Iran Says It Will Permit Return of U.S. Reporters; Americans Were Accused of Bias Details Given by Invalids
Date: 27 February 1980
Revolutionary Council spokesman Hassan Habibi says some American reporters will be allowed to enter Iran after having been banned since mid-January; says reporters must be impartial; announcement follows appeal by UN officials accompanying commission for admission into Iran of reporters accredited to UN; commission hears testimony from 140 people who said they were victims of torture during Shah's rule; hears evidence from Ali Reza Nobari, governor of Iran's central bank, on what he describes as embezzlement by Shah's family; illustration (M)
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Progressive Magazine Is in Financial Trouble
Date: 27 February 1980
Progressive Magazine, which won 1st Amendment battle against Government supression of article about hydrogen bomb, is struggling to pay off its legal expenses and stay alive; editors say they must raise $75,000 to stay afloat; editor Erwin Knoll comments (S)
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Convictions in Murder of Reporter Overturned by Arizona High Court; Powerful Reverberations Role of Rancher Is Cited
Date: 26 February 1980
By MOLLY IVINS
Molly IVINS
Arizona Supreme Court reverses convictions of Max Dunlap and James Robison in '76 murder of Arizona Repubic reporter Don Bolles and orders men be retried; says trial judge unconstitutionally frustrated defense efforts to cross examine John Harvey Adamson, key witness against men; Adamson, who was named by Bolles as he lay dying, confessed to killing and in turn named Dunlap and Robison (M)
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Supreme Court Roundup Justices to Weigh Abortion Law On Notice to Parents of a Minor; State Laws Called Similar Housing Discrimination Privacy Suit
Date: 26 February 1980
By LINDA GREENHOUSE Special to The New York Times
Linda Special
US Supreme Court lets stand dismissal of $3 million invasion-of-privacy suit against Des Moines Register; suit (Howard v Des Moines Register) was brought by woman who had been sterilized without her consent when she was teenager in state-run facility; newspaper printed her name in investigative article about facility's deficiencies (S)
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VIOLATION OF LIMITS BY C.I.A. IS ADMITTED; Turner Reports Press, Professors and Clergy Were Used to Spy Despite Policy Against It Directive Bars Use of Cover Reassurance by Turner
Date: 27 February 1980
By CHARLES MOHR Special to The New York Times
Charles Special
Carter Administration, which is resisting legal prohibition against use of clergymen as spies, concedes that it has already engaged in such practices although its own policy has forbidden them since '77; Adm Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, testified last week before Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, that he waived provisions of his own policies on limited occasions; Repr Les Aspin sends letter asking for more details; Herbert Hetu, CIA's press spokesman, declines to clarify Turner's testimony or to say whether waivers involved clergy (M)
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Bomb Delivered to Publisher
Date: 27 February 1980
Gasoline bomb delivered to office of publication TV News is removed and deactivated by NYC Police Dept bomb squad (S)
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News of The Theater Black Touring Circuit Is Taking to the Road; 'Conscience' in Florida Ragtime for St. Peter's Around and About
Date: 27 February 1980
By CAROL LAWSON
Carol LAWSON
National Black Touring Circuit: National Black Touring Circuit, initiated by Woodie King Jr, will begin US tour on June 16; some planned productions noted; King portrait (S)
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The School Board Jobs: Still an Open Issue; News Analysis Board Must Decide Seven-Page Rebuttal
Date: 26 February 1980
By MARCIA CHAMBERS
Marcia CHAMBERS
analysis of question of whether Macchiarola had acted legally in filling several hundred 'education administrator' positions over last 18 months (M)
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