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Date: 07 October 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Mutual Insurance Co of Bermuda draws up insurance policy to cover legal costs of prosecuting or defending First Amendment cases and mandated appearances before Congress and Federal agencies; plan is endorsed by American Newspaper Publishers Assn (M)
Date: 07 October 1979
Newspaper guild employees of Philadelphia Enquirer and Philadelphia Daily News reach tentative agreement on new contract (S)
Date: 07 October 1979
By ALAN RICHMAN Special to The New York Times
Alan Special
Reporter's Notebook column on journalistic coverage of Pope John Paul II's visit to US; illus (M)
Date: 07 October 1979
Broome County, NY, Dist Atty charges 2 reporters and editor of Binghamton Sun-Bulletin broke law when they gathered and prepared articles on secret grand jury report; defendants identified as Mark Miller, Sal J DeVivo, Sue Davis and Sylvan Sobel (S)
Date: 07 October 1979
By FOX BUTTERFIELD Special to The New York Times
Fox Special
Article on Lu Lin, editor of Exploration, outspoken Chinese underground journal whose 2 major editors, notably Wei Jingsheng, were arrested by Govt officials earlier in year (M)
Date: 06 October 1979
South African Govt relieves chief censor Judge J H Synman of job; Synman's reputation plummeted after his recent speech which seemed to question literary competency of South African readers and writers; Synman comments (S)
Date: 07 October 1979
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
David Frost withdraws from TV interview with Henry A Kissinger, charging that NBC News agreed to let Kissinger review and modify his responses to Frost's questions in taped session devoted primarily to Nixon Administration's Cambodian policies; William Small, NBC News president, disputes Frost's charges, saying that at no time were NBC's journalistic principles compromised (M)
Date: 07 October 1979
By EDWIN DIAMOND
Edwin DIAMOND
Edwin Diamond article on David Frost's controversial interview with Kissinger on NBC-TV; illus (M)
Date: 07 October 1979
Special to The New York Times
Yale Daily News elects Anne Perkins, editor-in-chief, 1st female to hold post in paper's 101-year-old history; action comes 10 years after Yale University admitted its 1st female students (S)