Ponovno predvajanje sobota, 7. februar 1981

News Union Plans Health Study

Date: 07 February 1981

UPI

Upi

The Newspaper Guild has announced a wide-ranging study of the health effects of operating video display terminals commonly used by reporters and editors in newspapers. The guild president, Charles Perlik Jr., said yesterday that the study, in conjunction with Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, would involve about 2,000 workers, both VDT-users and nonusers. He said that four to six guild locals in the United States and Canada would participate.

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Meeting the Press, at Least Halfway

Date: 08 February 1981

It won't be long before journalists start complaining about President Reagan's relations with the media, but for the moment some credit is in order. He not only seems willing to improve the Presidential news conference institutionally, but also to pay a certain price for the changes. Three ideas are now being tried: ending the clamor for Presidential attention; sometimes choosing questioners by lot; and sometimes holding small sessions, without television present. Credit for the proposals goes to a committee of journalists organized by the White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

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Peace for Mrs. Grasso

Date: 07 February 1981

Only in November did the severity of Ella Grasso's illness become evident. Always tenacious, she was eager to serve a full half of her second term as Connecticut's Governor, until Dec. 31.

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Date: 08 February 1981

By Linda Greenhouse, Special To the New York Times

Linda Greenhouse

A proposal for a model state law governing public access to official records has emerged as one of the biggest issues at the American Bar Association's winter convention here. Several newspaper and other press groups, contending that the proposal would shield from disclosure many records that are now routinely available to the public, are trying to delay a vote on the proposal now scheduled for Monday by the Bar Association's House of Delegates. The model law is the product of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a 90-year-old organization that drafts model laws in an effort to ease legal conflicts among the states. Its members are appointed by the governments of all 50 states. While its work does not require formal Bar Association approval, official endorsement makes adoption by the individual state legislatures more likely.

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AFTER 5 YEARS, JUDGES AND LAWYERS SEE COURTS ADJUSTING TO THE CAMERA'S EYE

Date: 07 February 1981

By Robert Lindsey, Special To the New York Times

Robert Lindsey

Five years after reporters' cameras and tape-recorders began appearing in courtrooms throughout the country, lawyers are still debating whether their presence affects the legal process. But there appears to be a growing consensus among judges and prosecutors that the legal process is not affected. ''After two or three minutes, everybody in the courtroom forgets the cameras and the mikes are there,'' said Seymour Gelbert, a Dade County circuit court judge in Florida, where televising of trials has been permitted since July 1977. ''The cameras don't make you 'perform.' If anything, you are, legally speaking, on your best behavior.''

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Classroom Violence

Date: 08 February 1981

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Frank Skala was teaching a ninth-grade class in social studies at Campbell Junior High School in Queens in October 1977 when five young intruders entered and turned his classroom into a national news event. While horrified students screamed and cried, the intruders broke the teacher's nose, threw him to the floor and stomped on him.

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News Summary; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1981

Date: 07 February 1981

International Fighting broke out in Teheran between Iranian leftists, who were holding a demonstration that had been banned by the Government, and Islamic right-wing extremists. Thirty-nine persons were reportedly treated for bullet or stab wounds. About 5,000 members of a faction of the Marxist-Leninist Fedayeen movement and the leftist Peykar group had gathered to protest the deterioration of Iran's economy. (Page 1, Column 5.) Poland's printers threaten to strike if the Government censorship of the press is not relaxed by Tuesday. They are members of the independent labor union and are concerned over an apparent return to heavy censorship. They will call a strike Friday if the Government does not relax its rules. (1:3-5.)

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News Summary; SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1981

Date: 08 February 1981

International Labor turmoil in Poland grew with a call by independent trade union officials for a general strike in southwestern Poland tomorrow. Workers in other parts of the country were asked to stage one-hour work stoppages. Solidarity union officials said the general strike in Jelenia Gora and five neighboring provinces, including the copper-mining center of Legnica, would be called off only if the Government sent a delegation to negotiate grievances. (Page 1, Column 6.) Food is scarce in Moscow and in some provincial centers the shortage, especially of meat, is worse than it has been for several years. It is not clear whether shortages are worse on a national basis than a year ago, or the year before that. The food distribution system is so chaotic that while there are shortages in some regions, there are surpluses in others, but nowhere is food plentiful. (1:6.)

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Artificial Blood

Date: 08 February 1981

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

The patient was near death with severe anemia after a leg operation, and he was a Jehovah's Witness, forbidden by his religion from accepting a blood transfusion. In late 1979 the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis received emergency permission from the Federal Food and Drug Administration to give the 67-year-old man an experimental chemical substitute for red blood cells.

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Body Freezing

Date: 08 February 1981

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Commercial cryonics, the deep freezing of human bodies immediately after death in the hope that science might one day discover a way to restore them to life, came under a cloud in California in May 1980. ''Our motto is, 'Never say die,' '' said Arthur Quaife, president of TransTime, the largest organization in the business.

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