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Date: 25 December 1983
AP
The state Supreme Court has ruled that the town of Forest Park, with a population of 1,140, violated the First Amendment by using public money to publish its newspaper, The Forest Park News. ''If First Amendment press freedom is to have full and complete meaning, it has to be that not only may the government not control the press directly, but it may not do so indirectly by using tax dollars,'' the court's opinion said.
Date: 25 December 1983
AP
An Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust - a film the British Government deemed too grisly for release after World War II - has received its public debut on British television. Fifteen minutes of the black-and- white film, which was shot by the armed forces after the war, were televised Tuesday night by the Independent Television News.
Date: 25 December 1983
By Hedrick Smith
Hedrick Smith
WASHINGTON IN the 1980 Presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan posed a crucial question for the American electorate to use in sizing up the Carter Administration: ''Are you better off than you were four years ago?'' Some Democrats are saying that the central question their nominee should put in the 1984 debate is, ''Do you feel more secure than you did four years ago?'' Already, there is political debate over the power diplomacy that Mr. Reagan has made a hallmark of his third year in office, historically a time of significant definition for most modern Presidencies. In this telltale period, Richard Nixon embarked on the path of detente diplomacy and Jimmy Carter became ensnarled in the fateful Iranian hostage crisis. This fall, Mr. Reagan has marked himself as the man who ordered the invasion of Grenada, risked American marines for a fragile Government in Lebanon, raised the military stakes in Central America and chanced a deep chill with Moscow over the downed Korean airliner and American missile deployment in Western Europe.
Date: 26 December 1983
By Walter Sullivan
Walter Sullivan
Detailed arguments for the hypothesis that a catastrophic ''nuclear winter'' might result from concerted missile attacks on major cities and be followed by the annihilation of much, if not all, of the human species have been presented for the first time in a scientific journal. Two articles on the subject written by teams of authors representing many specialties appear in the Dec. 23 issue of Science. They elaborate on arguments presented at a conference held in Washington on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. An article on biological effects states: ''In any large-scale nuclear exchange between the superpowers, global environmental changes sufficient to cause the extinction of a major fraction of the plant and animal species on the earth are likely. In that event, the possibility of the extinction of Homo sapiens cannot be excluded.''
Date: 26 December 1983
By Drew Middleton
Drew Middleton
MilitaryAnalysis Four years ago this week two Soviet motorized rifle divisions crossed from Soviet Central Asia into northern Afghanistan. Kabul, the capital, had already been seized by an airborne division. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan had begun. Western correspondents are barred from Afghanistan. A balance sheet at the end of four years must rely on the reports of European and other intelligence services, the claims of the rebels fighting the Soviet-backed Government and occasional admissions in Soviet military publications. The most significant conclusion that can be drawn from these sources is that, whatever else it is, Afghanistan is not the Russians' Vietnam. The Soviet Union faces many military and political problems in the country, but none are of a magnitude to suggest that the Russians face military defeat or political turbulence.
Date: 25 December 1983
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Bartering Energy It was a convenient arrangement waiting to be consummated. New York City was operating a sewage-treatment plant in Brooklyn and each day was burning off 600,000 cubic feet of methane gas and discarding millions of gallons of treated water.
Date: 25 December 1983
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Ear to Economy In a random survey of Santa Clauses at its stores last year, the nation's largest retailer, Sears, Roebuck & Company, reported that many youngsters were asking for jobs for their parents or help in meeting family bills. This year the economy appears to have picked up.
Date: 25 December 1983
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Gift of Learning After four years of college, where he majored mainly in basketball, 24- year-old Kevin Ross became a national figure in May by graduating from the eighth grade of Chicago's Westside Preparatory School. The 6-foot-9-inch Mr. Ross had enrolled at the elementary school after recognizing that despite his years at Creighton University in Omaha, he lacked the most basic educational skills.
Date: 25 December 1983
A ComeuppanceFor Nakasone Japanese voters last week confirmed the worst fears of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and the Reagan Administration. His Liberal Democratic Party suffered one of its biggest losses of seats in the House of Representatives since it began ruling in 1955 and will need the help of nine independent conservatives to form a majority.
Date: 25 December 1983
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
Yuletide 'Right' He turned up in Helena, Mont., at Christmastime in 1980: an anonymous benefactor who called himself Secret Santa. He arranged with Friendship Center, a local charity, to give away $35,000 so every poor child in town would be guaranteed a present.