SEOUL PAPERS FIGHT MILITARY CENSORSHIP; Cartoons Are Being Used to Hint at Feeling of Revulsion About Ending of Kwangju Revolt Cartoon Portrays General Earlier Report Contradicted Photos of Park Abound Corruption Is Endemic
Date: 12 June 1980
Special to The New York Times
South Korean newspapers, subject to military censorship, use cartoons to hint at public revulsion at brutality which military used to suppress uprising in Kwangju; report that anti-corruption panel headed by Kim Man Ki of KCIA is most important of 14 new subcommittees formed by Gen Chon Too Hwan (M)
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Jersey Court Ruling on Shield Laws Called Gain for Press; News Analysis
Date: 12 June 1980
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
News analysis of NJ Supreme Court decision ruling that reporter is protected by NJ 'shield law' from producing letter that had been subpoenaed by defendants in murder trial; case involves Robin Goldstein, reporter for Shrewsbury Daily Register, who refused judge's order to turn over letters from key government witness in trial of 4 men charged with murder and racketeering; case is being hailed by some 1st Amendment lawyers as 'stunning reversal' of similar case in NJ in '78, when M A Farber, NY Times reporter, went to jail and Times was fined $286,000, because Farber refused to turn over unpublished material that had been subpoenaed by defendant in curare murder trial; attorney Floyd Abrams comments (M)
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French Photographers Charge Police Brutality
Date: 12 June 1980
French news photographers, alleging police brutality, lay down their cameras and refuse to photograph cabinet ministers leaving Elysee Palace; photographers, in letter to Pres Giscard d'Estaing, declare their action is to protest recent beatings of photographers during street demonstrations (S)
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Australian News Workers Accept 6% Rise for Video-Screen Editing
Date: 12 June 1980
newsroom employees of Australian newspapers vote to accept compromise offer from publishers and end strike
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