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Date: 20 May 1980
Special to The New York Times
Supreme Court upholds death sentence given Kim Jae Kyu and 4 others convicted of assassinating President Park; upholds life sentence given Kim Kae Won for destroying evidence in case (S)
Date: 20 May 1980
Antitrust division of Justice Department recommends that Atty Gen Benjamin R Civiletti disapprove application by Chattanooga Times and Chattanooga News-Free Press to combine operations because newspapers began joint operations May 12 without Civiletti's approval (S)
Date: 20 May 1980
Journalists union votes to continue strike that has shut down or otherwise affected major newspapers throughout Australia at least until end of week and asks help in widening stoppage; at series of meetings of state branches, Australian Journalists Assn decided not only to continue strike but to ask union executive committee to bring in broadcast journalists (S)
Date: 19 May 1980
By MOLLY IVINS Special to The New York Times
Molly Special
Retrial of Max Dunlap, one of men accused of '76 murder of Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles, is scheduled to begin May 21; John Harvey Adamson, who confessed to planting bomb in Bolles's car, testified at earlier trial that Dunlap paid him for killing and that Jim Robison helped him carry out murder (M)
Date: 20 May 1980
US suppresses its irritation over French-Soviet meeting in effort to avoid further strains in Western alliance (S)
Date: 20 May 1980
delays court order to allow Appellate Divison to decide dispute (S)
Date: 20 May 1980
Jury is selected in trial of Maria Haydee Torres in connection with '77 bombing that killed one person and injured several others at Mobil Oil Building, Manhattan; defendant is suspect in numerous bombings attributed to Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN (S)
Date: 20 May 1980
By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr
news analysis of recent study, which finds chromosome abnormalities among residents of Love Canal area
Date: 20 May 1980
Lakers vote 13 full shares from $345,000 they received for winning championship (S)