2 december 1979 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 335e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 02 December 1979
By J. Kyle Goddard
J. Goddard
J Kyle Goddard comment on news conferences holds they are journalistic frauds which should be abolished; holds that after staging many such events and attending many, facts are rarely divulged in such setting; drawing (M)
Date: 02 December 1979
Kayhan, leading Teheran newspaper, uses 11-year-old photograph to illustrate charges that American police were brutally mistreating Iranian students during crisis over Americans being held hostage in Teheran; demonstrators shown in photographs are American antiwar protestors in '68; illus (S)
Date: 02 December 1979
UNESCO commission ends 2-year study of global communications and news-gathering by approving compromise final report that condemns censorship and what it terms imbalances in international news flow; report, which will not be released until March, urges that journalists everywhere be given access to sources in political opposition, according to UNESCO chairman Sean MacBride; proposals that will be examined noted; report, including dissenting views to be submitted by Jan 5, will be sent to UNESCO Dir Gen, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow; commission members Mustafa Masmoudi, Juan Somavia and Sergei Losev comment; international committee of broadcasters and journalists is to be formed by International Institute of Communications and 20th Century Fund to evaluate proposals involving press and broadcasting coverage of 3d world nations (M)
Date: 02 December 1979
Former Acting Foreign Min Abolhassan Bani-Sadr charges Iran's radio and television, controlled by his successor Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, with spreading false propaganda, forging news and slandering UN Sec Gen Kurt Waldheim in pursuing hard-line policy against US, interview in Teheran daily newspaper Ettelaat (M)
Date: 02 December 1979
By JO THOMAS
Jo THOMAS
Freedom to publish articles criticizing Government is coming under increasing attack in nations in and around Caribbean; Haiti, responding to foreign criticism, announced new human rights section will be set up in Foreign Affairs Department; repressive new press law apparently is being held in partial abeyance; news situations in Grenada, Jamaica and Guyana also noted; Commission on Freedom of Press, reporting to Inter-American Press Assn, calls outlook 'gloomy'; drawing (M)
Date: 03 December 1979
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Nielsen audience-popularity reports indicate that more people have been watching TV networks' evening newscasts in '79; show that although gains have been scored by 3 networks, ABC-TV has been getting greatest share (M)
Date: 03 December 1979
body identified as Sharon Enea, Alexander's department store executive and one-time candidate for NYS Sen (M)
Date: 03 December 1979
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Karen ARENSON