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9th of May 1985 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 9 mei 1985
Uniform Closing Time Urged for Voting Places
Date: 10 May 1985
Special to the New York Times
News executives from the nation's three major broadcasting networks urged Congress today to adopt a law that would require polling places in Federal elections to close at the same time in all states. Such a law would help reduce the tension between voters and news organizations over the reporting of election trends before polling places close in many states, particularly in the West, said executives from NBC, CBS and ABC.
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Buchanan's Moods
Date: 10 May 1985
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
It seemed a little anomalous from the beginning for the White House to have a director of communications who did not talk to the press, with the exception of lunch with a friendly columnist. But after three months of not returning telephone calls from reporters, Patrick J. Buchanan has moved into what one of his Reagan Administration colleagues calls ''a more accommodating mood.''
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Washington Post Libel Appeal
Date: 09 May 1985
AP
Attorneys for The Washington Post today asked the full United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to rehear an appeal in a libel suit by William P. Tavoulareas, a former president of Mobil Oil Corporation. On April 9 a three-judge panel from the court reinstated a Federal jury's decision that the newspaper libeled Mr. Tavoulareas in a 1979 article about his business dealings and awarded him $2.05 million in damages.
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FEW BIDDERS FORESEEN IF MURDOCH SELLS POST
Date: 10 May 1985
RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Richard STEVENSON
If Rupert Murdoch puts The New York Post up for sale, as expected, the list of bidders is likely to be short and the price relatively low, industry analysts said yesterday. They said that The Post, which is reportedly losing up to $10 million a year, would be an attractive purchase only to rival papers that want to shut it down. Even that possibility might be complicated by antitrust and other legal obstacles, the analysts said. And, they noted, severance payments to employees could be very costly.
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Vietnam, Off Camera
Date: 10 May 1985
The party is over in Vietnam, where American networks lent their cameras to a self-serving celebration of Hanoi's only real achievement: conquest. Parades make pictures. What got scant attention was the off-camera horror of Vietnam's unrelenting persecution even of former comrades. Some victims risked their lives by talking to The Times's Barbara Crossette and other reporters. Their story is appalling, their fate a major obstacle to any reconciliation with the United States.
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New York City Walkathon for March of Dimes Will Go On
Date: 09 May 1985
To the Editor: As co-chairman of the New York City chapter of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, I feel compelled to comment on the incidents that occurred at the close of our ''WalkAmerica'' activity Sunday, April 29. According to numerous eyewitness accounts and my own experience, gangs unconnected with the walkathon committed outrageous and criminal acts against our walkers in full public view at midday in Central Park. Nothing can alter that.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 10 May 1985
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1985 International President Reagan, in Lisbon, told Portugal's Parliament that he had ''heard the voice of the 20th century'' on his 10-day visit to Europe and that Communism was losing out to democracy. ''Everywhere we turn,'' he said, ''there is an uprising of mind and will against the old cliches of collectivism.'' [Page A1, Column 1.] The Soviet Union marked V-E Day with parades after a year of commemorations that confirmed the ''Great Patriotic War'' as a primary event in Soviet history. [A1:2-3.]
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 09 May 1985
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1985 International President Reagan assailed Moscow in an address before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. He described the Soviet Government as a corrupt system that has military policies that threaten nuclear stability. Mr. Reagan's 45-minute address was repeatedly interrupted by leftist legislators who heckled, booed, laughed and shouted ''Nicaragua.'' [Page A1, Column 6.] Moscow denounced Washington as the ''forward edge of the war menace to mankind'' and affirmed its fidelity to the ''priceless'' experience of detente. The positions were expressed by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, in a major address before war veterans marking the 40th anniversary of V-E Day. [A1:3.]
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Good News
Date: 09 May 1985
By Susan Heller Anderson and David W. Dunlap
Susan Anderson
City University's two-year-old School of Law at Queens College, housed in a former elementary school in Bayside, got good news this week - a committee of the American Bar Association recommended that it receive provisional accreditation. At first, the school was looked upon warily by the legal education establishment.
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Japan Railway Layoffs
Date: 09 May 1985
AP
The deficit-ridden Japanese National Railways has cut its work force by 61,000 in the fiscal year 1984, but still has 25,500 more people than it needs, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported today.
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