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ABC AND NBC PRESS FOR HOUR NEWS

Date: 24 November 1981

By Tony Schwartz

Tony Schwartz

THE hourlong television evening news program seems finally to be shifting from a distant hope to an imminent reality. Last week, CBS announced that it intended to expand its news to 45 minutes or an hour by late next year or March 1983. Next week, ABC will offer its proposal for a one-hour newscast to its board of affiliates at a meeting in Hawaii. NBC, despite opposition from affiliates when it presented plans for expansion last summer, is continuing to pursue the hourlong newscast.

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The Editorial Notebook; The Best Propaganda

Date: 24 November 1981

By Fred M. Hechinger

Fred

During World War II, I was marginally involved in what were called black news broadcasts into Germany. The term was used because the broadcasts were not by the BBC. Though actually run by the Allies from London, they were presented as coming from a German underground radio.

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Postgame Confusion

Date: 24 November 1981

A lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Herald Examiner to allow Diane K. Shah, a sports columnist, into the locker room and an order by Judge Robert M. Takasugi of the United States District Court caused confusion after the San Francisco 49ers' 33-31 victory over the Rams at Anaheim, Calif., Sunday.

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REAGAN PRESS AIDE OUT OF HOSPITAL

Date: 24 November 1981

UPI

Upi

James S. Brady, the White House press secretary who was shot in the head in the assassination attempt on President Reagan, left George Washington University Hospital today. Walking with an arm crutch and supported on both sides, Mr. Brady, 41 years old, entered a wheelchair van and left for his home in Arlington, Va. A statement released for him by the White House expressed his gratitude for all who had helped him and prayed for him. In a reference to his nickname, it ended: ''The Bear is back.''

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News Analysis

Date: 23 November 1981

By Kenneth A. Briggs

Kenneth Briggs

Many bishops and others present at last week's meeting of the Roman Catholic hierarchy of the United States say they believe it was a remarkable turning point in the American church's stance on a cluster of social issues. In the meeting, the bishops took a new and riskier course of action. A trio of themes, enunciated by Archbishop John R. Roach in his address as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, are central to the new agenda. They include full-fledged opposition to nuclear weapons, specific legal tactics for attacking abortion and determination to fight for the poor affected by Reagan Administration budget cuts.

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News Analysis

Date: 24 November 1981

By Clyde Haberman

Clyde Haberman

When his Welfare Commissioner suggested recently that it might be cheaper for New York City to endure Federal penalties than to try harder to root out inefficiency, Mayor Koch's reaction was swift. ''I am overruling him,'' the Mayor said. ''I make the policy, not he.'' A few days later, to help make a point that he was a tough administrator, Mr. Koch noted how in the last four years he had ''fired 20 commissioners and deputy mayors.'' Still, he said, there are ''a few clinkers left.''

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News Analysis

Date: 23 November 1981

By William Borders, Special To the New York Times

William Borders

Many of the people who follow the affairs of Northern Ireland regard the situation there now as one of the gravest crises it has seen in years. On the Roman Catholic side, the Irish Republican Army has significantly stepped up the level of its violence by murdering an Ulster Member of Parliament. On the Protestant side, there is a new sense of rage and frustration, reflected by the random killings of Catholics in recent days and by the furious mob attack last week on James Prior, the British Cabinet Minister responsible for the province. There is more and more talk about private armies to fight against the Catholic gunmen. The British Government, in the middle as usual, has reacted with more troops, more police searches and unusually strong words about ''the rule of law.'' But the mood is grim.

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News Analysis

Date: 24 November 1981

By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times

Hedrick Smith

In his drive to cut the Federal budget, President Reagan has switched from his long and careful courtship of Congress to the tactics of confrontation and won a short-run political victory that may have a longer-run political price. With his advisers convinced that the public still strongly backs his efforts to curb spending and combat deficits, and equally convinced that the President needed to get back in control of the budget process, Mr. Reagan not only issued his first veto against what he called a ''budget-busting'' resolution but technically ''shut down'' part of the Government today. After a bad run of political news, worsening economic forecasts and other embarrassments, the move was intended to put the focus on the budget. President's 'Theatrics' Questioned It was also a move that had Democrats squawking about ''theatrics.'' It had some Republicans angrily contending that they had been misled into believing that the White House would accept the measure adopted Sunday. Others said that the White House had created a confrontation to allow Mr. Reagan to use the legislature as a whipping boy in building a record for 1982.

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News Summary; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1981

Date: 23 November 1981

International Greece will set a timetable for the removal of American bases from the country. The timetable is the firm intention of the Socialist Government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, who said in his first major policy address that his Government will also proceed to unilateral nuclear disarmament and the renunciation of the 1980 agreement that returned Greece to the military wing of NATO. The Prime Minister made it clear that he intended to carry out the broad lines of his radical election platform on which his Panhellenic Socialist Movement won a sweeping victory last month. (Page A1, Column 3.) Soviet-West German talks on arms are due in Bonn with the arrival there of Leonid I. Brezhnev, who will discuss with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt possible nuclear arms reductions in Europe. The schedule of the three days of talks was spaced to allow the 74-year-old Soviet leader long periods of rest. The basic issues are the Soviet Union's buildup of its SS-20 nuclear missiles, NATO's intention to deploy new American-made weapons to counter them, and the American-Soviet arms talks in Geneva. (A1:1-2.)

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News Summary; TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1981

Date: 24 November 1981

International A freeze on nuclear forces in Europe was suggested again by Leonid I. Brezhnev in a day of talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn. The proposal has been rejected by NATO on the ground that it would freeze Soviet superiority in medium-range warheads. (Page A1, Column 3.) A mixed economy in China is in increasing prospect. Peking's two top policy-making bodies formally acknowledged a need for more private enterprise to alleviate chronic unemployment, and they proposed that new jobs be created increasingly by private businesses as well as by cooperative enterprises. (A1:1-2.)

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