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Date: 09 December 1979
Special to The New York Times
Venezuelan journalist Olmedo Lugo (El Nacional) has been jailed following publication of article he wrote charging Government officials with corrupt practices (S)
Date: 10 December 1979
Momentary power dip knocks out computer systems at 3 leading wire services, including AP and UPI, causing transmission interruptions (S)
Date: 09 December 1979
David and Cathy Mitchell, publishers of Point Reyes, Claif, Light, which won Pultizer Prize for articles about Synanon, interviewed on paper's future (M)
Date: 09 December 1979
Names Martin F Turchin executive vice president (S)
Date: 09 December 1979
Date: 09 December 1979
Special Middle East envoy Sol M Linowitz arrives in Cairo on his first trip to area for talks on Palestinian autonomy; will meet with Egyptian Pres Sadat and then go to Israel (S)
Date: 10 December 1979
Amnesty International, in annual report for 1979, warns political dissenters are facing increasing threat of murder or execution in countries that have widely differing ideologies; cites growing tendency by governments to kidnap and murder their opponents; cites disappearance of 15,000 people in Argentina and execution of 800 people annually in Pakistan (S)
Date: 09 December 1979
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
Follow-up on Dr Alan Marlatt's experiment on whether moderate drinking is 'learnable skill'; Marlatt, who received grant from National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, had cocktail lounge installed at Washington University, where drinks to students were served free of charge; observes that 'placebo' drinks--nonalcoholic lookalikes--give average drinker same kick he gets from alcohol (S)