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News Analysis

Date: 26 July 1982

By Joseph F. Sullivan, Special To the New York Times

Joseph Sullivan

The New Jersey Legislature has officially disbanded for its summer break, three weeks late and $185 million short of passing all the programs both parties wanted. And already a host of unresolved problems are threatening to upset vacation plans. The session, which was not supposed to resume until after Labor Day, was marked during its first six months by a heated budget battle between the Republican administration of Governor Kean and the Democratic leadership of the State Legislature. The two sides managed to enact a balanced budget by the July 1 deadline set by the State Constitution, but at the cost of reduced state school aid, an underfinanced highway and bridge repair program and a cutback in funds to relieve prison overcrowding.

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News Summary; MONDAY, JULY 26, 1982

Date: 26 July 1982

International Israel warned Syria not to introduce new weapons into the fighting in Lebanon. The Israeli Cabinet Secretary, Dan Meridor, said that he hoped that a threat published by Sana, the official Syrian news agency, to use weapons against Israel not yet used in Lebanon was ''nothing more than words.'' He said that if Syria carried out its threat it would suffer ''very grievous consequences.'' (Page A1, Column 6.) Yasir Arafat signed a document accepting United Nations resolutions that include Israel's right to exist, an American Congressman said after a meeting with the Palestinian leader in west Beirut. But Mr. Arafat corrected Representative Paul N. McCloskey Jr., saying what the P.L.O. had accepted was all United Nations resolutions ''concerning the Palestinian question.'' (A1:5-6.)

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News Analysis

Date: 26 July 1982

By Stuart Taylor Jr., Special To the New York Times

Stuart Taylor

The continuing case of John W. Hinckley Jr. is approaching his Aug. 9 release hearing in what one Government lawyer called ''a very strange posture,'' awash with ironies in a sea of legal uncertainty. The central irony is that the Government, which paid experts more than $300,000 trying to prove Mr. Hinckley sane at his criminal trial, now will try to prove him insane to keep him locked up in St. Elizabeths Hospital here. Meanwhile, the 27-year-old assassin's prospects of winning his freedom in the next few years may depend on uncertain precedents and litigation that have cast a cloud of confusion over a crucial issue - whether he must prove his sanity to get out or the Government must prove his insanity to keep him in. The constitutionality of the act of Congress under which Mr. Hinckley is being held in the hospital and of the similar laws in many states has been questioned by judges in the past. Such laws are under challenge in numerous cases around the country, one of them before the Supreme Court.

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Nabisco to Sell Unit In $155 Million Deal

Date: 27 July 1982

Nabisco Brands Inc. said yesterday that it had agreed in principle to sell Julius Wile Sons & Company, its wine and spirits operation, to Whitbread & Company P.L.C., a London-based alcoholic beverage concern, for about $155 million. The move, analysts said, is part of Nabisco's plan to focus on its packaged foods business, where it is a market leader in cookies and crackers, and to divest itself of unrelated and typically slowergrowth operations.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1982

Date: 27 July 1982

International The U.S.-Soviet grain accord would be renewed for one year under an authorization that Administration aides expect President Reagan to announce this week. Under the expected announcement, Moscow would continue to be obligated to buy a fixed amount of American grain for the year beginning Oct. 1. (Page A1, Column 6.) The first domestic hijacking in China was officially acknowledged by the Peking authorities. The Chinese passengers and crew members fought a desperate midair battle with the five hijackers, who reportedly blew a hole in the side of the plunging airliner before being subdued. (A1:2-3.)

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A REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: LIGHT IN BEIRUT TUNNEL

Date: 27 July 1982

By Thomas L. Friedman, Special To the New York Times

Thomas Friedman

A famous columnist once observed that, if he was asked to invent a journalism school, it would be a very simple affair. It would consist of a classroom with a large door in front. Every hour a man would come in and say ''no comment'' and the class would have to write a story about it. If such a classroom exists in the real world then it is the Israeli siege of west Beirut, where those who know what is happening, like the special American envoy, Philip C. Habib, never speak with reporters and those who don't know speak with them all day long. The reporters do not report facts. They sift through a pile of nocomments, misinformation, half-truths and outright lies that accumulate every 24 hours.

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BRIEFS ON THE ARTS

Date: 26 July 1982

By Susan Heller Anderson

Susan Anderson

Gregory Jackson to Be Host Of ABC-TV News Program Gregory Jackson will be the host for ABC News's hourlong midnight news program scheduled to begin next October, according to sources at the network and at CBS Cable. Mr. Jackson is in charge of informational programming and the interviewer and producer of ''Signature'' for CBS Cable, the cultural-cable-service subsidiary of CBS Inc. ''Signature'' is a program in which the interviewer is off-camera and the subject is shown only in closeups.

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GANNETT COLLECTS STAFF FOR NEWSPAPER

Date: 26 July 1982

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

For the last several months the Gannett Company has been assembling staff members and equipment for a nationally distributed newspaper, USA Today, that it plans to start publishing Sept. 15 in Washington. In keeping with its original intent, 65 to 75 percent of the staff of 200 or more is being drawn from the Gannett chain's 88 other dailies, most of which are relatively small operations in onenewspaper cities. This means a chance for advancement for those who have gotten the call, but it is creating some difficulties. One of the difficulties, editors and reporters said, is that USA Today wants the same good people the local editors most want to keep. Another is that the hometown paper must continue to pay the salary of the person who goes to Washington, at least through the end of the year when Gannett makes up its mind whether USA Today is a journalistic and commercial success that should be kept going.

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Cockfield Brown Buys McConnell Advertising

Date: 26 July 1982

By Philip H. Dougherty

Philip Dougherty

North of the border last week, the big advertising news was acquisition news as Cockfield Brown, part of the Canadian agency scene since 1928, acquired - for cash - the more venerable McConnell Advertising, 79 years old. Pierre Gervais, president of the publicly held Cockfield, estimated that the $25 million in additional billings would push his company well over the $100 million mark and, he estimated, into the top four, where the No.1 spot is a contest between McKim Advertising and Foster Advertising.

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2 Seers Are Pointing To Increased Optimism

Date: 26 July 1982

By Philip H. Dougherty

Philip Dougherty

And now for the good news. Some light was discovered at the end of the tunnel not only by Ogilvy & Mather, but also by Craig Standen, president of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau.

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