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Date: 17 February 1983
AP
The Soviet Foreign Ministry has warned NBC News to stop broadcasting accusations about Bulgarian and Soviet involvement in the shooting of Pope John Paul II, the network's Moscow bureau said today. Gene Randall, the NBC News correspondent here, said the warning was read to him Tuesday during a telephone call from the Foreign Ministry.
Date: 16 February 1983
By Sally Bedell, Special To the New York Times
Sally Bedell
Most days, Larry M. Speakes, President Reagan's spokesman, walks into the White House press room with a folder filled with prepared responses for the daily news briefing. But more often than not, he is asked to comment on only one issue. The reason, said Mr. Speakes, who also served in the press office under Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, can be found in the impact of television. ''In the Nixon and Ford years,'' he said, ''we would deal with six to 12 issues a day. Now it is often a one-issue day. That is mainly because of the influence of television, which usually carries only one White House story per day.'' The funneling of information from the White House through two minutes or less on the network evening news has long frustrated Presidents eager to spread their views on as many issues and events as possible. But with Ronald Reagan, not only is there a heightened awareness among his closest advisers of the limitations and impact of television news, but also, by most accounts, a more sophisticated and adroit strategy for dealing with television than in prior Administrations. That capability is enhanced, of course, by the President's telegenic appeal.
Date: 17 February 1983
AP
Poland's official press agency attacked Western news outlets today for their reports on a pro-Solidarity demonstration here Sunday night. It said the confrontation was a ''flimsy brawl'' distorted to ''create an impression in the West that everything is falling to pieces in Warsaw.''
Date: 17 February 1983
Special to the New York Times
TRENTON Feb. 16 - The public and the press should be excluded from a bail-reduction hearing for a Morristown man accused of stabbing a waitress to death last December, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today. The suspect, 34-year-old James J. Koedatich, had asked that the hearing be closed to avoid prejudicial publicity. Mr. Koedatich is being held in $250,000 bail on charges of murdering the waitress, 25-year-old Deirdre @O'Brien, in Mendham Township.
Date: 16 February 1983
By Sam Goldaper
Sam Goldaper
Nevada-Las Vegas, the only remaining undefeated basketball team among major colleges, lost out on the No.1 position in United Press International's weekly poll yesterday, largely because four of the 42 coaches who make up the news agency's panel of selectors kept the school off their ballots entirely. Instead, the Rebels attained only the No.2 spot, as Indiana leapfrogged ahead of them to the top. Lou Carnesecca of St. John's, one of the four coaches who left the Rebels off the ballot, denied that his decision had had anything to do with previous recruiting violations in basketball programs headed by Jerry Tarkanian, the head coach at Las Vegas. But another of the four, Marv Harshman of Washington, though refusing extensive comment, implied that these violations had been a factor.
Date: 17 February 1983
By Steven R. Weisman, Special To the New York Times
Steven Weisman
Tales of paper shredders, charges of mismanagement and corruption, refusal by a President to turn over certain documents. These and other elements give the current dispute over the Environmental Protection Agency a familiar ring to followers of scandals in Washington. But the ingredients of the controversy over the environmental agency are as bewildering as they are familiar. Even those involved in the matter acknowledge that many of the charges are based on supposition. The conflict had reached a boiling point when the Administration, according to sources involved in the dispute, relented today and agreed to provide documents that it had withheld from Congressional investigators. Much about what has occurred in the agency in the last two years remains the subject of angry charges and countercharges. To clear up the confusion, no fewer than six Congressional committees have started investigations of the activities of the environmental agency.
Date: 16 February 1983
By John Holusha, Special To the New York Times
John Holusha
The pre-eminence of Japanese companies as the world's masters at making small cars was emphasized this week as never before by the decision of the General Motors Corporation to seek assistance from the Toyota Motor Corporation in producing a new subcompact. Not only will the car, to be assembled at a G.M. plant in Fremont, Calif., be a Toyota design, but it will have a Toyota engine and transmission and the entire 50-50 operation will be under the supervision of a Toyota executive. G.M.'s need for help from a company that its executives hardly deigned to notice not many years ago raises the question of why the world's largest manufacturing corporation, once studied as the model of scientific management, cannot produce a high-quality small car on its own. ''The answer is, they can, but they would have to price it at $10,000,'' said Martin L. Anderson, director of the Future of the Automobile program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The key advantage enjoyed by Japanese manufacturers is an efficiency of production that permits Toyota, for example, to sell its subcompact Tercel in the United States for about $5,000.
Date: 16 February 1983
By Matthew L. Wald
Matthew Wald
New York State once had plans for the construction of 16 nuclear plants; six made it into operation, a seventh is nearing completion, and eight more were scratched as impractical, because of high cost and low demand for electricity. The 16th reactor could fall into either category, although it will probably be finished, and it will probably be the last nuclear plant completed in this century in the state. The plant is Nine Mile Point 2, in Scriba, on the shore of Lake Ontario, where the cost and construction are lurching at an uneven rate toward an uncertain conclusion. The main partner in the consortium building the plant, the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, has announced another increase in costs, the ninth in 10 years. It was for half a billion dollars, bringing the total $4.2 billion, or 11 times the original estimate. That means power the plant produces will cost nearly twice as much as power from other sources costs now.
Date: 17 February 1983
By Thomas L. Friedman, Special To the New York Times
Thomas Friedman
Since President Reagan announced his Middle East peace plan in September, Administration officials have been waiting for a Palestinian response. After three days of discussions here among Palestine Liberation Organization leaders and the 350 members of the Palestine National Council, it is apparent that there will not be a clear-cut answer - neither a total rejection nor an endorsement for King Hussein and West Bank Palestinians to negotiate on the P.L.O.'s behalf. This fact, coupled with the already firm Israeli veto of the Reagan intitiative and the reluctance of King Hussein or West Bank Palestinians to negotiate without P.L.O. approval, could mean the end of the President's peace plan. ''The council is not going to give an unequivocal yes or no,'' said Nabil Shaath, a member of the P.L.O.'s executive committee and a senior political adviser to Yasir Arafat, the organization's chairman. ''The council will deliver a yellow light, and the only thing left to be decided is whether that yellow light will be tinged with red or tinged with green.''
Date: 16 February 1983
President Reagan will hold a news conference tonight that will be covered live beginning at 8 o'clock, Eastern standard time, on the ABC, CBS and NBC television networks, on CNN, the Cable News Network, and SNC, the Satellite News Channel.