Reluare sâmbătă, 26 mai 1984

GOSSIP VS. NEWS: HOW A FALSE REPORT SPREAD

Date: 26 May 1984

By Jonathan Friendly, Special To the New York Times

Jonathan Friendly

When The Boston Herald's gossip columnist reported that a fancy Boston restaurant had refused to seat former President Jimmy Carter because he was not wearing a coat and necktie, other news organizations found the story too amusing not to print and too innocuous to need verification. The story was inaccurate. This is a study of how it came to be published and then widely repeated around the nation. Not only did the rebuff never happen, according to Carter aides, but neither The Herald nor any other news organization ever called to ask about it before carrying the report. An official at the Copley Plaza, where the restaurant is located, said that something similar did happen, but it was eight years ago.

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Murdoch Buys A Magazine

Date: 26 May 1984

News America Publishing Inc., the parent company for Rupert Murdoch's American newspapers and magazines, announced an agreement in principle to buy New Woman magazine. Terms were not disclosed.

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Navy Sets New Pilot Rules

Date: 27 May 1984

Reuters

The Navy has adopted new flight training standards that will require its aviators to have longer arms and shorter legs. The standards will exclude 73 percent of all college- age women and 13 percent of college- age men from flying in the Navy, according to a military spokesman. The standards were devised so that all aviation candidates could reach rudder pedals and see over their instrument panels.

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PENTAGON ADVISES CAUTION ON GULF

Date: 27 May 1984

By Richard Halloran

Richard Halloran

Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have advised President Reagan to avoid, if at all possible, the use of American forces in the Persian Gulf region, according to Pentagon officials. They said the Defense Department favored a diplomatic solution to the hostilities between Iran and Iraq that threaten to disrupt oil supplies. ''The word is, 'Let the nations over there work it out for themselves,' '' one officer said, On Tuesday President Reagan said the United States was consulting with its allies about the possibility of military aid to the Persian Gulf, but he dismissed the chances of direct American intervention as ''very slight.'' ''So far it seems as if the Gulf states want to take care of this themselves,'' he said at a news conference.

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GREEK COURT UPHOLDS JOURNALIST'S CONVICTION

Date: 26 May 1984

By John Tagliabue

John Tagliabue

A Greek appeals court today upheld the conviction of a Cypriot journalist for libel and defamation but commuted his sentence to a $1,200 fine and $150 damages. In December a lower court sentenced the journalist, Paul Anastasiades, to two years in jail. In the decision today the two-year term was reduced to 12 months and commuted to the fine and damages.

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DUTCH MISSILE STAND TROUBLING U.S.

Date: 27 May 1984

By Bernard Gwertzman

Bernard Gwertzman

Although top officials are saying the opposite in private, the Reagan Administration has adopted a public stand of insisting that the NATO alliance will suffer no damage if the Netherlands declines to allow deployment of new American medium-range missiles. Senior State Department and Defense Department officials have conceded in private talks in recent weeks that if the Dutch rejected NATO plans for deploying 48 nuclear-armed cruise missiles by 1986 - the Dutch share of a NATO total of 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles - the result could be serious problems for the alliance as a whole. A high State Department official said Monday in private that Dutch refusal to accept deployment, although of minor signficance by itself, could stimulate antinuclear movements in Britain, Italy and West Germany - where deployment has begun - to curb or limit future deployments. Pressure on Belgium Foreseen Such a move could throw into doubt the alliance's ability to carry out plans for installation of all 572 missiles. In addition, the official said, pressure might grow in Belgium to persuade the Government to block deployment of 48 cruise missiles allotted to that country.

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MILITARY CHIEFS RESIST IMPROVING SPECIAL FORCES, OFFICIAL SAYS

Date: 27 May 1984

By Richard Halloran

Richard Halloran

A senior Defense Department official has asserted that the military services have resisted plans to strengthen forces for guerrilla, commando and other special operations despite a high priority assigned by the Reagan Administration. The official, Noel C. Koch, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, said in an interview that President Reagan, his national security adviser, Robert C. McFarlane, and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger have all said, ''This simply has to be done.'' But, Mr. Koch said, ''As we have seen this edifice going up, those who have visceral objections have begun to manifest those objections.'' The resistance, he said, has come from the services and the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He declined to name officers or officials.

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THE STINGER: TEST RESULTS VEX EXPERTS

Date: 27 May 1984

By Wayne Biddle

Wayne Biddle

The Army's Stinger antiaircraft weapon, which President Reagan wants to send to Saudi Arabia for defense against attacks on Persian Gulf shipping, has had a troubled development history, records show. Because of deficiencies the Army perceived in the weapon in the late 1970's, an improved model, called the Stinger Post, is slowly entering production. It will not be available for sale to the Saudis. According to records obtained from a private arms consultant who has evaluated weapons for the Pentagon and is familiar with Stinger development over the last decade, the weapon was judged successful in only 57 percent of firings during three crucial test series in 1976 and 1977.

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AIDES SAY REAGAN IS FORCED TO LIMIT MISSILES FOR SAUDIS

Date: 26 May 1984

By Bernard Gwertzman

Bernard Gwertzman

Administration officials said today that unexpected opposition from members of Congress had forced President Reagan to limit the number of portable Stinger antiaircraft missiles that would be sent to Saudi Arabia for possible use against Iranian attack. Although no formal decision was made, the officials said that after a meeting with his senior national security advisers this morning, Mr. Reagan gave tentative approval for sending 200 Stinger missiles. But they said the President was inclined to hold off on seeking Congressional approval for 1,000 additional Stinger missiles sought by the Saudis. State Department officials said they did not expect any official announcement before Tuesday, as the White House and the State Deaprtment continued to call key members of Congress to seek their consent ahead of time and thereby avoid another political dispute.

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MAJOR NEWS IN SUMMARY

Date: 27 May 1984

Law Firms Held To Anti-Bias Law A law partnership might be a 'voluntary joinder'' like a marriage, as a Federal appeals court recently described it. But according to the Supreme Court last week, until the contract is signed and the vows exchanged, associates at law firms are employees working for employers.

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