Replay mercoledì 15 agosto 1984

MAKING NEWS ON THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN PLANE

Date: 16 August 1984

By Adam Clymer

Adam Clymer

Most of the time, Presidential campaign planes are cramped work places for candidates, speech writers and reporters, scenes of minor excess in almost everything but the quality of the food, and of no interest to the public. What news emerges from the airplanes that take candidates from one city to another almost always comes from interviews, and the interviews are not significantly different from those that take place in cars, hotel rooms or anywhere else. But, once in a while, an unguarded act or comment by a candidate makes news that could affect a campaign. It was news in 1968 when Spiro T. Agnew referred to Gene Oishi, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, as a ''fat Jap.'' It was news in 1972 when George McGovern, a World War II pilot without a jet license, took over the controls of a plane. And it was news again Tuesday when Walter F. Mondale was overheard complaining about the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

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U.P.I.'S CONTINUING STRUGGLE

Date: 16 August 1984

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

United Press International, the worldwide news service that has survived more than 20 years of money- losing operations, is once again facing a serious cash shortage, largely brought on by the cost of covering the Democratic primaries, the political conventions and the Olympic Games. But according to many industry experts, the financial problem at U.P.I. goes beyond finding enough cash to satisfy the current operating shortfall. The company needs to be able to compete effectively with the nonprofit Associated Press, as well as Reuters and other news services, and to provide innovative new services, those experts say. Douglas F. Ruhe and William E. Geissler, who acquired U.P.I. from The E. W. Scripps Company in 1982, say the cash deficit is a short-term problem and that they have the means to assure the company's solvency and success, even if new capital cannot be found immediately. ''We would willingly sell off every asset we own to assure the survival of U.P.I.,'' said Mr. Ruhe, the company's managing director. He and Mr. Geissler, U.P.I.'s executive vice president, also own UHF independent television stations in Chicago, Providence, R.I., and Murfreesboro, Tenn.

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NETWORKS ALTER POLICY ON OFF-RECORD REMARKS

Date: 15 August 1984

By Peter W. Kaplan

Peter Kaplan

ABC, CBS, NBC and the Cable News Network said yesterday that they would present new ground rules to the White House that would free them to broadcast remarks by the President previously considered off the record. The agreement came in response to the inadvertently recorded comment made last Saturday by President Reagan in which he said: ''My fellow Americans. I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.'' The remark had been transmitted into recording equipment belonging to CBS and CNN.

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'ANATOMY OF A LIBEL CASE,' DISCUSSION AND DISSENT

Date: 15 August 1984

By John Corry

John Corry

''ANATOMY of a Libel Case: Business vs. The Media'' is not so intimidating as its title makes it seem. Libel cases are at once extraordinarily simple and maddeningly complex, and one way of understanding them is to examine not what they appear to be, but how they develop. ''Anatomy of a Libel Case'' does this by examining a hypothetical case. The two-hour program will be seen on Channel 13 at 8 tonight.

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STUDY FINDS PRO-ISRAELI PAC'S ACTIVE IN '84 RACES

Date: 16 August 1984

At least 54 political action committees, with names that do not reveal their political purposes, have mustered more than $4.25 million to influence the 1984 American elections in favor of policies, appropriations and Congressional candidates that support Israel. The funds were identified as pro-Israel by Edward Roeder, Washington editor of Sunshine News Service, which specializes in campaign finance, in interviews with or documents obtained from officials of the committees and contributors as well as party political committees, campaign organizations and lobbyists. The committees have concentrated their funds on Congressional committees with jurisdiction over foreign policy, spending and military affairs. They have donated more than than $576,000 to the campaigns of members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who have consistently supported Israeli interests or to opponents of committee members who have not voted consistently in favor of Israeli interests.

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SOVIET FUROR MOUNTS OVER REAGAN'S BOMBING QUIP

Date: 16 August 1984

By Serge Schmemann

Serge Schmemann

The Soviet Government, in a heightened reaction to President Reagan's quip about outlawing and bombing Russia, today called the remark ''unprecedentedly hostile toward the U.S.S.R. and dangerous to the cause of peace.'' A statement by the Government press agency Tass, a format expressing official policy, said: ''Tass is authorized to state that the Soviet Union deplores the U.S. President's invective.'' ''This conduct is incompatible with the high responsibility borne by leaders of states, particularly nuclear powers, for the destinies of their own peoples and for the destinies of mankind,'' the statement went on. The theme of the statement was the same as that of the initial Soviet press comment on Tuesday - that the joking remark during a voice check before a radio broadcast had revealed Mr. Reagan's true attitudes.

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TO THE SHORES OF RAS BANAS

Date: 16 August 1984

By Wayne Biddle

Wayne Biddle

Perhaps not since Moses divided its waters has so much attention been paid to the Red Sea. With an international flotilla of minesweepers gathering there this week to search for mysterious explosives that have damaged commercial shipping, the United States Navy and other military contingents no doubt hope they will carry the same friendly force on their side that the ancient lawgiver had on his. One thing that might make August on the Red Sea more bearable for American service personnel would be a land base where they could enjoy a few stateside amenities, not to mention its logistical usefulness. But for years, Congress, the Pentagon and the Egyptian Government have been tussling over just such a base at Ras Banas, directly on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. And, in fact, budget negotiations in Washington, spiced with political sensitivity about overseas bases, an old story in the capital, seem to have left Ras Banas much as it looked in biblical times.

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HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL, PUBLISH NO EVIL

Date: 16 August 1984

By David Burnham

David Burnham

Over the last three and a half decades, most Federal agencies have adopted rules to require millions of current employees, an in some cases former employees, to agree to submit any books, magazine articles and speeches for review by Government censors. The range of this censorship extends from the very top to the very bottom of the bureaucracy. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Attorney General William French Smith, for example, have signed agreements promising that if they ever write a book or article, including fiction, that touches upon certain types of intelligence material, they will submit it to censors before publication. All 20,637 current employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and tens of thousands of retired F.B.I. employees, have signed statements that permit the bureau to censor anything they write, at any point in their lives, if it contains information learned as a result of their connection with the F.B.I. In 1983, alone, the Defense Department's 4.6 million employees submitted for censorship the manuscripts of well over 15,000 books, articles and speeches.

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STUDY OF REAGAN DOMESTIC POLICY FINDS GOOD AND BAD NEWS

Date: 16 August 1984

By Robert Pear

Robert Pear

In a major study of President Reagan's domestic policies, the Urban Institute said today that the average family was better off financially now than in 1980 but that there were widening disparities in the incomes of rich and poor people. Average family income, after taxes and after adjustment to account for inflation, rose 3.5 percent in the last four years, to $21,000, the study said. Isabel V. Sawhill, a co-author of the study, said, ''The bottom line of this analysis is that the average family is better off in 1984 than in 1980, but not all families are better off.'' In the last four years, the study said, ''disparities between the incomes of poorer families and those of more affluent families grew markedly.''

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Trot Mark Set

Date: 16 August 1984

AP

Corn Stalk, a 3-year-old colt, set a world record for trotters today when he covered a mile in 1:53 4/5 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. Driven by Howard Beissinger, Corn Stalk knocked a second off the mark set by Lindy's Crown at DuQuoin in 1980.

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