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Date: 16 May 1984
Victor D. Ziminsky, former president of the Union News Company and a department store executive who was active in Catholic charities and social services, died Saturday at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. He was 85 years old. Mr. Ziminsky, who had held merchandising positions in major stores in Boston and New York City for nearly 30 years, was named president of Union News, the national restaurant and newsstand chain, in 1947.
Date: 16 May 1984
By Daniel F. Cuff
Daniel Cuff
With the banking industry's largest rescue package arranged, David G. Taylor, the chairman and chief executive officer of the beleaguered Continental Illinois Corporation, is clearly the man on the spot in the banking industry. He is in the somewhat delicate position of a doctor whose cure turns into a new ailment. Mr. Taylor, elevated to his present job last February to help rescue the bank holding company and its flagship bank, the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company, did so partly through an injection of funds from Europe and the Far East. Now it is those depositors who, having become skittish over rumors that the bank's financial position had worsened, have caused a new cash squeeze by withdrawing their money. Fortunately for Continental Illinois and Mr. Taylor, American banks stepped in Monday with a $4.5 billion line of credit. The bank is still not in the clear, however. Its new financial backing lasts for just 30 days, after which it will be reviewed. Thus Mr. Taylor has been given time to try to convince depositors that Continental will remain solvent. Continental Illinois first got into serious trouble two years ago after it took over a number of energy-related loans that the Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma City had originated. Penn Square collapsed in July 1982, and many of the loans turned out to be bad.
Date: 17 May 1984
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
The cameraman and the interviewer wore T-shirts and windbreakers that said they were from ''Channel 6, New Jersey Morning News.'' But, as six young people at a ''smoke in'' on the town green discovered to their dismay Saturday, there is no such news organization. The cameraman was a deputy sheriff, the interviewer was an assistant county prosecutor and the six demonstrators were under arrest on drug charges. The impersonation has been criticized by press groups and individual journalists, who say it undercuts a bond of trust needed between reporters and the people they interview. The New Jersey affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union is asking the State Attorney General to prohibit such posing by law enforcement agents.
Date: 16 May 1984
By Steven V. Roberts
Steven Roberts
As the House of Representatives began a crucial debate on the future of the MX missile today, supporters and opponents mounted last-minute lobbying efforts aimed at influencing what is likely to be a very close vote. President Reagan, who held a news conference on Monday to reiterate his support for financing production of the missile, pressed his case today in meetings with about a dozen congressmen, most of them Democrats, the White House announced. However, it did not provide names of the House members. From the campaign trail Walter F. Mondale, the leading contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination, called some wavering lawmakers to stress his adamant opposition to financing for the weapon.
Date: 16 May 1984
By Richard Halloran
Richard Halloran
The Deputy Secretary of Defense, William Howard Taft 4th, asserted today that the nation's armed forces were far better able to fight a war than they were when President Reagan took office three and a half years ago. At the same time, however, the Defense Department issued a long report, entitled ''Improvements in U.S. Warfighting Capability, 1980-1984,'' which showed that shortages of ammunition and inadequate spare parts could cripple American forces in a prolonged war fought with conventional arms. Mr. Taft called a news conference to counter charges that military preparedness had improved little since January 1981. Speaking for the Secretary of Defense, Caspar W. Weinberger, who was attending a meeting in Europe, Mr. Taft said, ''The Congress and the American people should know, and be proud of the fact, that they have gotten the increased military capability that they have paid for.''
Date: 16 May 1984
UPI
Upi
The Turner Broadcasting System plans to beam Cable News Network throughout Europe via satellite by next year, and eventually will also transmit programming from WTBS- TV, a so-called superstation, Judy Borza, a Turner representative, said Monday. Turner will acquire a satellite transponder in the next 6 to 8 months to beam ''a derivative'' of the 24-hour CNN to members of the European Broadcasting Union, Miss Borza said.
Date: 16 May 1984
A United States journalist appealed to a commission of the Organization of American States today for help in overturning the verdict of a court in Costa Rica that convicted him of illegally writing for publication there. In a hearing before the organization's seven-member Inter-American Human Rights Commission, lawyers for the journalist, Stephen B. Schmidt, contended that the verdict against him had violated the Inter-American Human Rights Convention as well as Costa Rican legislation guaranteeing freedom of the press. Costa Rica is a party to the convention.
Date: 16 May 1984
By Philip Taubman
Philip Taubman
The Defense Department plans to spend $149 million to build military installations in Central America and the Caribbean in the next four years, according to a Pentagon report. The plans include efforts to improve two air bases in Honduras - Palmerola and La Cieba - so they can accommodate United States jet fighters and other combat aircraft in a crisis. The construction plans were outlined in a report submitted to Congress last week by Deputy Secretary of Defense William Howard Taft 4th. The report, which described the Defense Department's plans for building and improving military installations in Central America and the Caribbean through 1988, was required by Congress. It was made public on Monday.
Date: 17 May 1984
By United Press International
United International
Official of Newsweek magazine said yesterday that the Moscow bureau chief for the magazine had left the country voluntarily because of ''outrageous trumped-up charges.'' Robert Cullen, a 35-year-old native of Newark, was called into the Foreign Ministry office Tuesday and left shortly afterward.
Date: 17 May 1984
(UPI)
Upi
The commander of the 241 American servicemen killed in a terrorist attack in Beirut last Oct. 23 has been named security chief at the Norfolk Naval Station. Col. Timothy Geraghty will become commander of the Marine Corps barracks in Norfolk this August, responsible for the military guards outside Navy and Marine facilities.