Der 16. Mai 1979 war ein Mittwoch unter dem Sternzeichen ♉. Es war der 135. Tag des Jahres. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten war Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 16 May 1979
Printing of early edition of NY Post is delayed for about 1 hour when pressmen refuse to cross informational picket line set up by Teamsters Local 531; dispute involves publisher resistance to attempt by home deliverers in Queens to raise their charge to Post (S)
Date: 17 May 1979
Special to The New York Times
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini hails printers and other newspaper workers who obstructed 20 reporters, deemed to be 'counterrevolutionary,' from entering offices of Kayhan; in offices of Writers Syndicate, striking Kayhan reporters glumly listened to broadcast of Ayatollah's meeting with workers, who went to see him in city of Qom; Islamic Assn of Employees prepares list of 20 journalists to be ousted (M)
Date: 17 May 1979
West German TV camerman Herbert Altmann says that he and reporter Robert Stengl are being expelled; expulsions follow article in Izvestia accusing men of 'pathological hatred toward all things Russian and Soviet' (S)
Date: 16 May 1979
Journalists at Kayhan, Iran's largest newspaper, walk out to protest encroachments on press freedom, but Islamic workers defy editor and their colleagues to bring out pirate issue of paper; senior editor says that since revolution in February, Islamic workers have refused to print anything they consider too critical of new regime (S)
Date: 17 May 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Sen John H Glenn says he will reopen his investigation of Energy Dept's practices for guarding nuclear weapons secrets as a result of department's disclosure that a classified document on nuclear weapons has erroneously been placed on public shelves at Los Alamos (NM) Scientific Laboratory and marked declassified; department made its disclosure after 2 researchers for ACLU examined document in connection with appeal of The Progressive magazine from a Federal court order not to publish detailed article about hydrogen bomb (M)
Date: 16 May 1979
Saudi Arabia has banned Egyptian newspapers and magazines, according to Middle East News Agency; ban is part of Arab boycott of Egypt in retaliation for its peace treaty with Israel (S)
Date: 16 May 1979
By LES BROWN Special to The New York Times
Les Special
NBC pres Fred Silverman says news will take on greater importance in network's broadcast service, affiliate stations conference, Los Angeles; says prime-time entertainment schedule might have to be reduced 1/2 hour to permit expansion of national newscast; announces long-range plan to solve NBC's problems; illus (M)
Date: 17 May 1979
plans to build new plant in Stockton, Calif (S)