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Date: 04 February 1980
correspondents Richard Balmforth (Reuters), Elizabeth Thurgood (London Guardian) and Marcus Eliason (AP) fail to return to their hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, after driving north out of Kabul (S)
Date: 04 February 1980
NY Gov Carey urges passage of state legislation that would limit use of search warrants to obtain documents held by news organizations; refers to bill that failed to gain approval in Legislature in '79, calling it 'important protection of 1st Amendment rights'; it would require law enforcement agencies to seek subpoenas in courts before conducting newsroom searches, rather than search on authority of their own warrants (S)
Date: 03 February 1980
By E.J. DIONNE
E. DIONNE
Article on public opinion polling in USSR conducted by Dr Vladimir Shliapentokh before he emigrated to US in '79; Shliapentokh says most polls were nationwide readership surveys for Izvestia, Trud, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Pravda and Union of Writers Weekly; his portrait (M)
Date: 03 February 1980
By JOHN VINOCUR
John VINOCUR
Article on Intercontinental Hotels Corp, chain where 1 or another of its hotels seem to be in current trouble spots in world; notes 'Interconti' hotels often serve as base of operations for foreign correspondents in such areas as Kabul, Afghanistan, and Teheran, Iran; drawing (International Economic Survey) (L)
Date: 04 February 1980
By ERNEST HOLSENDOLPH Special to The New York Times
Ernest Special
Federal officials say Carter Administration will press for fewer Government limits on broadcasters' rights of expression and endorse greater competition through creation of more radio and TV stations; say Administration, in key policy decision, will work to relax some fairness doctrine provisions so that broadcasters will have more flexibility in presenting news; White House communications specialist Steven J Simmons and National Telecommunications and Information Admr Henry Geller comment (M)
Date: 04 February 1980
Metropolitan Edison Co, operator of crippled 3 Mile Island nuclear power plant, sues to prevent The Guide, local Pennsylvania weekly, from printing articles on plant written by Robert Kapler, reporter who succeeded in misrepresenting himself and getting job at plant; contends articles could pose serious threat to public welfare if read by saboteurs (S)
Date: 03 February 1980
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
Follow-up item on peregrine falcon female that nested on high floor of US Fidelity and Guaranty Building, Baltimore, Md, in 1979; Cornell University ornithologist Thomas Cade says bird has raised 4 chicks that were put in nest in June as replacements for unfertilized eggs (S)