Lebanese Editors Strongly Assail Latest Curbs on Press Freedom
Date: 05 July 1977
Press scores new law promulgated by al-Hoss Govt setting harder punishment for eds and writers printing false news and banning foreign payments to press; Information Min indicates present censorship may be lifted when new law goes into effect; law authorizes Govt censorship under emergency conditions (M)
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Bell Orders Aides to Limit Details When They Announce Indictments
Date: 05 July 1977
By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK Special to The New York Times
Atty Gen Bell discloses that he has ordered Justice Dept's publicity office to discontinue its practice of issuing detailed news releases to announce criminal indictments; says releases could prejudice case against defendant as they do repeat charges which have not been proven in ct without offering defendants any opportunity to dispute them (M)
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Driver Faces 19 Assault Charges in Klan Incident
Date: 04 July 1977
Buddy D Cochran, 30-yr-old mechanic, is held in Sumter County jail in nearby Americus, charged with aggravates assault; illus (S)
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News Summary; International
Date: 04 July 1977
special US trade negotiator Robert S Strauss to visit EEC Comm on July 12 in effort to spur long-stalled Geneva trade negotiations; move seen reflecting opening of Carter Adm offensive to insure that Western leaders live up to repeated promise to make substantial progress in negotiations during '77, despite rising protectionist pressures; possible areas of discussions at talks noted; Strauss illus (M)
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Rumania Tells of Outburst
Date: 05 July 1977
Several persons died June 13, when thousands of angry Rumanian youths stormed oversold pop concert and soccer match in a Bucharest stadium (S)
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Two Kidnapped Girls Freed
Date: 04 July 1977
Milligan, Norma: Norma Milligan, 15, and Christina Alcorn, 7, freed after being abducted last wk from shopping center in Fresno, Calif (S)
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