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Mr. Fitzgerald and the Phoenix

Date: 16 July 1984

Ernest Fitzgerald is the Air Force cost analyst who was fired by President Nixon for revealing cost overruns on a military transport plane. Reinstated by court order in 1982, Mr. Fitzgerald is still worrying about the cost and quality of weapons the Pentagon buys, is still unpopular with his superiors and still worth hearing. ''I have never seen a major weapons system which could not be cut by 30 percent,'' he told the Senate last month. Mr. Fitzgerald believes that the notorious overcharges on military spare parts, like the $1,118 paid for a 17-cent plastic stool cap, go right through the weapons procurement system.

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NEW ZEALANDER WANTS TO AVOID FIGHT WITH U.S.

Date: 16 July 1984

By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

Prime Minister-elect David Lange said today that he wanted to avoid an early confrontation with the United States but that he stood by his party's pledge to ban nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered ships from New Zealand waters. Mr. Lange, whose Labor Party won Saturday's general elections, made his remarks on television as Secretary of State George P. Shultz arrived in Wellington for a meeting of the Anzus treaty nations. American officials have said that if Mr. Lange carries out his pledge, it could have a serious impact on military arrangements in the 33-year-old Anzus pact, which commits the United States, New Zealand and Australia to ''meet the common danger'' in case of an attack on any of the three nations in the Pacific region. Says He Isn't Backing Down Today, questioned on local television, Mr. Lange said that he was not backing down from the pledge but that he wanted to reaffirm strongly New Zealand's commitment to Anzus, which will start its annual review meeting here on Monday.

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DARTMOUTH GROUP IN PRIVACY BATTLE CONCORD, N.H., July 15 (AP) - A student reporter's taping of a Gay Students Association meeting and the publication of excerpts in an unofficial Dartmouth College newspaper have stirred a dispute over privacy rights and freedom of the press.

Date: 16 July 1984

The reporter, Teresa Polenz, a freshman on The Dartmouth Review, is the subject of a criminal investigation by the State Attorney General's office and faces possible school disciplinary action. The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, asked for help by both the Gay Students Association and The Review, a conservative weekly newspaper published independently, is in a quandary. The civil liberties group, unable to decide between the homosexuals' complaint that their privacy had been violated and The Review's First Amendment rights, is reviewing both requests.

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YUGOSLAV REPRESSION

Date: 16 July 1984

By Adrian W. Dewind

Adrian Dewind

Until recently, one could reasonably hope that post-Tito Yugoslavia was moving gradually toward democratization. The main evidence was an increasing latitude for discussion of political issues in the press. Now, however, the situation has taken a serious turn toward repression. It began with seizures in recent months of whole issues of newspapers and journals carrying articles deemed critical of the regime and the system. Then, on the evening of April 20, the government took a giant step toward silencing political discussion, arresting 28 Yugoslavs of diverse political views as they met in a Belgrade living room to hear a talk on nationalist problems by Milovan Djilas, the grand old man of political dissent in East Europe. There had been nothing secretive about the meeting; it was one of a well-known regular series, held every other Friday evening with a shifting attendance. This was Djilas's first appearance.

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NUCLEAR NATIONS AGREE TO TIGHTEN EXPORT CONTROLS

Date: 16 July 1984

By Leslie H. Gelb, Special To the New York Times

Leslie Gelb

Western countries that supply nuclear technology met in Luxembourg last week and decided to strengthen controls on nuclear exports, according to Administration officials. The officials said the suppliers agreed they had to do more - expanding safeguards on existing plants, pressing new suppliers to tighten sales and controlling transfers of components - to prevent the spread of the ability to build nuclear weapons. The meeting, arranged at the iniative of the Reagan Administration, began on Wednesday and concluded on Friday. Meeting Kept Secret The participants decided to keep the meeting secret to avoid charges, as one Administration official put it, ''of the big guys ganging up on the little ones'' to dictate terms for nuclear cooperation.

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RISING VOICE IN DEMOCRATIC RANKS

Date: 17 July 1984

By Michael Oreskes

Michael Oreskes

At this time two years ago, Mario M. Cuomo, tonight's keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, had been written off as a loser by almost everybody who knew anything, or thought they did, about New York politics. He was campaigning for the post of Governor of New York in a Democratic primary against the well-known Mayor of New York City, Edward I. Koch. Mr. Cuomo had already lost four elections over eight years (three of them to Mr. Koch), had never been elected to any public office on his own and had developed a reputation as indecisive and pedantic. The only one who seemed to think he could defeat Mayor Koch was Mr. Cuomo.

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; Cosmos Win On Neeskens Goal

Date: 16 July 1984

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Johan Neeskens scored the winning goal on a penalty kick at 79:15 Saturday night to give the Cosmos a 3-2 victory over the Tulsa Roughnecks.

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MONDAY, JULY 16, 1984 International

Date: 16 July 1984

Stronger controls on nuclear exports were decided on by Western countries that supply nuclear technology at a secret meeting in Luxembourg last week, Reagan Administration officials said. The suppliers reportedly agreed they had to do more to prevent the spread of the ability to build nuclear weapons. (Page A1, Column 1.) New Zealand's Prime Minister-elect said he wanted avoid an early confrontation with Australia and the United States over the issue of nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered ships. But David Lange, whose party swept to victory in the general elections Saturday, said he stood by his party's pledge to ban such vessels from New Zealand waters. (A1:2.)

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THE DEMOCRATS IN SAN FRANCISCO ; TV AND THE CONVENTIONS: A CHANGING MARRIAGE

Date: 16 July 1984

By Dudley Clendinen

Dudley Clendinen

From the top level of the glass blockhouses the television networks have erected in the convention hall here, 5,000 delegate seats spread away in a parquet pattern of little gray metal chairs. It is a commanding view of the long pit where the Democratic National Convention will sit in the days to come. Indeed, the four blockhouses of the television networks command that pit as much as does the podium, from which Walter F. Mondale is expected to accept his party's nomination in prime television time Thursday night. Ever symbiotic, the relationship between the parties and the networks is now graphically changing. More and more, the parties view their conventions as vast advertisements of their wares. Less and less, the networks see them as news.

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CONVENTION JOURNAL; Instant Replay

Date: 16 July 1984

By Francis X. Clines

Francis Clines

Delegates were not to be denied their hard-won insider status, even in the face of gross ignorance of events.

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