Four Novels; Novels
Date: 14 December 1980
By TODD WALTON
Todd WALTON
by Todd Walton
Le 14 décembre 1980 était un dimanche sous le signe astral du ♐. C'était le 348ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était Jimmy Carter.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 45 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le dimanche 14 décembre 2025, il y a 201 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le lundi 14 décembre 2026, dans 163 jours. Vous avez vécu 16 637 jours, soit environ 399 303 heures, ou environ 23 958 229 minutes, ou environ 1 437 493 740 secondes.
Date: 14 December 1980
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Article on Fred W Friendly, who will retire as Ford Foundation's adviser on communications, recalls his efforts over last 6 years to get news media and judges to understand each other better through series of seminars sponsored by foundation; Friendly illus (M)
Date: 15 December 1980
Internal study finds that Justice Dept has violated rules it drew up for itself and other departments to comply with Freedom of Information Act of 1974; law was designed to make Government files available to the public; study notes that Justice Dept has inadequate reading rooms for public to see and copy documents, widely varied policies for charging fees for producing documents, and that department gave ineffictive guidance to the public on use of the law; department gets 65,000 requests for files annually (M)
Date: 14 December 1980
Fire sweeps through Corpus Christi Caller-Times building, causing extensive damage and forcing newspaper to print at another south Texas newspaper, The Victoria Advocate; publisher Edward H Harte comments (S)
Date: 14 December 1980
By DAVID BIRD
David BIRD
Article on financial condition of Jewish Daily Forward, which since '75, has held 3 drives to raise some $750,000 to keep paper alive; editor Simon Weber says current drive will be biggest (M)
Date: 15 December 1980
By WILLIAM BORDERS Special to The New York Times
William Special
Latest round of speculation about Prince Charles's marriage prospects has touched off new debate in Britain about press and royal privacy; Buckingham Palace, which normally has no comment about such matters, has felt obliged to formally protest some of speculation, and mother of Lady Diana Spencer, who has been mentioned as possible royal bride, has indignantly accused newspapers of printing lies and hounding her daughter; portrait of Lady Diana Spencer (M)