NEWS SUMMARY;
Date: 11 December 1984
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1984 International A U.S.-Cuban accord has been reached in principle on the terms for repatriation to Cuba of about 2,500 criminals and mental patients, Reagan Administration officials said. In return, they said, Washington will resume the processing of regular emigration from Cuba to the United States. (Page A1, Column 6.) A 1982 inspection of the Indian plant of the Union Carbide Corporation revealed serious safety and equipment problems, but its Indian subsidiary rectified most of the problems by last June, according to the company. Among the problems remaining in June, the company said, was a question of the adequacy of a relief valve on a methyl isocyanate storage tank to relieve ''a runaway reaction.'' The highly toxic gas was released from the Bhopal plant last week, killing more than 2,000 people. (A1:3.)
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PEKING'S GOOD NEWS
Date: 11 December 1984
By Flora Lewis
Flora Lewis
WEST BERLIN China's official attack on Marxist orthodoxy as outdated and a hindrance to needed reform was such a surprise to Soviet-bloc Communists that it left them speechless. It is a historic watershed that can have far- reaching, dramatic consequences.
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HEADLINES BLARING, CITY'S TABLOIDS STEP UP BATTLE
Date: 10 December 1984
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
A new, rough and head-to-head form of competition has flared in New York City's long and bitter tabloid newspaper war between The Daily News and The New York Post.
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Tass Joins Yule Tour
Date: 10 December 1984
By Willian E. Farrell and Warren Weaver Jr
Willian Farrell
Are there signs of a thaw in United States-Soviet relations? Well, when Nancy Reagan conducts her annual press tour of the White House and its Christmas decorations this morning, joining the usual newspaper and news agency reporters and television cameras for the first time will be a representative of Tass, the Soviet press agency, which asked and was granted permission to cover the tour.
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WEINBERGER GIVES WHITE HOUSE A 'FIRM DEFENSE' OF HIS BUDGET PLAN
Date: 11 December 1984
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger today presented President Reagan and other Administration officials what was termed a ''firm defense'' of his 1986 budget request, which some Presidential advisers want trimmed by $8 billion.
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Up the Stairs to Arms Control
Date: 10 December 1984
The big news in arms control is that Paul Nitze has moved from the fifth to the seventh floor of the State Department. That gives Secretary of State Shultz easy access to some of the weapons expertise and bureaucratic skill he needs to take charge of nuclear diplomacy - if only the President will now guard the Secretary's other flanks.
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U.S. and Britain Conduct Test of Nuclear Device
Date: 10 December 1984
AP
The United States and Britain detonated a high-yield nuclear device today in an underground test beneath the desert at the Nevada test site.
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SHULTZ-WEINBERGER DISCORD SEEN IN NEARLY ALL FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES
Date: 11 December 1984
By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times
Hedrick Smith
As President Reagan prepares for a second term, his two top foreign policy advisers, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, are reported at odds on virtually all foreign policy issues, often to the frustration and concern of the White House.
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HONDURAS MAKES NEW DEMANDS ON U.S.
Date: 10 December 1984
By Philip Taubman
Philip Taubman
As part of an effort to obtain increased aid and diplomatic concessions from the United States, Honduras has recently presented a new series of demands to the Reagan Administration, according to Honduran and American officials.
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COMING ARMS TALKS: BONN WAITS WARILY
Date: 10 December 1984
By James M. Markham
James
The approaching renewal of preliminary talks between Washington and Moscow over nuclear weapons holds out both possibilities and pitfalls for the Government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, which is badly in need of foreign policy breakthroughs to offset difficulties at home. On the positive side, the resumption of Soviet- American arms talks could vindicate the Kohl Government's championing of American medium- range missiles in West Germany, soften the overall East-West climate and permit Bonn to revive its stalled diplomatic openings to East Berlin and other Warsaw Pact capitals.
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