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Date: 12 September 1982

By John J. O'Connor

John O'Connor

If you can manage to stay up until, or perhaps to get up at, 1:30 in the morning these weekdays (2 A.M. on Fridays), one of the classier new acts in television news can be found on the NBC network. ''NBC News Overnight'' was launched in early July. Reuven Frank, president of the news division, had explained: ''We believe we can provide late-night television viewers with an important service by reporting the news of the day and looking ahead to the events of the coming morning.'' As it happens, more or less the same idea has occurred to the other two commercial networks. Next month, ABC News will unveil a new ''interactive'' format, anchored by Greg Jackson in New York and Phil Donahue in Chicago. Scheduled for midnight, immediately following ''Nightline'' with Ted Koppel, the program is promising to balance live ''instant'' news coverage with thoughtful commentary, spiced with computer polls and telephone calls from viewers. And CBS is preparing a news package that will run for several hours each day on stations looking for a convenient way to fill schedules in the wee hours of the morning.

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News Analysis

Date: 13 September 1982

By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times

Hedrick Smith

After surprisingly wide defections from President Reagan on the overriding of his veto of the $14.1 billion supplemental appropriations bill last week, Congressional Republicans are now likely to fall more back in line with him except on the increasingly controversial issue of military spending. Most Congressional Republicans acknowledge that after the remarkable solidarity of Mr. Reagan's first 20 months, their party has now broken into open factions on two key votes: the tax bill in August, on which 89 conservatives in the House of Representatives defected; and the appropriations bill, on which 81 House Republicans and 21 Senate Republicans, mostly moderates, broke away. Moreover, even Republican leaders concede that many of their members who had consistently voted with the President on major budget and tax bills were anxious to rebut Democratic charges that they were ''Reagan robots'' by showing some independence from the White House. Breaking with the President last week was politically beneficial for Republicans in tight races in the Northeast and Middle West, such as Representatives John LeBoutillier, Benjamin A. Gilman and Guy V. Molinari of New York, Jim Dunn of Michigan, Cooper Evans of Iowa and Steve Gunderson of Wisconsin. Moderate Republican Senators up for re-election, such as Lowell P. Weicker Jr. of Connecticut, John H. Chafee of Rhode Island and John C. Danforth of Missouri, chose to buck the President's effort to raise military spending at the expense of domestic social programs.

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Date: 13 September 1982

By Charles Austin

Charles Austin

In deciding last week to combine forces, three major Lutheran denominations moved to deal with concerns that are growing among Christians of many types: the need to conserve dwindling resources and the desire to present a unified front in talks with other Christian communions. The merger plan approved Wednesday by the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in America and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches parallels a decision by two Presbyterian denominations this year in that it breaks down walls set not by doctrinal differences but by historical and geographic accidents. Within the next two years a merger is expected between the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Those two denominations, totaling more than 3 million members, were split in the Civil War.

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News Analysis

Date: 13 September 1982

By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times

James

As he ended a speech during a debate in Parliament last week, Deputy Chancellor Hans-Dietrich Genscher left the impression that he had just about made up his mind to end the 13-year coalition between his small Free Democratic Party and the Social Democrats. While the Free Democratic Party chairman did not say that his party was prepared to switch sides, bringing the conservative Christian Democrats to power, that message seemed to be conveyed in the atmospherics of the occasion. The opposition Christian Democrats vigorously applauded Mr. Genscher, 55 years old, as he recalled his party's commitment to free enterprise and close ties with the United States. The Social Democrats listened in silence, with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt staring into the middle distance.

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Cemetery for Sale

Date: 12 September 1982

By Mervyn Rothstein

Mervyn Rothstein

In June, New York City announced that it was putting Canarsie Cemetery in Brooklyn up for sale. The city had owned the 13-acre cemetery since World War II and had decided, in the words of Stuart Fischer, a spokesman for the Department of General Services, that ''the city should not be in the business of running a cemetery.''

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School Merger

Date: 12 September 1982

By Mervyn Rothstein

Mervyn Rothstein

The Board of Education's plan was to merge two high schools on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The single high school would be housed in two buildings - the Louis D. Brandeis High School building on 84th Street and the Martin Luther King Jr.

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Lisa H.

Date: 12 September 1982

By Mervyn Rothstein

Mervyn Rothstein

Lisa H., a 21-year-old college student in Philadelphia, underwent radical surgery last Dec. 9 to rid herself of disfiguring facial tumors caused by a rare genetic disease. Lisa, as she asked to be called to protect her privacy, is a victim of neurofibromatosis, the disease that afflicted John Merrick, the 19th-century Englishman who was called ''The Elephant Man'' and whose story has been told in books, on stage and in the movies. Lisa had had 11 previous operations on her face and head.

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Back in Beirut

Date: 12 September 1982

Prospects looked brighter in Lebanon last week; 800 American marines helicoptered out of Beirut followed yesterday by 537 Italian troops, their duties supervising the P.L.O. evacuation completed. French units are expected to leave this week.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1982

Date: 12 September 1982

International Preference for the U.S. peace plan for the Middle East was indicated by President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, who expressed skepticism over how the Arab peace plan proposed last week would be implemented. At a news conference in Paris, he said the Arab plan set good goals, but it ''lacks the mechanism of how to achieve its goals,'' and that he thinks ''it is better to give the Reagan initiative as much support as we can and to encourage the United States to go ahead with the peace process.'' (Page 1, Column 6.) 44 people were reported killed in the crash of a United States Army helicopter in Mannheim, West Germany, which was carrying them there to participate in an international airshow. This includes five American crew members aboard the helicopter and two others who were parachutists. (1:4-5.)

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1982

Date: 13 September 1982

International A plea for Israelis and Arabs to back the American call for new Middle East negotiations was made by Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who said there is now ''a moment of unprecedented opportunity'' for peace in the region. In a speech in New York to the national leadership of the United Jewish Appeal, Mr. Shultz strongly defended President Reagan's Middle East proposals and said the parties had to sit down to overcome the signficant differences among the Arab, Israeli and American positions. (Page A1, Column 6.) Fighting in Beirut broke out between regular Lebanese Army troops and a small group of leftist militiamen after the militiamen opened fire on a Moslem delegation on its way east to pay its respects to President-elect Bashir Gemayel. It was the first major challenge to the Lebanese Army's efforts to help maintain security in the capital since the departure of the Palestine Liberation Organization. (A1:5.)

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