NONUNION NEWSPAPER IS PRODUCED BY POST; A 48-Page 'Experimental Edition' Put Out, Not for Sale--Murdoch Charges 'Substantial Sabotage' 20 Percent of Normal Force Had Checked Equipment Other Resignations
Date: 27 March 1978
By PETER KHISS
Peter KHISS
mgt and nonunion personnel of NY Post produce 48-page 'experimental edition'; publisher Rupert Murdoch says job was done despite 'substantial sabotage' at paper's plant; special edition was not for sale and comes in advance of contract deadlines; Post gen mgr Byron Greenberg says no such paper will be produced for distribution; Stereotypers Union pres John Kennedy says he does not believe sabotage occured; NY Newspaper Guild exec vp Harry Fisdell repts about 10 members each at Times and News have sent resignations from guild in last 2 wks; Times asst gen mgr John D Pomfret says there is no encouragement for people to resign (M)
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Paris Herald-Tribune Leaving Rue de Berri
Date: 26 March 1978
Internatl Herald-Tribune is moving from Rue de Berri in Paris to nearby suburb of Neuilly, where it will be edited with electronic equipment (S)
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Soviet Reporters Investigate, Too, But Only Within Limits Set at Top; Consequences of Exposure Inefficiency, Corruption, Mistakes Soviet Reporters Investigate, Too, But Only Within Limits Set at Top The Authority of the Party
Date: 27 March 1978
By CRAIG R. WHITNEY Special to The New York Times
Craig WHITNEY
Rept on journalism in USSR notes that investigative journalism does exist, but only with careful Govt controls; notes that press exposes and criticizes shortcomings and wrongdoings in almost every area of natl life, except in pol system itself and its leadership; cites ints with editors who disclose that press probes start with directives from top levels of Party and Govt; Pravda's People's Control Page appears twice monthly carrying lrs from People's Control Coms throughout USSR; illus (L)
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Realty News--; Second Avenue Madison Avenue Distribution Center Plant Sale Architects
Date: 26 March 1978
Amer Inst of Architects NY Chap repts employment in architectural profession increased for 1st time since '69; says employment was 37.5% less than it was in '69 (S)
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Follow-Up on The News; Oil Superport O. Henry Story Harbor Hovercraft $1 Million Mystery
Date: 26 March 1978
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
Article notes plans for experimental hovercraft service in NY Harbor remains in paperwork stage, despite announcement in '76; Acting NYC Marine and Aviation Comr Leon H Tracy says specifications for craft are being reviewed by Fed Urban Mass Transportation Adm (S)
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Sports News Briefs; Blue Being Fined $500 a Day Walker Captures Badminton Title Mrs. Yang Victor Freshman Scores Gymnastics Upset Kittyluck Captures Coast Turf Race Australian Victor
Date: 27 March 1978
Singapore Open: Terry Gale wins (S)
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State Senate Judiciary Committee Halts Inquiry Into S.C.I., and Agency Appears to Have Emerged Unscathed; News Analysis Committee Opens Inquiry S.C.I. Lawyer Resigns S.C.I. Chairman Testifies
Date: 27 March 1978
By MARTIN WALDRON Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
Article analyzes NJ Sen Judiciary Com's probe of charges that SCI allowed itself to be used by Gov Byrne in his probe of Patrick McGahn, bro of Sen Joseph L McGahn, who had blocked Byrne's nomination of Gerald Weinstein to Atlantic County judgeship; SCI seem emerging unscathed
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