O dia 2 de outubro de 1979 foi um terça-feira sob o signo de ♎. Foi o dia 274 do ano. O presidente dos Estados Unidos foi Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 02 October 1979
By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND Special to The New York Times
Douglas KNEELAND
Progressive magazine makes public controversial article by Howard Morland on hydrogen bombs that it had been restrained from publishing since March by Federal court orders; editor Erwin Knoll comments; illus (M)
Date: 03 October 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
US Secret Service gives overall security clearance to 14,000 journalists to cover visit of Pope John Paul II (M)
Date: 03 October 1979
New England Patriots football player Raymond Clayborn is fined $2,000 by Comr Peter Rozelle for scuffles with members of news media; encounters with Will McDonough (Boston Globe) and Bruce Lowitt (AP) noted (S)
Date: 03 October 1979
Energy Department official Assistant Secretary Duane Sewell acknowledges that at least 8 'highly sensitive' documents on thermonuclear weapons have been mistakenly placed on public shelves at Government library since 1971; says that crash review of 2,000 declassified reports related to nuclear weaponry have shown that 19 'no longer exist' (S)
Date: 03 October 1979
By MICHAEL KNIGHT Special to The New York Times
Michael Special
WGBH-TV will produce nightly and international news program for public stations across country; WGBH public affairs programming dir Peter McGhee comments
Date: 03 October 1979
US Court of Appeals for 7th Circuit decides to take no further action in Progressive magazine case; says District Judge Robert W Warren will have to decide what secret documents may be released from case file (S)
Date: 03 October 1979
Date: 03 October 1979
Mexican Pres Jose Lopez Portillo cites US refusal to pay for damages resulting from salting of Mexicali Valley from Colorado River in refusing to pay for damages to Texas Gulf Coast from June 3 oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico (S)
Date: 03 October 1979
Texas Eastern Corp says several sites in Ohio River Valley are among those being considered for coal-based synthetic fuels plant it is evaluating; has agreement with Sasol Ltd of South Africa to provide technical assistance in evaluating costs for plant (S)