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Date: 22 December 1986
International A3-20 China lashed out at protesters, accusing them of trying to ''disrupt stability and unity'' and ''derange production and social order.'' As many as 50,000 protesters flooded a Shanghai square. Page A1 A tradition of activism in China ranks among the most venerated forces for social change. In both style and timing, current protests can be traced to a similar outbreak 51 years ago.
Date: 23 December 1986
International A3-15 The President considered pardoning Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter and Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North in hopes that they would tell what they knew about Iran, but then rejected the idea, the White House said. Page A1 Canada said it had no entry record for the son of the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, who was reported to have fled there with $6 million in commissions from Washington's secret arms deals with Iran. A14 Iran said an Iraqi air raid killed more than 100 people in the western town of Eslamabad-e Gharb, and it announced an extension of its reprisal shelling of military and economic targets inside Iraq.
Date: 23 December 1986
Turf writers are a clannish lot, their racing world and the rest of life joined as one.
Date: 22 December 1986
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
November new product introductions into supermarket and drug stores was 230, according to the DFS Dorland New Products News. That was an increase from the 225 in the same month last year. That brings the total for the first 11 months of the year to 2,327, compared with 2,031 in the 1985 period.
Date: 22 December 1986
By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr
Wayne King
Even on Capitol Hill, the old order changeth. In the next Congress, women will function as press secretaries for both the Senate majority leader and the Speaker of the House.
Date: 23 December 1986
AP
The Zambian Government said today that it was deporting a correspondent for The Associated Press, John Edlin, on immigration charges, but that the proceedings had bogged down in paperwork, the reporter's lawyer said. The lawyer, Solly Patel, said in a telephone conversation from Lusaka, Zambia, that immigration officials told him this morning that they had begun procedures to expel Mr. Edlin, but that the paperwork was not finished and ''may take a while.''
Date: 22 December 1986
AP
John Dahlsen, the chairman of Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., Australia's biggest media concern, said Friday that the Australian financier Robert Holmes a Court was considering making a bid to acquire the company.
Date: 22 December 1986
Special to the New York Times
The South African authorities have further tightened reporting restrictions on three anti-Government newspapers. The measures, as well as some of the nation's violence, seem to focus on an anti-apartheid campaign called Christmas Against the Emergency. It is a 10-day protest supposed to include candlelit vigils and a consumer boycott to promote demands including the release of political detainees.
Date: 22 December 1986
By Reginald Stewart
Reginald Stewart
THERE will be no shortage of groups pressing for immediate attention to the Federal highway and mass transit program when Congress returns next month. The last Congress blocked the distribution of about $13 billion in funds to the states this fall for highway and bridge construction, after failing to agree on legislation to replace a surface transportation law that expired in September.
Date: 22 December 1986
By John Tagliabue, Special To the New York Times
John Tagliabue
A string of national and international incidents involving Swiss financial and business institutions have shaken assumptions about the country's traditional values of discretion and privacy. The Swiss, an intensely private people, have voted by comfortable majorities in recent years to stay out of the United Nations and to uphold their traditionally stringent financial secrecy laws. But recently much of the publicity for Switzerland has been bad. The latest incident involved the reported use of Swiss banks to funnel covert Iran arms payments to Nicaraguan rebels.