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COMPANY NEWS

Date: 10 July 1981

Special to the New York Times

The Imperial Group, a British tobacco, food and brewing conglomerate, named Geoffrey C. Kent as chairman of the board yesterday following the abrupt resignation of M.A. Anson, who had held the post for a year. Mr. Anson was forced to resign following a clash over management policy with the company's board and the announcement that pretax profits in the first half of 1981 were down $77 million, to $56 million, from the same period last year. Mr. Kent, 59 years old, has served for the past six years as chairman and managing director of Imperial's subsidiary John Player & Sons, the cigarette manufacturer.

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News Summary; News Summary

Date: 10 July 1981

FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1981 International Britain's House of Commons seethed with bitter recriminations after a sixth successive night of urban violence, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taunted and denounced by left-wing critics. Members of her own Conservative Party demanded stringent measures to combat the wave of rioting, looting and assaults on the police in the inner cities. In Manchester alone, more than 1,000 white and black youths stormed a police station and shattered and looted more than 150 shops. (Page A1, Column 1.) Poland's airline, LOT, was struck for four hours by about 6,000 employees over a demand that they be allowed to elect the line's general manager. The protest was believed to be the first walkout affecting civil aviation in the Soviet bloc. (A1:2.)

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News Analysis

Date: 10 July 1981

By Wallace Turner, Special To the New York Times

Wallace Turner

Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. was scrambling today to withstand the damage inflicted by strong attacks on two fronts yesterday, undoubtedly one of the most uncomfortable days of his political career. Because the Governor refused to deal with the first subject, the possibility of a criminal investigation of his staff's political practices, most of today's attention was on the other controversy, involving his refusal to allow aerial spraying to fight an infestation of the Mediterranean fruit fly that threatens the state's agriculture. Even though the possibility of a criminal investigation of his staff's behavior was raised by the Attorney General, Governor Brown refused to answer questions about the issue for the second day. Attorney General Comments Attorney General George Deukmejian, a Republican who wants to succeed Mr. Brown as Governor, said in Los Angeles today that he might involve his office in the investigation of allegations made by the California Fair Political Practices Commission.

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News Analysis

Date: 10 July 1981

By Richard J. Meislin, Special To the New York Times

Richard Meislin

The acceptance near dawn this morning of a plan to bail out the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ended an extraordinary, months-long political nightmare. Governor Carey, Mayor Koch and the legislative leaders lurched from position to position, working more often against each other than with each other as they tried to find a politically palatable common stand. In the end, they squeaked through a massive tax program that they hope will provide enough money to avert additional fare increases for two years, and another that will give the M.T.A. some of the money it needs to begin rebuilding its decrepit equipment and improve its service. But the political toll was high, both in terms of public perception of the political leaders and in their relationships with each other.

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A 'LOW-KEY' WATCHDOG

Date: 10 July 1981

By Robert Pear, Special To the New York Times

Robert Pear

The Comptroller General of the United States, as the nonpartisan chief of an investigative agency answerable to Congress, must be able to work well with Republicans and Democrats alike. For that task, Charles A. Bowsher is well prepared. As a partner in the Washington office of Arthur Andersen & Company of Chicago, he helped design sophisticated bookkeeping systems for the Presidential campaigns of both parties in 1976, and he earned the respect of senior members of both parties. In a ceremony today at the White House, President Reagan nominated Mr. Bowsher to be Comptroller General, succeeding Elmer B. Staats, who retired. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Bowsher would serve a 15-year term as head of the General Accounting Office, the fiscal watchdog agency.

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News Analysis

Date: 09 July 1981

By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times

Hedrick Smith

With his nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor for the Supreme Court vacancy, President Reagan has won admiring applause from rival politicians for a masterly political stroke as well as a strong judicial choice. This city still recalls that a little over a decade ago President Richard M. Nixon had to face political humiliation when the Senate rejected two of his Court nominees, Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell. Now, Mr. Reagan is being credited with an astute Court selection that immediately won the endorsement of a broad spectrum, from conservatives like Senator Barry Goldwater, Republican of Arizona, to liberals like Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts. The President has risked a new breach with the radical right wing of the Republican Party, which has provided his most zealous political support through the years and is now openly dismayed over Mr. Reagan's Court choice.

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News Analysis

Date: 09 July 1981

By Adam Clymer, Special To the New York Times

Adam Clymer

Mississippi voters not only took away a House seat Republicans have held since 1972 but also offered the party of President Reagan two serious warnings yesterday of obstacles to its hopes of winning the House in 1982. The national message of defeat to a candidate who wrapped himself in the President's policies was exuberantly broadcast by Democrats. ''They voted their pocketbooks,'' declared House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., Democrat of Massachussetts, of those who cast ballots in yesterday's special Congressional election. But in a race decided by 1 percent of the votes, 55,696 to 54,649, after three other special elections in which no seats changed hands, that message is more a murmur than a shout.

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News Summary; THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1981

Date: 09 July 1981

International A new economic program for France includes the nationalization of several major corporations, state takeover of some banks, the creation of 210,000 new civil service jobs and reduction of the workweek. The Socialists' broad program, which was outlined in Parliament by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, is believed to be assured of early passage. (Page A1, Column 6.) Rioting in three English cities, London, Liverpool and Manchester, together with widespread attacks on the police, continued for a fifth consecutive night. Speaking on television, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded for a halt in the violence, which she said threatened to ''destroy everything we value,'' but she offered no new programs to help remedy the economic and social problems that most local leaders blame, in part, for the outbreaks. (A1:3-4.)

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News of Music; BOULEZ FINDING A WAY TO ELECTRONIC FUTURE

Date: 09 July 1981

By Bernard Holland

Bernard Holland

PIERRE BOULEZ'S ''Repons,'' now nearing completion at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, will have its premiere at the Donaueschinger Festival of Contemporary Music in West Germany on Oct. 18. The flavor of this new composition -indeed, of Mr. Boulez's life in general today - is a world away from his recent years as conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Mr. Boulez, in the mid-1970's, decided he would return to France; and there at the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (Ircam) - a futuristic musical laboratory lavishly subsidized by the French Government - he has been concentrating on the electronic medium as his own personal path to the future. ''Repons,'' which will be performed in an indoor gymnasium-like space, is an interplay between people and machines. Thirty musicians will be used - all members of Mr. Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain. A chamber ensemble of 24 traditional instruments is to be placed in the middle of the hall, several of which will be slightly amplified for reasons of balance. The other six players - three percussionists, a pianist, electric organist and harpist - will be stationed against the walls behind the audience. They will be connected to a complex computer system capable of reacting to human musical gestures and emitting transformed versions almost instantaneously.

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IRANIANS ASSERT FOREIGN REPORTERS ARE SPIES

Date: 09 July 1981

Reuters

The Iranian radio charged foreign powers today with sending spies into Iran in the guise of journalists. Among them, the broadcast said, were three Reuters correspondents who were ordered yesterday to leave Iran within 48 hours. The broadcast called on the authorities to take action against Iranian nationals working illicitly for foreign news organizations. ''The Ministry of National Guidance,'' the broadcast said, ''must take into consideration the destructive action of Iranians who sell their country, identify the spies and hand them over to judicial authorities so that they can be punished.''

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