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News Analysis

Date: 18 May 1981

By Clyde Haberman

Clyde Haberman

After taking 25 minutes to read his 1982 budget message at the start of a news conference the other day, Mayor Koch asked if there were any questions. He got one of the longer moments of silence at City Hall in some time. Finally, the Mayor filled the void. ''Let me say this,'' he said with some amusement. ''I know a balanced budget is a bore.'' Many other people in government were quick to agree. This time, there seemed to be no urgency to the budget presentation. For years, New York had been a city where fiscal crisis was taken as another phrase for every-day existence and where cutbacks were the rule. Now the crisis not only was gone, but there also seemed to be a surplus. Now the Mayor, in a proposed budget that was 8.2 percent higher than the $13.58 billion he had asked for a year ago, was doing what politicians were always expected to do, especially in an election year: He was offering more of everything - police officers, sanitation workers, jail guards, teachers.

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Text of declaration, page A14.

Date: 18 May 1981

By Paul Lewis, Special To the New York Times

Paul Lewis

Representatives of the world's major free news organizations pledged today to fight efforts in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to set up a so-called New World Information Order that would restrict press freedom. For the first time Western and other free newspapers and broadcasting networks took a united stand against the campaign by Soviet bloc and third world countries to give Unesco the authority to regulate the flow of news and information around the world. In a joint declaration, some 60 leaders of print and broadcasting organizations from 20 countries called press freedom ''a basic human right'' and said they were resolved to resist ''any encroachment'' on it. Unesco Urged to Drop Proposal They urged Unesco ''to abandon attempts to regulate news content and formulate rules for press conduct,'' saying this violated its own charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Helsinki Declaration on Human Rights and was inconsistent with the United Nations Charter.

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News Analysis

Date: 18 May 1981

By Steven V. Roberts, Special To the New York Times

Steven Roberts

Last week, as the House Agriculture Committee was drafting food stamp legislation, officials of the Reagan Administration argued in favor of placing a strict cap on total expenditures for the program next year. Representative Harold L.Volkmer, Democrat of Missouri, objected that if the program ran out of money, all beneficiaries would be hurt, including the elderly and disabled. ''We have a very basic philosophical difference,'' retorted G. William Hoagland, the administrator of the food stamp program. ''The question is whether we have an entitlement program or not.''

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News Summary; MONDAY, MAY 18, 1981

Date: 18 May 1981

International Israel delayed military action against the Syrian missile emplacements in Lebanon to provide more time for attempts to reach a diplomatic solution. This was decided in a unanimous Cabinet vote that, Prime Minister Menachem Begin said, followed a request for further delay from Philip C. Habib, the American special envoy in the Middle East. The Cabinet communique said that ''diplomatic steps should be exhausted in connection with the situation in Lebanon.'' (Page A1, Column 6.) Helmut Schmidt might resign as Chancellor of West Germany if factions in his Social Democratic Party do not withdraw their opposition to NATO's plan to modernize its middle-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Besides raising the possibility of his resignation, Mr. Schmidt, in a speech at a party meeting in Bonn, said his coalition Government might break up over the missile issue. (A1:5.)

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TEXT OF DECLARATION BY INDEPENDENT NEWS ORGANIZATIONS ON FREEDOM OF

Date: 18 May 1981

AP

Following is the text of the Declaration of Talloires, adopted by leaders of independent news organizations from 20 countries at the Voices of Freedom conference: We journalists from many parts of the world, reporters, editors, photographers, publishers and broadcasters, linked by our mutual dedication to a free press, Meeting in Talloires, France, from May 15 to 17, 1981, to consider means of improving the free flow of information worldwide, and to demonstrate our resolve to resist any encroachment on this free flow, Determined to uphold the objectives of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which in Article 19 states, ''everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers,'' Mindful of the commitment of the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to ''promote the free flow of ideas by word and image,'' Conscious also that we share a common faith, as stated in the charter of the United Nations, ''in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women, and of nations large and small,'' Recalling moreover that the signatories of the final act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe concluded in 1975 in Helsinki, Finland, pledged themselves to foster ''freer flow and wider dissemination of information of all kinds, to encourage cooperation in the field of information and the exchange of information with other countries, and to improve conditions under which journalists from one participating state exercise their profession in another participating state'' and expressed their intention in particular to support ''the improvement of the circulation of, acces to, and exchange of information,'' Declare that: (1) We affirm our commitment to these principles and call upon all international bodies and nations to adhere faithfully to them.

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News Analysis

Date: 18 May 1981

By Bernard D. Nossiter, Special To the New York Times

Bernard

The Reagan Administration has said that it wants to put off until the fall any talk of transferring resources from rich to poor nations. The conventional view here holds that this is one more example of a radical policy shift by the new United States team. On South-West Africa, on Israel, on a Law of the Sea treaty, the Reagan Administration is said to be sharply different from its predecessors, uncooperative if not hostile. But other diplomats say that the change is more in tone than substance, more in style than in matter.

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Company News; Angola Oil Venture

Date: 19 May 1981

Reuters

The Cities Service Company said that it had signed a petroleum exploration and production agreement covering about 1.2 million acres off the coast of Angola. The agreement, with the Angolan National Oil Company, also involves the Marathon Oil Company's Angolan subsidiary and calls for the company to spend $26 million for the first three-year exploration period, Cities Service said.

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News Analysis

Date: 19 May 1981

By John Vinocur, Special To the New York Times

John Vinocur

He has said it himself: Helmut Schmidt, a source of international envy and admiration a year ago, is a politician in trouble, a man urgently in need of friends. His threat on Sunday to resign over his party's problems with the NATO nuclear modernization program is not only an acknowledgment of difficulties in governing but a mortgage on his future. His most vital assets - his personality and his presence - are being put up as collateral after only eight months of a four-year term. As a result, the West German Chancellor, leader of the United States' most important ally, will be politically hobbled when he goes to Washington on Wednesday for talks with President Reagan.

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Company News; Earnings Are Up At Unilever Group

Date: 19 May 1981

The Unilever Group, the giant British-Dutch food and industrial products concern and the world's largest consumer goods producer, reported yesterday that combined earnings in the first quarter of 1981 rose 19.9 percent, while combined sales increased 15.8 percent. Unilever is divided into Unilever N.V. in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Unilever Ltd. of London.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1981

Date: 19 May 1981

International Damascus again was the destination of the American special envoy to the Middle East. Philip C. Habib returned to the Syrian capital for a third round of talks with Syrian leaders aimed at preventing an Israeli-Syrian clash over Syria's missiles in Lebanon. But Mr. Habib, who has spent more than a week shuttling between Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, was given a cool welcome by the newspaper of Syria's ruling Baath Party. (Page A1, Col. 6.) Menachem Begin rebuffed U.S. efforts to persuade Saudi Arabia to use its influence with Syria and urge Damascus to back down in its dispute with Israel over the Syrian missile emplacements in Lebanon, which Israel threatens to attack. Mr. Habib reportedly won Saudi Arabia support for his peace mission. Prime Minister Begin ridiculed the suggestion that Saudi Arabia's influence could help ease the Syrian-Israeli confrontation. (A3:1-3.)

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Company News; Dutch Raising Stake In Volvo Subsidiary

Date: 19 May 1981

AP

The Dutch Government will increase its interest in Volvo Car BV, the financially ailing Netherlands subsidiary of the Swedish car manufacturer AB Volvo, from the present 45 percent, to 70 percent, according to Interior Minister Hans Wiegel. Mr. Wiegel said that an agreement had been reached with the Swedish parent company under which the Dutch Government is to invest 300 million guilders, or about $120 million, in its new majority holding over the next four years.

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