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'TICKET TO SEOUL,' JOURNALISTS' FREE TRIP

Date: 16 May 1985

By Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

WHEN Kenneth Ellis, a producer at KQED, a public television station in San Francisco, was invited to a two-week, all-expenses-paid trip to Asia by the World Media Association, an arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, he asked himself, ''Why would the Moonies take journalists to Asia?'' So, Mr. Ellis relates in a rather self-satisified way at the outset of ''Ticket to Seoul,'' he decided to go on the trip but pay his own way. The documentary, on Channel 13 tonight at 10 o'clock on the ''Intercom'' series, is the result. The tour took Mr. Ellis and a cameraman to a refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border for Cambodians on the run from their Vietnam-controlled regime; to the Phillipines, where we hear from opponents of the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos as well as its supporters; to Taiwan, where we witness signs of industrial activity and military readiness; to Tokyo, where Mr. Ellis surmises that he wasn't invited to see Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone because ''we had declared our ideological independence by paying our own way,'' and finally to South Korea and the demilitarized zone, where the camera plays on a North Korean soldier whose hand keeps fidgeting in the vicinity of his holster.

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Equal Restraints on Prosecution and Defense Are Inappropriate

Date: 15 May 1985

To the Editor: The proposition in Robert B. McKay's letter of May 3, urging that criminal cases be resolved in the courtrooms, not the press, is, taken by itself, unarguable. Decrying the tendency of adversaries to seek pretrial and trial publicity, the president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York properly notes the constitutional limitations on enforcing a policy of prior restraints on speech. However, by not distinguishing between the roles of prosecutor and defense counsel, he fails to recognize that equal restraints are inappropriate.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 16 May 1985

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1985 International Summit details are not settled, according to Secretary of State George P. Shultz. He told reporters abroad his plane en route back to Washington after a meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko in Vienna that the two sides had not agreed where and when President Reagan might meet with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. [Page A1, Column 1.] The Senate approved foreign aid totaling $12.8 billion by an overwhelming majority after agreeing not to take up the issue of aid to insurgents fighting the Nicaraguan Government. [A13:1-3.]

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 15 May 1985

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1985 International Jean Dubuffet, the French artist, died in Paris. He was 83. Widely regarded as the most important artist to emerge from France at the end of World War II, Mr. Dubuffet had a international reputation as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and pioneer of idiosyncratic media of his own devising. He was best known in New York for the 43-foot-high ''Group of Four Trees.'' [Page A1, Cols. 2-4.] Three witnesses saw Josef Mengele, the German death camp doctor, in Paraguay as late as last July, according to Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi-hunter. Mr. Wiesenthal said the latest confirmed sighting occurred in a province in southeast Paraguay. According to previous accounts, Dr. Mengele was last sighted in 1983 in Chile and in Brazil. [A3:1-3.]

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But Will It Still Be Tax Reform?

Date: 16 May 1985

There's a great spate of news about President Reagan's tax reform plan these days, except it's not news at all. It's trial balloons and speculation, yet enough to warrant a News of the Leaks in Review. What's happening, and can it be taken seriously? The bewildered reader can try applying four tests to the reports.

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U.S.I.A. OFFICIAL IS NAMED

Date: 15 May 1985

UPI

Upi

President Reagan announced the appointment today of Marvin Stone, a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, as deputy director of the United States Information Agency to succeed Leslie Lenkowsky.

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All the Tea in China: Price Soars by 400%

Date: 15 May 1985

AP

The price of tea in China has soared up to 400 percent this year because an abnormally cold and rainy spring seriously cut production, the Government reported today. The official New China News Agency said tea bushes in Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces, the country's main producing regions, sprouted late because of the weather, and picking was delayed.

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Dunston Sent Down

Date: 16 May 1985

Shawon Dunston, the 22-year-old, Brooklyn-born rookie who got off to a jittery start after winning the Chicago Cubs' shortstop job over the veteran Larry Bowa, has been sent to the minors. Dallas Green, the general manager, and Jim Frey, the manager, gave Dunston the news Tuesday night after he watched from the bench as the Cubs beat the Dodgers, 8-3, in Los Angeles.

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BANKERS TRUST CUTS PRIME RATE

Date: 16 May 1985

By Nicholas D. Kristof

Nicholas

The Bankers Trust Company cut its prime lending rate yesterday by half a percentage point, to 10 percent. The move, which analysts expect other major banks to follow soon, means that the prime rate will be at its lowest level since 1978. This should provide a boost to the economy and make it easier for many businesses and debtor nations to repay their loans.

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Here Comes William Lucas

Date: 15 May 1985

By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr

James Clarity

The Republican Party is predictably unwilling to let the dramatic shift in political allegiance of a prominent black Democratic official be celebrated exclusively in his home city of Detroit. William Lucas, the Wayne County executive who became a Republican a week ago, comes to Washington today to begin a two-day total publicity immersion that is designed to encourage further such Democratic defections around the country and to burnish his own political prospects as well.

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