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Date: 14 December 1986
By James F. Clarity and Milt Freudenheim
James Clarity
South Africa has been trying for months to put a lid on dissent, but protests, which officials describe as part of a ''revolutionary onslaught,'' have continued. Last week, harsh penalties were announced for an expanded list of activities deemed subversive and censorship was imposed on reporting of dissent and Government countermeasures.
Date: 14 December 1986
By Diane Ketcham
Diane Ketcham
AL ITTLESON, the president of News 12 Long Island, said he plans on ''keeping the Alka-Seltzer handy'' at 5 P.M. tomorrow. That's the hour that Long Island's new 24-hour all-news television channel is scheduled to make its live debut on the Island's cable systems. ''We'll have 150 to 200 invited guests watching upstairs who will expect it all to work,'' Mr. Ittleson said. They will watch as the Cablevision Systems Corporation of Woodbury puts News 12 Long Island on the air, beginning another chapter in the Island's media history. For several weeks Mr. Ittleson, a former ABC-TV executive, and his News 12 management staff have been working what he called ''an unbelievable schedule.'' They have been trying to get the facilities of News 12 - including equipment, the new studio set and the 10 news vehicles, including a $400,000 satellite news-gathering remote truck - and the 84 employees, most of them newly hired, ready for tomorrow's debut. Three million dollars has been spent so far on personnel and equipment.
Date: 13 December 1986
INTERNATIONAL 3-9 Legislators still do not understand how the essential elements of the policy of arms sales to Iran and the diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan rebels was developed, financed and set into motion. Page 1 Khashoggi deals described 6 Canada ordered an investigation into statements by William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence, that Canadian business executives were involved in financing Iranian purchases of American weapons. 6 A Federal prosecutor tried to stop an investigation into illegal arms shipments to the Nicaraguan rebels that purportedly had roots in the National Security Council, two Federal court officials said. 8 Bush aide asserts ignorance of link 1 U.S. delayed contra case 8 Swiss bank accounts linked with the diversion of payments to the contras may have to be reopened if the U.S. does not request legal assistance to block them, Swiss government officials said. 6 Robert C. McFarlane told an Israeli official last year that if the Iranian arms deal was exposed, the Reagan Administration would deny involvement and blame Israel, Israeli television reported. 7 The incoming majority leader in the Senate, Robert C. Byrd, described the Reagan Administration as the most ''arbitrary, arrogant, partisan White House'' he has seen in his 34 years in Congress. 8 France denied a report it had paid $2 million to free two hostages in Beirut. A newspaper said the hostages were freed after talks between the Prime Minister of France and some Lebanese executives. 7 The South African police announced that they had carried out a series of actions against their adversaries.
Date: 14 December 1986
INTERNATIONAL Use of a 'back channel' in hostage talks was cited by the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, who said he had been assured that George P. Shultz agreed with the plan to bypass the State Department. Page 1 The search for a special prosecutor in the Iran-contra arms case centers on Lawrence E. Walsh, a former Federal judge in New York and American Bar Association president, people familiar with the search said. 1 Dole urges meeting of allies 21 News Analysis: When South Africa sought to justify its newest and most draconian tightening of emergency rule, it did so in a manner that seemed to some critics to defeat the aims it sought to pursue. 26 Excerpts from South Africa law 27 To avert a severe U.N. budget crisis, members are agonizing over changes that would overhaul the budget-making process. The crisis largely resulted from a U.S. decision to withhold $110 million. 31 The Brazil-Argentina rivalry is being buried as the countries begin to integrate their economies. They are trading in onions and carrots as well as nuclear energy and biotechnology. 3 OPEC ministers failed to agree on an accord to cut oil output in order to raise prices. Ministers said they had decided to suspend their full conference sessions until Monday to bargain individually. 3 A South Korean political truce has averted a potentially explosive confrontation between the governing and opposition parties, at least temporarily. But it has underlined divisions in anti-Government ranks. 15 Thailand's National Identity Office, which is in charge of looking after the country's image, is trying to raise awareness about the country. 17
Date: 13 December 1986
AP
The News Corporation Ltd.'s bid to acquire Australia's largest media company, the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., for $1.2 billion received a boost today when an institutional investor sold its 12 percent stake to the News Corporation. Industrial Equity Ltd., a New Zealand-controlled investment company, said it had sold its 18.37 million Herald and Weekly shares to the News Corporation for $143.3 million, or $7.80 a share.
Date: 13 December 1986
Melvin H. Miller is the first to admit that he has changed his image since he learned he might be the next Speaker of the Assembly. ''I've become an instant moderate,'' he said in an interview. ''I'll call myself a, quote, New Democrat, unquote. The old targets - being anti-rich and antibusiness - that's not a policy.''
Date: 13 December 1986
The Pretoria regime's Christmas gift to itself is a press purged of unwelcome news. Its 24-page censorship proclamation goes further than requiring clearance for stories dealing with security or ''subversive'' statements. Also forbidden is any indication, such as blank spaces, showing busy scissors at work. That may please the Government and its supporters. But for everybody else, no news is terrible news. It is the willful self-blinding of a country stumbling on a precipice.
Date: 14 December 1986
Special to the New York Times
South Africa's newest tightening of emergency rule, which includes stringent censorship, was sharply criticized today by the Government's white adversaries on both its left and its right. A white opposition leader, Colin Eglin, described President P. W. Botha's justification of the measures as unconvincing, and right-wing white leaders said the South African leader was electioneering. Press Association Stymied At the same time, the authorities, exercising new powers to prevent the dissemination of information deemed hostile, denied clearance for the South African Press Association to publish a statement by the United Democratic Front, the largest nonparliamentary opposition movement in the country. The press association is an independent news agency owned by major newspaper groups.
Date: 13 December 1986
By Linda Amster
Linda Amster
Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 54. 1. If not a tempest in a teapot, this is a contretemps in a carafe. Explain.
Date: 14 December 1986
By David E. Sanger, Special To the New York Times
David Sanger
Acting on last-minute orders from its lawyers, the space agency has delayed burying wreckage of the space shuttle Challenger in an abandoned missile silo. But the agency has reiterated that it will not allow news organizations to view the shuttle's badly damaged crew compartment or obtain pictures of it. The order to delay the burial, issued Thursday, came from the general counsel's office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The agency's director of public affairs, Shirley M. Green, said that the lawyers were ''apparently unaware'' that workers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida were already packing the shuttle debris in crates and preparing the missile silo on the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Base.