2 DETAINED BY PAKISTAN IN NEWSPAPER PROTEST
Date: 01 May 1978
22 journalists and other newspaper workers are detained shortly before they are to start hunger strike in defiance of martial law; they include Nisar Usmani, sec gen of journalists union, whose pres, Minhaj Baran was detained last night and then expelled from Punjab Province (S)
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East German Radio Airs Religious News
Date: 30 April 1978
E Ger broadcasts 15-min radio program of Prot ch news, 1st of its kind since Communist party was founded in '49; broadcast was agreed on in Mar at meeting between Pres Erich Honecker and religious leaders (S)
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Questioned To Death
Date: 30 April 1978
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
Seymour TOPPING
Book Biko by Donald Woods revd (M)
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Canadians Protest Prosecution Of Newspaper for a Spy Report; Revisions in Law 'Based on Vindictiveness'
Date: 01 May 1978
By ROBERT TRUMBULL Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Toronto Sun has been charged with violating Canada's stringent Official Secrets Act on 2 counts for publishing details of 'secret' rept on Soviet spies in Canada; action has caused backlash against Govt secrecy among publishers and editors across country; resolution adopted by Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers' Assn at its annual conv accused Govt of 'discriminatory action' in prosecuting Sun, paper consistently critical of Prime Min Trudeau; points out that natl TV network CTV and opposition member of Parliament, Thomas C Cossitt, had made same material public earlier and had not been prosecuted; Justice Min Ronald Basford ruled that Cossitt was immune from prosecution because of his Parliamentary status; Sun editor in chief Peter Worthington quoted from same source as Cossitt; Toronto Globe and Mail managing editor C W Davey and Edmonton Journal publisher JP O'Callaghan comment (M)
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25 Are Arrested at May Day Event Near North Carolina State Campus
Date: 01 May 1978
25 persons, including 2 newsmen, are arrested at May Day event near univ; 4 others are injured, none seriously, when police move in to disperse crowd for purported unlawful assembly (S)
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Towns Where Scaffold Victims Lived Burying Their Dead; Second Son Killed in Accident Safety Cannot Be Assured Inquiry Into Accident Continues
Date: 01 May 1978
By IVER PETERSON Special to The New York Times
Iver Special
Reporters are excluded from funeral services of 4 Steele brothers killed when scaffold on which they were working at Monoga Power Co, Willow Is, W Va, collapsed; 4 W Va state troopers seized and destroyed film of NY Times photographer who had been taking pictures of funeral (S)
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NONFICTION IN BRIEF
Date: 30 April 1978
By Andrew Bergman
Andrew Bergman
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: A Young Man in Search of Love revd by Andrew Bergman
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Trial of 2 for Espionage May Inhibit Leaks of Government Information; 'Inhibiting Impact' Is Seen
Date: 01 May 1978
By DAVID BURNHAM Special to The New York Times
David Special
Espionage trial of USIA employee Ronald L Humphrey and Truong Dinh Hung is scheduled to begin on May 1 (M)
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Johnny Harris, Soviet Hero
Date: 01 May 1978
Ed comments on Ala prison warden's rejection of request by Soviet journalists to interview convict Johnny Harris, cause celebre in Soviet Union because of alleged Amer racism; says interview should have been granted
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News Summary; International National Metropolitan
Date: 30 April 1978
coup and assassination of Pres Mohammad Daud revd; Daud illus (S)
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