Washington Post and Guild Sign Contract After 3-Year Wrangling
Date: 31 July 1979
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
Washington Post and Newspaper Guild sign new contract, ending frequently embittered 3-year lapse during which company bargained intermittently and largely disregarded terms of expired contract; new contract provides for wage increases that average $18 a year; Charles R Babcock, Guild unit co-chairman, and Lawrence Wallace, who signed contract for Post, comment (S)
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Appeals Court Upsets Conviction Of Reporter Withholding Source; Amendments in Conflict
Date: 31 July 1979
Brooklyn appellate court, without addressing constitutional issues, unanimously reverses conviction on contempt charges of Pamela O'Shaughnessy, reporter for King's Courier, who had refused to identify confidential source in drug case (S)
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Soviet Denies Intention To Expel U.S. Reporter
Date: 31 July 1979
Special to The New York Times
Soviet newspaper Izvestia denies any decision has been made to expel Satter (S)
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Washington Watch; Volcker's Safety Valve
Date: 30 July 1979
Clyde H. Farnsworth
Clyde Farnsworth
Evelyn Y Davis, who regularly appears at stockholders' meetings to ask questions of corporation executives, is cleared to attend Carter news conferences as newsletter writer for stockholders (S)
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Iran Limits Payments Due Foreign Investors; Currency Revision Set; Iran Planning Monetary Revisions
Date: 31 July 1979
By YOUSSEF M. IBRAHIM Special to The New York Times
Last report filed from Iran by Youssef M Ibrahim
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Midtown Construction: Problem of Prosperity; News Analysis
Date: 30 July 1979
By PAUL GOLDBERGER
Paul GOLDBERGER
Paul Goldberger analysis of proliferation of office construction in midtown Manhattan; notes construction is going ahead so rapidly now that most planners agree that most urgent problem is controlling growth; says concentration appears to be result of concern by lending institutions, which are reluctant to finance buildings in any but prime locations, and desire by foreign-based companies, which now make up large percentage of commercial rental market, to be at best addresses; NYC Planning Commission chairman Robert F Wagner Jr has ordered study of building densities in midtown, with goal of producing new city policy for zoning and economic incentive in area; illus; drawing; map shows new buildings in midtown (L)
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Union Against Resuming Strike at Newport News; Appeal Is Company's Second
Date: 31 July 1979
USWA decides not to resume strike against Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co in move that angers hundreds of members attending 3-hour meeting, Newport News, Va; meeting was called to consider resuming strike in response to shipyard's appealing union's election victory to Federal court; company has asked court to overturn NLRB's certification of union election in Jan '78, in which union ousted Peninsula Shipbuilders Assn as bargaining agent (M)
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Sports News Briefs; Post Time Is Winner Of Long Island Race
Date: 30 July 1979
Four-Hundred-Meter Run: Marita Koch (East Germany) sets women's world record (48.89 seconds) at internatl meet, East Germany (S)
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