Replay woensdag 2 september 1981

800 HEAR PEALE PRAISE LOWELL THOMAS

Date: 03 September 1981

By David Bird

David Bird

A funeral service for Lowell Thomas at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church yesterday drew 800 people, including former President Gerald R. Ford, Vice President Bush and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. ''In my book there was never anyone like him,'' said the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a lo ngtime friend who delivered the eulogy at the church, a t 51st Street and Park Avenue. Looking down from the pulpit at the gold-flecked coffin draped with the church's embroidered pall, Dr. Peale decribed the veteran newscaster as ''one of the most remarkable men of our time, or, indeed, of any time.'' Dr. Peale said that Mr. Thomas, who died at his estate in Pawling, N.Y., last Saturday at the age of 89, rose from humble beginnings in a ''personification of the Horatio Alger tradition.'' He said the broadcaster always had a desire to excel and to explore, and always cared for people.

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CHANGES EXPECTED IN REAGAN'S STAFF

Date: 03 September 1981

By Steven R. Weisman, Special To the New York Times

Steven Weisman

President Reagan plan s to make a series of changes in his political, press office and co mmunications operations soon after he returns here tomorrow from his month-long vacation in California, White House officials said today. The officials said the changes had been prompted by dissatisfaction with the press office operations and the need to find replacements for two top political aides who are leaving, Lyn Nofziger and Edward Rollins. Both Mr. Nofziger, assistant to the President for political affairs, and Mr. Rollins, his deputy, were described by knowledgeable aides as leaving partly because they were dissatisfied with what they viewed as a lack of support for their operations. Mr. Nofziger, for example, was reportedly upset that he was not given responsibility for the White House Communications Office, which instead was placed under David R. Gergen, the senior White House spokesman. The office is in charge of speechwriting, research and presentation of the Reagan program to the media.

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News Analysis

Date: 03 September 1981

By Jonathan Fuerbringer, Spe Cial To the New York Times

Jonathan Fuerbringer

President Reagan's economic recovery program, despite the successes of his first seven months, appears to be entering its most critical and vulnerable phase, both supporters and critics of the program are saying. Alan Greenspan, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and an influential outside adviser to the President, contends that the Administration now has no more than six months to convince the financial markets - mainly by making more budget cuts - that the Reagan program will work and bring down interest rates before the economy falls into severe trouble. In Mr. Greenspan's view, unless conditions change dramatically, the nation's thrift institutions can hold together only another six months. Mr. Greenspan, who also says he doubts the President can balance the Federal budget by 1984, says Mr. Reagan will have to persuade the already skeptical and stubborn financial markets that significant movement toward a balanced budget is enough progress to warrant confidence and lower interest rates.

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News Summary; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1981

Date: 03 September 1981

International Angola threatened again to call in its allies to help expel South African troops from its territory. The Marxist regime, whose allies include the Soviet Union and Cuba, assailed the United States for its veto Monday of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning South Africa and demand ing a withdrawal of its forces. (Page A1, Col umns 2-3.) Preliminary arms talks have begun between the United States and the Soviet Union on the issue of how to verify compliance with future accords, the State Department spokesman said. He confirmed that Eugene V. Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Aleksandr A. Bessmertnykh, the Soviet charge d'affaires in Washington, met on Aug. 21 to discuss limiting strategic nuclear weapons. (A1:1.)

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News of Music; MET OPERA GEARS UP FOR GALA 100TH

Date: 03 September 1981

By Peter G. Davis

Peter Davis

THE Metropolitan Opera's centenary celebrations are still two years in the future, but plans are already afoot to make the season of 1983-84 one that operagoers will never forget. The festivities will begin in mid-September 1983 with an opening-night revival of Berlioz's epical ''Les Troyens'' starring Placido Domingo as Aeneas. About a month later, on Oct. 22, 100 years to the day since the Met first opened its doors with a performance of ''Faust,'' there will be a gala concert, and operatic luminaries all over the world have been asked to reserve the date so that they may participate. The Met's anniversary will automatically inspire a tremendous amount of nostalgia about the company's glamorous vocal past. Fortunately, many great performances have been preserved on records and tapes. The ongoing series of historic Met broadcast releases, seven of which are now available through the Metropolitan Opera Guild, will offer a special anniversary album of six disks featuring excerpts from several memorable Saturday matinee broadcasts dating back to the 1930's.

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COMPANY NEWS; Sherwin-Williams, Gray Drug Plan Tie

Date: 02 September 1981

AP

The Sherwin-Williams Company and Gray Drug Stores Inc. said today that they have agreed to merge in a $54.8 million deal in which the paint and chemical concern would pay $21 a share for Gray Drug's outstanding common stock. Gray's chairman and chief executive officer, Jerome A. Weinberger, said that the board of the Cleveland-based company, which operates 362 drug and discount stores in the eastern United States, had recommended acceptance of the merger to shareholders. ''I think the offer is a fair price,'' he said.

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Wednesday, September 2, 1981

Date: 02 September 1981

INTERNATIONAL Iran announced the appointment of a provisional Prime Minister and a new leader for the ruling Islamic Republican Party to succeed officials killed in a bomb explosion Sunday. At least two more assassinations were reported in uneasy Teheran, and Ayatollah Khomeini urged his followers to exercise restraint. (Page A1, Column 1.) An oil accord was reached in Canada after long and bitter wrangling. The federal Government and Alberta, the chief petroleum-producing province, reached a five-year agreement that will permit Canadian oilprices to rise in stages. The energy-pricing fight has become a symbol of Canada's fractious federalism. (A1: 2.)

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Chinese Find Large Diamond

Date: 03 September 1981

AP

Miners in Shandong Province have discovered the second largest diamond ever found in China, a 124.27-carat stone, the New China News Agency said. The report did not say when the latest find was made or what would happen to the diamond.

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Armed Iowa Prisoners H old Hostages 11 Hours

Date: 03 September 1981

AP

Two small groups of inmates armed with sawed-off shotguns and homemade knives took 15 persons hostage today at the Iowa State Penitentiary, officials said. All the captives were eventually released unharmed, but a prisoner was found stabbed to death afterward.

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Multimedia Grows

Date: 03 September 1981

UPI

Upi

Multimedia Inc., owner of 13 daily newspapers including the Greenville News and Greenville Piedmont, said it has acquired the stock of a cable tel evision system in Medicine Lodge, Kan., for an undisclosed pric e. The system, Medicine Lodge CATV Inc., has about 1,050 subscribers and passes 2,700 homes. Multimedia owns other cable facilities in Kan sas, Oklahoma, Illinois and North Carolina with more than 130,000 sub scribers.

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