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CNN PLANS TO COVER SEX ABUSE TRIAL

Date: 25 April 1984

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

Cable News Network's coverage of the New Bedford, Mass., rape trial was criticized and complimented yesterday before a Senate subcommittee - as the network prepared to offer live coverage of yet another potentially lurid case, the charges of child molestation at a California nursery school. Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican and a former district attorney, said the coverage of the rape in Big Dan's Tavern could ''terrorize'' other victims and discourage them from reporting sexual assaults. He said that if news organizations did not exercise self-restraint in other cases, Congress might take up legislation to assure victims' rights to privacy in Federal cases. The name of the New Bedford victim would not normally have been widely disseminated, but it was mentioned in open court while CNN was broadcasting, and other news organizations then used it. Four men were convicted and two acquitted of assaulting the woman on a pool table.

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5 OF LONDON PAPER'S DIRECTORS SUPPORT EDITOR

Date: 25 April 1984

The independent directors of The Observer, whose task is to uphold editorial independence, accused the paper's owner today of actions that constituted ''improper proprietorial interference in the accurate presentation of news and free expression of opinion.'' Lonrho Ltd., the congolomerate that owns the paper, Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, rejected the criticism and said it had ''never inhibited or prevented the editor from publishing whatsoever he saw fit to publish.'' The editor, Donald Trelford, was attacked last week by R. W. Rowland, the chairman of Lonrho, for an article about Zimbabwe that Mr. Rowland described as ''sensational'' and ''wrong.'' Mr. Rowland, who has renewed earlier threats to sell the paper, which is reportedly losing more than $1 million a year, met this morning with Robert Maxwell, a Czech-born printing and publishing millionaire, to discuss a sale. But no deal was agreed upon.

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The Long Voyage to Peking

Date: 25 April 1984

With symbolic aptness, President Reagan is approaching Peking slowly and obliquely, by way of Hawaii and Guam. It took a considerable course correction for him to concede that China's friendship is worth the voyage. But what matters most is the result. A long and ugly debate is virtually ended. In America as in China, ideology has yielded to practical mutual interests.

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STUDY CHALLENGES SPACE LASER PLAN

Date: 25 April 1984

By Wayne Biddle

Wayne Biddle

A study released today by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment concludes that the prospect for success of a space-based antimissile system is ''so remote that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy.'' The Reagan Administration has requested $1.7 billion in the fiscal year 1985 for research on space-based lasers and other directed-energy technology, intended to stop attacking missiles. The first five years of research for such a system is expected to cost $25 billion, according to Pentagon estimates. The report, written by Ashton B. Carter, a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, says that deploying such missile defenses in space is forbidden by a 1972 treaty with the Soviet Union banning antimissile missiles.

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KEY AFGHAN AREA IS REPORTED LOST BY GUERRILLAS

Date: 25 April 1984

By Drew Middleton

Drew Middleton

An official broadcast from Afghanistan said yesterday that a major Sovi et-led offensive had overrun a valley north of the capital that had been a guerrilla stronghold for years. This was the sixth attempt, since Soviet forces entered Afghanistan in late 1979, to clear rebels from the Panjshir Valley, which is roughly 70 miles long and runs northeast from a point 50 miles north of Kabul, the capital. The drive, intelligence sources in Washington and London said, has been backed by high-level saturation bombing, the heaviest air strikes against the insurgents to date. Truce Ended in January The intelligence experts said they could not entirely accept the Afghan statement that the rebels had been driven from the valley. But the experts said they believed the Russians, after the past setbacks, would not allow the Afghans to make sweeping statements if they were not generally true.

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THE TRIP TO PEKING: BENEFITS ALL AROUND

Date: 25 April 1984

By Hedrick Smith

Hedrick Smith

For President Reagan, the journey to Peking this week offers an opportunity to serve the nation's interests by strengthening American ties with China as well as a chance to enhance his own bid for re- election by casting himself as a negotiator for peace. As the Reagan entourage crosses the Pacific Ocean, Administration officials are conveying an air of restrained but expectant optimism. There is ebullient talk about ''a new era'' of Chinese-American relations, reminiscent not so much of the uncharted opening that President Nixon created in China 12 years ago as it is of Mr. Nixon's effort later in 1972 to draw the Soviet Union into a less menacing relationship with the lure of mutually profitable economic partnership and political parity. Since the Chinese no longer favor open military cooperation nor drop hints about a link to the Atlantic alliance, as some Chinese did five years ago, the Americans are not pressing this time for a strategic partnership with China.

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'CITY NEWS,' A DRAMA ON 'AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE'

Date: 24 April 1984

By John J. O'Connor

John O'Connor

PUBLIC television's ''American Playhouse'' is a distinguished series, but in terms of experimental work it is not terribly adventurous. Forays into being provocative are generally made in terms of tackling, very carefully, lofty political or social issues. Tonight's presentation on Channel 13 at 9 o'clock, ''City News,'' is a low- budget whacky exercise that tries to be a bit different. It is, although the film is not nearly as clever or sophisticated as it hopes to be.

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Stocks Decline, With Dow Off 8.58

Date: 24 April 1984

By Alexander R. Hammer

Alexander Hammer

Stock prices fell moderately yesterday in slower trading, with equities responding to specific news posting the biggest price moves. The Dow Jones industrial average, which was in the minus column throughout most of the session, closed off 8.58 points, to 1,149.50. In the general market, losing issues outscored winners by almost a 2-to-1 ratio.

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POSTAL WORKERS AND MINERS VOW TO RESIST GIVING IN ON CONTRACTS

Date: 25 April 1984

By Bill Keller

Bill Keller

Unions representing postal workers and coal miners opened contract negotiations here today, vowing to resist concessions on wages and benefits. Both rounds of talks began cordially with promises of good faith and little mention of strikes. Work stoppages are considered probable in some coal mines but unlikely in the Postal Service, whose workers are forbidden by law to strike.

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CBS SEEKS TO DISCREDIT BOOK, MACMILLAN SAYS

Date: 25 April 1984

By Frank J. Prial

Frank Prial

A 1982 television documentary on Vietnam has become the center of a bitter dispute between the CBS network and Macmillan Inc. The book publisher has accused the network of attempting to discredit ''A Matter of Honor,'' a book written by Don Kowet that is critical of the making of the documentary, a ''CBS Reports'' program. Mr. Kowet originally covered the program for TV Guide. In a statement, Macmillan said: ''CBS Inc., a major publisher and media company, has made an unprecedented and shocking attempt to chill Macmillan publishing company's May publication of 'A Matter of Honor.' ''

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