Reluare sâmbătă, 18 iunie 1983

Troublesome Tapes

Date: 19 June 1983

Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said he was talking ''off the record'' when George Crile, a producer for CBS News, interviewed him in 1981. Unknowingly, however, he was talking on the recorder. Mr. Crile, who secretly tape-recorded that interview and others for a 1982 documentary on the Vietnam War, was among those named in a $120 million libel suit by Gen. William C. Westmoreland, whose lawyers demanded that CBS produce the McNamara tape. Mr. Crile, who had said the tapes were lost or erased, said he found them last week. CBS, saying secret taping violated company policy, suspended him.

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EDITORS' NOTE

Date: 18 June 1983

Under this heading, The Times amplifies articles or rectifies what the editors consider significant lapses of fairness, balance or perspective. Correction, also on this page, continue to deal with factual errors.

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POLAND'S ENDURING FAITH

Date: 19 June 1983

By James Reston

James Reston

It's not difficult to understand why the Polish Government was worried about inviting the Pope of Rome to come back to his native land. He may be more dangerous to the Communist philosophy than all the missiles of the West. For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has been Poland's refuge from alien aggressions, and this particular Pope is a symbol of Poland's national identity and faith. Nowhere else in this secular world today would it be possible to imagine the scenes this solitary man created in the streets and cathedrals of Poland. The people surround his various pulpits like the sands of the sea - hundreds of thousands of them - and listen to his message of hope with what can only be described as a kind of silent adoration.

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News Analysis

Date: 18 June 1983

By Howell Raines, Special To the New York Times

Howell Raines

With the defeat of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale in the straw poll at the Wisconsin Democratic convention, Presidential politics moved into a period of turmoil and realignment this week. Among Democrats, the key developments have been the bursts of interest in the education and nuclear freeze issues and the renewed prospect that another candidate, such as Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts or Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, might be tempted to enter the race now that Mr. Mondale's status as a pre-emptive favorite for the nomination has been undermined. The White House, for its part, also felt the heightened impact of the issues, because they threaten to focus public attention on the weakest points in President Reagan's performance and his public image just when he is stumping the country like a man interested in a second term. These developments emerged from an unusually intense week of political activity for Mr. Reagan and the six would-be Presidents on the Democratic side. In events that ranged from Mr. Reagan's visit to a classroom in Tennessee to a protest against the MX missile that drew three Democratic candidates to a rally on the Capitol steps, they all looked like politicians racing to get in front of a public opinion parade that had suddenly stepped off at a smarter pace than anticipated.

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PRESIDENTIAL 'NEWS FLASH'

Date: 19 June 1983

Special to the New York Times

The reappointment of Paul A. Volcker as Federal Reserve Board chairman was announced by President Reagan as he began his weekly radio address. ''My fellow Americans, as the saying goes, we interrupt this program for a news flash,'' the President said.

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News Analysis

Date: 18 June 1983

By Kenneth N. Gilpin

Kenneth Gilpin

The Senate has approved an $8.4 billion increase in the United States contribution to the International Monetary Fund, and the House of Representatives is expected to do the same soon. But opponents of the increase are still wondering if it is any more than an effort to rescue the Western world's commercial banks. Collectively the banks hold about $600 billion in debts from third world and Eastern European countries and they are having difficulty collecting payments due on an uncomfortably large portion of this amount. The quota increase for the I.M.F. would give that lending agency more money to help the debtor nations meet some of their bank payments. Thus the charge that the increase is a bailout for the banks.

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Unplugging Ears

Date: 19 June 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

A ban on the wearing of headphones - one of the first in the nation - went into effect in the streets of Woodbridge Township, N.J., last Oct. 7, and before the day was out a protester had received the first summons. The ban, which carried a maximum penalty of a $50 fine and 15 days in jail, was intended to protect portable stereo addicts from traffic accidents.

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Horses' Rights

Date: 19 June 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Mindful that a half-dozen horses had died in the streets of New York last summer, the city's Health Department proposed in April a bill of rights for rental animals. Fines of up to $500 were suggested for violations.

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Mortgage Scare

Date: 19 June 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

As interest rates soared in the nation, the Adirondack Trust Company in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., began in July 1982 to recall hundreds of 10-year-old, low-interest mortgages. Homeowners were shocked.

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Ecumenical Giving

Date: 19 June 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

The fire broke out mysteriously after midnight on Oct. 8, 1982, and by the time it was put out, the chapel of the Narkiss Street Baptist Congregation in Jerusalem was a charred shell. The police suspected arson.

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