Wire Guild at Associated Press Ratifies Contract by 60% Margin
Date: 13 January 1979
Wire Serive Guild informs AP that union's members have ratified new 2-yr contract; guild admr Richard Olive comments (S)
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Date: 13 January 1979
Wire Serive Guild informs AP that union's members have ratified new 2-yr contract; guild admr Richard Olive comments (S)
Date: 12 January 1979
Newspaper Guild sues NY Daily News in Fed Dist Ct seeking to prevent dismissal of 12 employees of newspaper's NJ edition; Judge Milton Pollack refuses to grant temporary restraining order to prevent dismissals, noting that parties were scheduled to meet with arbitrator (S)
Date: 13 January 1979
Teamster members of Local 610 vote to ratify contracts that will end series of strikes that have shut down St Louis Globe-Dem and St Louis Post-Dispatch; newspaper officials say votes clear way for Sunday edition of papers; Post-Dispatch asst gen mgr Nicholas G Penniman comments (S)
Date: 13 January 1979
By RONALD SULLIVAN
Ronald SULLIVAN
Peter Jay Solomon, Deputy Mayor for Econ Development, says that he advised NYC health officials in Dec, during height of Christmas shopping season, to be 'sensitive' to consequences of issuing news repts linking legionnaires' disease bacteria to air-conditioner on roof of Macy's dept store on Herald Sq (S)
Date: 12 January 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Pamela O'Shaughnessy, reporter for Kings Courier (NYC), is sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $250 for refusing to answer questions in narcotics trial about 1 of her sources for article on drug trafficking; her attys, later in day, obtained stay of sentence until Jan 17 to give time to file appeal; Michael Zagarino, 1 of alleged drug dealers mentioned in article, is now standing trial on charges of selling narcotics; chief witness for prosecution is undercover agent who brought about Zagarino's arrest; agent testified that he was not source for article; defense, in attempt to cast doubt on agent's credibility by showing that he was 1 of O'Shaughnessy's sources, subpoenaed O'Shaughnessy's notes for article and asked her to appear as witness; illus (M)
Date: 13 January 1979
Special to The New York Times
Members of Newspaper Guild at Cleveland Plain Dealer demand that newspaper's mgt reinstate and publicly apologize to reporter Robert Holden who had been told that he could no longer rept on Cleveland Elec Illuminating Co because he would be unfair; guild unit chmn David L Abbott says that union members strongly believe that utility officials pressured newspaper's mgt to remove Holden because some of his stories had been unfavorable (S)
Date: 12 January 1979
By HOWELL RAINES Special to The New York Times
Howell Special
White House press sec Jody Powell publicly denies that Pres Carter shares any of views of brother Billy Carter that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic; controversy stems from rept in Atlanta Journal that quoted Billy Carter, who is conducting tour for Libyan businessmen and officials close to Col Muammar el-Qaddafi, as attributing Libya's poor internatl image to fact that 'Jewish media tears up the Arab countries full time, as you well known' (S)
Date: 12 January 1979
Delivery truck drivers at St Louis Post-Dispatch vote to reject what co says is its final offer, prolonging shutdown at Post-Dispatch and Globe-Democrat (S)
Date: 12 January 1979
Newswomen's Club of NY's '78 Front Page Awards go to Dena Kleiman and Teresa Zabala (S)