Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, about buying the colossus for resale to as yet unspecified German clients. The W.T.C. cost $1 billion by the time it was completed in 1972, and probably would sell for about that much. Though rentals came slowly at first because of an oversupply of office space in the city, they picked up with the recovery following the 1973-75 recession, and the building is now 90% occupied. The Trade Center still remains a drain on the Port Authority, since much of its space was rented at bargain rates and as a result...
...strike, its newsroom empty; one of its reporters, Myron Farber, yo-yoing between jail cell and court hearings on contempt charges; the paper itself hit by a $100,000 fine for contempt and a $5,000-a-day fine for every day it continued to defy a New Jersey court in the same Farber case. To top it all off, in its legal difficulties, the Times seemed to be losing public support and press sympathy-partly because of "terrible coverage," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper's top editor, who fumes because there is no Times to set the public...
...postal workers, who now earn an average of $7.58 per hour, were deeply dissatisfied. There were brief wildcat walkouts in Jersey City and outside
...Farber's digging that led to the multiple-murder indictment of Dr. Mario Jascalevich, who is charged with injecting lethal doses of the muscle relaxant curare into three patients in a small suburban New Jersey hospital during 1965-66. The doctor's defense lawyer demanded to see Farber's notes, but Farber refused, citing the First Amendment and a New Jersey "shield" law that allows reporters the privilege of keeping their sources confidential. A New Jersey judge asked to see the notes in private, and Farber still refused. Off to jail he went, cited for contempt...
...Times backed "Our Man in Jail" all the way, paying heavy fines and providing counsel. Papers across the country rallied around, insisting that if reporters were forced to reveal their sources, news gathering would be impaired. Meanwhile, Farber's lawyers tried manifold appeals to New Jersey courts, to the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally to a federal court in Newark, N.J., seeking a writ of habeas corpus (for unlawful imprisonment) to get Farber released...