Reluare sâmbătă, 29 octombrie 1983

BREAKING THE NEWS ON CASUALTIES

Date: 30 October 1983

By Robert A. Hamilton

Robert Hamilton

TELLING a family that their son has died in some faraway place is never an easy task, and for Connecticut's two Marine Corps casualty assistance officers, the notifications they had to make last week were the toughest. Military notifications of death or injuries usually involve automobile accidents or other mishaps, and people do not expect them. But with the carnage that claimed more than 200 American lives in Beirut a week ago fueling their fear, families were ready for them. Capt. Carl Kusch, inspector instructor for Company C, First Battalion, 25th Marine regiment in Hartford, was among the first who had to take the long walk to a family's front door in official dress. The state's other casualty duty officer is Capt. Robert W. Cerney, inspector instructor at the First Truck Platoon, 6 Motor Transport Battalion at Fort Nathan Hale Park in New Haven.

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COMPANY NEWS

Date: 29 October 1983

GATX Corp. Plans Major Realignment The GATX Corporation, a major railcar-leasing company and equipment manufacturer, said yesterday that it would take a $100 million write- off in the final quarter to proceed with a corporate restructuring plan. The one-time charge would result in a loss for 1983, the company said. James J. Glasser, chairman, said the company would realign itself around its core of service businesses, including freight terminals, financial services and the railcar-leasing segment of its transportation subsidiary.

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ALMS FOR EMERSON

Date: 30 October 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

After a flood wiped out the community building in Emerson, Iowa, Mayor Jack Evans asked the Federal Government for help in replacing it. Uncle Sam turned him down.

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'SPY' IN MOTHBALLS

Date: 30 October 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Everything about the ship was big, from her 618-foot length to her mammoth derricks and $200 million price tag. The Glomar Explorer.

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'BORN' AT 19

Date: 30 October 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

In a legal sense, Joe McKinney didn't exist until he was 19 years old. Before then he was a nameless nomad who could neither hear nor speak.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1983; Invasion in Grenada

Date: 30 October 1983

U.S. forces sought Cuban troops thought to be hiding in the heavily wooded hills of Grenada. As the search went on, teams from the United States Agency for International Development began flying in emergency food rations and drinking water for displaced civilians. At the same time, the United States also prepared to open an Embassy on the island. In another development, Bernard Coard, the former Grenadian Deputy Prime Minister was reported captured by marines in a house near the Governor General's mansion. (Page 1, Column 6.)

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JUST WHEN IS PRETRIAL PUBLICITY UNFAIR?

Date: 30 October 1983

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

Was it truly asking too much, in view of an individual's right to a fair trial, to pause - a moral pause - to respectfully withhold the disclosure for just a week?'' said Federal District Court Judge Robert M. Takasugi. For CBS News and KNXT-TV in Los Angeles the answer last week was yes, videotapes of what Federal authorities said was John Z. DeLorean celebrating a $24 million drug deal were too ''newsworthy'' to keep off the air, even though Mr. DeLorean's trial on drug conspiracy charges was about to start. So began another in a long line of ''fair trial-free press'' conflicts. One of the tapes, which were recorded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a ''sting'' operation, showed the automobile executive looking at a suitcase said to contain cocaine, exclaiming that it weighed less than gold and toasting future dealings with the other men (undercover agents) in the room. Defense lawyers told Judge Takasugi that the broadcasters intended to show tape segments. The judge ordered them not to. A day later, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned his decision as unacceptable prior restraint of the press. The material was aired.

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Inter-American Press Group Sights Attacks on All Sides

Date: 30 October 1983

AP

Press freedom in the Americas is ''under attack from all directions,'' the Inter- American Press Association said in a final report adopted Friday in Lima by 250 publishers, editors and news executives at the association's annual convention. The report cited government censorship, the closing or harassing of newspapers and the deaths of journalists. It also warned that increased costs, diminishing revenues and the world recession had forced the closing of some publications and threatened others.

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POLL SHOWS SUPPORT FOR PRESENCE OF U.S. TROOPS IN LEBANON AND GRENADA

Date: 29 October 1983

By David Shribman

David Shribman

Substantially more Americans approve of the presence of American forces in Lebanon than was the case a month ago, according to a New York Times/ CBS News Poll taken after the bombing attacks Sunday in Beirut. At the same time, while those questioned approved of the presence of American forces on Grenada, less than a third believed that sending troops was the best response to the crisis on the Caribbean island. The poll reflected rapid shifts in public opinion as developments in the two areas unfolded and as new information became available. The survey was taken as the death toll rose in Lebanon, as American forces consolidated their position on Grenada and as President Reagan, in a televised address Thursday night, sought the support of the American people for his policies in both places. However, the poll, a sample of 1,093 adults interviewed by telephone on Wednesday and Thursday, indicates that 50 percent of Americans do not believe that the marines can help keep the peace in Lebanon. It also indicates that 45 percent of the public blames poor security measures for the death toll in Beirut.

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MILITARY VS. PRESS: TROUBLED HISTORY

Date: 29 October 1983

The Reagan Administration's restrictions on news coverage of the invasion of Grenada has its immediate source in the military's resentment about broadcast and published reports on the Vietnam War. But military antagonism toward the press can be traced at least as far back as Gen. John J. Pershing's campaign in the Philippines in 1901 and 1902 against insurgents in the southern island of Mindanao when the War Department banned American coverage of harsh measures against villages believed to be housing Moro rebels. Since the Vietnam War, officers and civilians in the Pentagon have been studying the best means of dealing with print and broadcast journalists in a limited war such as the Grenada operation. Their main target has been televison.

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