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2nd of September 1985 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 2 september 1985
UNION'S DETERMINED LEADER: CYRIL RAMPHOSA
Date: 02 September 1985
By Sheila Rule, Special To the New York Times
Sheila Rule
Cyril Ramaphosa, the leader of black mine workers who began a strike today, recalled a time when he was a young boy walking to school and a soldier in uniform and big boots kicked him into a ditch without provocation. He said he did not cry. He stared at the soldier, picked up his small briefcase and continued on to class. That was 1960 and a state of emergency had been imposed in the turmoil that followed the shooting deaths by the police of 69 blacks at Sharpeville, south of Johannesburg. White soldiers and policemen were stationed in Mr. Ramaphosa's township of Western Native near this city, a presence that the boy did not understand.
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JUSTICE DEPT. ROLE TARGET OF INQUIRY
Date: 03 September 1985
By Wayne Biddle, Special To the New York Times
Wayne Biddle
The Justice Department halted scrutiny of financial affairs at the military shipyard in Newport News, Va., in 1983 over the objections of its frontline investigators, according to a new Congressional study. The General Accounting Office, a nonpartisan arm of Congress, reported that a lawyer in the Justice Department's criminal division had urged in August 1982 that the Government continue looking into the possibility of a conspiracy by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company to defraud the Navy. This recommendation was supported in May 1983 by the United States Attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, who concluded that any potential indictments in the case had ''a reasonably good chance of success,'' the Congressional agency said.
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NEWSPAPER PACT SEEN IN DETROIT
Date: 02 September 1985
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
When the Gannett Company becomes the owner of The Detroit News, it will not only mark the first time that Gannett and Knight-Ridder Newspapers will own competing papers in the same market, but it could become the first time they cooperate in a joint operating agreement. ''Gannett doesn't want to talk about it yet, but it seems the logical step,'' said John Morton, a newspaper analyst with Lynch, Jones & Ryan. A source close to Knight-Ridder indicated that Knight-Ridder would be willing to consider such an agreement. A spokesman for Gannett declined to comment.
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EX-GOVERNOR BROWN OF KENTUCKY PLANS TO RUN AGAIN IN '87
Date: 03 September 1985
AP
John Y. Brown Jr., who was Governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, says he plans to be a candidate again in 1987. ''I don't think anything could change my mind,'' Mr. Brown said in an interview with The Lexington Herald-Leader that was published today. ''If the people still want me and the polls still look good, my inclination is that is what I'd like to do.''
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AIDE SAYS KOHL WANTS TO AVOID BONN DEBATE ON 'STAR WARS' ROLE
Date: 03 September 1985
By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times
James
A senior security adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl says the Government has adopted a low-key, somewhat skeptical approach to the Reagan Administration's space weapons research program in an effort to prevent the issue from moving to the center of political debate here. The adviser - part of a 30-member delegation that will examine the Reagan Administration's space weapons program in the United States this week - welcomed what he said was a ''more dispassionate'' discussion of the question on both sides of the Atlantic. ''We want to take the emotion away from the thing,'' said the adviser, who asked not to be named. ''The discussion has become more factual. In the United States, too, there is not so much talk about 'the vision' - a shield covering the whole country and so on.''
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Pentagon; Reflections on 46 Years of Army Service
Date: 03 September 1985
By Richard Halloran, Special To the New York Times
Richard Halloran
On the eve of retiring after 46 years of Army service, the past three as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. John W. Vessey Jr. is in a reflective mood these days. Over breakfast in his Pentagon office one recent morning, he ruminated over his four decades in uniform and, at the same time, offered some observations and advice for his successors. It was straight-forward talk, spare, declarative sentences, one after the other, touching on everything from duty and honor to unit training and nuclear holocaust. The impression was of a man who took considerable quiet pride in his career, an officer who had mastered not only the art of war but also the art of politics.
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NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1985
Date: 02 September 1985
International South Africa froze repayments of principal on its foreign debt for four months. The Government announcement also said it was reintroducing exchange controls to slow the flow of foreign currency out of the country. The move deepened a sense of crisis after a year of violence in its black townships. [Page 1, Column 6.] Black mine workers walked out over a pay dispute in South Africa. More than 60,000 miners - out of a nationwide total of 550,000 - struck seven mines. Union leaders said they feared employers would try to break the strike and said it would be widened if this happened. Elsewhere, the police said two white men were killed and two critically wounded by blacks returning from a funeral. [1:5.]
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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1985
Date: 03 September 1985
International A black miners' strike faltered in South Africa, and union leaders blamed intimidation by mine employers. Meanwhile, South Africa's currency, the rand, recovered sharply as foreign-exchange markets reopened. [Page A1, Columns 3-4.] Many black groups have shifted toward radicalism and tough tactics in the year since the latest wave of unrest began in South Africa's black townships, according to academics and other specialists there. Violence, the specialists say, has won a kind of legitimacy and has become more intense and more directed toward the overthrow of white rule. [A6:1-2.]
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Witnesses Named For Drug Trial
Date: 02 September 1985
UPI
Upi
Keith Hernandez, Enos Cabell and Dave Parker are among the current and former major league baseball players who may testify for the Government in the Federal drug trafficking trial of a Philadelphia caterer that is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The players were named as potential prosecution witnesses in papers filed by United States Attorney J. Alan Johnson in United States District Court in preparation for the scheduled start of the trial of Curtis Strong.
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Driver Is Killed In Race Accident
Date: 02 September 1985
AP
Stefan Bellof, a West German Formula One racer, died today of injuries suffered in a car crash during the 1,000 Kilometers of Spa endurance race, officials said. Bellof, 27 years old, was involved in a collision with the Belgian driver Jacky Ickx, after which his vehicle crashed head-on into a fence, race officials said.
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