18. август 1978. је био петак под знаком звездице ♌. Био је 229 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био Jimmy Carter.
Ако сте рођени на данашњи дан, имате 47 година. Ваш последњи рођендан је био понедељак, 18. август 2025., пре 27 дана. Ваш следећи рођендан је уторак, 18. август 2026., за 337 дана. Живели сте 17.194 дана, или око 412.671 сати, или око 24.760.280 минута, или око 1.485.616.800 секунди.
Date: 05 August 1978
Newspapers in Israel appear without news pages because of strike by journalists for higher salaries; most dailies print feature articles on their front pages; Jerusalem Post carries news agency repts and dispatches from its Washington correspondent (S)
Date: 30 July 1978
By Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield revs Gates book; illus (M)
Date: 01 August 1978
By Les Brown
Les Brown
int with William A Leonard, who reptdly will become CBS News pres when Richard S Salant retires in Apr '79; por (M)
Date: 29 July 1978
Excerpts from application for stay of contempt penalties against Farber
Date: 27 July 1978
spokesman says Carter stands by his statement that computer was more advanced than required by Tass (S)
Date: 28 July 1978
Jemail, Jimmy
Date: 09 August 1978
Detroit News offers to pay day's fine, $5000, for NY Times in M A Farber case to symbolize paper's involvement in controversy; Times publisher Sulzberger, in lr to News publisher Peter B Clark, suggests funds be set aside to aid smaller papers that might face first amendment struggles; expresses gratitude and says Times is strong enough to bear punitive fine that was unjustly imposed (S)
Date: 09 August 1978
By Sheila Rule
Sheila Rule
CBS News pres Richard Salant, joined by NY Times exec ed A M Rosenthal and NBC News reporter Tom Brokaw, argue that case of M A Farber and Stanford Daily will have adverse impact on news gathering and reporting, ABA panel 'Search and Seizure of the Media', NYC; Asst US Atty Gen Philip B Heymann says subpoenaing material amassed in news gathering is very small problem; Internatl Assn of Chiefs of Police exec dir Glen Hill says barring of search warrants on press would put one interest above another and impede police investigation and rights of citizens to live as free from crime as possible; former NJ Gov Robert B Meyner says, in question and answer period, that issue in Farber case is not press freedom but right of accused to fair trial; scores NJ judge's move to inspect Farber's materials in chambers before deciding on Times-Farber challenges (M)
Date: 09 August 1978
By Alfonso A. Narvaez Special to The New York Times
Alfonso Narvaez
Passaic County Superior Ct Temporary Judge William J Marchese denies The Independent Prospector, Clifton, NJ, wkly newspaper, restraining order barring Citizens Opposed to The Independent Prospector from efforts to curtail advertising and purchase of paper; says group is protected by First Amendment free speech guarantees; says paper and its publisher Alex Bidnik Jr have shown that efforts of group have harmed paper but suggests that future harm could be avoided by changes in paper's policies; finds that merchants who have withheld ad denied paper's contention that they had been pressured and intimidated; group leader Charles Nouhan lauds decision; paper's atty, Williams J De Marco, says he does not know if appeal will be brought (S)
Date: 09 August 1978
NY County Lawyers' Assn gives NY Times award for conspicuous service in covering law; awards cites leadership of exec ed A M Rosenthal (S)