Replaying måndag 3 augusti 1981

K.G.B.'S EXPERTISE IN 'DISINFORMNG' THE WEST

Date: 04 August 1981

To the Editor: Mr. Rositzke, unknowingly perhaps, engages in a bit of ''disinformation'' of his own on K.G.B. operations when he doubts that Soviet disinformation activities in America's media exist or that they would serve any purpose if they did. v. ho are the ''reliable Soviet sources'' referred to sometimes in newspaper reports, from Moscow or in the West? What is the purpose of the activities of the Soviet foreign-publishing house, Novosti, and indeed of Tass correspondents in interviews with prominent Americans (especially scholars) if it isn't to disseminate various pieces of disinformation? A cardinal example of this was a New York Times interview, in August 1980, with General Milshtein, a former (or continuing) official of G.R.U. (military intelligence). In the interview, Milshtein denied that the Soviets ever advocated, for the consumption of their own soldier-readers of official military texts, a doctrine of winning and surviving a nuclear war.

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News Analysis

Date: 03 August 1981

By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times

Alan Riding

The death of Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera of Panama in a plane crash over the weekend has created a potentially dangerous power vacuum, with serious implications not only for his nation and the rest of the convulsed Central American isthmus, but also for the United States, which still has some 10,000 troops stationed in the country to protect the Panama Canal. This is because, although General Torrijos stepped down as head of the Panamanian Government three years ago, handed over formal power to a civilian president and became something of a recluse who rarely spoke or appeared in public, he remained the principal guarantor of the country's political stability. General Torrijos's formal power flowed from the country's 9,000-strong National Guard, which he had headed since ousting President Arnulfo Arias Madrid in a coup Oct. 11, 1968. But his survival in power for nearly 13 years was due more to acute political instincts that enabled him to keep his enemies permanently off balance without resorting to harsh repression.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1981

Date: 04 August 1981

International A Warsaw protest over food shortages turned into a confrontation between the Polish authorities and the Solidarity labor union. The police halted a column of buses and trucks bearing flags and placards in the center of the capital and the independent union's spokesman warned that if force was used to break up the demonstration, an immediate strike would be called. (Page A1, Columns 1-2.) An accord on a Sinai peace force was signed by Egypt and Israel. The agreement establishes a 2,500-member international force in the peninsula to police the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. The United States will provide nearly half of the force. (A1:1.)

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News Summary; MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1981

Date: 03 August 1981

International A military meeting in Warsaw was reported to have been held by Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski and senior commanders, a day after Poland's Communist Party sharply warned the independent trade union Solidarity about the danger of new strikes and demonstrations over food shortages. The official announcement of the meeting of the military leaders said it was called ''in connection with the increasingly unfavorable and dangerous phenomena within the country's internal situation.'' (Page 1, Col. 1.) The U.S. appeared to be willing for the first time to participate in a global round of talks at the United Nations on the economic problems affecting the third world. A preliminary meeting over the weekend in Cancun, Mexico, set the agenda for a meeting there in October between the leaders of the leading industrialized nations and 14 developing countries. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. indicated that while the the Reagan Administration was giving priority to strengthening the American economy, it was ''impossible'' to wait for an American economic recovery before dealing with the questions of international cooperation. (1:1-3.)

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OPERA: SANTA FE REVIVES HINDEMITH 'NEWS OF DAY'

Date: 04 August 1981

By Donal Henahan

Donal Henahan

act opera ''News of the Day,'' which was first performed in Berlin in 1929, was revived Saturday night by the Santa Fe Opera. John Crosby's enterprising company, which gave the work its American premiere in 1961 with the composer conducting, staged it again in 1964. In New York, ''News of the Day'' was most recently heard in 1979 at the Manhattan School of Music, which Mr. Crosby heads, and it apparently enchanted some critics. Well, tastes in musical humor do differ. It is possible that Hindemith's heavyhanded attempts at parodying his contemporaries, including Weill, Strauss and Korngold, might provide a fleeting snicker or two. It is possible, even likely, that some listeners might be amused to hear Hindemith putting to work in the service of humor his formidable ability to compose textbook canons and fugues. If you are interested in Hindemith, ''News of the Day'' is as interesting as most of his music, which is hearty, banal stuff whether he is being serious or trying to commit jokes.

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MILITANT CONTROLLER CHIEF: ROBERT EDMOND POLI

Date: 04 August 1981

By Jonathan Fuerbringer, Special To the New York Times

Jonathan Fuerbringer

Robert E. Poli, the union president who has taken the nation's air controllers out on strike, had to fight his way to the job where he would challenge the Reagan Administration and face the possibility of being sent to jail and fined thousands of dollars. To reach the top of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, Mr. Poli (pronounced POH-lye) pulled off something of a coup early last year, leaving a friend and former union president, John Leyden, out of a job. Both Mr. Poli, then executive vice president of the organization, and Mr. Leyden resigned at a union executive board meeting in Chicago in a policy dispute that revolved, in part, around complaints that Mr. Leyden had not been militant enough in his negotiations with the Government. The board accepted Mr. Leyden's resignation but refused to accept Mr. Poli's. He took over as interim president and was elected to a full, three-year term in April 1980.

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High Levels of DDT Reported in South Texas

Date: 03 August 1981

UPI

Upi

Despite a ban on DDT in both the United States and Mexico, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency has found concentrations of the deadly pesticide in drinking water in southern Texas, The Dallas Morning News reported today. Experts said that they considered the find ''a significant threat to public health'' and believed the chemical was coming from Mexico.

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WILLIAM C. KREGER

Date: 03 August 1981

William C. Kreger, senior assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, died Saturday at his home in Summit, N.J., apparently of a heart attack. He was 56 years old.

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Curfew Eased in West India

Date: 03 August 1981

AP

Authorities relaxed a round-the-clock curfew for three hours today in the western town of Godhra, where three people were killed and eight injured in Moslem-Hindu rioting, the United News of India reported. The agency said that armed police units marched through city streets in shows of strength on the day after the violence, which arose as a result of construction of stalls in the community's main bazaar. Godhra is about 280 miles northeast of Bombay.

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EAST GERMANS URGED TO REVOLT

Date: 03 August 1981

UPI

Upi

East German dissidents have issued bold demands for democratic rights and called on East Germans to rebel against their Communist leaders, the West German news magazine Der Spiegel said today. The magazine printed what it said was a copy of a leaflet circulating in East Berlin that accuses East German leaders of ''resisting democratic renewal by force'' and demands the ''basic democratic rights'' of free speech, assembly and association.

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