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Harlem Paper Assails Farrakhan and Koch

Date: 01 July 1984

A Harlem-based newspaper, assailing Louis Farrakhan's remarks about Jews and Israel, has combined its criticism of the Black Muslim leader with an attack on Mayor Koch. ''We repudiate Farrakhan's statement - who will repudiate Koch?'' was the headline over an editorial in The Amsterdam News yesterday that called Mr. Farrakhan's statements ''intemperate, obscene, ill-advised and incendiary.'' The editorial criticized the Mayor's positions as they pertain to blacks.

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WRITER IN LIBEL SUIT FACES JAIL ON ARTICLE'S SOURCES

Date: 02 July 1984

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

Richard Hargraves, a 34-year-old newspaper editorial writer in St. Louis, is due to find out early this week whether he must go to jail rather than disclose the identities of his sources for an editorial that criticized an elected county official. The case stems from a libel suit in which Mr. Hargraves is the defendant. According to lawyers who specialize in First Amendment litigation, the case, which is now before the United States Supreme Court, raises a number of unusual issues. Records kept by press groups indicate that no journalist has been sent to jail because of a civil libel suit since 1958. The defamatory article was an editorial, and editorial opinion is usually the most protected form of free speech. The plaintiff is a public official; the courts have said public officials have the least right to collect damages for injury to their reputation, however harsh or unpleasant the criticism.

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U.S. PRESS COMES AS SURPRISE TO THIRD WORLD REPORTERS

Date: 01 July 1984

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

After less than a week in the United States, Jennifer Henricus, a young journalist from Sri Lanka, says she is surprised, even a bit disappointed, to learn that the press in the United States is not as she had imagined. ''We have this idea that you can publish anything and everything you like, but it isn't like that,'' said the 24-year- old reporter, who is taking part in one of two new programs intended to expose third world journalists to journalism as practiced in this country. ''For instance, I didn't know that American newspapers endorsed candidates for the Presidency. We'd got the idea they were strictly nonpartisan.''

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SOVIET REPLY TO U.S. STAND ON WEAPONS

Date: 02 July 1984

AP

Following is the text of a Government statement issued today in translation by the official press agency, Tass, on the United States response to a Soviet proposal to begin talks on a ban on space weapons: The U.S. Administration has demonstrated more than once that it is not interested in ending the arms race, in holding businesslike, constructive talks to settle this problem. This is evidenced once again by its negative response to the Soviet Government's statement on questions of preventing the militarization of outer space. A statement, hastily released in Washington, makes an attempt to avoid considering the essence of the problem, grossly replacing the subject of talks with other issues. A precondition is being advanced that the discussion of space weapons should include questions related both to medium-range nuclear armaments in Europe and to strategic armaments.

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Sequel to a Salvador Plot

Date: 02 July 1984

When the far right in El Salvador wants to eliminate a problem, it tends to do just that. One problem has been Thomas Pickering, the American Ambassador, who has spoken out strongly against one instrument of elimination: death squads. So it is wholly plausible that Mr. Pickering was recently marked for removal, especially since he was at pains to distance the United States from Roberto d'Aubuisson, the extreme-right candidate who fortunately lost last month's presidential election.

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A KEY ISSUE IN SPACE ARMS: HOW TO DEFINE THEM

Date: 01 July 1984

By Wayne Biddle

Wayne Biddle

If the United States and the Soviet Union meet this year to outlaw antisatellite weapons, the major points of technical difficulty will be how to define such weapons and how to verify whether they have been deployed, an Administration official said today. ''Satellites can be interfered with by a wide variety of means, not all of which rely on specific antisatellite devices,'' said the official, Joseph D. Lehman, chief spokesman for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency at the State Department. ''Negotiators would have to discuss what are real antisatellite actions and what are red herrings.''

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U.S. SAYS IT WEIGHS KREMLIN'S MOTIVES IN NEW ARMS OFFER

Date: 01 July 1984

By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

A White House official said today that the Administration was trying to find out whether the Soviet Union's latest arms control proposal marked a shift in Moscow's attitude toward dealing with the Reagan Administration or was aimed at embarrassing the President. President Reagan is expected to discuss the developments informally at the White House with Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador, at a barbecue Mr. Reagan is to give for the diplomatic corps Sunday night, State Department officials said. Mr. Dobrynin is dean of the diplomatic corps. Mr. Reagan is said to be prepared to stress the seriousness of the Administration's desire to hold wide-ranging arms control talks with the Russians, including possible limits on antisatellite technology, but not to allow Moscow to restrict the agenda of such discussions to weapons dealing with the military use of space. Soviet Note Given to Shultz On Friday morning Mr. Dobrynin presented a Soviet note to Secretary of State George P. Shultz proposing talks in Vienna in September on preventing ''the militarization of outer space,'' including ''the mutual renunciation of antisatellite systems.'' A few hours later, while Mr. Shultz was reporting to Mr. Reagan on the Soviet initiative, it was made public by Tass, the Soviet press agency, a White House official said later.

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GUESS WHAT? GOOD NEWS?

Date: 01 July 1984

By James Reston

James Reston

You won't believe it, but the Governments of the United States and the Soviet Union have finally agreed on something. They have agreed to talk about the control of nuclear weapons, maybe in September and probably in Vienna. Both sides are being a little canny. Moscow prefers to limit the talks to the demilitarization of outer space. Washington prefers to expand them to the control of nuclear weapons on earth, where so many members of the human race exist. But since nuclear weapons in outer space come from earth, no doubt this difference can be overcome.

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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS ; Holocaust Sequel

Date: 01 July 1984

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

A Los Angeles woman who escaped from the Nazis as a child in 1943 by hiding in a coffin was denied $119 a month in supplemental United States Social Security aid when a Federal appellate court ruled last year that West German war reparations that she was getting must be counted as income in determining her eligibility. The reparations, $170 a month to compensate for Nazi persecution, made her yearly income some $290 more than permissible under the Supplemental Security Income program.

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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS ; Panda Watching

Date: 01 July 1984

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, a shy couple whose sex life has been in the public spotlight for a decade, were back in the news in March when their guardian, the National Zoo, reported that they had mated on the 19th. The two pandas, gifts to the United States from China in 1972, have been trying haplessly for offspring.

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