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Family Over News

Date: 22 June 1981

By Albin Krebs and Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr

Albin Krebs

Working side by side seven days a week assures maximum togetherness for a married couple, and for Josh Friedman and Carol Ash, the editor and publisher of The SoHo Weekly News, the two-year-old arrangement might have been perfect except for their concern about one thing - their 4-year-old daughter, Susannah. ''We had to decide between her and the paper,'' Mr. Friedman said the other day in explaining why he and his wife had decided to resign their positions to seek ''a normal family life.'' John Leese, editorial director for London's Associated Newspaper Group, which owns the paper, will take over from the couple, who will work on a television project for the company.

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BATTING .500

Date: 23 June 1981

By Wolfgang Saxon

Wolfgang Saxon

After 20 years backstage at lesser labor dramas, Kenneth E. Moffett is in the national limelight as a man trying to save the baseball season for the fans after helping to spare the passengers of 14,200 daily airline flights and all other travelers the coast-to-coast chaos of an air controllers' strike. A tall, affable Pennsylvanian who looks and sounds a bit like the television host David Hartman, Mr. Moffett became the country's top labor mediator only Jan. 2. That was the day after Wayne Horvitz, an appointee of President Carter, quit as head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and put Mr. Moffett in charge as acting director. Reporters who have watched Mr. Moffett work call him pleasant and unflappable.

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News Summary; NEWS SUMMARY; MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1981

Date: 22 June 1981

International Control of France's National Assembly was won by the Socialist Party, led by the new President, Francois Mitterrand. In a sweeping victory, the Socialists and their centrist electoral allies, the small Radical Left Movement, will control between 280 and 293 of the 491 Assembly seats. The Communist Party will control 43 seats, fewer than half its previous total. The seats held by the allied parties of the right will be reduced from 274 to between 150 and 160. (Page A1, Column 6.) Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was impeached by the Iranian Parliament, which declared him politically incompetent. The action paved the way for his dismissal as President of Iran by the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The impeachment vote was 177 to 1, with 11 members not voting. The President was ordered arrested on sight. (A1:5.)

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News Analysis

Date: 22 June 1981

By John Kifner, Special To the New York Times

John Kifner

Barely seventeen months ago, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, was elected Iran's first President with a stunning 75 per cent landslide. Today, he is in hiding, his enemies in the Parliament having voted him incompetent, his remaining supporters fighting last-ditch street battles, mobs crying for his death and a warrant out for his arrest. The turnabout is perhaps less surprising than it might seem on the surface. The fall of the hapless presidency of Mr. Bani-Sadr is rooted in the peculiar history of Iran that lent passion to the struggle between the liberals surrounding Mr. Bani-Sadr and the clergy-led religious traditionalists of the Islamic Republican Party. Mr. Bani-Sadr was rendered powerless almost from the beginning, so that today's action was more of a coup de grace than a coup d'etat. While Mr. Bani-Sadr and the moderates in Iran who supported him held the ostensible offices of Government, the clerics were building their power through the new revolutionary institutions: the secret, clergy-dominated Revolutionary Council, the groups of militant students, the neighborhood committees, which enforced a kind of vigilante order, the revolutionary guards, and, finally, through the loosely organized Islamic Republican Party, with its network of mosques and Friday prayer leaders who in Shiite Moslem tradition speak on political issues, and, eventually, the Parliament.

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News Analysis

Date: 23 June 1981

By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times

Alan Riding

Despite the unexpected agreement by President Reagan and Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo in their talks earlier this month to work out a joint economic aid package for the Caribbean basin, the initiative faces formidable political difficulties. In reality, the much-vaunted assistance plan for the region is still at an embryonic stage, with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Venezuela and Canada eventually expected to join the United States and Mexico in financing and implementing it. Yet questions are already being raised in the region about the viability of a plan that seeks to isolate economic problems from the sharp political differences that exist, not only within and between the countries of the area but also among potential aid donors. ''If anyone thinks that economic aid can resolve the political crises in El Salvador and Guatemala, they're simply naive,'' a regional economist said, mentioning the two Central American countries polarized by extremist violence.

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Pass the Tab Wins

Date: 22 June 1981

AP

Pass the Tab took the lead from Wartime Admiral heading into the final turn and went on to an easy victory in the $150,000 Ohio Derby today at Thistledown.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1981

Date: 23 June 1981

International A delay in arms negotiations was indicated by Eugene V. Rostow, President Reagan's nominee to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Mr. Rostow told a Senate hearing that the Administration would probably not be ready to begin formal talks with Moscow on limiting strategic arms until March 1982. (Page A1, Column 1.) American concern over Iraqi plans to manufacture nuclear weapons was expressed in a document given to Prime Minister Menachem Begin in January by the United States Ambassdor to Israel, according to a knowledgeable Israeli official. Mr. Begin was reported to have informed a parliamentary committee about the document, which was said to have been based on American intelligence reports. (A1:1-2.)

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Surgery Scheduled For Brewers' Hisle

Date: 22 June 1981

UPI

Upi

Larry Hisle, who appeared in only three games for the Milwaukee Brewers this season after hurting his left arm May 8, will undergo surgery Tuesday in Los Angeles to remove a bone spur from his shoulder. Hisle, 34 years old, said the current players' strike convinced him to have the operation immediately.

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Lakeland Terrier Is Best in Show

Date: 22 June 1981

A Lakeland Terrier, Ch. Red Ruler Gadabout of Dor-Ru, who was bought as a pet for $250 by Ruth and Dorothy Anderson of Bloomington, Calif., was named best in a field of 1,401 at the 43d annual fixture of the Staten Island Kennel Club at Fort Wadsworth yesterday.

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Riggins's Arbitration Case Is Recessed Indefinitely

Date: 22 June 1981

AP

The arbitration hearing on John Riggins's grievances against the Washington Redskins recessed yesterday with lawyers for both sides unsure when it would resume. Testimony was scheduled to be completed next Friday, but Ed Garvey of the National Football League Players Association, which is representing Riggins, said: ''We thought we had an agreement to pick up next Friday, but now management isn't sure.''

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