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LOCAL TV NEWS IS MAKING A COMEBACK

Date: 09 June 1985

By Doris Meadows

Doris Meadows

A YEAR ago, when Newsday dropped its cable-television news show, the prospects for Long Island television news seemed bleak. But now local television news is making a strong comeback. The newest sign is Cablevision's expansion of its five-minute local news show to a full hour beginning this week. Abby Kenigsberg, head of the Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting, a watchdog group, called the increase in the number of news shows dedicated to Long Island events ''intoxicating.'' Last year, only one such show, ''L.I. News Tonight,'' produced by the New York Institute of Technology and delivered through various cable services, was on the air nightly. Then, last September, Cablevision introduced its five-minute nightly news show. With 240,000 subscribers in Nassau and western Suffolk Counties, Cablevision is Long Island's largest cable service.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 09 June 1985

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1985 International Four of the 23 Finnish soldiers held by the Israeli-backed militia in southern Lebanon were released yesterday as a ''good-will gesture.'' The release was ordered by Gen. Antoine Lahd, the commander of the South Lebanese Army. General Lahd added he would not free the rest of the hostages until 11 abducted South Lebanon Army militiamen were returned.[Page 1, Column 6.]

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Date: 10 June 1985

MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1985 International The U.S. will continue to honor provisions of a 1979 unratified strategic arms agreement with the Soviet Union, known as Salt II. This was President Reagan's decision, according to Administration officials, who said there will be modifications to take account of purported Soviet violations of the accord. Mr. Reagan overrode Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, who had urged that the United States abandon the treaty. [Page A1, Column 6.] The Mengele farm tool company's former manager and his wife are to be questioned by the West German prosecutor to determine if they obstructed justice in the investigation of the disappearance of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal. The former manager of the Bavarian company is Hans Sedlmeier. On May 31, the West German police found letters in his home in Gunzburg, Bavaria, that led the Brazilian police last week to exhume a body near Sao Paulo that they suspect is Dr. Mengele's. [A1:4.]

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Brown-Bagging it

Date: 09 June 1985

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

IT was known as the brown-bag or B.Y.O.B. (bring your own bottle) bill - state legislation to allow New Yorkers to take wine or beer to restaurants that did not have liquor licenses. The bill was introduced in the Legislature because the State Liquor Authority warned last year that brown-bagging was illegal and that it would prosecute restaurants where violations occurred.

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Nature and Law

Date: 09 June 1985

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

THE way the Village Court of Kenmore in upstate New York saw it, Stephen Kenney was growing noxious weeds in front of the house that he and his wife, Emelie, were renting. Mr. Kenney, an environmentalist and a candidate for a doctorate in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, disagreed.

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Wall St. Rescue

Date: 09 June 1985

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

THE Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall Street, built in 1842 on the site where George Washington was sworn in as President and the Bill of Rights was passed by Congress, has been called the Parthenon of New York by admirers. But by and large the columnar building has been a forlorn monument, grimy and overshadowed by skyscrapers, the Stock Exchange and the excitement of the nation's leading financial district.

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Spy Investigation: The Plot Widens

Date: 09 June 1985

Whenever it bags a spy, the Justice Department tends to talk about its prowess in counterintelligence. But in the case of the Walker family, accused of selling Navy secrets to the Soviet Union, the Government's investigation may have begun only after the prime suspect's former wife turned him in. Barbara Joy Crowley Walker last week told interviewers that she and her daughter had tipped off the authorities several months ago that her former husband, John, a retired Navy warrant officer and communications specialist, had for nearly 20 years been peddling military secrets. She was quoted as saying he first turned to espionage to raise money to revive a bankrupt bar and restaurant and subsequently received ''well over $100,000'' from his Russian customers.

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Mengele Search Leads to a Grave

Date: 09 June 1985

Pursuing a West German tip, the Brazilian police last week uncovered circumstantial evidence, including the remains of a man buried as ''Wolfgang Gerhard'' in Sao Paulo in 1979, which suggested that Josef Mengele, the missing Nazi death camp doctor, may be dead. Israeli authorities were not so sure. ''There have been rumors like this for the past 40 years,'' said an Israeli Consulate spokesman in Sao Paulo, ''and as far as we're concerned, this is just one of them.'' The Justice Department's chief Nazi-hunter, Neal M. Sher, said only last month that he believed Dr. Mengele was still alive at age 74. Mr. Sher flew to Brazil to assist with identity checks on the exhumed teeth and bones, but coordination with the Brazilian police was reported to be minimal. The Brazilians were insisting on handling the case alone. The West Germans, on the basis of photographic and documentary evidence, talked of ''a certain probability'' that Dr. Mengele died in Brazil in 1979.

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Congress Plays Its Own Cards On South Africa

Date: 09 June 1985

It might be impossible to prove cause and effect, but the thousands of people who have been demonstrating against South Africa's racial practices could at least claim a connection between objectives and outcome last week. In the House and in the Senate Foreign Relations Committees, large bipartisan majorities voted for penalties against South Africa. The votes represented one of the sharpest challenges in the widening foreign policy battle between Congress and the White House. Supporters argued that the Administration's deliberately low-key ''constructive engagement'' policy had failed to move South Africa to improve conditions for its 22 million blacks. The House panel voted, 295 to 127, to ban adding to the $2.3 billion in American business investment in South Africa and to the $3.5 billion in private bank loans. It also prohibited new loans to the Government and imports of Kruggerands, which earned $600 million last year. The bans on investment and coins could be waived for a year if South Africa took steps to eliminate racial discrimination in housing or political rights, reached agreement on independence for South-West Africa or freed all political prisoners.

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PAPER LOSES LIBEL LAWSUIT BY EX-EDITOR

Date: 09 June 1985

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

In an unusual libel action, a jury has found that the Kansas City Star Company defamed the newspaper's former outdoor editor in published articles and awarded the former editor $275,000 in damages. The case, which is being appealed, is exceptional first of all because a newspaper writer does not ordinarily sue his own newspaper for libel. But the case was also significant because it involved whether the company, which publishes both The Kansas City Times, a morning paper, and The Kansas City Star, an afternoon and Sunday spaper, had defamed the former editor by suggesting in print that he had violated its code of ethics. The former editor, Gary D. Warner, wrote articles on hunting, fishing and other outdoor themes for 16 years before he was dismissed in 1980 on the ground that he misrepresented his relationship with a local automobile dealer.

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