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ELLIOTT ABRAMS: 'TOUGH' GUY FOR LATIN JOB

Date: 01 May 1985

By Philip Shenon, Special To the New York Times

Philip Shenon

Elliott Abrams has said that his view of the world is based on one premise. The world is, he once said, ''an exceedingly dangerous place.'' Before his nomination today as head of the State Department's Latin America bureau, Mr. Abrams had reason to find out. Since 1981, he has been head of the department's Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. And in that job, Mr. Abrams, 37 years old, has been responsible for documenting illegal detention, torture and murder throughout the world.

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'HELLO, SWEETHEART, GET ME THE PEPTO-BISMOL'

Date: 30 April 1985

Special to the New York Times

What with all the eggs and bacon, quiche and chicken salad that journalists, political officials and lobbyists must consume in a week in order to gather, trade or disclose information, even the gourmand must occasionally pale at the thought of another ''working'' breakfast or lunch. ''It's just carrying things much too far,'' said Paul Duke, host of the public television program ''Washington Week in Review.'' ''The meal has almost become an art form in Washington,'' he said. ''You have to resist the temptation of the cycle: breakfast with one news source, lunch with another. I mean, when do you ever stop?''

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REMEMBERING VIETNAM IN REGRET AND GRATITUDE

Date: 01 May 1985

By Francis X. Clines, Special To the New York Times

Francis Clines

Ten years ago today, Washington was a shaken city absorbing the nightmarish spectacle of the fall of Saigon and the failure of two decades of American military involvement in Vietnam. The scale and finality of the debacle gave pause that day at news conferences and expense-account restaurants all about the capital. ''It was a tiny little nation,'' Senator Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, speaking today at one of the few commemorative events, said in summarizing the continuing puzzlement and agony left by that longest war in American history. ''It had maybe one-ten-thousandth of the power of the United States.''

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LAST DEADLINE FOR OPPONENT OF APARTHEID

Date: 01 May 1985

By Alan Cowell, Special To the New York Times

Alan Cowell

A newspaper died in South Africa today. After 83 years, The Rand Daily Mail, closed by its management because of financial losses, published its last edition under the headline, ''The Final Deadline.'' ''With the passing of The Mail, a vigorous voice of dissent has been stilled,'' the editor, Rex Gibson, wrote in an editorial rimmed in black on the front-page of the newspaper. ''The gap that The Mail will leave is immense.''

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KISSINGER AND LE DUC THO MEET AGAIN, AND BITTERNESS SHOWS

Date: 01 May 1985

By Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

It had been more than a decade since Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sat together in Paris, negotiating an uneasy settlement to an unpopular war. But the bitterness over the end of the Vietnam War is still close to the surface for Mr. Kissinger, whose temper flared Monday night when the former antagonists appeared on the ABC News program ''Nightline.'' Because of the intensity of the long-distance debate, with Mr. Kissinger in New York and Mr. Tho in Ho Chi Minh City, producers let the program run 11 minutes longer than scheduled to give the former Secretary of State a chance to respond to extensive remarks by the Vietnamese official. Mr. Kissinger leveled his strongest criticism at the American press, which he criticized for offering - then and now - a sympathetic forum for Vietnamese Communist leaders.

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TWO HAWKS AND A DOVE: HOW THEY LOOK AT THE INDOCHINA WAR NOW

Date: 30 April 1985

By Malcolm W. Browne

Malcolm Browne

The passage of time has not dulled the bitterness that the former United States Ambassador to South Vietnam, Graham A. Martin, feels over the loss of the Vietnam War. Now retired and living in Winston-Salem, N.C., the 72-year-old career diplomat remains sharply critical of the roles played by peace activists, American news organizations and the Central Intelligence Agency in the days before an evacuation helicopter lifted him off the roof of his embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975. ''In the end,'' he said in a recent telephone interview, ''we simply cut and ran. The American national will had collapsed and we made it plain we would no longer provide aid to the South Vietnamese.''

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13 Resign From Paris Paper

Date: 30 April 1985

Reuters

Thirteen senior journalists, including the two chief editors, have resigned from the leftist daily newspaper Le Matin after Max Gallo, a former spokesman for the Socialist Government, was named chief editorial writer. The journalists said the appointment jeopardized the paper's independence.

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That Seating Chart

Date: 30 April 1985

By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr

James Clarity

Knowledgeable Washingtonians like to study seating arrangements at the White House correspondents' dinner for clues as to political alliances and source relationships. Saturday night top conservatives in the Administration seemed eager to send a signal about The Washington Times, which has often been a good editorial friend of President Reagan. Seated with the paper's editor in chief, Arnaud de Borchgrave, were the Attorney General, Edwin Meese 3d; the national security adviser, Robert C. McFarlane, and former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 01 May 1985

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1985 International An embargo on U.S.-Nicaragua trade will be ordered by President Reagan, Administration and Congressional sources said. They said he had told Congress the decision was motivated by what he called the Sandinista Government's ''aggressive activities.'' [Page A1, Columns 4-6.] President Reagan headed for Bonn to attend a seven-nation economic summit meeting and to celebrate 40 years of peace and reconciliation in Western Europe in the aftermath of World War II. But as he prepared to leave, the House of Representatives, joining the Senate, voted a nonbinding resolution, 390 to 26, urging Mr. Reagan to reconsider his planned visit Sunday to a German war cemetery where 49 SS soldiers are buried. [A1:4.]

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 30 April 1985

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1985 International The President said it's morally right to visit a German war cemetery and said the purpose of his visit to Bitburg was to symbolize ''the great reconciliation'' between the United States and Germany. On the eve of his departure for a 10-day European trip, Mr. Reagan declared firmly that he would visit the cemetery where the dead include 49 Waffen SS soldiers. [Page A1, Column 2.] West Germany rejected warnings that its plans for President Reagan's state visit would profoundly damage relations with Washington and said that Mr. Reagan would lay a wreath at the war cemetery in Bitburg on Sunday as scheduled. [A10:3-6.]

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