restraining order barring Citizens Opposed to The Independent Prospector from efforts to curtail advertising and purchase of paper; says group is protected by First Amendment free speech guarantees; says paper and its publisher Alex Bidnik Jr have shown that efforts of group have harmed paper but suggests that future harm could be avoided by changes in paper's policies; finds that merchants who have withheld ad denied paper's contention that they had been pressured and intimidated; group leader Charles Nouhan lauds decision; paper's atty, Williams J De Marco, says he does not know if appeal will be brought (S)
Date: 09 August 1978
By DAMON STETON
Damon STETON
3 newspapers postpone deadline for agreement with pressmen until 6 PM at request of Fed mediator Kenneth Moffett; Publishers Assn exec dir H J Kracke says no progress has been made in talks; union pres William J Kennedy Jr says atmosphere of negotiation has improved and that chances of agreement are 50-50; Newspaper Deliverers leader Douglas LaChance says deliverers will support pressmen's picket line (M)
Date: 08 August 1978
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
negotiators for pressmen's union and for 3 major daily newspapers intensify efforts to resolve contract dispute over press manning and avert strike threatened for Aug 8; John C Zancanaro, natl repr of Fed Mediation and Conciliation Service, is mediating dispute; is assisted by Hezekiah Brown (M)
Date: 08 August 1978
By MARJORIE HUNTER Special to The New York Times
Marjorie Special
Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan, deploring jailing of NY Times reporter M A Farber, says that Cong might have to act to assure continued freedom of press, speech to Sen; Sens Alan Cranston and Edward Kennedy and Repr Philip M Crane share Moynihan's concerns (M)
Date: 09 August 1978
survey of elected officials finds they disagree with jailing of Farber; comments of Govs Schrieber, Lamm, Thompson, Byrne, Peprich and Carey noted; Penna Gov Shapp agrees with move; Sen Javits calls for Fed law to deal with instances where press freedoms conflict with rights of defendants (M)
Date: 08 August 1978
Special to The New York Times
Calif Appeals Ct grants indefinite stay of contempt order against Sacramento reporter John M Hammarley, who was ordered to surrender tapes and notes of conversations with key witness in murder case; Hammarley wrote series of articles in Dec '77, which appeared in The Sacramento Union and New West magazine, that were from ints with Edward Carlos Gonzales, witness in slaying of Ellen Delia on Feb 17, '77 (M)
Date: 09 August 1978
Detroit News offers to pay day's fine, $5000, for NY Times in M A Farber case to symbolize paper's involvement in controversy; Times publisher Sulzberger, in lr to News publisher Peter B Clark, suggests funds be set aside to aid smaller papers that might face first amendment struggles; expresses gratitude and says Times is strong enough to bear punitive fine that was unjustly imposed (S)