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News Analysis

Date: 06 May 1982

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

The sudden announcement Friday that the present owners of The Daily News would continue to operate the paper reflected a variety of factors, according to officials of the paper and its unions and also representatives of would-be buyers. Some of those factors, they say, were inherent in the situation at The News last winter; others grew out of the Tribune Company's fourmonth search for a new owner. Asked whether that search and the accompanying threats to close the paper had been tactical steps to discover the unions' bottom line on cost cuts, the officials said they were convinced that was not the case. The notion that the owner of The News, the Tribune Company of Chicago, had never intended to sell or shut the paper ''can be dismissed out of hand,'' said one News officer. ''It doesn't make any sense that they would do it in such a contorted way, ripping up the staff and slowing whatever momentum we had going, if they weren't serious.''

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An Ex-Hostage of Iran Faces Charges of Criminal Mischief

Date: 06 May 1982

UPI

Upi

A freelance journalist who spent nine months in an Iranian prison during the hostage crisis has been charged with criminal mischief, the police said today. The journalist, Cynthia Dwyer, 51 years old, of Amherst, was issued a summons on the charge stemming from an April 29 incident in an Amherst parking lot.

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Player Sues Paper

Date: 06 May 1982

Bobby Lee Hurt, a freshman basketball player at Alabama, has filed a $1.6 million libel suit against The Birmingham Post-Herald, the newspaper that first reported that Hurt had been coerced into enrolling at the university by Glenn Johnson, an alumnus to whom he owed money. The suit charges that Hurt, formerly an all-America forward at Butler High School in Huntsville, Ala., was subjected to ''public contempt, ridicule, shame, embarrassment and great mental anguish'' as a result of that Post-Herald article and several others.

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News Analysis

Date: 06 May 1982

By Clyde Haberman

Clyde Haberman

By leaving intact more than $900 million in budget vetoes this week, the State Senate gave a big fiscal headache to Edward I. Koch, the New York City Mayor, and political pain to Edward I. Koch, the candidate for Governor. There was a direct corollary, many city officials believe: The Senators also created the first big test of Mr. Koch's agility on the tightrope he has been walking lately between his desire to move to Albany and his responsibilities at City Hall. On Monday, the Mayor is scheduled to outline a $15.7 billion budget for fiscal year 1983 that appears to be punctuated with larger question marks than any spending plan in recent years. Between this week's State Senate maneuvering and Albany's inaction on other city requests, Mr. Koch is missing $302 million in state aid and $171 million in new taxes that he had counted on to balance his budget.

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News Analysis

Date: 05 May 1982

By Robert D. Hershey Jr., Special To the New York Times

Robert

The nation's synthetic fuels industry, started with great fanfare and billions of Federal dollars less than two years ago, today stands demoralized and uncertain. Its future is jeopardized by falling oil prices, high interest rates, soaring construction costs and an Administration determined to leave energy development almost entirely to the free market. The latest blow came when the Exxon Corporation and the Tosco Corporation announced an end to their Colony Oil Shale Project in western Colorado, the centerpiece of a synthetic fuels industry that has been plagued with problems from the beginning, and whose ambitions had already been drastically scaled back. 'It's a Setback' ''It's a setback not just for the synthetic fuels industry but for our whole international economic and political strategy,'' commented Robert I. Hanfling, a Washington consultant and former synthetic fuels specialist at the Department of Energy. ''Synfuels just fell by the wayside.''

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News Analysis

Date: 05 May 1982

By Warren Hoge, Special To the New York Times

Warren Hoge

The economic and military sanctions imposed by the United States against Argentina have provoked South American governments far more than the accompanying American declaration of support for Britain in the Falkland Islands crisis. The eventual siding with the British was expected. The sanctions and the offer of material assistance were not and are viewed by leaders of the region as unnecessarily harsh and prejudicial. Officials based here, including American and British representatives, question why the sanctions and the pledge of military assistance were included in the policy. ''At the very least, the United States could have timed them on a staggered basis to extract some diplomatic leverage,'' said a Latin American foreign service officer.

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News Analysis

Date: 06 May 1982

By John Darnton, Special To the New York Times

John Darnton

The antigovernment demonstrations of recent days indicate that time is running out for Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski's proclaimed policy of reaching a national accord. The protests, which turned violent on Monday when the police charged marchers here and in a dozen other cities, underscored both the depth of popular support for the Solidarity union movement and the depth of opposition to martial law. Today, with the controlled press condemning the protests as the work of hooligans or misguided youths or Western-inspired subversives, it became clear that nearly five months of strict military rule had not stabilized the country. Quite the contrary, to some degree it appears to have worsened problems by making the gap between the rulers and the ruled, which lies at the heart of the Polish agony, that much greater.

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News Analysis

Date: 05 May 1982

By Robert Pear

Robert Pear

President Reagan's ''new federalism'' proposals, greeted with applause by many state and local officials three months ago, have become entangled in the stalemate over the budget for the 1983 fiscal year. If the President and Congress cannot agree on a budget to finance existing programs, critics ask, how can they possibly restructure the programs and provide new sources of financing for the next decade? The critics include Democrats, big-city mayors and civil rights leaders. Edwin Meese 3d, counselor to the President, has recognized the magnitude of the task facing White House lobbyists. In a speech last week to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, he said that the ''new federalism'' involved ''a radical restructuring of the functions and authority of the different levels of government.''

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News Analysis

Date: 06 May 1982

By E.j. Dionne Jr., Special To the New York Times

New York State now has a budget that just about everyone agrees is balanced. But it is based on a series of almost random cuts that no one is happy with. Most distressed are officials of local government and school districts. They face large, unexpected cuts in state aid, and the effects will be felt as the Federal Government contemplates retrenchment of its own.

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Sugar Futures Decline On Reagan Quota News

Date: 05 May 1982

By H.j. Maidenberg

Prices of world sugar futures fell again yesterday as President Reagan agreed to the reimposition of quotas on foreign sugar. While the move had been expected, the lack of details about the quotas endorsed by the President caused wild price swings in the world sugar ring of the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange. For example, the most active delivery, the near July contract, closed down 0.17 cent a pound, at 8.71 cents. Earlier, the price of this pivotal futures contract had swung between 8.75 and 8.35 cents, which was the delivery's life-of-contract low. The previous intraday low, 8.83 cents, was registered last April 22, while the contract high, 26.5 cents, was posted on Feb.4, 1981. Each cent move represents $1,120 per contract of 112,000 pounds of raw, or unrefined, sugar.

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