21 december 1986 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 354e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Ronald Reagan.
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Date: 22 December 1986
International A3-20 China lashed out at protesters, accusing them of trying to ''disrupt stability and unity'' and ''derange production and social order.'' As many as 50,000 protesters flooded a Shanghai square. Page A1 A tradition of activism in China ranks among the most venerated forces for social change. In both style and timing, current protests can be traced to a similar outbreak 51 years ago.
Date: 21 December 1986
International 30,000 Chinese students protested for democracy and press freedom in Shanghai, according to foreigners who saw the students' demonstrations, the largest since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Page 1 Two prominent Republicans differ in their views about President Reagan's handling of the Iranian arms crisis. Vice President Bush said the idea that he and the President would ''stay down'' is ''complete nonsense.'' But Senator Bob Dole said the President had not yet convinced the public that he had done all he could to get at the truth. #1 Panama companies are used as foils, enabling their foreign owners to do business anywhere in the world anonymously and tax-free. Three such companies were linked to the Iran arms deals last week. #20 Triad America may be near collapse. The Utah-based investment corporation is owned by Adnan M. Khashoggi, the Saudi businessman who played a key role in financing the American arms sales to Iran. #20 Andrei D. Sakharov, in an interview, said he planned to continue advocating human rights when he returns to Moscow after nearly seven years of internal exile. He said he made no promise to curb his public activities. #1 A more flexible human rights policy in the Soviet Union and an acknowledgment that treatment of dissidents affects other issues are reflected in the decision to let Dr. Sakharov return to Moscow, Western diplomats said. #14 A jailed Soviet dissident's notes, reportedly smuggled out of the country, say that he has been in solitary confinement for almost three years and and a hunger strike for more than two years.
Date: 21 December 1986
By David G. Shaffer
David Shaffer
Last August, when a deranged postal worker went on a shooting spree in Edmond, Okla., a nearby television station drove its satellite news-gathering van to the scene and fed live reports the same day to 19 other stations around the country. More recently, on some local evening news programs it has become a common occurence to see a non-network reporter, standing in front of the White House, reporting live on the latest development in the Iran arms affair. He then says goodnight to the local television anchor and signs off. In the old days, such events weren't covered in these ways. Television viewers would have to wait for the network evening news to hear about a domestic story of widespread interest or an international development like the Iran controversy. But new satellite technology and portable transmission equipment have made it possible for stations in places like Indianapolis, Phoenix, Tampa and Minneapolis to report live directly from Washington or just about anywhere else. The technology has altered a basic rule of broadcast journalism: the networks covered national and international developments and local stations covered local events.
Date: 22 December 1986
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
November new product introductions into supermarket and drug stores was 230, according to the DFS Dorland New Products News. That was an increase from the 225 in the same month last year. That brings the total for the first 11 months of the year to 2,327, compared with 2,031 in the 1985 period.
Date: 22 December 1986
By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr
Wayne King
Even on Capitol Hill, the old order changeth. In the next Congress, women will function as press secretaries for both the Senate majority leader and the Speaker of the House.
Date: 21 December 1986
By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr
Wayne King
Reporters covering the closed hearings of the Senate Intelligence Committee, staked out all day in the second-floor corridor of the Hart Office Building, are improving their meager diet. Earlier, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, a committee member, twice sent them pizza for lunch.
Date: 21 December 1986
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
SOUTH AFRICA'S black majority has long been used to being told what it may not do - hold public meetings, for example, or vote on national affairs. But under the newest tightening of emergency rules, blacks and other dissenters were also told what they may not refuse to do - patronize stores, accept the draft, go to school or use the buses that provide apartheid's umbilical link between white-run cities and black labor in the townships. Under regulations imposed Dec. 11, such activities, their incitement or press reporting of them became ''subversive'' - punishable by maximum fines of $9,000 and up to 10 years in jail. Resistance was outlawed, and the residual channels of peaceful protest seemed closed.
Date: 22 December 1986
AP
John Dahlsen, the chairman of Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., Australia's biggest media concern, said Friday that the Australian financier Robert Holmes a Court was considering making a bid to acquire the company.
Date: 22 December 1986
Special to the New York Times
The South African authorities have further tightened reporting restrictions on three anti-Government newspapers. The measures, as well as some of the nation's violence, seem to focus on an anti-apartheid campaign called Christmas Against the Emergency. It is a 10-day protest supposed to include candlelit vigils and a consumer boycott to promote demands including the release of political detainees.
Date: 21 December 1986
By Philip Taubman
Philip Taubman
FREEDOM from exile for the dissident physicist Andrei D. Sakharov. The end of the Soviet nuclear testing moratorium. The ouster of a non-Russian Politburo member and the open reporting of a subsequent anti-Russian riot in Soviet Central Asia. These extraordinary events last week reflected the growing power and boldness of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, although the Soviet leader was invisible most of the week. The rapid-fire developments seemed to distill in an usually clear way some of the major themes of Mr. Gorbachev's first 20 months in office, including his efforts to enhance Moscow's image, give its diplomacy a new look, induce greater domestic candor and reshuffle the leadership.