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20th of August 1981 News
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TURNER STARTS 2D NEWS REPORT
Date: 20 August 1981
By Tony Schwartz
Tony Schwartz
Ted Turner, the Atlanta entrepreneur who last year launched the Cable News Network, a 24-hour news service for cable systems, is planning a second news network aimed at competing with a similar service announced last week by Westinghouse and ABC. A source close to Mr. Turner said that the new network is ''90 percent certain'' and that the only stumbling block is the capacity to secure a transponder on a satellite, so that the service can be transmitted to cable systems across the country. Mr. Turner was attending meetings yesterday and could not be reached for comment. The new network, which Mr. Turner hopes to announce at a news conference in Boston on Monday, would offer a revolving 30-minute ''wheel'' of news headlines, with five minutes turned over each halfhour to individual cable systems that chose to present a local news insert.
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BEFORE PLANE BATTLE, LIBYA ASSAILED U.S. OVER ITS MANEUVERS
Date: 20 August 1981
The Libyan press agency said Tuesday that American naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Sidra had exposed ''the nature and reality of American aggressive intentions'' against Libya. The broadcast by the Jamahiriya News Agency was made hours before the reported battle between two Navy jets and two Soviet-built Libyan fighters over the Gulf early yesterday.
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Subpoenas to Press and TV Withdrawn by Flight Agency
Date: 20 August 1981
UPI
Upi
The Federal Aviation Administration today suddenly withdrew subpoenas issued to 74 Northwestern newspapers and television stations requesting pictures of striking air traffic controllers. The subpoenas, issued by the agency's Northwest regional office in Seattle, were withdrawn only hours after editors received them under orders from agency officials in Washington, D.C.
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BRADY STABLE AFTER OPERATION TO HALT LEAK OF SPINAL FLUID
Date: 21 August 1981
AP
James S. Brady, the White House press secretary, was reported coherent and ''chattering away'' today after nearly three hours of surgery in which doctors found and patched a leak that was letting spinal fluid escape from his braincavity, which had been damaged by a bullet. It was Mr. Brady's fourth major operation since he was shot in the March 30 assassination attempt against President Reagan, and a medical spokesman said he appeared to have tolerated it quite well. He was listed by the hospital as being in good condition, and his vital signs were termed stable.
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News Analysis
Date: 21 August 1981
By Paul Goldberger
Paul Goldberger
When the Battery Park City Authority announced plans this week for the latest phase of housing construction on its 92-acre landfill site in the Hudson River, it took pains to describe the complex it would build as something apart from conventional housing projects. In fact, the authority went so far as to say that its intention was to create a project at the site in lower Manhattan that would not look like modern high-rise housing at all, but instead would resemble the ''older and more established neighborhoods'' of New York City. Though no part of this phase of Battery Park City's housing has yet been built and architects have not even been selected, the announcement was nevertheless a significant event in the history of publicly assisted housing. The preference of the Battery Park City Authority for the sort of apartment buildings and town houses that have filled the streets of New York since early in this century - and not for a set of isolated towers sitting in a row -marks a major step in the movement away from the modernist principles that guided virtually all large-scale housing design for generations.
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News Analysis
Date: 21 August 1981
By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times
Bernard Gwertzman
Reagan Administration officials said today that their decision to hold naval exercises in waters claimed by Libya was intended to affirm the right of free passage in international waters and not continue to allow even the appearance of letting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi set the rules. The possibility of an air clash, such as the one that occurred yesterday with the reported downing of two Libyan fighters, was not regarded as inevitable, nor was it considered out of the question, several officials said. But they said that because President Carter refused to allow American planes to fly over the Gulf of Sidra during similar exercises last year, there was considerable pressure from the Navy not to allow a precedent to be set. In 1973 Colonel Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, established a line across the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra as a ''base line,'' south of which Libya claimed as its internal waters. The American officials said that almost yearly since then, American planes and warships had crossed that line. But last year, because of the crisis over the American hostages in Iran, and because of a desire not to cause unnecessary agitation in the region, Mr. Carter did not permit American air or naval craft to go farther south than three miles north of the line.
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News Analysis
Date: 20 August 1981
By Frank Lynn
Frank Lynn
''It was absolutely a shot in the dark,'' an aide to City Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin said in explaining why the Comptroller had asked his Democratic primary rival, Assemblyman John C. Dearie, to disclose his income-tax returns. The aide, Steven Matthews, said that the Goldin camp had no idea that Mr. Dearie had filed his returns up to two years late in four of the last six years when the Comptroller challenged him in a radio debate three weeks ago. Mr. Goldin has seized on the disclosure to counter in their debates Mr. Dearie's questioning of Mr. Goldin's integrity in connection with the awarding of contracts for bus-stop shelters in the city. The Comptroller's actions were criticized by the city's Department of Investigation.
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THE NEWS LETS UNIONS ORDER AN OUTSIDE AUDIT
Date: 20 August 1981
The Daily News said yesterday that it would open its financial records to an accounting concern selected by its unions and would form an advisory committee of union and management representatives to look at some of the problems facing the tabloid. George E. McDonald, the head of the Allied Printing Trades Council, which is composed of 10 of the 11 unions at The News, praised the arrangement as a way of assuring that ''honest'' information on the paper's difficulties would be available.
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News Summary; THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1981
Date: 20 August 1981
International Two Navy jets downed two Libyan jets about 60 miles from the Libyan coast after being fired on by one of the Soviet-built Libyan SU-22's, the United States announced. Officials said that the one-minute dog fight occurred in the final hours of a two-day United States Navy exercise in the southern Mediterranean and the northern part of the Gulf of Sidra. The gulf is a broad body of water claimed by Libya as part of its terroritial waters but regarded by the United States as international waters. (Page A1, Column 6.) Libya accused the United States of ''international terrorism'' as a result of the air clash over the Mediterranean, which it described as ''aggression.'' Libya's official press agency asserted that one United States jet had been shot down, a statement that Washington denied. (A1:4-5.)
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News Summary; FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1981
Date: 21 August 1981
International The Navy maneuvers off Libya this week were planned to show that the United States was not honoring Libya's territorial claim to the Gulf of Sidra in the southern Mediterranean, President Reagan said. The maneuvers preceded an incident in which the United States said it had shot down two Libyan fighters that had fired on American jets. But Mr. Reagan denied that the exercises about 60 miles from the Libyan coast had been designed to provoke an incident or to threaten the Libyan regime. (Page A1, Column 6.) Oil company executives discounted the possibility that Libya would retaliate for the downing of the two jets. However, the officials expressed concern about the safety of the 1,500 American citizens living in Libya, and Exxon announced that all dependents of its employees there were being evacuated. (A11:1-2.)
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