Replaying torsdag 1 december 1983

CRIMINAL JUSTICE CHIEF

Date: 01 December 1983

By Edward A. Gargan

Edward Gargan

''Criminal justice is a little bit like arms control,'' said Kenneth Conboy, sitting in his 14th-floor office of Police Headquarters. ''It's an area of enormous complexity. It's an area riven with fears.'' For the 45-year-old Mr. Conboy, who was named the city's new criminal justice coordinator by Mayor Koch yesterday, learning how to wade through those complexities and allay that fear will become a fulltime job Jan. 1. He succeeds John F. Keenan, who resigned in October to take a seat on the Federal Court for the Southern District. When Mr. Conboy is sworn in, he will be the Mayor's eyes and ears on criminal justice matters, his negotiator with district attorneys and the state and a mediator among the competing political forces that swirl around the administration of justice in New York City.

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PRESS GROUPS ASK TALKS ON COMBAT COVERAGE

Date: 02 December 1983

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

After several weeks of intensive legal research and debate about the Reagan Administration's curbs on news coverage of the invasion of Grenada, a group of major national press organizations has decided to try to negotiate with the Pentagon and the White House over procedures for access to combat zones. The press organizations had originally considered suing Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger but, after a meeting Wednesday in Washington, they said their research had convinced them the suit could easily fail and might thereby set a precedent for even tighter restrictions. The group also intends to begin a campaign to explain to the general public why the press thinks it must be present to observe and report on combat. American reporters were barred from Grenada in the first two days of military action, were given limited access for four days and were ultimately allowed unrestricted travel on the island.

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THE MEDIA LEARN A LESSON

Date: 02 December 1983

By Richard M. Clurman

Richard

Didanyone care that the press was prevented from witnessing the invasion of Grenada? Certainly the press did. When they were kept from landing with the troops, the news media, from the most pipsqueak to the most prestigious, cried, ''Foul!'' They confidently asserted their historic rights, and reminded all of Thomas Jefferson's famous epigram: ''were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.'' Even President Reagan was moved enough by the uproar to appoint a special commission.

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NEWSPAPERS SEE RISE OF 14% IN AD REVENUES

Date: 01 December 1983

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

Newspapers expect advertising revenues to increase more than 14 percent in 1983, which would be the largest annual growth since 1976. Their total ad revenues are projected at more than $20 billion for this year. Higher advertising revenues are also expected in other advertising media - television, radio, magazines and direct mail. The gains are especially welcome to the newspaper industry because the third quarter of last year was one of the worst ever for advertising sales growth.

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TEST AT ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT: U.S. ROLE, IF ANY, IN SAVING NEWSPAPERS

Date: 01 December 1983

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

NewsAnalysis The planned closing of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is providing a test of what role, if any, the Federal Government should play in saving newspapers, which historically have asserted a constitutional right to be independent of the Government. Three weeks ago The Globe-Democrat announced that it was losing so much money that it would have to close at the end of the year. This set off a hasty search for a buyer who would keep the paper going, a familiar routine in an industry that has seen daily newspapers die in Washington, Philadelphia, Cleveland and a host of smaller cities. The Government is involved in St. Louis because The Globe-Democrat and The Post-Dispatch share printing and sales operations, as well as profits or losses, under a special exemption to Federal antitrust laws, the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970.

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HOPE FOR BRITISH PRESS SETTLEMENT FADES

Date: 01 December 1983

By Barnaby J. Feder

Barnaby Feder

Hopes for any immediate solution to the labor dispute that shut down Britain's national newspapers over the weekend seemed to have disappeared today. Abandoning any talk of negotiations for the moment, Selim Shah, the publisher of six free-circulation newspapers in the Manchester area, today continued this week's press run at his nonunion plant in Warrington behind a wall of police protection as union leaders called for thousands of pickets to block delivery of the papers. On Tuesday night in Warrington, a crowd that the police said reached 4,000 around midnight surrounded the one- story, steel-sided printing plant and engaged in frequent shoving matches with upwards of 1,200 policemen. Some bottles and bricks were thrown.

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REAGAN REPORTED TO AGREE ON STEPS TO REPEL MISSILES

Date: 01 December 1983

By Francis X. Clines, Special To the New York Times

Francis Clines

President Reagan and his senior national security advisers agreed in principle today to proceed with the development of weapons capable of repelling nuclear attacks by destroying incoming missiles, according to an Administration official. The official said, however, that Mr. Reagan had not yet made key decisions on the kind of technology, the level of financing for next year and other aspects of the proposal. He first advanced it last March, creating an immediate furor. Mr. Reagan was said to be leaning against the recommendation of some members of Congress that the United States should embark on a program to deploy defensive weapons quickly.

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FRENCH WARY ON CLOSER TIE TO NATO

Date: 01 December 1983

By John Vinocur

John Vinocur

The creation of a French Rapid Action Force for use in Europe has led to discussion of practical steps to reintegrate military activities into NATO planning. It has also led to heightened French sensitivity about the broadened military relationship with the Atlantic alliance. It was disclosed that Gen. Charles de Llamby, commander of the First Army, stationed in eastern France and West Germany, was privately reprimanded for saying he began talks with the allies in mid-November on the logistical support NATO armies would offer the Rapid Action Force if it should be used in Central Europe. General de Llamby said the discussions involved ''the possibilities and procedures for action'' by the unit - likened in conception to the United States' rapid deployment forces - and the possible pre-positioning of weapons and helicopters for it in West Germany.

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KOHL AGAINST HALT IN MISSILE PLANS

Date: 02 December 1983

By James M. Markham

James

Chancellor Helmut Kohl said today that he favored adhering to the deployment schedule for American medium-range missiles in Western Europe in order to persuade the Soviet Union to return to the suspended Geneva talks on those missiles. ''I am not in favor of acting as though a decision has not been made,'' said Mr. Kohl, responding to the suggestion that there should be a pause in deployment to encourage the Russians to negotiate anew. ''It will impress the Soviet Union that we stick to our word.'' On Nov. 22 the West German Parliament approved stationing the missiles in Germany. Today, in his first interview since then, the Chancellor said he had answered a recent letter from Yuri V. Andropov, the Soviet leader, by repeating that the West was interested in a resumption of the Geneva talks and expressing regret that Moscow had not responded to American proposals for an arms accord.

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EMBATTLED ECONOMIC ADVISER: MARTIN S. FELDSTEIN

Date: 02 December 1983

By Peter T. Kilborn

Peter Kilborn

Few American economists of his age - 44 last week - could have brought as rich a reputation to the chairmanship of the Council of Economic Advisers as Martin S. Feldstein did last year, and few of his predecessors have brought more criticism from his employers in the White House. The sniping took on an unusually nasty edge Wednesday, generating widespread speculation that Mr. Feldstein would have to resign. The President's spokesman, Larry Speakes, joked about Mr. Feldstein's limited role in policy making and even mocked the pronunciation of the man's name, alternating between ''Feld-STINE,'' which the economist prefers, and ''Feld- STEEN,'' which many members of the White House staff tend to use. It is differences over tone and style as well as the substance of economic policy that divide Mr. Feldstein from the White House and Donald T. Regan's Treasury Department. All sides agree that Federal budget deficits are a problem, and all allow that taxes might have to be raised to lower the deficits. Mr. Feldstein, however, has been talking more about Mr. Reagan's cuts in taxes and increases in military spending as components of the deficit than have other Administration officers, and most of the Administration wishes he would not.

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