Reluare duminică, 24 aprilie 1983

The General Gets Reinforcements

Date: 24 April 1983

By Wayne Biddle and Marrgot Slade

Wayne Biddle

After two strikes in the same Federal court, CBS News last week declared itself out of legal arguments. Gen. William C. Westmoreland will get an internal report this week on a CBS documentary that he says libeled him. It was a sudden surrender for CBS, which earlier said it would appeal the directive by Federal Judge Pierre N. Leval. That was before the judge refused the network permission to file for an appeal, saying there was no longer a constitutional basis for it.

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Times Reporter Wins Award For His Articles on Congress

Date: 24 April 1983

Special to the New York Times

Martin Tolchin, Congressional correspondent for The New York Times, will receive the 1982 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. The Dirksen Congressional Center, a nonprofit educational institution in Pekin, Ill., the hometown of Mr. Dirksen, who was the Senate minority leader, awards $5,000 annually to reporters chosen for their ''thoughtful appraisal of Congress.'' The chairman of the judges for the award, Robert L. Peabody, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, commended Mr. Tolchin for his ''long and distinguished career as a reporter of national news events,'' and said Mr. Tolchin's article in The New York Times Magazine on March 18, 1982, entitled ''Howard Baker - Trying to Tame an Unruly Senate,'' was a ''major contribution.''

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ON EVE OF CONVENTION, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS SAY BRIGHTER DAYS LIE AHEAD

Date: 24 April 1983

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

After nearly a decade of concern about how a faltering economy and competing technologies were jeopardizing their newspapers, many publishers now say that the worst part of a major shakeout is over. Publishers of most of the nation's 1,710 dailies are coming to New York today for the 97th annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, a three-day gathering that they and industry analysts say will find much to be cheerful about. They do not expect new dailies to spring up in the older cities, like Philadelphia or Cleveland, that lost large newspapers in the last two years, and they say that the trend toward diminishing competition by merging afternoon newspapers into their morning counterparts will continue. But they say that the surviving newspapers are ready to reclaim some of the ground they lost to television and other contenders for readers' time and loyalty. Revenue and Circulation Up They say that total circulation rose by one million copies a day last year, to 62.4 million a day, and that advertising revenues are up despite the recession. Newsprint prices have been falling and labor unions have moderated some of their demands, industry officials say, while new techologies make newspapers more timely, colorful and able to give readers the information they want and need.

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Southern Accent Garnishes the Pulitzer Prizes

Date: 24 April 1983

By Wayne Biddle and Margot Slade

Wayne Biddle

Speaking with the same brutal honesty through characters seeking to control their own lives, two women of the South received Pulitzer Prizes last week - Alice Walker cited for a novel ''at once political and spiritual,'' and Marsha Norman for a ''deeply moving'' drama. ''I suppose what I was saying is this: Although we don't get each other's messages, we can still have faith in each other,'' Miss Walker once said of her book, ''The Color Purple.'' The story concerns two black women: Celie, a child-wife living in the South, and her younger sister Netti, a missionary in Africa. Between world wars, they sustain themselves and each other by writing letters they never actually receive. The story focuses on Celie, at first a poor girl enslaved and abused by black men, in the end freed and endowed with a sense of self-worth by two rebellious black women. Miss Walker is the first black woman to win the fiction award.

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News Analysis

Date: 25 April 1983

By Michael Goodwin

Michael Goodwin

He emerged from a pack of political hopefuls to become one of the most popular mayors in recent New York City history, but a word often used these days to describe Edward I. Koch's standing is vulnerable. After narrowly winning election in 1977, Mr. Koch established a reputation as a skilled reader of the public pulse. He was re-elected in 1981 with 75 percent of the vote and could rightfully claim a mandate. His dream of national office did not seem wholly unreasonable.

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News Analysis

Date: 25 April 1983

By Steven R. Weisman, Special To the New York Times

Steven Weisman

After President Reagan pulled Paul A. Volcker aside last Wednesday to apologize for news stories suggesting that he would be let go as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, two things became apparent to aides and economists close to the President. First, according to one official, was that the President - as he told Mr. Volcker - genuinely has not made up his mind about whether to replace the Fed chairman when his four-year term expires Aug. 6. And second was that Mr. Volcker, if asked to continue on the job, would likely accept. These days, when it comes to Mr. Reagan's intentions toward the Fed, speculation and sifting of clues like last week's exchange with Mr. Volcker - which occurred after a meeting of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board - are about all there is to go on.

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News Summary; MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1983

Date: 25 April 1983

International Austria's Socialist Party lost its clear majority in Parliament in national elections, and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky announced that he had decided to resign after 13 years in office. His party lost 5 seats, from 95 to 90, in the 183-seat Parliament, depriving it of the clear majority it had held since 1971. Nevertheless, the Socialists, who received 47.8 percent of the vote, remain a commanding force in Parliament. (Page A1, Column 6.) Soviet and American weapons were in the cargo carried by one of four Libyan planes that landed in Brazil last week, a Brazilian spokesman said. The planes, which were originally said to have been carrying medical supplies for Nicaragua, were detained after it was discovered that they were carrying military supplies as well. (A1:4.)

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Private Satellites

Date: 24 April 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

It was, as one headline writer put it, ''one small step for capitalism'': Con-estoga I, the private spacecraft built from surplus parts, lifting off Matagorda Island in Texas and arching on a sub-orbital flight into the Gulf of Mexico 321 miles away.

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Turtle Land

Date: 24 April 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Some taxpayers thought it was a bit expensive - $519,000 for a 132-acre swamp in Putnam County - but the New York State Commissioner of Environmental Conservation said in July 1981 that the purchase was necessary to protect the bog turtle from extinction in the state. The acreage, in the Town of Southeast, was acquired with funds from a 1972 environmental bond issue.

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Lemon Law

Date: 24 April 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

As State Representative John J. Woodcock 3d of Connecticut saw it, the legal deck was stacked against the new-car buyer who got a defective product. ''The financial and emotional squeeze of a lemon car,'' he declared in April 1982, ''must be put on the manufacturer, where it belongs.''

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