Reluare joi, 17 februarie 1983

FOR AMSTERDAM NEWS, WALKOUT ACCENTS WOES

Date: 18 February 1983

By Sheila Rule

Sheila Rule

The strike against The New York Amsterdam News, which began Feb. 1, comes against a setting of internal disputes among the owners of the black weekly and persistent financial problems that threaten its survival, according to interviews with current and former employees. Employees at The Amsterdam, as many readers call it, went on strike over a proposal by the paper's management to impose a four-day workweek. Salaries would be cut by 20 percent, but there would be no layoffs. In addition, the paper's management has offered to share with all employees 50 percent of any net profits gained as a result of costcutting moves. according to Wilbert A. Tatum, the chairman of the board.

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SOVIET CAUTIONS NBC ON POPE

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.

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Poles Attack Rally Coverage

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.''

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NATION MAGAZINE LOSES SUIT ON FORD'S MEMOIRS

Date: 18 February 1983

By David Margolick

David Margolick

The Nation magazine violated Federal copyright laws by printing un-@authorized excerpts from the memoirs of President Gerald R. Ford before they were officially published, a Federal judge ruled yesterday. In a case that pitted the 117-year old magazine against two other venerable publishers, Harper & Row and Reader's Digest, Judge Richard Owen of Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled that The Nation had printed ''what was essentially the heart'' of the Ford book, ''A Time to Heal.'' The resulting article, he said, was not ''fair use'' under Federal copyright laws, nor was it protected by the First Amendment. He ordered The Nation to pay a total of $12,500 to Harper & Row and Reader's Digest - the sum they lost when, following the article in The Nation, Time magazine scrapped plans to print excerpts from the Ford book.

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Soviet Journalist Is Visiting Peking

Date: 18 February 1983

AP

A Soviet political commentator is visiting Peking, and foreign diplomats here say he may be involved in an effort to evaluate the recent trip to China of Secretary of State George P. Shultz and sound out Chinese intentions for the next round of Chinese-Soviet talks scheduled for early March in Moscow.

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Hearing Is Closed In Murder Case

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.

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News Analysis

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.

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News Analysis

Date: 18 February 1983

By Charles Mohr, Special To the New York Times

Charles Mohr

Congress can cut military spending, as a chorus of voices is asking, but it has few tools to reduce the constantly growing costs of buying and operating a military force and that may be the only way to achieve real control of the Defense Department budget. This is only one of several gloomy assessments that analysts in and out of Congress are making as initial hearings on the military budget begin in Senate and House committees. Complex, seemingly paradoxical, problems in reducing the military problems in reducing the military budget arise most acutely in the category of buying weapons and equipment. of President Reagan's military budget request for the fiscal year 1984, the largest single share of military spending. Long-range plans will raise that share to 39 percent by 1988. It has become customary to note that, whatever the members of Congress say about the Defense Department's budget total, they seldom support cancellations or major reductions in particular programs that create jobs and income in their home areas.

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News Analysis

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.''

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News Summary; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1983

Date: 17 February 1983

International Trouble for a Presidential nominee was indicated as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee put off a scheduled vote on the appointment of Kenneth L. Adelman as the chief American arms control official. The action came after Senator Charles McC. Mathias, the Maryland Republican considered a swing vote, indicated he would oppose the nomination after new questions were raised about Mr. Adelman's commitment to arms negotiations. (Page A1, Columns 1-2.) Reports of Libyan-Sudanese tension were cited by President Reagan as he disclosed at a news conference that Air Force Awacs reconnaissance planes had been sent to Egypt for ''training exercises.'' Administration officials said that Libya had recently moved some Soviet-built fighter planes closer to its border with the Sudan, probably in Chad. (A1:4-5.)

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