Replay mercoledì 12 febbraio 1986

NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1986

Date: 12 February 1986

International Philip C. Habib is going to Manila in an effort ''to assess the desires and needs of the Filipino people'' in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election there, President Reagan announced. Mr. Reagan, in a written statement, said it was ''a disturbing fact'' that the election was marked by fraud and violence. [ Page A1, Col. 6. ] A Philippine opposition leader was chased by masked gunmen across the town square in San Jose de Buenavista and shot dead. Witnesses said they had shouted ''Run! Run!'' when six gunmen leveled rifles at the target, Evelio Javier, a former Governor of Antique Province. Enrique Zaldivar, the provincial Governor, said he had protectively hidden witnesses who saw the shooting and the gunmen flee in a jeep owned by Arturo Pacificador, the majority leader in the National Assembly. [ A1:5-6. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1986

Date: 13 February 1986

International The Administration moved to curb confusion and uncertainty created in the Philippines by statements made by President Reagan about the unresolved presidential election there. The statements were widely interpreted in the Philippines as an endorsement of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Officials said the State Department had sent instructions to the American Ambassador in Manila to assure Corazon C. Aquino, Mr. Marcos's challenger, that Mr. Reagan did not intend to imply that he was reconciled to a victory by Mr. Marcos. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Corazon C. Aquino voiced concern over President Reagan's suggestion that both sides in the Philippines presidential election had taken part in violence and fraud. [ A12:1-2. ]

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NBC NEWS MAY ADOPT 90-MINUTE 'NEWSWHEEL'

Date: 12 February 1986

By Peter J. Boyer

Peter Boyer

NBC News is considering a plan to replace its 30-minute ''Nightly News'' program with a 90-minute broadcast package that would enable individual stations to blend network news with local news in one program, the network acknowledged yesterday. Lawrence K. Grossman, president of NBC News, said in an interview that NBC was weighing the prospect of introducing a ''newswheel,'' but emphasized that the concept was in the early planning stages and was only one of many options being considered to keep the network news operation competitive in what is a rapidly expanding marketplace. ''We've still got a lot of homework to do on it,'' Mr. Grossman said, ''including the decision as to whether we can or want to go ahead with it.'' NBC's affiliated stations have not yet been consulted, Mr. Grossman said, and their approval would be necessary before any such plan could be implemented.

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A FREE MAN AT LAST

Date: 12 February 1986

Special to the New York Times

It is a rare man who can make a joke of his imminent arrest, and Anatoly B. Shcharansky is such a man. On March 15, 1977, he was sitting with two American correspondents in the Gorky Street apartment of a Moscow friend Vladimir S. Slepak, who, like Mr. Shcharansky, had applied for and been refused an exit visa to emigrate to Israel. Mr. Shcharansky sensed that he was about to be seized; all signs pointed to it. Eleven days before, he had been accused in the Government newspaper Izvestia of passing secrets to the Central Intelligence Agency. A roommate of his, Dr. Sanya Lipavsky, had turned out to an agent of the K.G.B., the security police, rather than the dissident he had pretended he was.

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Journalists Rebuffed in Plea On Spy Retrial of F.B.I. Agent

Date: 12 February 1986

UPI

Upi

A Federal appeals court today rejected a request by broadcast journalists to lift an order barring discussion with lawyers in the espionage retrial of Richard Miller, a former agent of th Federal Bureau of Investigation. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused the appeal by the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California to lift the order barring discussion of issues by Mr. Miller's lawyers, Joel Levine and Stanley Greenberg.

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REPORTING ON SHUTTLE INQUIRY IS CALLED 'FAIR AND ACCURATE'

Date: 12 February 1986

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

William P. Rogers, chairman of the Presidential commission investigating the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, said at a special public hearing with officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration yesterday that news organizations' reporting on the investigation was ''quite fair and accurate.'' The special hearing was called Sunday after The New York Times published a report that documents in NASA files warned that seals between sections of the solid-fuel rockets attached to the shuttle might leak and cause severe damage or an explosion. The Times did not identify how it gained access to the documents, and space agency officials declined to comment on them.

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Arab-Americans Urge Discrimination Inquiry

Date: 12 February 1986

AP

Arab-American leaders today asked the Federal Commission on Civil Rights to investigate ''an ugly, racist type of anti-Semitism'' against Americans of Arab descent. The leaders, in a briefing for the commission, accused President Reagan, the news media, the film industry and Jewish organizations of fostering the discrimination by generally portraying Arabs as terrorists.

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CUOMO'S LINCOLN TALK SAYS MERIT, NOT ETHNICITY, IS KEY

Date: 13 February 1986

By Maurice Carroll, Special To the New York Times

Maurice Carroll

Governor Cuomo, who created a stir by denouncing the idea that an Italian-American could not be elected President, said tonight that the American people agreed overwhelmingly that candidates should not be judged by their ethnic origins. As a matter of fact, he told a receptive Lincoln's Birthday audience, people believe the question never should have been raised. ''I agree,'' Mr. Cuomo said. ''It should not have been. But it was and the discussion is now concluded.''

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BRITAIN ATTACHING PRINT UNION FUNDS

Date: 12 February 1986

By Jo Thomas, Special To the New York Times

Jo Thomas

All the assets of Britain's largest print union were frozen today as a penalty for its attempt to stop the distribution of Rupert Murdoch's four British newspapers. The assets, an estimated $24 million, are being seized under an order issued on Monday by Justice Michael Davies in the High Court in London. The judge also levied a $35,000 fine against the union, the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades. The court action is the latest development in the battle between the print unions and Mr. Murdoch, whose newspapers have continued to publish during an 18-day-old strike over the introduction of new printing technology.

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MOTHERS SOBS WITH RELIEF AT THE NEWS

Date: 12 February 1986

By Serge Schmemann, Special To the New York Times

Serge Schmemann

''Tolya is free, God Almighty, Tolya is free!'' Anatoly B. Shcharansky's mother exclaimed today, her wrinkled face beaming, wet with tears. For nine years, the woman, Ida P. Milgrom, had addressed appeals to the authorities at all levels of the Soviet state. A small, slight woman, now 77 years old, she had stood in the cold outside the prison of Chistopol, in the Tatar republic, demanding to see the warden, she had traveled thousands of miles for rare meetings with her son, she had suffered through months with no word from him. She refused suggestions that she emigrate. She believed she had to remain as long as Anatoly was in prison. Assisted by her older son, Leonid, she struggled to find out what she could of her son's plight, to demand meetings and letters, to complain of his treatment and to appeal for his release. She and Leonid worked, at the same time, to keep the world informed of Anatoly's condition.

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