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COMINGS AND GOINGS ARE TALK OF CBS NEWS

Date: 25 June 1984

By Peter W. Kaplan

Peter Kaplan

There was much talk of comings and goings at CBS News this last week, and some of it turned out to be true. For months, as the ratings of ''The CBS Morning News'' slid and the program resumed its once-historic place as the third of the network morning programs, many people prepared to hear of a complete revamping of the program to give CBS a chance to play by its own rules instead of emulating the other networks' formats. At a network that in the last 30 years has had Jack Paar in the morning, Walter Cronkite in the morning and Charles Kuralt in the morning, but has never really won in the morning, this latest permutation on a long pattern of redesign was no shock. But from that rumor came a second rumor, one that also had simmered for a long time: Diane Sawyer, co-anchor of ''The Morning News'' would be leaving to join ''60 Minutes.'' This also turned out to be true. ''The CBS Morning News'' was shopping around for tryout tapes from female broadcasters, and, one CBS executive said, ''The moment we can find a replacement for Diane, she will move.''

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Poll in Michigan Finds Majority Prefer Reagan

Date: 26 June 1984

AP

A majority of Michigan residents prefer President Reagan over Walter F. Mondale in the Presidential race, according to a newspaper's poll. The poll published Sunday in The Detroit News said that of those surveyed, 55 percent backed Mr. Reagan for re- election, while 39 percent supported Mr. Mondale.

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CONFEREES SEEKING AN ACCORD ON MILITARY SPENDING RANGE

Date: 26 June 1984

By Jonathan Fuerbringer

Jonathan Fuerbringer

As one of the last moves in assembling a deficit reduction package this year, the House and the Senate are attempting to work out an agreement on military spending that would set a range on what could be spent. The proposal, which Senator Bob Dole, Republican of Kansas, mentioned after a news conference today, was confirmed by the House Budget Committee staff. It is apparently an effort to handle the delicate military spending issue, on which the House and the Senate are sharply divided, without upsetting the deficit reduction momentum gained when conferees agreed on a package of $50 billion in tax increases and $11 billion in spending cuts early Saturday morning.

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CIRCULATION AUDIT PUTS USA TODAY IN 3D PLACE

Date: 26 June 1984

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

The long-awaited first audit of USA Today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations has confirmed that the colorful national newspaper, started by the Gannett Company in 1982, is the nation's third-largest daily newspaper behind The Wall Street Journal and The Daily News. USA Today's average paid circulation in the three-month audit period ending Dec. 31 was 1,138,030, the A.B.C. announced yesterday. It also released an unaudited statement filed by the newspaper's publisher for the first quarter of 1984, claiming average paid circulation of 1,284,613, which would be a 13 percent increase. The audited data drew a positive response from some advertising executives and media analysts.

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SALVADORAN RIGHTIST TIED TO MURDER PLOT WILL MEET SENATORS

Date: 25 June 1984

Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician who has been reported to have been involved in a plot to assassinate the United States Ambassador to El Salvador, will meet with senators here this week, a Congressional aide said Sunday. The aide, James P. Lucier, chief legislative assistant to Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, said all 100 senators had been invited to meet with Mr. d'Aubuisson.

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ADIEU 'GOLD' HAMMERS

Date: 26 June 1984

By Joseph R. Wright Jr

Joseph Wright

For months, the American people have been told that their tax dollars have been spent to buy ''gold-plated'' parts for weapons systems. But there are two parts to the story. The first is that for decades the Defense Department's spare- parts procurement has indeed involved cost overruns and waste - in some instances, the prices paid were outrageous. The second is that the Reagan Administration has taken aggressive steps to correct the problem. The media have thoroughly reported part one but have given short shrift to part two. It is time the public got the whole story. About this time last year, newspapers featured horror stories about hammers, diodes and plastic caps for a stool that had cost the Pentagon outrageous sums. Very few of the stories mentioned that Defense Department employees - not investigative reporters - had found and reported the overpricing. Many read, for example, of the three plastic stool caps for which the Pentagon paid $1,118 each. But how many read about Sgt. Charles K. Kessler of Tinker Air Force Base, in Oklahoma City, who first challenged the cap price? How many know that the Pentagon now pays 31 cents for the same item?

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WEST'S LEADERS BRIEFED BY MITTERRAND ON SOVIET

Date: 26 June 1984

By John Vinocur

John Vinocur

President Francois Mitterrand today discussed his Soviet trip with the nine other leaders of the European Economic Community, reportedly saying that his talks with Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet leader, were candid, open and marked by ''the obvious differences.'' Mr. Mitterrand's spokesman, Michel Vauzelle, offered no details. The description of Mr. Mitterrand's conversations in Moscow last week came from Italian and Belgian sources, who also quoted him as having said that Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko had emphasized an interest in reaching agreements on weapons in space as well as chemical and biological arms.

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STATEMENT BY P.S.C. MEMBER SETS OFF DISPUTE WITH CUOMO

Date: 25 June 1984

By Josh Barbanel

Josh Barbanel

Governor Cuomo has asked his counsel to determine whether a statement by a member of the state's Public Service Commission criticizing his position on nuclear power was grounds to bar the commissioner from future cases. The commissioner, who was quoted by an Albany newspaper, has not been identified. Mr. Cuomo's aides said it was premature to say whether efforts would be made to identify the official. Mr. Cuomo, who referred the matter to his counsel, Gerald C. Crotty, said he had so far received unsolicited letters from two of the six sitting commissioners denying responsibility for the statement. There is one vacancy on the current commission.

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SOVIET'S FLEET, HURT BY BLAST, MAY LIE LOW

Date: 26 June 1984

By Drew Middleton

Drew Middleton

A preliminary study of evidence on the devastating explosion in May at the Soviet Union's ice-free Severomorsk naval base near Murmansk suggests to intelligence analysts that operations of the Northern Fleet will be hampered for some time and that the scale of scheduled fleet exercises may have to be curtailed. There is evidence that the accident cost the Northern Fleet, the strongest of the four fleets in the Soviet Navy, a substantial portion of its stockpiles of surface-to-air missiles and antiship missiles. It was felt that at least six weeks would be required for transfer of replacement supplies. The explosion was so powerful that it was thought at first to have been a nuclear accident.

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SHULTZ URGES 'ACTIVE' DRIVE ON TERRORISM

Date: 25 June 1984

Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that governments opposed to terrorism must do a better job of infiltrating terrorist groups and be willing to take ''appropriate preventive or pre-emptive actions.'' In the Reagan Administration's fullest public discussion to date on its antiterrorist program, Mr. Shultz said, ''Experience has taught us over the years that one of the best deterrents to terrorism is the certainty that swift and sure measures will be taken against those who engage in it.'' On April 3 Mr. Shultz first said publicly that Western countries had to consider pre-emptive action against terrorist groups, particularly those that were ''state supported.'' But at the London economic summit meeting earlier this month, Mr. Shultz's advocacy of what he calls ''active defense'' was not reflected in the communique on terrorism that was issued. Officials at the meeting said the Europeans and the Japanese were wary of even talking about taking specific measures against terrorism.

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