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ARAB'S INTERVIEW STIRS NEWS DEBATE

Date: 07 May 1986

By Peter J. Boyer

Peter Boyer

An agreement made by NBC News to keep secret the whereabouts of a terrorist suspect in exchange for an interview has stirred a debate within the press and Government over the propriety of the arrangement. A State Department official, Robert B. Oakley, said yesterday that the deal made NBC an accomplice to terrorism. On Monday night, the ''NBC Nightly News'' broadcast a three-and-a-half-minute interview with Mohammed Abbas, who is under indictment in the United States as the mastermind of a hijacking in which Leon Klinghoffer, an American, was killed last October. He is also being sought by Italian authorities.

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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1986

Date: 07 May 1986

International Top democracies voiced satisfaction over their economic and political agreements at their 12th annual meeting. The Tokyo conference of leaders of the seven major industrial nations of the non-Communist world ended with a lavish formal banquet where they met Crown Prince Akihito. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Residents near the crippled plant in the Ukraine were not evacuated until 36 hours after radioactivity began spewing from a damaged reactor, an official in Moscow said. Boris Y. Shcherbina, a Deputy Prime Minister and chief of the special commission investigating the April 26 accident, also suggested at a news conference that local officials had initially underestimated the scope of the accident. Izvestia put the number of people evacuated at 40,000. [ A1:2. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1986

Date: 08 May 1986

International Washington strongly backs Seoul and its efforts at changes and assails South Korean opposition leaders who ''incite violence,'' according to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who arrived in Seoul for a 24-hour visit. At the same time, Mr. Shultz, who is to meet today with a wide spectrum of Koreans, declined to meet two of the most prominent opposition leaders, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam. [ Page A1, Column 2. ] Syrian officials were responsible for the unsuccessful attempt last month to smuggle a bomb aboard an Israeli airliner in London, according to Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's Defense Minister. In a meeting with reporters, Mr. Rabin also asserted that the decision to smuggle the bomb aboard the airliner had been made at a high level in the Syrian Government. [ A1:1-2. ]

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JUSTICE AGENCY SAID TO RESIST C.I.A. CALL TO PROSECUTE NEWS GROUPS

Date: 08 May 1986

By Stephen Engelberg, Special To the New York Times

Stephen Engelberg

The Justice Department is resisting the Central Intelligence Agency's call for prosecution of news organizations that have published information classified as secret, Reagan Administration officials said today. The Director of Central Intelligence, William J. Casey, said today that he met with Justice Department officials Friday ''to make it clear that I believed that there had been a violation of the law'' by several news organizations in reporting on the recent military confrontations with Libya. At the same meeting, the Administration officials said, Mr. Casey unsuccessfully sought a Justice Department commitment to prosecute The Washington Post if that newspaper published information it had obtained about the National Security Agency. They said Mr. Casey had also explored the idea of asking the courts to forbid news organizations to publish or broadcast highly classified information as future cases arise.

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12 Journalists Named 1986 Nieman Fellows

Date: 08 May 1986

AP

The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University announced today that 12 United States journalists had been appointed to the 49th class of Nieman Fellows. The fellows will study for one year at Harvard in fields including political science, economics, constitutional law, public policy, psychology, religion, environmental studies, history, and statistics.

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AS 'WHEEL' GOES, SO GO TV PROFITS AND CAREERS

Date: 08 May 1986

By Peter J. Boyer

Peter Boyer

It is a force so powerful that it can ruin Dan Rather in Cleveland and make him a hero in New York on the same day. It can make or break careers, dash or confirm the cleverest programming strategy. This force is called, aptly enough, ''The Wheel of Fortune.'' It's a game show featuring a big wheel, a former weatherman as host and a comely hostess. And it has become by far the most popular syndicated program on television, watched by some 40 million people every day.

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Insiders' Signatures

Date: 08 May 1986

By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr

Wayne King

When Stephen Hess was contemplating a jacket design for his new book, ''The Ultimate Insiders,'' a study for the Brookings Institution on how senators deal with the press, he decided a collage of 100 senators' signatures would be appropriate.

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Congress; Power: More Than Just a Pretty Face

Date: 07 May 1986

By Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse

Anarchy reigns in Congress, according to the conventional wisdom, in part because the television networks are all too eager to provide a soapbox for any junior member with a message. Howard H. Baker Jr., in his waning months as Senate Republican leader in 1984, lamented: ''If you don't let them do anything on the floor, they do it on the steps, and somehow there is always a TV camera out there, and there is always a reporter that will listen.'' Numerous political scientists agree with the diagnosis that news coverage has made Congress a more decentralized and less disciplined place than it used to be. But the conventional wisdom is wrong, at least in the Senate, according to Stephen Hess, a longtime observer of the Washington press corps who has tracked the coverage of every senator by the three networks and by five major newspapers for one year. His conclusion: Instead of becoming more diffuse, news coverage of the Senate focuses increasingly on a relative handful of recognized leaders. Those senators who are merely ''young, attractive and blow-dried,'' in the words of Mr. Hess, are unable to parlay those qualities into national exposure and are, for the most part, being ignored.

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CASEY SAID TO CONSIDER PROSECUTING PUBLICATIONS

Date: 07 May 1986

By Philip Shenon, Special To the New York Times

Philip Shenon

The Director of Central Intelligence, William J. Casey, met last week with a senior Justice Department official to discuss the possibility of prosecuting news organizations for their use of classified information, Federal sources said today. One source said that Mr. Casey also conferred with editors of The Washington Post the same day and warned the newspaper that it could face prosecution if it published an article containing information from secret documents involving a former communications specialist at the National Security Agency who is awaiting trial on espionage charges. According to the source, Mr. Casey also warned that he might seek criminal action against Time and Newsweek magazines and The Washington Times. Kathy Pherson, a spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, said the agency would have no comment.

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MOSCOW NEWS SESSION: BRIEF AND NOT TO POINT

Date: 07 May 1986

By Philip Taubman, Special To the New York Times

Philip Taubman

The Soviet Union's recent inclination for holding Western-style news conferences and its traditional desire to control information collided today at a briefing on the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The briefing hall at the Foreign Ministry press center was jammed with hundreds of reporters, dozens of Western diplomats, including several ambassadors, and more than a dozen television cameras. A panel of senior officials and nuclear experts, including the head of a Government commission set up to investigate the accident, seemed poised to answer questions that have accumulated in the 10 days since an explosion ripped off the roof of the nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, spewing radioactive material into the atmosphere.

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