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19th of May 1985 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 19 mei 1985
CONSERVATISM FINDS ITS TV VOICE
Date: 19 May 1985
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
The United States Government should overthrow the government in Nicaragua ''and we should try to do it openly.'' The Reagan Administration should ''tell all the Americans to get out of Libya and then specifically get the American oil companies out.'' The shooting of U. S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson by Soviet troops in East Berlin was ''murder'' that should prompt the Administration to demand ''some satisfaction or some penalty.'' Such vivid viewpoints are not what the millions of viewers of evening newscasts have been accustomed to hearing from network commentators. But that is the sort of opinion that viewers of ABC's ''World News Tonight'' have been listening to twice a week for the past eight months since the network appointed the conservative newspaper and magazine columnist George Will as commentator for the newscast. Mr. Will's arrival has been hailed by conservatives as the first opportunity for a bona fide thinker from among their ranks to have what William F. Buckley calls ''a presence in the room'' after years of dominance by what they regard as liberal opinion. But conservative viewpoints have been heard on ABC before; Howard K. Smith, for eight years a commentator on that network, was hawkish on matters of war and peace although liberal on some social issues.
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CITY'S MINORITY POLITICIANS FACE A RECOGNITION PROBLEM
Date: 19 May 1985
By Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts
When Laverne Patterson, a 38-year-old black woman from Queens, was asked to name the two or three most important white leaders in New York City, several names immediately came to mind: Mayor Koch, Governor Cuomo and Victor Gotbaum, who heads the largest municipal employee union. But when asked to identify a few black leaders, she could not summon a single one. ''I drew a blank,'' Mrs. Patterson, a city housing department supervisor, recalled. ''The only person, I guess, after I thought about it later, was Basil Paterson,'' she said, referring to the former deputy mayor and Secretary of State. ''I don't think there are many, and those that there are are not covered as well.''
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 19 May 1985
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1985 International Argentina froze all dollar accounts for 120 days in a move to stem the rapid increase of dollar withdrawals that began a week ago when the Government closed down the country's eighth largest bank. The freeze affects some $700 million to $1 billion in the banking system, banking sources said. [Page 1, Column 2.]
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 20 May 1985
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1985 International Israel may free 1,000 Palestinians and other prisoners today in return for three Israeli soldiers captured during the Lebanon conflict, diplomatic sources said. Some of the exchanges are to take place in Geneva and on the Israeli-Syrian border. Palestinians are also to be released into the occupied West Bank. Israel is expected to release two men serving life imprisonments for terrorism. [Page A1, Column 3.] Israel adopted 20 economic measures during a 12-hour Cabinet session to deal with the country's deteriorating economy. The measures, which for the most part involve tax increases rather than reductions in the $23 billion national budget, include a $300 tax on foreign travel and restrictions on trips abroad by Cabinet members. [A7:1-4.]
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Nothing to Read
Date: 19 May 1985
New York City's school officials are elated over the latest annual reading test: 57 percent of pupils in grades 2 through 9 scored at or above the national median level, the best result in years. That good news, however, makes the bad news even more dismaying: School libraries have become abysmal.
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Ellen Tumposky Wed
Date: 20 May 1985
Ellen Tumposky and John Sims, both editors at The Daily News, were married in their New York home yesterday by Rabbi Joel Goor.
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PATRICIA ANN DORADO WED TO WILLIAM MCANDREW JR.
Date: 19 May 1985
Patricia Ann Dorado, an account executive at Wyse Advertising, and William Robert McAndrew Jr., the news informastion manager for press and publicity at NBC, were married yesterday at the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
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U.S. Station to Begin Broadcasting to Cuba
Date: 20 May 1985
AP
Radio Marti, the Reagan Administration's project to broadcast news to Cuba, will go on the air Monday, according to Florida's two Senators. Senator Paula Hawkins, a Republican, and Senator Lawton Chiles, a Democrat, said Saturday that they had received word from the White House that the station would begin broadcasting on Monday, Cuba's independence day. It will be on the air 14 hours a day, seven days a week, they said.
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NICARAGUAN OPPOSITION CHIEF ASSAILS U.S. TRADE EMBARGO
Date: 19 May 1985
Reuters
The Nicaraguan opposition leder, Arturo Jose Cruz, has criticized the United States trade embargo against Managua and called for an end to both United States and Soviet bloc aid to rebels in the region. ''Economic cooperation should be utilized, not suspended,'' Mr. Cruiz said at a news conference in reference to the trade embargo imposed on May 1 by President Reagan. Mr. Cruz resigned as Nicraguan Ambassador to Washington in 1982 after becoming disenchanted with the course of the Sandinista revolution, which toppled the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979.
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Ali in China
Date: 19 May 1985
Muhammad Ali performs his magic these days with cards and other props, but for a while last week the former heavyweight champion was back in the ring, to spar informally with some Chinese boxers during a stop in Peking. Mr. Ali, who is 43 years old, suffers from Parkinson's Syndrome, which sometimes causes his speech to be slurred and his body movements to be slowed. But dressed in gray slacks and a white shirt, he jabbed his way through five one-minute rounds at the Peking Physical Education Institute, part of an 11-day trip to China at the invitation of the Government. Later, he signaled the end of a news conference by yawning loudly, standing up and performing a magic trick for his enthusiastic Chinese audience.
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