Den 16 februari 1978 var en torsdag under stjärntecknet ♒. Det var 46 e dagen i året. Förenta staternas president var Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 17 February 1978
Chicago Daily News publisher Marshall Field repts 8 of 10 unions at Chicago Daily News have agreed there is no viable alternative to ceasing publication; negotiations are continuing with Newspaper Guild and Typographical Union; unions involved noted (S)
Date: 17 February 1978
Murder of reporter Roberto Martinez Montenegro, who exposed drug trafficking and govt corruption in northwest Mex, sets off journalists' strike in state of Sinaloa and protest from natl journalists' union (S)
Date: 17 February 1978
By CAREY WINFREY
Carey WINFREY
Washington Post's rept of H R Haldeman book The Ends of Power took place in spite of elaborate security precautions and upset plans for newspapers and magazines in US and abroad to run excerpts of book beginning next wk; Post even scooped its sister publication Newsweek; Newsweek editor Edward Kosner comments; book, published by Times Books, subsidiary of NY Times Co, was scheduled for publication March 10; prepublication rights had been sold to some 30 newspapers in US, including NY Times; agreement allowed paper to print about 10,000 words in 5 excerpted installments beginning on Feb 20; prepublication rights had also been sold abroad and to Newsweek; NY Times Syndication Sales Corp released its clients from obligation not to print material until Feb 20; Times made decision to run entire series of excerpts in Feb 17 edition; Thomas Lipscomb, pres of Times books, says copies of book will be shipped to booksellers; Post says that rept was written by Haynes Johnson from information supplied by writer Nancy Collins; Post asst managing editor Harry Rosenfeld says paper did not get information about book from Newsweek; Times exec vp Sydney Gruson criticizes Post's publication; Post exec editor Benjamin Bradlee says paper obtained excerpts at no cost beyond normal reptg expenses; Maurice C Greenbaum comments on legal issues involved in publication (M)
Date: 16 February 1978
Thomas P Miller lr comments on William Safire's Feb 2 article
Date: 17 February 1978
Date: 16 February 1978
Begin says he has accepted inv from Pres Carter to visit Washington (S)
Date: 17 February 1978
Date: 16 February 1978
By FRANK LYNN
Frank LYNN
Bella S Abzug's mood assessed morning after her defeat in Cong race (About NY column) (M)
Date: 16 February 1978
Edward B. Leisenring Jr.Special to The New York Times
Profile of Edward B Leisenring Jr, chmn of Westmoreland Coal and Bituminous Coal Operators Assn, who first snubbed Pres Carter's call for renewed bargaining and then agreed to join them; por (M)