Closed Courts Are Usually A Weapon for The Defense
Date: 08 July 1979
By TOM GOLDSTEIN
Tom GOLDSTEIN
Judicial implications of Sup Ct decision upholding closing of Seneca County (NY) murder trial to press and public discussed; drawing (M)
Replaying Sunday, July 8, 1979
The July 8, 1979 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 188 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 47 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 1 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, July 8, 2027, in 363 days. You have lived for 17,168 days, or about 412,036 hours, or about 24,722,169 minutes, or about 1,483,330,140 seconds.
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8th of July 1979 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 8, 1979
A Dilly of a Story Turns Sour
Date: 09 July 1979
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
UPI and airwaves of radio and TV stations across US carried bizzare story on July 8 telling how Connecticut biochemist had developed red, white and blue pickle, complete with 50 stars; when listeners began to call in and request more information about pickle, story was discovered to be hoax planted originally in Waterbury, Conn, Republican newspaper by freelance writers Gregory Zabielski and Ed Chaberek (S)
Rightist Intellectual Groups Rise in France; Right-Wing Research Group Seminars With Top Figures
Date: 08 July 1979
By JONATHAN KANDELL Special to The New York Times
Jonathan Special
by Anthony Howard
News Guild Refusing U.S. Financing to Aid Latin American Drive
Date: 08 July 1979
Newspaper Guild, in reversal, has decided to ban acceptance of any US Government funds to support unionizing activities in Latin America, scuttling program begun there last May; action, taken at annual convention in Boston, upsets guild policy set by '67 convention that prohibited financing for international affairs program from purported fronts for CIA but permits acceptance of Government financing outright through arm such as Agency for International Development; Perlik comments; Argentine journalist Alberto Schtirbu, who had been placed in charge of Latin American program, is put on immediate notice to cease activities and arrangements are begun to return about $75,000 in funds (S)
An Hour of News in Prime Time? Channel 5 Has the Scoop
Date: 08 July 1979
By EDWIN DIAMOND
Edwin DIAMOND
Edwin Diamond article lauds WNEW-TV's 10 O'clock News program; WNEW news dir Mark Monsky comments (M)
Sports News Briefs; Women Coaches Win in Rowing
Date: 09 July 1979
Frank Tolhurst wins world 5.5-meter yachting championship (S)
World News Briefs; Nigerians Starting Elections To End Long Military Rule
Date: 08 July 1979
Annual running of bulls festival held without violence, Pamplona, Spain, despite threats by Basque separatists to disrupt tourist attractions (S)