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Date: 21 August 1979
Iran's religious leaders shut down 22 opposition newspapers; among newspapers silenced are official outlets of centrist National Democratic Front, Tudeh, or Communist, Party and Marxist People's Fedayeen guerrilla group; Turkish-language paper is also shut down (M)
Date: 21 August 1979
William Dedrick, vice president of Franklin Bank in Paterson, NJ, has filed suit against WNEW-TV charging his wife's life was unnecessarily endangered in July when news crew followed him as he was meeting her abductors' demands; suit, filed against Metromedia Inc, Mark Monsky, WNEW-TV news director, and 5 unnamed camera-crew members, seeks $200,000 damages on each of 3 counts of unlawful eavesdropping of radio communications (S)
Date: 20 August 1979
Ray Jenkins, editor of Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal, will be named assistant to White House press secretary Jody Powell (S)
Date: 20 August 1979
By JO THOMAS Special to The New York Times
Jo Special
Comment on political scene in Grenada; notes there has been undercurrent of suspicion that US has been trying to undermine Government; accusations have mostly centered on The Torchlight, newspaper that was 1 of critics of Sir Eric Gairy, former leader; Torchlight, in July, reprinted article from a West German publication that base for Soviet warships was under construction in Grenada and that American spy planes had discovered vast areas of interior cleared for installation of missile bases; a letter to editor accused CIA of being responsible for article in effort to undermine Grenada (S)
Date: 20 August 1979
By FRANK LYNN Special to The New York Times
Frank Special
Pres Carter says he does not expect Young to have role in his re-election campaign
Date: 21 August 1979
US District Judge Frederick B Lacey rules that Van Dyk Research Co failed to prove that Xerox Corp created a monopoly, ending 4-yr court battle; Van Dyke had claimed damages of $65 million (S)
Date: 20 August 1979
Masie is arrested (S)
Date: 20 August 1979
By HENRY SCOTT STOKES Special to The New York Times
Henry STOKES
Article analyzes political ramifications of suit against New Democratic Party head Kim Young Sam that could unseat him as opposition head; Kim charges that suit is conspiracy by Government to remove him as threat (M)