Iran Says It Will Permit Return of U.S. Reporters; Americans Were Accused of Bias Details Given by Invalids
Date: 27 February 1980
Revolutionary Council spokesman Hassan Habibi says some American reporters will be allowed to enter Iran after having been banned since mid-January; says reporters must be impartial; announcement follows appeal by UN officials accompanying commission for admission into Iran of reporters accredited to UN; commission hears testimony from 140 people who said they were victims of torture during Shah's rule; hears evidence from Ali Reza Nobari, governor of Iran's central bank, on what he describes as embezzlement by Shah's family; illustration (M)
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Progressive Magazine Is in Financial Trouble
Date: 27 February 1980
Progressive Magazine, which won 1st Amendment battle against Government supression of article about hydrogen bomb, is struggling to pay off its legal expenses and stay alive; editors say they must raise $75,000 to stay afloat; editor Erwin Knoll comments (S)
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News Reporters' Notes Get Added Protection Under Law in Jersey
Date: 28 February 1980
By ROBERT HANLEY Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Bill guaranteeing news reporters judicial hearing before they can be ordered to comply with criminal defendant's subpoena to surrender confidential notes is signed by NJ Gov Byrne; law is designed to prevent repetition of circumstances under which New York Times reporter M A Farber was jailed for 40 days in '78 for disobeying judge's order to surrender his subpoenaed notes and other confidential documents to defense team of Dr Mario E Jascalevich (M)
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Carter Calls Controls Inflationary; 'Out of the Question'
Date: 28 February 1980
Special to The New York Times
Pres Carter predicts any request on his part for authority to impose mandatory wage-price controls would result in long delays in Congress during which both business and labor would escalate their wages and prices, question-and-answer session with magazine editors; Carter says he has found no fault with his economic policies thus far (S)
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VIOLATION OF LIMITS BY C.I.A. IS ADMITTED; Turner Reports Press, Professors and Clergy Were Used to Spy Despite Policy Against It Directive Bars Use of Cover Reassurance by Turner
Date: 27 February 1980
By CHARLES MOHR Special to The New York Times
Charles Special
Carter Administration, which is resisting legal prohibition against use of clergymen as spies, concedes that it has already engaged in such practices although its own policy has forbidden them since '77; Adm Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, testified last week before Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, that he waived provisions of his own policies on limited occasions; Repr Les Aspin sends letter asking for more details; Herbert Hetu, CIA's press spokesman, declines to clarify Turner's testimony or to say whether waivers involved clergy (M)
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Bomb Delivered to Publisher
Date: 27 February 1980
Gasoline bomb delivered to office of publication TV News is removed and deactivated by NYC Police Dept bomb squad (S)
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Unanimous Choice by Regents; Willard Adolph Genrich Man in the News
Date: 28 February 1980
By ARI L. GOLDMAN Special to The New York Times
Ari GOLDMAN
profile of Genrich, who has been elected by NYS Regents Board as its Chancellor; Genrich, a Republican, has been Regent since '73; was born on Feb 19 '15 in Buffalo; portrait (M)
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News of The Theater Black Touring Circuit Is Taking to the Road; 'Conscience' in Florida Ragtime for St. Peter's Around and About
Date: 27 February 1980
By CAROL LAWSON
Carol LAWSON
National Black Touring Circuit: National Black Touring Circuit, initiated by Woodie King Jr, will begin US tour on June 16; some planned productions noted; King portrait (S)
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