BEIRUT RIGHTISTS IN COUNTER ATTACK; With Support of Artillery, Gunmen Fight to Regain Battered Holiday Inn Beirut Rightists Counterattack in Drive to Regain the Battered Holiday Inn
Date: 23 March 1976
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
2 explosions rock offices of newspaper An Nahar, where offices of UPI are situated, and mortar round knocks out communications of Reuters news agency in Kantari section of Lebanon (S)
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BEIRUT LEFTISTS SEIZE HOLIDAY INN IN HEAVY ASSAULT; Hundreds Led by Armored Vehicle Capture Symbol of Rightist Defiance AT LEAST 43 ARE KILLED Other Heavy Fighting and Shelling Said to Continue in and Outside Capital BEIRUT LEFTISTS TAKE HOLIDAY INN
Date: 22 March 1976
By JAMES M. MARKHAM Special to The New York Times
Offices of Reuters in Kantari area of Lebanon are evacuated on Mar 22 because of shells falling close by; offices of Beirut daily newspaper An Nahar are also evacuated; 1st Eur journalist to die in Beirut fighting is freelance photographer Marie-Pierre Sabremont (S)
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Bleak Report Has Fleet Street at Odds
Date: 23 March 1976
By BERNARD WEINRAUB Special to The New York Times
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comment on rept; comm chmn Prof O R McGregor compares Brit situation to newspaper situation in NYC; Sunday Times business news editor Peter Wilsher comments on rept (M)
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INQUIRER SUES RIZZO OVER UNION PROTEST
Date: 23 March 1976
Phila Inquirer on Mar 22 files in Feb ct $70,000 damage suit against Mayor Frank L Rizzo and Police Comr Joseph O'Neill; also named as defendants are Phila Bldg and Construction Trades Council and its business agent Thomas Magrann (S)
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FUND FOR INQUIRY INTO LEAKS IS CUT; House Unit Votes to Reduce to $150,000 Amount for Study on Pike's Report
Date: 23 March 1976
By RICHARD D. LYONS Special to The New York Times
HR Accounts Subcom cuts funds sought by HR Com on Standards of Official Conduct to probe leaking of HR Select Intelligence Com's rept from $350,000 to $150,000; earmarks 1/2 of the $150,000 to pay lawyers' fees for persons who would either be subpoenaed to testify or would be questioned under oath; Reprs S L Devine, F Thompson Jr and A F Hawkins comment (M)
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Paper Attacks Rizzo For Inaction by Police
Date: 22 March 1976
Phila Inquirer assails Phila Mayor Frank L Rizzo on Mar 21 for not ordering police to break up 10-hr demonstration; Bldg and Construction Trades Council of Phila business mgr Thomas J Magrann denies demonstration was in support of Rizzo in his $6-million libel suit against paper (S)
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Botswana Nervous About the News From Neighboring Rhodesia
Date: 23 March 1976
By HENRY KAMM Special to The New York Times
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article on problems faced by Botswana notes that only ports of entry are in S Africa (S)
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