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18th of May 1985 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 18 mei 1985
CONSERVATISM FINDS ITS TV VOICE
Date: 19 May 1985
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
The United States Government should overthrow the government in Nicaragua ''and we should try to do it openly.'' The Reagan Administration should ''tell all the Americans to get out of Libya and then specifically get the American oil companies out.'' The shooting of U. S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson by Soviet troops in East Berlin was ''murder'' that should prompt the Administration to demand ''some satisfaction or some penalty.'' Such vivid viewpoints are not what the millions of viewers of evening newscasts have been accustomed to hearing from network commentators. But that is the sort of opinion that viewers of ABC's ''World News Tonight'' have been listening to twice a week for the past eight months since the network appointed the conservative newspaper and magazine columnist George Will as commentator for the newscast. Mr. Will's arrival has been hailed by conservatives as the first opportunity for a bona fide thinker from among their ranks to have what William F. Buckley calls ''a presence in the room'' after years of dominance by what they regard as liberal opinion. But conservative viewpoints have been heard on ABC before; Howard K. Smith, for eight years a commentator on that network, was hawkish on matters of war and peace although liberal on some social issues.
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CITY'S MINORITY POLITICIANS FACE A RECOGNITION PROBLEM
Date: 19 May 1985
By Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts
When Laverne Patterson, a 38-year-old black woman from Queens, was asked to name the two or three most important white leaders in New York City, several names immediately came to mind: Mayor Koch, Governor Cuomo and Victor Gotbaum, who heads the largest municipal employee union. But when asked to identify a few black leaders, she could not summon a single one. ''I drew a blank,'' Mrs. Patterson, a city housing department supervisor, recalled. ''The only person, I guess, after I thought about it later, was Basil Paterson,'' she said, referring to the former deputy mayor and Secretary of State. ''I don't think there are many, and those that there are are not covered as well.''
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 19 May 1985
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1985 International Argentina froze all dollar accounts for 120 days in a move to stem the rapid increase of dollar withdrawals that began a week ago when the Government closed down the country's eighth largest bank. The freeze affects some $700 million to $1 billion in the banking system, banking sources said. [Page 1, Column 2.]
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 18 May 1985
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1985 International Washington will aid Jesse Jackson in his efforts to win the release of five Americans who have been abducted in Lebanon, the Reagan Administration said. But it reaffirmed its firm oppositon to meeting the kidnappers' demands. [Page 1, Column 4.] Sinn Fein has won seats on 17 of 26 district councils in local government elections in Northern Ireland. Among the victorious candidates of the political arm of the Irish Republican Army was Gerry Doherty, who was once convicted of setting off explosions for the I.R.A. [3:1-3.]
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TENTATIVE PACT IS ANNOUNCED ON CONTROL OF U.P.I.
Date: 18 May 1985
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
A tentative agreement aimed at ending arguments over control of United Press International and speeding its sale was announced today by officials of the news agency. The terms of the agreement are still subject to some negotiation, according to William Adler, a U.P.I. spokesman. He said it is to be signed Monday by Douglas F. Ruhe and William E. Geissler, principal owners of the news agency, and Luis G. Nogales, its chairman and chief executive officer. While the agreement will not be made public until it is signed, a source close to the negotiations said it called for Mr. Nogales and his management team to remain in day-to-day control of the news service.
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Nothing to Read
Date: 19 May 1985
New York City's school officials are elated over the latest annual reading test: 57 percent of pupils in grades 2 through 9 scored at or above the national median level, the best result in years. That good news, however, makes the bad news even more dismaying: School libraries have become abysmal.
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PATRICIA ANN DORADO WED TO WILLIAM MCANDREW JR.
Date: 19 May 1985
Patricia Ann Dorado, an account executive at Wyse Advertising, and William Robert McAndrew Jr., the news informastion manager for press and publicity at NBC, were married yesterday at the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
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Soviet Lets 166 Jews Leave
Date: 18 May 1985
AP
The number of Soviet Jews allowed to leave the Soviet Union in April climbed to 166, the highest monthly total in almost two years, a resettlement agency said today. The emigres arrived in Vienna and 66 moved on to Israel, according to a news release from the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration.
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NICARAGUAN OPPOSITION CHIEF ASSAILS U.S. TRADE EMBARGO
Date: 19 May 1985
Reuters
The Nicaraguan opposition leder, Arturo Jose Cruz, has criticized the United States trade embargo against Managua and called for an end to both United States and Soviet bloc aid to rebels in the region. ''Economic cooperation should be utilized, not suspended,'' Mr. Cruiz said at a news conference in reference to the trade embargo imposed on May 1 by President Reagan. Mr. Cruz resigned as Nicraguan Ambassador to Washington in 1982 after becoming disenchanted with the course of the Sandinista revolution, which toppled the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979.
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Ali in China
Date: 19 May 1985
Muhammad Ali performs his magic these days with cards and other props, but for a while last week the former heavyweight champion was back in the ring, to spar informally with some Chinese boxers during a stop in Peking. Mr. Ali, who is 43 years old, suffers from Parkinson's Syndrome, which sometimes causes his speech to be slurred and his body movements to be slowed. But dressed in gray slacks and a white shirt, he jabbed his way through five one-minute rounds at the Peking Physical Education Institute, part of an 11-day trip to China at the invitation of the Government. Later, he signaled the end of a news conference by yawning loudly, standing up and performing a magic trick for his enthusiastic Chinese audience.
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