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17th of December 1984 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 17 december 1984
NEWS REPORTS ON SHUTTLE ARE WITHHELD
Date: 18 December 1984
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
SPOKESMEN for NBC News, The Associated Press and Aviation Week & Space Technology confirmed yesterday that the news organizations would honor requests from the Department of Defense that they not release information regarding the the nation's first classified manned space mission for reasons of national security. The confirmations came after a news conference yesterday at which Brig. Gen. Richard Abel, director of public affairs for the Air Force, the agent for military use of the space shuttle program, outlined guidelines for limiting information regarding shuttle missions sponsored by the Department of Defense. At the conference General Abel said that ''speculation'' by news organizations as to military aspects of the shuttle mission would lead to an investigation by the Department of Defense to determine the news organizations' source of information. A Pentagon spokesman said later in the day that speculation in the news media would not automatically prompt a full investigation, but such speculation would be viewed with concern and an investigation could result if a breach of security was suspected.
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RISING STAR IN KREMLIN
Date: 17 December 1984
By Serge Schmemann
Serge Schmemann
Though Mikhail S. Gorbachev is no stranger to foreign travel, his visit to London is giving the West its first extensive chance to take his measure since his ascendancy in the Soviet hierarchy became evident. Though formally he is leading a relatively low-level delegation of Soviet legislators on a visit to the House of Commons, Mr. Gorbachev, who visited Italy and Bulgaria earlier this year, came to Britain as the Russian widely believed to be next in line to lead the Kremlin. Before his arrival Saturday, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced plans to give Mr. Gorbachev a reception more commensurate with his status as heir apparent than with the title he is using on the visit, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Mr. Gorbachev headed for London five days after he had offered some new clues to his standing in the Kremlin by delivering the keynote speech to a major party conference in Moscow. The speech itself attracted little attention, since it largely repeated standing exhortations and policies.
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BROTHERS FEUD OVER NEW ORLEANS NEWSPAPER
Date: 17 December 1984
As a major voice for New Orleans blacks, the 59-year-old Louisiana Weekly is accustomed to reporting news, its front pages telling of lynchings in the 1920's, civil rights marches in the 1960's, and its back pages detailing accounts of social events. Recently the newspaper has been making its own news, but the usual reporters have not been writing it. Those with the familiar bylines resigned before Thanksgiving, along with most of the other employees. And the publishers, two feuding brothers, have been ordered by a state district judge not to talk to reporters from other news organizations.
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HOW TV COVERS WESTMORELAND SUIT
Date: 17 December 1984
By John Corry
John Corry
The court battle between CBS and Gen. William C. Westmoreland almost certainly is, as ABC told its viewers, ''one of the most important libel trials in modern American history.'' It has everything, including the Vietnam War. Moreover, as CBS reported, it raises ''questions for a judge and jury that could not be more important.'' As an ongoing story for television, however, it has been deficient. History may be in the making in Federal Court in Manhattan, but not much of it has been seen on the evening news. Obviously, television has one great disadvantage here: Cameras are not allowed in the courtroom. At the same time, it might not make much difference if they were. No matter how important, a libel trial is not visually gripping. If cameras were allowed, they would probably be used to show random moments of passion: General Westmoreland or the opposing attorneys, say, glowering or indignant.
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Calibrating Rewards for Poland Put aside for the moment the ugly news from Poland about police violence against Solidarity demonstrators and suspicions of Government complicity in the murder of an outspoken priest. The Reagan Administration is right to ease further United States sanctions against Poland and to end its opposition to Polish membership in the International Monetary Fund.
Date: 18 December 1984
Sanctions sometimes must be invoked for moral purposes, without real hope of influencing conduct. But at other times they can in fact function as limited incentives.
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Party's Paper Betrays Confusion in Ideology
Date: 17 December 1984
The extent of confusion over China's ideology was highlighted inadvertently by People's Daily a short time ago. A front-page editorial in the Communist Party organ asserted that ''one cannot expect the works of Marx and Lenin written in their time to solve today's problems,'' implying that the thinking of both Communist giants was thoroughy outmoded.
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Topics ; Wondering Eyes ; DasherUsually it is an older sibling who brings the bad news about Santa Claus - and he in turn got it from the same kid who told him the unvarnished truth about where babies come from. The latter revelation, being greeted with a disbelief that can last well into adolescence, is easier to accept.
Date: 18 December 1984
Imagine, then, the wails of the toddlers in a Burlington, Vt., shopping mall who got the message from a grownup driven by stringent religious conviction.
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MILITARY MISSION OF SPACE SHUTTLE TO BE KEPT SECRET
Date: 18 December 1984
By John Noble Wilford
John Wilford
Extraordinary measures will be taken to protect the secrecy of the next space shuttle mission, scheduled for launching Jan. 23, the Defense Department announced yesterday. The shuttle flight will be the first devoted exclusively to military operations. Brig. Gen. Richard Abel of the Air Force said at a news briefing in Washington that the action was designed to ''deny our adversaries'' knowledge of the precise launching time and any information on the payload being carried by the space shuttle Discovery. He indicated that similarly strict secrecy would apply to all future military shuttle missions.
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Toronto Board, Amex Plan Tie The American Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock
Date: 18 December 1984
Exchange are scheduled to disclose plans this morning to develop an electronic link between their two trading floors. In announcing the news conference, the two exchanges said yesterday that they ''aim to enhance liquidity and broaden the list of key Canadian and United States issues available for trading on both exchanges.'' A pilot program could start early next year, they said.
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Publisher Is Appointed For Elle's U.S. Edition
Date: 18 December 1984
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
-year-old ad director of Conde Nast's Glamour magazine, has been named publisher of the American version of Elle magazine, the English-language rendition of the French favorite that is scheduled to begin monthly publications here next September.
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