FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS
Date: 20 November 1983
By Richard Haitch Tagging Drunks
Richard Tagging
An eye-catching punishment for drunken driving was started two months ago by a judge in Texas. He ordered an offender to carry a bumper sticker on his car, saying:
''The owner of this vehicle is on probation in the County Court of Law of Fort Bend County, Texas, for driving while intoxicated.
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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS
Date: 20 November 1983
By Richard Haitch Freedom of Song
Richard Freedom
Officer Robert Berger's troubles with the Baltimore police began in February 1982 when the department ordered him to stop imitating Al Jolson in blackface during off-duty hours.
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Star War
Date: 20 November 1983
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
The skirmishing between San Diego and astronomers at the renowned telescope at Mount Palomar, 60 miles to the north, began in 1978 when the city decided to replace 26,000 mercury vapor street lights with more efficient lamps. The choice was between high-pressure sodium and low-pressure sodium.
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TURKISH CYPRIOTS MAKE THE BREAK
Date: 20 November 1983
Nine years ago, backed by Turkish troops who had just seized the northern third of Cyprus, Rauf Denktash threatened to set up an independent Turkish Cypriot state if the Greek majority on the island did not accept a more equitable political arrangement. Last week, with the situation essentially unchanged from 1974, the Turkish Cypriot leader made good his threat.
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ARAFAT STRUGGLES TO HANG ON IN TRIPOLI
Date: 20 November 1983
Reconciliation may be the avowed goal of its leaders, but it was mayhem that prevailed throughout Lebanon last week.
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'BABY JANE' FILE IS KEPT CLOSED
Date: 20 November 1983
A Federal judge told the Government last week to mind its own business in the case of Baby Jane Doe. Judge Leonard D. Wexler of District Court denied the Justice Department's request for complete medical records of the infant, born Oct. 11 on Long Island with severe birth defects.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1983; International
Date: 20 November 1983
Rival P.L.O. factions battled for the Beddawi refugee camp in Tripoli. In a counter-attack that began Friday, guerrillas loyal to Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, have been firing barrages of rockets and mortars from several places in the city. The rebels have been responding with the their heaviest bombardments since fighting in Tripoli began 17 days ago. (Page 1, Column 6.)
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An Independent Newspaper Publishes Again in Grenada
Date: 20 November 1983
Reuters
For the first time in more than two years, an independent newspaper was published in Grenada today.
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AT SPANISH PAPER, ACCENT IS ON VIEWS
Date: 20 November 1983
By Joseph Laura
Joseph Laura
UNION CITY WHEN Eden Pastora Gomez, leader of the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution, held his first news conference in the United States earlier this month, only one reporter was granted an exclusive interview.
The reporter, Aleida Duran, was not a representative of a major newspaper or wire service, but the editor of Ahora, a weekly Spanish newspaper that began publishing here eight years ago.
Mrs. Duran, a former school- teacher in Cuba, is the reporter, editor and driving force behind Ahora (Now), a 16-page tabloid published as an insert once a week in The Dispatch, the local daily newspaper.
Gaining an exclusive interview with Mr. Pastora, who led the Sandinista overthrow of the Nicaraguan Government and then turned against his former comrades, was nothing new for Mrs. Duran, whose name is widely known in Latin-American journalistic circles, even though she receives little recognition in the traditional American press.
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NICARAGUA LOOSENS THE REINS ON OPPOSITION PAPER
Date: 21 November 1983
By Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer
Newspaper censorship has been substantially eased in Nicaragua over the last few weeks, and the opposition daily La Prensa has taken full advantage of the unexpected thaw.
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