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JOURNALISM PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

Date: 05 February 1984

A privately financed program will bring 12 journalists from third world countries to the United States in September for six weeks of study and work experience on American newspapers, the American Society of Newspaper Editors said Friday. The society, which is organizing the effort, said candidates were being screened for the program, which is expected to cost $137,000 and will be administered by the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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Taft Is Confirmed by Senate To Pentagon Deputy's Post

Date: 05 February 1984

AP

William Howard Taft 4th was confirmed by the Senate Friday as Deputy Secretary of Defense.

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FALL OF EAST SIDE EXPRESS

Date: 04 February 1984

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

After an anxious week of uncertainty, an agreement has been reached to sell the East Side Express to a Brooklyn publisher, it was learned yesterday. According to members of the weekly's staff, J. Frank Griffin, who publishes a string of weekly newspapers, agreed to buy the assets for $50,000. Mr. Griffin, who could not be reached for comment last night, is expected to operate the upscale, trendy paper in a lower key and with a new staff. The current staff said that Clay Felker, the editor, had made a counteroffer, which was rejected by Leonard Stern, the owner, and that as far as the staff was concerned the fate of the newspaper they had nurtured was sealed. For many weeks, there were reasons to believe that the latest version of the paper could succeed. Fast and Sassy Style Mr. Felker, the highly regarded creator of New York magazine, had gathered a sophisticated staff from publications such as Vanity Fair, Life and The Washington Post. He seemed to have solid financial backing, first from an experienced magazine publisher and later from Mr. Stern, the wealthy chairman of the Hartz Mountain Corporation.

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REAGAN VS. THE MILITARY

Date: 05 February 1984

By John Kenneth Galbraith

John Galbraith

It is well accepted in politics and public life that, with a certain kind of friend, one is not greatly in need of enemies. Everyone who observes the relationship between the Administration of President Reagan and the military establishment, in particular the armed services, should surely agree. The Administration, and notably its spokesmen, are strongly in support of the services, the Pentagon and the military budget in particular. This is taken for granted by all. At a deeper level, I would urge that no administration since 1815, not even those of the Vietnam years, has been more comprehensively damaging to the military's reputation. It is surprising that this has not been more discussed. There is, first, the matter of the budget. In the years following World War II, with the Great Depression still strong in the national memory, military expenditure was seen as a benign, even useful stimulus to private spending, investment and employment and thus to economic performance in general. These outlays emerged as a somewhat unsettling factor in the Vietnam

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LABORITE, SET TO VISIT, FAULTS U.S. AIDE

Date: 05 February 1984

By R. W. Apple Jr

R. Apple

The leader of Britain's opposition Labor Party, who is to begin a weeklong visit to the United States Wednesday, says he finds it impossible to understand ''the petulant attitude'' behind a senior American official's criticism of European views on international security questions. The Labor leader, Neil Kinnock, said in an interview Friday that he rejected the suggestion this week by Under Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger that Europeans ''have become so consumed with their own problems that it has tended to make it ever more difficult to get Western Europe to look outside its borders.'' Mr. Kinnock said: ''I wouldn't be surprised if an American taxi driver in a small town 1,000 miles from any seacoast had such an idea, but I find it absolutely amazing to hear misconceptions of that kind from a respected, experienced diplomat.'' ''What people like him must understand is that European complaints and dissents are nudges in the ribs from friends and not stabs in the back from enemies,'' he said.

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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS

Date: 05 February 1984

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

InSearchofaCure Seeking a cure for Parkinson's disease, doctors at Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm early last year extracted adrenal gland cells from a 45- year-old woman and transplanted them into her brain. It was the second time they had performed the operation on a human; the first operation did not improve the condition of a male sufferer of Parkinson's disease.

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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS

Date: 05 February 1984

By Richard Haitch Beating the Odds

Richard Beating

It was an incredibly lucky hit last Aug. 19 on the electronic slot machine in Harrah's at Lake Tahoe, Nev.: $1,701,938, a new high. The casino wrote three checks for $500,000 and one for $201,938 and paid the winner, Constantine (Gus) Econopoulos, who said he was a retired San Francisco warehouseman.

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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS

Date: 05 February 1984

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Vodka Ban Reacting angrily to the Soviet downing of a Korean airliner in September, a number of states barred the sale of Russian vodka in state-run liquor stores. Ohio and Iowa have since rescinded their actions, but the ban continues in a dozen other states, according to the biggest importer of the vodka, Monsieur Henri Wines Ltd., a subsidiary of Pepsi Cola in White Plains.

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NEWS SUMMARY ; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1984 International

Date: 04 February 1984

Democrats agreed to softer language in a draft resolution being prepared by the House Foreign Affairs Committee that calls for the early removal of the marines from Lebanon. Much of the anti-Administration language will be removed, but the Democratic members of the committee will still call for the ''prompt and orderly withdrawal'' of the marines, Congressional staff members said. (Page 1, Column 4.) In house-by-house fighting in Beirut's southern suburbs between the Lebanese Army and Moslem Shiite militiamen, the Army said it had recaptured three bunkers it lost Thursday. The announcement was supported by Western military sources but denied by the leader of the Shiite Amal, Akif Heydar. He said his militiamen still held several tactical points that control a crossing area between Moslem and Christian areas. (4:3.)

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1984; International

Date: 05 February 1984

The resignation of all Moslems in the Lebanese Cabinet and a refusal to fight by Lebanese Army soldiers was called for by the leader of Lebanon's Shiites, Nabih Berri. He made the appeal as street clashes in Beirut between the army and Shiite militiamen intensified. Government sources said Prime Minister Shafik al-Wazzan, in an emergency meeting with President Amin Gemayel, once again offered the resignation of his nine-man Cabinet of technocrats, hoping to pave the way for a new Cabinent representing all the factional leaders. (Page 1, Column 6.)

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