Reuters Head Bids West Help Third-World Press
Date: 14 May 1980
Gerald Long, managing director of Reuters, criticizes program proposed by UNESCO to improve press in 3d world and proposes alternative approach; says that proposed program is aimed at controlling development of news communications and this must not be allowed to happen; says UNESCO plan, to be announced at general conference in Belgrade in fall, is result of 2 years of work by 16-member commission headed by Sean McBride (S)
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Judge in Texas Reverses Decision Barring Wall Street Journal Article; Day of Stockholders' Meeting
Date: 13 May 1980
Judge Fish reverses decision and says Journal can publish article as scheduled (S)
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Papers in Chattanooga Consolidate Operations
Date: 14 May 1980
Chattanooga Times says it is consolidating some of its operations, including full mechanical production, with Chattanooga News-Free Press; publisher Ruth S Holmberg comments (S)
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12 of 136 Counts Against LaChance Are Dismissed
Date: 13 May 1980
By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH
Arnold LUBASCH
Federal District Judge Milton Pollack dismisses 12 of 136 counts in indictment of Douglas LaChance on ground that prosecution presented insufficient evidence; John P Brucato and William J Kennedy, Newspaper Pressmen's Union No 2 president, testify for defense (M)
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LaChance Testifies He Didn't Seek or Receive Illegal Cash Payments
Date: 14 May 1980
By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH
Arnold LUBASCH
LaChance testifies that he had not requested or received any cash payoffs from newspaper delivery companies; says shortly before he became president, payoff proposition was made to him by Leon Braunstein, delivery company executive who was prosecution's main witness at trial; testifies he rejected suggestion (M)
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Notes on People; Quick Steps for Education Actor Calls the Tune New Puzzle Horizons Please Stand By Gray's Portrait Unchanged
Date: 13 May 1980
Judith Cummings Albin Krebs
Judith Albin
Roger Mudd, CBS News correspondent who lost out to Dan Rather as eventual successor to Walter Cronkite as CBS Evening News anchorman, has been off the air at his own request but CBS has continued to pay him; CBS News pres Bill Leonard hopes that Mudd will stay with network (S)
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Adventurer in a Balloon; Maxie Leroy Anderson Man in the News 'Always Very Confident' 'A Home Run Hitter' 7 Years After Graduation
Date: 13 May 1980
By ANNA QUINDLEN
Anna QUINDLEN
Man-in-the-News biographical sketch of Maxie Anderson; full name is Maxie Leroy Anderson; was born Sept 10, 1934, Sayre (Okla)
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World News Briefs; Partyless System in Nepal Is Retained by the Voters Four in Salvador Attack Home of U.S. Ambassador British Workers Are Asked To Ignore Union Protest Zimbabwe Importing Coal From South Africa in Strike
Date: 14 May 1980
4 men fire submachine gun and throw 2 bombs at embassy in San Salvador; no injuries reported (S)
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