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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1986

Date: 27 May 1986

International African countries seek more aid from the developed world. They are asking for an increase of $80 billion to $100 billion in aid and debt relief over five years. The request will be considered at a special five-day meeting of the 159-member United Nations General Assembly that is opening today. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Nearly all of Africa has high levels of human misery, and that misery is increasing. In the drought-stricken nations of sub-Saharan Africa, emaciated children survive only because truckloads of high-protein food mixtures are delivered to camps, villages and oases. A12:1-2. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, MAY 26, 1986

Date: 26 May 1986

International Up to 30,000 South Africans are said to be refugees and more than 30 have died in a week of violence in a squatter camp near Cape Town that pitted conservative black vigilantes against loyalists of radical black leaders. [ Page 1, Column 4. ] The future of displaced Russians is one of the major problems facing Soviet authorities in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. According to Soviet accounts, 92,000 people were removed from the 18.6-mile zone around the reactor. In addition to people who were compelled to leave, thousands more have left Kiev and other cities and towns. [ 1:5. ]

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COLOMBIAN VICTOR: VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS

Date: 27 May 1986

By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times

Alan Riding

In the final stages of Virgilio Barco Vargas's successful bid for the Colombian presidency, local wits had it that the candidate was at last relaxing: When he ended speeches with three ''vivas'' to the Liberal Party, they said, he read two of them and improvised the third. The joke, though, was not out of place. Mr. Barco, a civil engineer by training and a meticulous technocrat by instinct, leaves little to chance. On Sunday evening, long after Alvaro Gomez Hurtado of the Conservative Party had conceded defeat, aides said Mr. Barco sat crouched over a computer analyzing the latest returns rather than socializing with the political chiefs who had come to congratulate him. A poor public speaker with little personal flair, he had built his campaign around the methodical strategy of uniting the Liberal Party and then traveling to every corner of Colombia. He made few promises along the way.

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CONTINENTAL VISIONARY: KENNETH ALLAN KRAGEN

Date: 26 May 1986

By Pauline Yoshihashi, Special To the New York Times

Pauline Yoshihashi

For Ken Kragen, the talent manager and promoter who orchestrated the Hands Across America event, staging spectacles for charity is nothing new. Mr. Kragen also headed USA for Africa, the project that spawned the hit single ''We Are The World'' and raised $42 million for victims of famine in Africa. When he is not encouraging Americans to sing, hold hands or donate money for the hungry and homeless, Mr. Kragen manages the careers of Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie and other popular music stars. By producing slick, lavish charity drives, Mr. Kragen, 49 years old, has attracted some of the publicity normally accorded his clients, but he said the projects have taken their toll on his management business.

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Paraguay Springs to Life

Date: 27 May 1986

The news from Paraguay is that there is news from Paraguay. For 32 years the political life of this South American nation has been muzzled by its dictator, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. So repressive has been his grip that protest virtually vanished from the streets. The last major independent voice, the daily ABC Color, was silenced two years ago.

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Lebanese Christian Chief Blames Syria for Bombs

Date: 27 May 1986

Special to The New York Times

The chief of the main Christian militia, Samir Geagea, accused Syria today of carrying out a series of bombings in Christian areas of Lebanon. Mr. Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces militia, made the charge at a news conference a few hours after two people had been killed and six wounded in a bomb explosion in an apartment building in predominantly Christian East Beirut. It was the third explosion in the Christian part of the Lebanese capital in four days.

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Advertising; Doctors Are Learning To Market Themselves

Date: 27 May 1986

By Philip H. Dougherty

Philip Dougherty

And now for more good news - the physician's house call may be coming back. That is the word from William F. Martin, president of Medical Publishing Enterprises of Fair Lawn, N.J., who bases it on the fact that a large increase in the number of health-care professionals will force them to become more competitive to win patients.

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STEPS WEIGHED TO LIMIT ACCESS TO U.S. SECRETS

Date: 26 May 1986

By Gerald M. Boyd, Special To the New York Times

Gerald

The Reagan Administration is considering reducing the number of officials with access to classified documents as part of a broad effort to control the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive national security information, Administration sources said today. The sources said the Administration was also considering reducing the amount of information that falls within the classified category in the hope it will then be easier to monitor those documents and prevent their unauthorized disclosure. The proposals are contained in a memorandum prepared by middle-level Administration intelligence officials for review at a meeting this week of President Reagan's top national security advisers, the sources said. It has been presented to Adm. John M. Poindexter, Mr. Reagan's national security adviser, they said.

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ISRAEL DEBATES CHARGING 'SENIOR AIDE'

Date: 26 May 1986

By Thomas L. Friedman, Special To the New York Times

Thomas Friedman

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's visit to Israel was overshadowed today by a dispute between Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir over whether to prosecute an unidentified ''senior official'' of the Israeli Government. The name of the senior official and the charges that the Attorney General is considering filing against him were withheld because of legal constraints and military censorship. The secrecy has aroused the curiosity of the Israeli press and public and has intensified demands for a full disclosure of the case, which apparently has some political implications. [ ABC News said in a report from Washington that the official was the head of Shin Beth, the Israeli internal security organization. The report said the Attorney General wanted to charge the official, whom ABC News named as Avraham Shalom, and others with covering up the circumstances of the deaths of two Palestinians killed in April 1984 while in Israeli custody. The Palestinians had been among four hijackers of a bus seized in Israel and driven into the Gaza Strip, where it was stormed by Israeli troops, who killed the two other hijackers in the assault. An Israeli general was later censured in the incident. ] Cabinet Meeting Delayed The scheduled Cabinet meeting today was delayed by two hours so that the so-called inner Cabinet, which is made up of the 10 leading Labor and Likud ministers, could meet and discuss the ''senior official'' affair.

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REACTOR DEATH TOLL IS NOW 19

Date: 27 May 1986

UPI

Upi

The Soviet Union raised the death toll in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to 19 today, and a Soviet scientist said there was the ''theoretical possibility'' of further danger from the reactor core. The scientist, Yevgeny P. Velikhov, who is a vice president of the Academy of Sciences and a member of the Chernobyl investigating commission, said at a news conference that the panel had completed its work but that it would take months before the exact cause of the accident was known.

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