World News Briefs; Israeli Panel Sees No Reason To Seize Private Arab Land Italy Jails Journalist And Security Official Anti-Soviet Demonstrations Held Again in Kabul Students of Mixed Ancestry Demonstrate in South Africa
Date: 25 May 1980
Silvano Russomanno, deputy head of Italian state security agency, and journalist Fabio Isman are sent to prison for publication of Peci confessions (S)
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TV VIEW; Local News Has a Long Way to Go
Date: 25 May 1980
TOM BUCKLEY
Tom BUCKLEY
Tom Buckley article holds WABC, WCBS and WNBC are not making most of news potential in NYC metropolitan area; says WABC's Eyewitness News is most imaginative of local news shows (M)
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On Language; Going to the Well Honing Out Chello Again
Date: 25 May 1980
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire On Language column examines Ronald Reagan's frequent use of word 'well' to begin his sentences; says interjection of meaningless word or phrase while respondent arranges his thoughts is common practice among Presidential candididates, among others
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The TV News, Starring Ted Turner; Ted Turner and His 24-Hour-a-Day, All-News Cable TV Network
Date: 25 May 1980
By TONY SCHWARTZ
Tony SCHWARTZ
Article on Cable News Network, which will go on air June 1 as nation's only 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week all news network; CNN was established by Ted Turner, who will invest $40 million in network in '80; illustrations (L)
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Realty News; Elliman Settles Lawsuit Elliman Settles Suit
Date: 25 May 1980
By WILLIAM G. BLAIR
William BLAIR
Sources say agreement on settlement of lawsuit over operation of Douglas Elliman & Co has been reached amicably; no details of settlement are disclosed because Federal District Judge Charles E Stewart Jr has yet to approve motion before him for formal dismissal of suit; suit was initiated by Edward S Elliman, son of founder of Douglas Elliman & Co and owner of 17% of company's stock; charging wasteful use of company's funds by directors, suit sought reimbursements to company of over $1.25 million, voiding of controversial corporate bylaw on voting of shares and new election of directors; suit was directed against Elliman's top management team of chairman Edwin J Gould, president, chief executive officer and treasurer Lawrence R McGauley and senior vice president John G McDonough (M)
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Follow-Up on the News; Flogging of a Briton In Defense of Nixon Slow Justice Informers' Rights
Date: 25 May 1980
RICHARD HAITCH
Richard HAITCH
follow-up on Rabbi Baruch M Korff, 1 of Pres Nixon's most ardent defenders during height of Watergate scandal; Korff says he has no regrets and that he remains friends with Nixon (S)
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World News Briefs; 2d Anniversary of Airport Marked by Protest in Japan Report Says South Africans Killed 200 Angolans in Raid Terrorists Set Fire To Two Rome Theaters Afghan Guerrilla Denies Pakistan Is Arming Rebels Bonn Expels Libyan Youths Thought to Aid Terrorists
Date: 26 May 1980
Terrorists set fire to 2 movie theaters in Rome, Italy, destroying one and badly damaging the other; right-wing urban guerrillas claim responsibility for fires in telephone call to Italian news agency ANSA; caller says theaters 'will have to remain closed in mourning' on May 29, first anniversary of day when right-wing student, Francesco Cecchin, suffered fatal injuries when he fell from wall while trying to escape left-wing youths (S)
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