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24th of April 1985 News
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Dow Up 12.15 Despite Bearish News
Date: 24 April 1985
By John Crudele
John Crudele
With investors becoming more convinced that interest rates may be headed lower, Wall Street staged a technical rally that produced the biggest advance in stock prices in more than a month. The improvement came despite additional bad news on the economy, the Federal budget deficit and corporate profits. ''The bears threw everything they could at the market and couldn't do any damage,'' said Newton Zinder, an analyst with E.F. Hutton & Company. The Dow Jones industrial average, which has been trading in a tight range for several weeks, rose 12.15, to 1,278.71. It was the biggest jump since the blue-chip indicator climbed 21 points on March 19 because of a decline in the value of the dollar.
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RED CROSS TO ACT TO GUARD COMBAT REPORTERS
Date: 25 April 1985
Special to the New York Times
The International Committee of the Red Cross has agreed to examine new ways to help protect journalists during armed conflicts. The decision was made at the close of a two-day conference here today after sometimes contentious debate over the issue. The vice president of the Geneva-based agency, Maurice Aubert, said the Red Cross would examine its role in protecting reporters and consider a number of proposals, including a 24-hour ''hot line'' for news organizations seeking help for journalists wounded, injured or who become ill while covering hostilities. A report compiled for 1984 by the American Newspaper Publishers Association and presented to the conference listed 23 journalists killed, 81 wounded, 205 jailed or detained and 50 expelled, denied visas or work permits or restricted in their work.
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'SUNDAY IN PARK' AMONG WINNERS OF PULITZERS
Date: 25 April 1985
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
For ''Sunday in the Park With George,'' a daring modern musical based on a modernist painting, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine shared the Pulitzer Prize for drama yesterday. Alison Lurie won the prize in fiction for her seventh novel, ''Foreign Affairs,'' and Studs Terkel captured the nonfiction award for ''The Good War: An Oral History of World War II.'' In journalism, Newsday and The Philadelphia Inquirer both won two Pulitzers. And for the first time, there were two double awards: in investigative reporting and feature photography. The awards to celebrate American achievement, now in their 69th year, were announced at Columbia University by the school's president, Michael I. Sovern.
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Arbor Day
Date: 25 April 1985
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
There is not a big fuss about Arbor Day in Washington, but for those who care the National Park Service is planning a bit of ceremony.
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2 MORE OFFICERS CHARGED IN INQUIRY INTO TORTURE AT A QUEENS PRECINCT
Date: 25 April 1985
By Selwyn Raab
Selwyn Raab
Two more police officers were arrested and the entire top command of the 106th Precinct in Queens was ordered transferred last night amid new charges that prisoners there had been tortured with an electric stun gun. Earlier, Mayor Koch said he had asked Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d and other Federal officials to open a separate inquiry into the charges of brutality at the precinct station house, which is in Ozone Park. The arrests bring to four the number of officers arrested on assault charges and accused of jolting three prisoners with electric shocks from a hand-held stun gun. The prisoners said this week that they had been burned by the shocks and that they had been forced to confess to having sold marijuana. Lieutenant Is Suspended Police officials also suspended without pay a lieutenant in charge of guarding against brutality and corruption at the precinct.
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Advertising; Burroughs Centennial Campaign
Date: 24 April 1985
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
THE Burroughs Corporation, the country's third-largest computer maker, is celebrating its 100th anniversary in a most reserved manner. A new little logotype was created by Siegel & Gale and a new advertising campaign, by Penchina, Selkowitz. Really, not much more. Except for a single print ad, the logotype has not gone public yet. But that will happen tonight with the showing of one of two 30-second commercials that are intended to illustrate the corporation's new position, which was described by Steven M. Penchina, chairman and creative director of the agency, as ''the pre-eminent computer company in terms of cost-efficient systems for business.''
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Andre Kertesz Winner Of Photography Award
Date: 25 April 1985
The photographer Andre Kertesz and the artist David Hockney are among six recipients of awards given by the International Center of Photography for contributing ''toward preserving and communicating the images of man and his time.'' Mr. Kertesz, who is 90 years old, was given a master of photography award for his lifetime work. Mr. Hockney received an award for his use of photography in his artwork. Other recipients and their awards were Masaaki Miyazawa, for an emerging photographer; Alberto Venzago, for news photography; Robert Delpire, for photography in publishing, and Sarah Moon for advertising photography.
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A New Job?
Date: 25 April 1985
By Susan Heller Anderson and David W. Dunlap
Susan Anderson
After seven years as president of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Dr. Joshua L. Smith is believed to be the choice for a position of great national prominence: chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
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90-Day Tax Amnesty Is Signed by Governor
Date: 25 April 1985
People who have cheated on New York State taxes will have ''one last chance'' to pay up, Governor Cuomo said yesterday as he signed a series of bills to tighten tax enforcement. One of the measures provides a 90-day amnesty period in which tax evaders can pay up without penalty.
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Senator Objects to Trip
Date: 25 April 1985
By Shirley Christian, Special To the New York Times
Shirley Christian
A United States senator who voted against President Reagan's request for aid to the rebels said today that he would have voted in favor had he known of Mr. Ortega's planned trip. Senator Jim Sasser, a Tennessee Democrat, said it was ''an ill-timed and ill-advised trip which I think only serves to underscore the growing East-West conflict in Central America.''
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