Prize-Winning Editor Is Shot Dead In Nicaragua; He Opposed Somoza; Editor Was Honored in U.S. Was Exiled to Mexico
Date: 11 January 1978
Nicaraguan editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, owner of newspaper La Prensa, is shot to death in downtown Managua by 3 men in car who forced his auto to curb; was outspoken critic of Govt of Gen Anastasio Somoza Debayle; Gen Somoza denies killing was govt-ordered (S)
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A Pittsburgh Publisher Says That He Withdrew Investment in The Trib; Money From Other Sources
Date: 10 January 1978
Richard Mellon Scaife says he instructed his atty to withdraw check for $200,000 that was to have been invested in The Trib; publisher Leonard Saffir contends Scaife had been rejected as investor; Scaife said money was to be given on condition that additional $2.8-million be raised from other sources (S)
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UNION PROBLEM HAMPERS TRIB ON ITS SECOND DAY
Date: 11 January 1978
NYC Trib runs into circulation difficulties on its 2d day of publication when 9 of 28 distributors in met area refuse to accept newspapers from trucks driven by non-union personnel; Justice Hyman Korn signs temporary restraining order enjoining Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union and 9 distributors from interfering with Trib's distribution; Trib spokesmen say 90,000 copies were eventually delivered during day (S)
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An Editor Silenced
Date: 11 January 1978
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, editor known for his outspoken opposition to Gen Anastosio Somoza Debayle Govt, is shot to death in downtown Managua; La Prensa editor Danilo Aguirre Solis comments; police chief Col Alesio Gutierrez says police are investigating incident; Somoza spokesman Roger Bermudez says Govt deplores killing and orders authorities to spare no effort to find gunmen; Chamorro biog; poer r (L), Jer a 11,3:1; ed scores killing of Chamorro Cardenal
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East Germany Shuts Office Of West German Magazine In Retaliation for Articles
Date: 11 January 1978
Special to The New York Times
East Ger closes office of West Ger magazine Der Spiegel in retaliation for its publication of attack on East Ger conditions; magazine's designated new correspondent, Karl Heinz Vater, had already been barred from taking up his post in East Berlin; West Ger's chief repr in East Ger, Sec Gunter Gaus, went to East Ger Foreign Ministry to protest closing (S)
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Newark-Based Coalition Stresses Need for VHF TV Channel
Date: 10 January 1978
By DONALD JANSON Special to The New York Times
Donald Special
NJ Coalition for Fair Broadcasting exec dir Marsha N Kroll urges VHF TV channel for state, Fed Appeals Ct hearing (M)
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Questionable Acts Of Mounted Police Reported in Canada; Reasons for Actions
Date: 10 January 1978
By ROBERT TRUMBULL Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
Canadian Solicitor Gen Francis Fox testifies at provincial inquiry that Mounted Police security unit in '71 distributed bogus statement advocating policy of violence in name of Front for the Liberation of Quebec; says previous Solicitor Gen Jean-Pierre Goyer authorized Mounted Police to tap telephones of Agence Press Libre du Quebec (M)
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World News Briefs; Rhodesia Censors Reports By Foreign Journalists 6 Wounded by Police Fire At South African Funerals British Leader Says India Could Ease Nuclear Stand Violence by Rightists Continues in Italy
Date: 10 January 1978
Port Elizabeth police open fire and wound persons stoning them during funerals for 4 blacks believed killed by security forces in recent unrest (S)
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News Summary; International National Metropolitan Business/Finance
Date: 10 January 1978
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1978
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