Replaying torsdag 28 juli 1983

THE LIMITS FOR LIBEL

Date: 29 July 1983

By Martin Garbus

Martin Garbus

In reducing a jury award to Carol Burnett in her libel suit against The National Enquirer, a California Appellate Court has provided welcome relief from the inhibiting effects of major libel verdicts against news organizations. The press should be free to write about public figures without threat of a financially debilitating libel suit. Anything less than total freedom will lead inexorably to self-censorship, which is nearly as effective as official censorship. The jury in the Burnett case originally awarded $1.6 million for a 1976 story that said the actress was intoxicated at a Washington restaurant, had a loud argument with Henry A. Kissinger and spilled wine on another diner. The trial judge reduced the award to $800,000, and this month the Appellate Court further reduced the award to $200,000.

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VIEWER POLL CITED IN SEX BIAS CASE

Date: 28 July 1983

AP

A woman who filed suit over losing a television news anchor job testified today that she experienced emotional problems after her boss told her that an audience survey showed that viewers considered her too old, too unattractive and not deferential to men. The woman, Christine Craft, said during a trial here: ''I'm a very strong person, but I'm vulnerable just like anyone else. It's hard to be told those things. For about six months, I was very selfconscious. I felt sometimes like putting a bag over my head.''

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IRANIAN TROOPS TAKE REPORTERS INTO IRAQ

Date: 28 July 1983

Reuters

A cluster of artillery shells hit the high ground above a northern Iraqi village Tuesday as reporters accompanied by Iranian officers watched from nearby military positions. The officers, who were conducting a tour to show that Iran had penetrated Iraq, said the positions were about five miles inside Iraq overlooking the village of Rayat. The front, they said, was four miles deeper into Iraq in a valley that runs west from the Iranian-Iraqi border through Kurdish mountains.

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News Analysis

Date: 28 July 1983

By Philip Taubman, Special To the New York Times

Philip Taubman

President Reagan's repeated references in his news conference Tuesday to the Soviet Union and Cuba as key sources of unrest in Central America reflected growing frustration over the reaction to his policy at home. As the White House sees it, the public, Congress and the press have failed to appreciate the serious threat posed by Soviet and Cuban interference in the region. It was no accident, Administration officials said today, that Mr. Reagan returned several times at the news conference to the theme. At one point, he ascribed the trouble in Central America to ''revolution exported from the Soviet Union and from Cuba and from others of their allies.'' Later he said, ''If you go to the source'' of violence in the region, ''I think you're talking about the Soviet Union.'' But many legislators continued to express confusion and dissent today over the President's stated policy. The House Speaker, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., was sharply critical of Mr. Reagan's defense of his policy at the news conference, calling the President's performance inept and ill-informed.

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News Analysis

Date: 29 July 1983

By John Holusha, Special To the New York Times

John Holusha

The collapse of the early contracts talks between the United Automobile Workers and the Chrysler Corporation appears to have been caused by a misperception on both sides about the critical issue on the table, which was money. The union, to judge from the comments of Owen F. Bieber, the U.A.W. president, saw regaining wage parity with workers at the General Motors Corporation and the Ford Motor Company as a moral issue, something Chrysler workers simply deserved for the sacrifices they made to save their company. ''I want the world to remember that it was the Chrysler workers who took an actual cut in pay - they took $1.15 an hour out of their paychecks back in January 1981 to help save this corporation,'' Mr. Bieber said. ''We came here to talk about money that was catch-up money for the workers who had previously given it up.''

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News Analysis

Date: 28 July 1983

By Barbara Crossette, Special To the New York Times

Barbara Crossette

In a speech here Tuesday summarizing the accomplishments of his 25 years in power, Fidel Castro seemed to play down Cuban ties to the Soviet Union. ''Not in the past, not now or ever have we made decisions at a cost to others or expected others to fight for us,'' the Cuban leader said. A Cuban journalist, analyzing the remark later, suggested it was a message to those who believed that the Soviet Union, Cuba's economic underwriter, was also responsible for the defense of Cuba and its military involvement abroad. The crowd listening to the President applauded most enthusiastically at such references to the country's self-reliance. Mr. Castro dwelt on what he said was an ''atmosphere of terror'' the United States was trying to create around Nicaragua, asserting it was seeking to deploy troops in Central America through military maneuvers now beginning in the region. He made no direct reference to the role of the Soviet Union in Cuba's development until he came to a series of fraternal greetings at the end of his speech.

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News Analysis

Date: 28 July 1983

By Robert A. Bennett

Robert Bennett

Ever since the nation's beginning, big banks have been unpopular in Congress and have often been the objects of Congressional wrath. This tradition lives on. Today the battle is over whether the United States should ''bail out'' its biggest banks by lending $8.4 billion to the International Monetary Fund. Under a bill backed by the Administration and the leadership of both major parties, the United States contribution would be part of a $43 billion increase in the quotas of the I.M.F.'s member nations. The I.M.F. would relend these new resources to countries that cannot pay their foreign debts. A substantial portion of those debts is owed to major American banks.

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Amsterdam News Gets Labor Pact

Date: 29 July 1983

Employees at The New York Amsterdam News ratified a new contract yesterday, ending a strike against the black weekly that began Feb. 1.

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News Summary; THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1983

Date: 28 July 1983

International Gunmen identified as Armenians stormed the Turkish Ambassador's residence in Lisbon and, after keeping policemen at bay with gunfire for 90 minutes, blew up the building. Seven people died in the terrorist attack -five gunmen, a hostage and a policeman who had entered the buiding during the siege. (Page A1, Column 5.) Fifteen Jews made a pilgrimage from the United States and three other countries to England to pay honor to the woman who rescued them from Germany on the eve of World War II. They came thousands of miles to thank Dorothy de Rothschild, their 88-year-old benefactor. (A1:1-3.)

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A JUDGE WHO LIKES ACTION

Date: 29 July 1983

Special to the New York Times

In nearly 34 years on the Federal bench, Irving R. Kaufman has rarely been content to be just a judge. The Commission on Organized Crime announced here today is the latest of a long list of panels and commissions Judge Kaufman has headed or served on. At the age of 73, he has unflagging energy. There had been speculation that because of the post on the commission he would give up his active seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and assume the reduced workload of a senior Federal judge. Some of his judicial colleagues even had private bets with one another on whether Judge Kaufman would ''go senior,'' thus opening up a Second Circuit seat to be filled by the Reagan Administration.

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