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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 20 July 1981

INTERNATIONAL Israel could not join a cease-fire in Lebanon as long as Palestinian groups continue their attacks on Israel. Prime Minister Menachem Begin reportedly told Philip C. Habib, the American special envoy in the Middle East. Israeli officials said Mr. Begin told Mr. Habib during the course of two meetings that a halt in the fighting was not a solution to the more basic problem of a Palestinian Liberation Organization arms buildup within striking distance of Israel's northern settlements. He reportedly stressed that Israel could agree to a cease-fire only the context of a border peace arrangement. (Page A1, Column 6) Shipment of more U.S. jets to Israel would be affected by Israel's cooperation in reducing the level of violence in Lebanon, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig said in a television interview. (A3:3-6.)

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POLISH CHIEF: A PRAGMATIST

Date: 20 July 1981

Special to the New York Times

When Stanislaw Kania was first named as Poland's Communist Party leader in the wake of last summer's labor unrest, his first speech was read on Polish television by a dapper young announcer. A ripple of excitement passed through Warsaw: the new party secretary was attractive and young. Then the error was discovered, and people crowded the news kiosks to see what the new chief really looked like. That he did not read his first televised speech as party leader, and that so few people knew who he was, proved to be an unintentionally appropriate introduction to Mr. Kania, a career party functionary and security chief who has led Poland through a year of unceasing crises and who last night achieved the distinction of becoming the first Eastern European party leader to be confirmed in his post by a secret-ballot vote.

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News Analysis

Date: 20 July 1981

By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times

Hedrick Smith

In the final days approaching tonight's secluded start-up of the seven-nation economic summit meeting, the Reagan Administration has sought to cushion the impact of mutual disagreements, but preliminary discussions began with leaders of the industrial nations visibly more divided than at any of the six previous meetings. President Reagan seems to have come to the current gathering less bent on asserting himself as the leader of the West than on performing more modestly as the leader of the United States, determined to rectify America's economic problems even if that means that as a byproduct its trading partners in Europe must feel the pinch in the short run. As Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said today, ''there are some areas where we do not see eye to eye'' with the Europeans. But in his first venture into top-level collective diplomacy, Mr. Reagan is not seeking any unnecessary confrontations.

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News Analysis

Date: 21 July 1981

By John Darnton

John Darnton

The emergency party congress ended today and when the votes and the tumult died down, one thing was clear - the Polish Communist Party is vastly different from what it was six days ago. More than 90 percent of the 270 members of the full Central Committee are new. More importantly, they represent a new force - they are workers instead of party hacks. They are rooted in the provinces instead of Warsaw, and they are guided by egalitarianism and an almost populist notion of taking on the establishment.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1981

Date: 21 July 1981

International Plane deliveries to Israel were halted indefinitely by President Reagan in an effort to promote a cease-fire in Lebanon. Meanwhile, leaders of six other major industrial nations joined Mr. Reagan in issuing a statement deploring the escalation of fighting in the Middle East and calling for restraint by Israeli and Palestinian forces. (Page A1, Column 6.) Yasir Arafat vowed to fight back against the ''barbarian war'' that he said had been started by Israel. As Israeli artillery and jets pounded Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon for the 11th consecutive day, Mr. Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said in Beirut: ''We have nothing to lose.'' (A1:5.)

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Flagship Accepts Royal Trustco Bid

Date: 21 July 1981

Special to the New York Times

The executive committee of Flagship Banks Inc., Florida's fifth-largest bank holding company, has approved in principle a $290 million (United States) acquisition offer by Royal Trustco Ltd., Canada's largest trust company group, officials of the two concerns said today. When united with Royal Trustco's wholly owned Royal Trust Bank Corporation of Miami, the merged institution would have combined assets of about $2.9 billion (United States), 110 banking offices and would rank as the fourth-largest bank holding company in Florida.

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RKO OFFERS TO TRANSFER CHANNEL 9 TO JERSEY TO INSURE A NEW LICENSE

Date: 21 July 1981

By Donald Janson

Donald Janson

RKO General, which operates WOR-TV on Channel 9 in New York City, has offered to move its main studio to New Jersey and concentrate on New Jersey news as a condition for renewal of its broadcasting license. The Federal Communications Commission voted against the renewal last year, citing misconduct by RKO and its parent company, General Tire and Rubber Corporation, including pressuring companies to place advertising with RKO stations as a condition for doing business with General Tire. Oral arguments on RKO's appeal of the ruling are to be heard in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington in the fall. New Jersey has been trying for 10 years to get the F.C.C. to reallocate one of New York's seven VHF channels to New Jersey and Delaware are the only states with no VHF channel.

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K.G.B. DISINFORMATION

Date: 21 July 1981

By Harry Rositzke

Harry Rositzke

The current concern in some Congressional and journalistic circles about Soviet ''disinformation'' activities in the United States news media rests upon a fundamental misunderstanding of the K.G.B. program. For more than 20 years, the Soviet Committee for State Security (K.G.B.) has secretly subsidized publications, planted rumors, and distributed forged documents as a minor but useful supplement to the large-scale anti-American propaganda campaign openly directed from Moscow. The most effective part of the K.G.B.'s work has been the fabrication of documents designed to provide the third world with hard ''evidence'' of America's hostile intentions. Most forgeries have had as their target the elites and semiliterate peoples of the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The publications have alleged a Central Intelligence Agency plan to unseat several Latin American regimes, a secret American commitment to Israel (for the Arab audience), assassination plots against the late President Sukarno of Indonesia (he was taken in) and President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt (he was not).

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Editor of The Oakland Tribune Gets Added Role of Publisher

Date: 21 July 1981

AP

Robert C. Maynard, editor of The Oakland Tribune-Eastbay Today, today was given the additional role of publisher of the two newspapers. Mr. Maynard, 44 years old, thus becomes the first black editor and publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper in the United States, the newspapers said. He succeeds Albert Dolata as publisher. Mr. Dolata, 42, has been named a general executive with the Gannett Company Inc., the parent company of the newspapers. Mr. Dolata will coordinate the activities of El Diario La Prensa, the largest Spanish-language daily on the United States mainland. Gannett recently agreed to acquire

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DAVID A. LEHERR

Date: 20 July 1981

Special to the New York Times

David A. Leherr, the city editor of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, who underwent surgery for cancer of the pancreas last Monday, died yesterday in West Penn Hospital. He was 43 years old.

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