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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1986

Date: 12 February 1986

International Philip C. Habib is going to Manila in an effort ''to assess the desires and needs of the Filipino people'' in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election there, President Reagan announced. Mr. Reagan, in a written statement, said it was ''a disturbing fact'' that the election was marked by fraud and violence. [ Page A1, Col. 6. ] A Philippine opposition leader was chased by masked gunmen across the town square in San Jose de Buenavista and shot dead. Witnesses said they had shouted ''Run! Run!'' when six gunmen leveled rifles at the target, Evelio Javier, a former Governor of Antique Province. Enrique Zaldivar, the provincial Governor, said he had protectively hidden witnesses who saw the shooting and the gunmen flee in a jeep owned by Arturo Pacificador, the majority leader in the National Assembly. [ A1:5-6. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1986

Date: 11 February 1986

International The Philippine presidential election was put to the National Assembly for certification after three days of violence and widespread reports of vote-rigging by backers of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Both President Marcos, whose forces dominate Parliament, and Corazon C. Aquino have claimed victory. [ Page A1, Col. 1. ] The President reserved judgment on reports of fraud in the Philippine election, but said that it had shown the two-party system to be strong. Officials said Mr. Reagan would comment in detail on the situation at his news conference today after conferring with Senator Richard G. Lugar, who headed the American observer team in the election. [ A1:2. ]

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NBC NEWS MAY ADOPT 90-MINUTE 'NEWSWHEEL'

Date: 12 February 1986

By Peter J. Boyer

Peter Boyer

NBC News is considering a plan to replace its 30-minute ''Nightly News'' program with a 90-minute broadcast package that would enable individual stations to blend network news with local news in one program, the network acknowledged yesterday. Lawrence K. Grossman, president of NBC News, said in an interview that NBC was weighing the prospect of introducing a ''newswheel,'' but emphasized that the concept was in the early planning stages and was only one of many options being considered to keep the network news operation competitive in what is a rapidly expanding marketplace. ''We've still got a lot of homework to do on it,'' Mr. Grossman said, ''including the decision as to whether we can or want to go ahead with it.'' NBC's affiliated stations have not yet been consulted, Mr. Grossman said, and their approval would be necessary before any such plan could be implemented.

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A FREE MAN AT LAST

Date: 12 February 1986

Special to the New York Times

It is a rare man who can make a joke of his imminent arrest, and Anatoly B. Shcharansky is such a man. On March 15, 1977, he was sitting with two American correspondents in the Gorky Street apartment of a Moscow friend Vladimir S. Slepak, who, like Mr. Shcharansky, had applied for and been refused an exit visa to emigrate to Israel. Mr. Shcharansky sensed that he was about to be seized; all signs pointed to it. Eleven days before, he had been accused in the Government newspaper Izvestia of passing secrets to the Central Intelligence Agency. A roommate of his, Dr. Sanya Lipavsky, had turned out to an agent of the K.G.B., the security police, rather than the dissident he had pretended he was.

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Journalists Rebuffed in Plea On Spy Retrial of F.B.I. Agent

Date: 12 February 1986

UPI

Upi

A Federal appeals court today rejected a request by broadcast journalists to lift an order barring discussion with lawyers in the espionage retrial of Richard Miller, a former agent of th Federal Bureau of Investigation. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused the appeal by the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California to lift the order barring discussion of issues by Mr. Miller's lawyers, Joel Levine and Stanley Greenberg.

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REPORTING ON SHUTTLE INQUIRY IS CALLED 'FAIR AND ACCURATE'

Date: 12 February 1986

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

William P. Rogers, chairman of the Presidential commission investigating the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, said at a special public hearing with officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration yesterday that news organizations' reporting on the investigation was ''quite fair and accurate.'' The special hearing was called Sunday after The New York Times published a report that documents in NASA files warned that seals between sections of the solid-fuel rockets attached to the shuttle might leak and cause severe damage or an explosion. The Times did not identify how it gained access to the documents, and space agency officials declined to comment on them.

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Arab-Americans Urge Discrimination Inquiry

Date: 12 February 1986

AP

Arab-American leaders today asked the Federal Commission on Civil Rights to investigate ''an ugly, racist type of anti-Semitism'' against Americans of Arab descent. The leaders, in a briefing for the commission, accused President Reagan, the news media, the film industry and Jewish organizations of fostering the discrimination by generally portraying Arabs as terrorists.

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Kin Are Paid $42,000 For Sakharov Letters

Date: 11 February 1986

Reuters

Relatives of Andrei D. Sakharov in the Boston area were paid $42,000 by The Observer, the British Sunday newspaper, for the right to print letters he smuggled out of the Soviet Union, the weekly's editor was quoted today as having said. The editor, Donald Trelford, told The Boston Globe that The Observer obtained the letters from the physicist's stepchildren in Newton, Mass. Dr. Sakharov, the physicist and human rights activist, has been living in exile since 1980 in Gorky, a city of 1.4 million people on the Volga River.

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AGE OF SUNRISE TV DAWNS IN BLEARY-EYED SPAIN

Date: 11 February 1986

By Edward Schumacher, Special To the New York Times

Edward Schumacher

''Buenos dias, Espana,'' said a cheery if somewhat bleary-eyed television host at 7:30 A.M. one day last month - and with that, the era of morning television dawned in Spain. The 90-minute news and chat show, modeled after the NBC News program ''Today,'' emanates from television sets that used to be dark until well past noon. After the inaugural program, the show's engagingly earnest co-host, Jose Antonio Martinez Soler, held up champagne in a toast and said, ''Now we're Europeans.'' The show, put together by the state-owned network in just two months, is part of Spain's forced march to be like the rest of Europe, a process that has speeded up since Spain joined the European Common Market on Jan. 1.

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Newspaper Challenging Federal Court Order

Date: 11 February 1986

AP

The Providence Journal ignored a Federal court order barring publication of an article about the family of a reputed crime figure because the newspaper believed the order violated constitutional guarantees of a free press, the executive editor testified today. ''We felt it was such a clear case'' of an unconstitutional prior restraint that ''the First Amendment protected us in our decision to publish,'' the editor, Charles McC.

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