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8th of December 1983 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 8 december 1983
COMPANY NEWS
Date: 09 December 1983
U. S. Steel Warns Of Plant Closings PITTSBURGH, Dec. 8 (AP) - The United States Steel Corporation is warning some 4,700 employees at plants in five states that their jobs could be eliminated if they do not agree to further contract concessions. A company spokesman, David Higie, said today that, in letters to the workers, U.S. Steel said its competitive disadvantage on labor costs might result in shutdowns of all or parts of the Cuyahoga Works near Cleveland; South Works in Chicago; Fairfield Works near Birmingham, Ala.; Johnstown Works in Johnstown, Pa., and Trenton Works in Trenton.
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PBS HEAD IS NAMED PRESIDENT OF NBC NEWS
Date: 08 December 1983
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
Lawrence K. Grossman, president of the Public Broadcasting Service for the last eight years, was named president of NBC News yesterday. Mr. Grossman will assume his position next May, thus becoming the fifth president of NBC's news division in seven years. He will succeed Reuven Frank, who has had the job since March 1982. ''The decision to leave PBS was very hard,'' said Mr. Grossman, who is 52 years old. In the PBS post he earned $80,000 a year. ''There is an extraordinary future for public television. But running the news division at NBC is an incredible opportunity.''
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PENTAGON AIDE VOWS PRESS PLAN
Date: 09 December 1983
AP
The new head of public relations for the Pentagon said today that he would like to arrange for news agency reporters to cover future United States military actions from the moment they begin. Michael I. Burch, referring to The Associated Press and United Press International, said, ''I'd like to call in the bureau chiefs for AP and UPI'' and ask for a reporter from each to cover the story from the outset. Mr. Burch, who has been Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs for two weeks, said he hoped he could have a plan in place ''within weeks'' to provide for a few journalists to be present during any future limited military operations.
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AN AUTHOR IS ACCUSED OF PLAGIARIZING RECIPES
Date: 08 December 1983
By Marian Burros
Marian Burros
Richard Nelson, a cooking teacher and author of ''Richard Nelson's American Cooking,'' published in October, has been accused in a newspaper article of plagiarizing a substantial number of recipes from at least two different cookbooks. James Beard, who wrote the foreword to Mr. Nelson's book, said yesterday in a telephone interview that Mr. Nelson had also appropriated some of his recipes. Mr. Nelson studied under Mr. Beard and worked for him for several years. Mr. Beard said he had written the foreword before he had seen the recipes ''because Richard has always been very good to me.''
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WEST BANK CENSORSHIP
Date: 08 December 1983
To the Editor: In his Dec. 1 Op-Ed article, ''Israel's West Bank,'' Robert Morgenthau states that West Bank Arabs ''enjoy freedom of the press.'' This will come as startling news to Arab newspaper editors on the West Bank, all of whom have to submit all material intended for publication to Israeli censors.
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ST. LOUIS PAPER'S OWNER TO START SALE TALKS
Date: 08 December 1983
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
The Newhouse newspaper chain, under pressure from the Justice Department to try to keep The St. Louis Globe-Democrat from closing, said yesterday that it was willing to start negotiations with three possible buyers. ''We are not at all reluctant to negotiate,'' said William H. Willis, a lawyer for the newspaper company, But he said none of the three were ready to start talks and ''I'm somewhat pessimistic about whether they have the financial backing'' to keep the paper going. The potential buyers were found by the Justice Department after Newhouse announced it intended to close the paper at the end of the year because of growing losses. The chain had not looked for a buyer on its own.
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4 ALLIES PLEDGE TO KEEP FORCES IN BEIRUT AREA
Date: 09 December 1983
By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times
Bernard Gwertzman
The United States and the three other countries in the multinational force in Lebanon said today that they would remain there indefinitely to press for a broadly based Lebanese Government and the withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian forces. The Americans appeared relieved at the allied show of support because the tactics worked out last week with Israel and with the Lebanese Government were conditioned in part on a firm Western presence in Lebanon. In Washington, the Marine Corps Commandant, Gen. Paul X. Kelley, said he was ''optimistic'' that the Marine unit could be withdrawn early next year. But a Marine spokesman and Government officials said no decisions had been made. (Page A14.)
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SOVIET WON'T SET A DATE TO RESUME STRATEGIC TALKS
Date: 09 December 1983
By Frank J. Prial
Frank Prial
Texts of statements, Page A16. GENEVA, Dec. 8 - The current round of American-Soviet talks on limiting strategic nuclear arms ended here today with the Russians refusing to set a date for resumption. The Soviet delegation said it felt compelled ''to re-examine all the issues'' in view of the deployment of new American medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. That deployment has brought about ''a change in the overall strategic situation,'' the Soviet statement said.
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MARINE CHIEF OPTIMISTIC ON BEIRUT WITHDRAWAL
Date: 09 December 1983
The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Paul X. Kelley, said today that he was optimistic that the Marine Amphibious Unit in Beirut could be withdrawn from Lebanon early next year. General Kelley was the first senior military officer to indicate that a time and plan for total withdrawal of the 1,600 marines ashore was under active consideration. A Marine Corps spokesman and Administration officials emphasized, however, that no decisions have been made. President Reagan, asked in a brief news conference this afternoon whether the marines would be moved away from the Beirut airport, said, ''There has been some talk for a long time about a change in assignment there and that still goes on.''
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A HERO'S WELCOME FOR BEIRUT TROOPS
Date: 08 December 1983
By William E. Schmidt, Special To the New York Times
William Schmidt
Greeted with tears of joy and relief, 1,800 marines and sailors, the survivors of a unit that lost more than 200 men to a bomb attack in Beirut, came home today to a rousing hero's welcome. High school bands played, children gathered on street corners to wave American flags and thousands of yellow ribbons were tied to billboards, trees, telephone poles and automobile antennas. The cheers from hundreds of friends, relatives and onlookers began in nearby Morehead City, where the marines disembarked from the Navy ships that had brought them from Lebanon. ''To be back home still feels like a dream to me,'' said Lance Cpl. Michael Cerniglia of Schenectady, N.Y., after greeting his family at Camp Lejeune. ''It is just so good to be back alive.''
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