Linton Wells, Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 82
Date: 01 February 1976
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Linton Wells, foreign correspondent in '20s and '30s, dies; was 82
Le 1 février 1976 était un dimanche sous le signe astral du ♒. C'était le 31ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était Gerald R. Ford.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 50 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le dimanche 1 février 2026, il y a 162 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le lundi 1 février 2027, dans 202 jours. Vous avez vécu 18 425 jours, soit environ 442 204 heures, ou environ 26 532 279 minutes, ou environ 1 591 936 740 secondes.
Date: 01 February 1976
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Linton Wells, foreign correspondent in '20s and '30s, dies; was 82
Date: 02 February 1976
By JONATHAN KANDELL Special to The New York Times
Jonathan Special
Comment on pol reforms attempted in Brazil notes that press censorship has been reduced allowing better-known dailies to discuss such previously taboo topics as detentions, torture and foreign policy (S)
Date: 02 February 1976
news photos and TV and radio broadcasts will be allowed, at discretion of judge, in Ala courtrooms while trials are in progress under new canon of judicial ethics laid down by state Sup Ct Dec 18 and made effective Feb 1 (S)
Date: 01 February 1976
4 Indian news agencies merge into 1 monopoly service on Feb 1 under name of Samachar; there is no formal announcement of merger; agencies include Press Trust of India, United News of India, Hinudstan Samachar and Samachar Bharati; Gopalan Kasturi, editor of The Hindu, is named chmn of new agency (S)
Date: 02 February 1976
By HENRY TANNER Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Palestinians guerrillas belonging to Syrian-dominated As Saiqa faction of PLO attack 2 Beirut leftist, pro-Iraqi newspapers on Jan 31, killing 7 journalists, wounding 7 and kidnapping 5; Lebanese Press Assn issues statement; Shefig al-Hout, contributing editor of Al Moharrer, was slightly wounded in attack; Al Moharrer's deputy editor Nayef Chitlak is among those killed; illus of Hout (M)
Date: 02 February 1976
ed on Appellate Div decision; says ruling is not cause for celebration because it breaks no new judicial ground, sets no precedent for similar cases and, in some of its explanatory reasoning, further tends to confuse free press fair trial dialogue (S)
Date: 01 February 1976
Inter Amer Press Assn exec com rept holds press in the Americas is under increasingly severe stress, and there is decline in number of countries where newspapers are permitted to rept or comment freely; rept is by German E Ornes, chmn of assn's com on Freedom of Press and Information and was presented to assn exec com meeting, Sarasota, Fla (S)
Date: 01 February 1976
Nearly-final approval by India's Parliament to measure that makes permanent Govt censorship of India's privately-owned newspapers noted (S)
Date: 02 February 1976
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Westinghouse Broadcasting Co, which recently dismissed 7 correspondents in its Washington bur as econ measure, has engaged AP Radio and ABC Radio to supply its stations with natl and internatl news coverage; WINS will be served by AP Radio, along with Westinghouse stations in Los Angeles, Boston, Pittsburgh and Ft Wayne, Ind; other stations in Phila and Chicago will become affiliates of ABC Radio network (S)