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23rd of December 1985 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 23 december 1985
NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1985
Date: 24 December 1985
International A bomb exploded at a shopping mall in a white resort in Durban, South Africa, killing at least six white people, three of them children. South Africa's Minister of Law and Order, Louis Le Grange, said he blamed the African National Congress for the blast, and he accused the rebel organization of deliberately hitting what he called soft targets. [Page A1, Column 6.] Another student protest in China was carried into the heart of Peking despite official efforts to bar a repetition of earlier demonstrations. Several hundred students from the Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region held a march Sunday, calling for a halt to the nuclear testing conducted in their region since 1964. [A1:4.]
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NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1985
Date: 23 December 1985
International Winnie Mandela was arrested by the South African police after she defied a ban imposed Saturday forbidding her to enter Soweto, the huge segregated black township near Johannesburg. The order for her exclusion from Soweto relaxed previous restrictions on her activities in force since 1977, which exiled her to the remote town of Brandfort. Her lawyers said he had been taken to detention in Krugersdorp, which is southwest of Johannesburg. [Page A1, Column 6.] Moscow's proposal for a moratorium on nuclear testing is a potentially positive development, some Reagan Administration officials said despite the public rejection by the Administration. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, proposed in a letter dated Dec. 5 that the United States join a moratorium on the underground nuclear testing. [A1:1.]
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NBC TO USE SUPER BOWL TO PLAY UP NEWS ANCHOR
Date: 24 December 1985
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
For football fans, next month's Super Bowl is the climax of a long season. For advertisers, it's an expensive method of selling cars, soap and beer. And for NBC News, the Super Bowl is a way to give Tom Brokaw, the anchor of the No. 2-rated ''Nightly News,'' the kind of exposure the network believes he needs in the competition for evening viewers. Timothy Russert, a former political consultant whose job as a vice president of NBC News now is to improve the image of the news division, has proposed a ''news window'' within NBC's Super Bowl coverage, featuring an interview of President Reagan by Mr. Brokaw. If all goes according to plan, Mr. Brokaw and Mr. Reagan will be seen together for about 10 minutes.
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VIOLENCE TO JOURNALISTS FOUND TO RISE
Date: 24 December 1985
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
Violence against journalists increased dramatically worldwide in 1985, and the result was more self-censorship and intimidation of news organizations, according to Leonard R. Sussman, exeutive director of Freedom House, a watchdog organization based in New York. According to a report by the organization issued Friday, 30 journalists were killed in 1985, 13 were held hostage or disappeared and 76 were ''beaten, bombed, wounded and otherwise harassed.'' In the preceding year, 21 journalists were killed, 5 held hostage and 31 beaten or harassed. Mr. Sussman said that half of those killed this year were in the Philippines and most had been outspokenly critical of the military and of the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
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HOW ONE CORRESPONDENT ENDED RULE ON CREDENTIALS
Date: 23 December 1985
Special to the New York Times
All that Norma Greenaway, a Washington correspondent for Canadian Press, Canada's major news service, wanted were White House press credentials. But she was unwilling to pay the price.
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Advertising; A Switch by Publisher
Date: 23 December 1985
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
Margaret Byrne Heimbold is leaving her position as publisher of American Film magazine to assume a similar role at Historic Preservation and Preservation News, the former a six-a-year magazine and the latter a monthly tabloid. The headquarters are in Washington.
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Britain Urges Release Of Journalist in Lebanon
Date: 23 December 1985
AP
Britain appealed today for kidnappers to release Alec Collett, a British journalist held in Lebanon, but said it would not make a deal for his freedom. Timothy Renton, a minister of state at the Foreign Office, said the release of Mr. Collett, who has been held since March 25, would do more to advance the Palestinian cause ''than anything else.''
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Photographic Travels With the President
Date: 24 December 1985
By David E. Rosenbaum, Special To the New York Times
David Rosenbaum
President Reagan and the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, met for the first time last month outside a villa in Versoix, Switzerland, where the President had his headquarters for the summit meeting. Mr. Gorbachev emerged from his limousine, walked to where Mr. Reagan was standing at the foot of steps leading to an entrance and shook hands with the President. Dozens of photographers snapped the picture, and the result was printed in newspapers and magazines around the world.
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Offer Is Submitted For St. Louis Paper
Date: 24 December 1985
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the bankrupt newspaper that ceased publication Dec. 6, could resume publishing in early January under the ownership of two local businessmen, according to the bankruptcy trustee appointed to the case. Edwin S. Jones, the trustee, said yesterday that he had received an offer of $500,000 for the newspaper's name, files, furniture and other assets from two businessmen who have also offered $100,000 as an incentive bonus to the Globe staff and pledged to invest $4 million to restore the paper's operations. Mr. Jones said that the offer was the only one received and is likely to be accepted unless better offers are made immediately.
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BUDGET CUT WOULD DELAY U.S. SPACE STATION PROGRAM
Date: 24 December 1985
AP
The White House will seek to cut $480 million of the $580 million that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants in the next fiscal year to develop a space station, an industry magazine said today. Such a huge cut, at a time when the program is about to get into high gear with the start of hardware development, would delay the space station by three years, according to the magazine, Aviation Week and Space Technology.
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