Papers In 'War' On Fire I.
Date: 01 July 1979
By ROBIN YOUNG ROE
Robin ROE
Comment on competition to win readership by newspapers published on Fire Island; papers include Fire Island Tide, published by Warren McDowell, Fire Island, started by Peter McKenna and published by Katherine Divis, Fire Island News, published by Bee Garfield, and The Villager, published by Andrew Kirtzman (M)
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Publisher Indicted
Date: 01 July 1979
By MARTIN GANSBERG
Martin GANSBERG
Grand jury in NJ has indicted Alex Bidnik Jr, owner and editor of Clifton, NJ, Independent Prospector, for allegedly impersonating police officer in gathering information and for extorting advertising; Passaic County Prosecutor Burrell Ives Humphrey will decide if Bidnik will be brought to trial; Bidnik's lawyer William DeMarco has challenged indictments (S)
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Iran Expelling Los Angeles Times for 'Negative Tone' of Its Reports; Other Journalists Summoned
Date: 02 July 1979
By YOUSSEF M.IBRAHIM Special to The New York Times
Islamic Revolutionary Government of Iran orders expulsion of Los Angeles Times correspondent David Lamb in what appears to be 1st crackdown on foreign press since February revolution; Ali Behzadnia, director of foreign press affairs, says there will be other cases with other correspondents (M)
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Thorpe Case Raises Some Ethical Issues in Britain; Fat Contract With Key Witness
Date: 01 July 1979
By WILLIAM BORDERS Special to The New York Times
William Special
British lawyers, journalists and politicans, in aftermath of Jeremy Thorpe's acquittal on charges of conspiring to commit murder, are discussing ethical issues raised by trial; at center of discussion is so-called checkbook journalism, practice of paying for newspaper articles, in this case stories of principal prosecution witnesses; trial is also raising questions on campaign financing and criminal procedure, with challenges to long-accepted ways of doing things; controversy over contract signed in '78 by prosecution witness Peter Bessell with Sunday Telegraph to publish stories on Thorpe and trial discussed; Bessell was to have been paid $100,000 if Thorpe was found guilty and stories were published and $50,000 if Thorpe was found innocent and articles were not published; issue of whether Bessell's arrangement with newspaper was strong inducement to shape his testimony toward conviction is matter of much controversy (M)
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Good News Switch for the Bad-News Dow
Date: 01 July 1979
change in makeup of Dow Jones industrial average revd (S)
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News That Libya to Cut Oil Exports Is Softened
Date: 01 July 1979
Muammar el-Qaddafi's threat that Libya will stop exporting oil is less definite in Arabic reports than in highlights distributed in English (S)
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Realty News; Downtown Leases Midtown Shift Trade Center
Date: 01 July 1979
Republic National Bank of NY leases 35,000 square feet of office and banking space Center for 11 years at aggregate rent of $9.5 million (S)
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Sports News Briefs; Donoghue, Sands Excel in Relay Meet
Date: 02 July 1979
Inter-American Baseball League ceasing operation because of financial problems (S)
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