Coast Shopper's Paper Stakes Out Turf as Daily; Shopper on Coast Stakes Out Turf as Daily
Date: 14 August 1979
By PAMELA G. HOLLIE Special to The New York Times
Pamela HOLLIE
Comment on Valley News, suburban Los Angeles newspaper, which may pose serious challenge to Los Angeles Times; paper has established itself as dominant in San Fernando Valley; emphasizes local news; paper will begin publishing 7 days a week on Sept 10; illus of editor Bruce Winters, president J Scott Schmidt and executive vice president Thomas J Culligan; map; graph of circulation (M)
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IRAN IMPOSES CURBS FOR FOREIGN PRESS; New Rules Bar Unsupervised Talks With Officials--Warning Given Against 'Biased' Articles
Date: 14 August 1979
Iran's revolutionary Government issues severe rules for foreign correspondents, including ban on unsupervised interviews with Government officials and requirement that reporters apply for press cards every 3 months; thousands of demonstrators march from Teheran University to Prime Min Bazargan's office to protest new press code for domestic media (S)
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KHOMEINI'S BACKERS RAID HEADQUARTERS OF IRANIAN LEFTISTS; MOSLEMS ACT IN RETALIATION New Restrictions on Press Cause the Sharpest Strife in Teheran Since Islamic Revolution The Protest Sunday Islamic Militants Raid Iranian Leftist Offices Over Protest for Press
Date: 14 August 1979
leftist demonstrators in Teheran protest press law (S)
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Cuba Resumes A.P. News Service
Date: 14 August 1979
AP reports have been returned to Cuba after 10-year interruption during which country received no regular reports by agency; contract for distribution of AP dispatches by Prensa Latina is signed by AP vice president Stanley M Swinton (S)
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Cross Winds in Nicaragua
Date: 15 August 1979
editorial on nature of revolutionary regime in Nicaragua; notes removal of press restrictions
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Jurists' Group Deplores Iran's Press Crackdown
Date: 15 August 1979
International Commission of Jurists says Iranian political life will suffer 'severe setback' because of curbing of opposition press (S)
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News Organizations Balk at Curb On Photographers on Carter Trip; Restriction on Photographers Single Television Pool
Date: 15 August 1979
By MARTIN TOLCHIN Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
UPI, Time and Newsweek will not send photographers to accompany Pres Carter on his Mississippi River boat journey because of restrictive conditions White House has imposed on photographers for trip; 3 major TV networks offer counterproposal to White House (M)
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Bar Convention Debates Issue of TV in Courtrooms; 25 States Permit Use of TV
Date: 14 August 1979
By TOM GOLDSTEIN Special to The New York Times
Tom Special
Whitney North Seymour and Floyd Abrams argue US Supreme Court's decision in Gannett v DePasquale before mock panel of 'judges' at Amer Bar Assn annual meeting, Dallas; Seymour says Court struck down main argument for presence of media at criminal proceedings; Abrams says case applies only to pretrial hearings (M)
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Powell Says Court Has No Hostility Toward Press; 'Dependent on the Media'
Date: 14 August 1979
By LINDA GREENHOUSE Special to The New York Times
Linda Special
Supreme Court Assoc Justice Lewis F Powell Jr, in panel discussion at Amer Bar Assn annual meeting, Dallas, responds to question about judges in 2 cases who had cited Court's opinion (in Gannett v DePasquale) in barring press but not public from courtroom hearings; notes that opinion was based on anaylsis of Sixth Amendment right to public trial and did not reach issue of rights of access under First Amendment (M)
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Times Is Told to Pay Jascalevich $1,700 in Contempt Case Costs
Date: 15 August 1979
Superior Court Judge Theodore W Trautwein rules that NY Times must pay Dr Mario E Jascalevich for out-of-pocket expenses incurred during contempt proceedings against newspaper; orders paper to pay $1,700.38; attorney Raymond A Brown had asked court for $22,000 in investigator expenses (S)
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