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NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1986

Date: 13 June 1986

International South Africa's leaders imposed a national state of emergency and detained more than 1,000 activists, apparently trying to crush dissent before the 10th anniversary of the Soweto uprisings Monday. The first response from opponents in hiding was that removing responsible leaders of the black majority would pave the way for increased violence. [ Page A1, Columns 4-6. ] Leaders of a Commonwealth group stepped up appeals for Western countries, especially Britain, to impose economic sanctions on South Africa to bring about an end to apartheid. The co-chairmen of the Commonwealth group had tried and failed to mediate between the Pretoria Government and its black opposition. [ A1:4-5. ]

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ABC to Share News At Liberty Weekend

Date: 13 June 1986

AP

Television's battle for Liberty was resolved today when ABC agreed that its rival networks could share all news portions of the Liberty Weekend opening ceremonies. The primary issue was coverage of President Reagan and other officials participating in the July 3 kickoff to the four-day extravaganza celebrating the restoration of the Statue of Liberty on its 100th birthday.

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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1986

Date: 12 June 1986

International Panama's army chief is involved extensively in drug trafficking and illicit money laundering and has provided a guerrilla group with arms, according to evidence collected by American intelligence agencies. Senior officials said the evidence also showed that the army commander, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, who is in effect Panaama's leader, has been supplying intelligence information to both the United States and Cuba for 15 years. [ Page A1, Columns 1-2. ] The President has not firmly decided to abandon observance of the terms of the 1979 treaty on limiting strategic arms. Mr. Reagan told reporters his decision would depend on whether the Kremlin changed its arms control policies. [ A1:3. ]

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Weekly News Magazine On Electronics Planned

Date: 12 June 1986

By Philip H. Dougherty

Philip Dougherty

In September, the Viare Corporation, under the leadership of Richard Ekstract, will begin to publish Twice, This Week in Consumer Electronics, the first weekly news magazine in the field. It will have a controlled (free) circulation of 40,000 among executives in the video industry and retailers. The full-page ad rate in the tabloid-size publication is $4,200.

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PRESIDENT'S NEWS CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ISSUES

Date: 12 June 1986

Following is a transcript of President Reagan's news conference last night in Washington, as recorded by The New York Times OPENING STATEMENT Good evening, please be seated. I have an opening statement. I want to say a few words tonight about three important issues that are now before the Congress. We've reined in government spending, and with Gramm-Rudman we can look forward to a disappearing deficit by 1991. But there are still a few obstacles in the way on our road to a balanced budget. Rather than make the sensible adjustments we've suggested, some in Congress apparently intend to take large and dangerous cuts out of our national defense.

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REAGAN TERMED 'VERY UPSET' THAT HE CONFUSED QUESTIONS

Date: 13 June 1986

Special to the New York Times

President Reagan was described by a White House official today as ''very upset'' over his performance at nationally broadcast news conference Wednesday night, when he misunderstood two questions. The problem, the official said, was Mr. Reagan's intention to select reporters whom he usually ignores and use a cue card to pick the names of correspondents.

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Press 'Drove' Botnick From Post, Koch Says

Date: 13 June 1986

Mayor Koch charged yesterday that news commentators he declined to name ''drove'' his close aide, Victor E. Botnick, from office as the city's hospitals chief. ''I believe the intensity as it related to Botnick was untoward,'' the Mayor told a City Hall news conference.

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More New Products

Date: 12 June 1986

By Philip H. Dougherty

Philip Dougherty

The month of May and the first five months of the year saw record numbers of new-product introductions in the grocery products, toiletries and cosmetics fields, and the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample New Product News credits some of that record number to the large number of new products introduced during the Food Marketing Institute's annual convention. In May, there were 263 new products, up from 235 in the same month last year, while the first five months showed a total of 1,048, up from to 908.

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Stopping the Press

Date: 12 June 1986

By Wayne King and Irvin Molotsky

Wayne King

Representative John F. Seiberling, Democrat from Ohio, is not a large man, but he can throw a mean body block. The place was the House Rayburn Office Building, just after the Federal Reserve chairman, Paul A. Volcker, had finished testifying and was emerging from a committee room.

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Murdoch's Offer of Pay Raise Placates British Journalists

Date: 12 June 1986

Reuters

The publisher Rupert Murdoch averted the threat of a rebellion by journalists on his best-selling tabloid, The Sun, today. The journalists said they had decided to accept a pay increase from Mr. Murdoch and would take no action on a decision earlier this week to stop working at his high-technology plant in Wapping, East London, which took over production of his four London newspapers in January. The vote of protest had been seen as helpful to 6,000 print workers dismissed when Mr. Murdoch moved to the new plant and employed a few hundred members of an electricians union to operate the new technology.

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