Replaying lördag 23 augusti 1986

NEWS SUMMARY: SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1986

Date: 24 August 1986

International Praise for Zimbabwe and Zambia came from South Africa's six black-ruled neighbors for imposing sanctions against South Africa, but the six nations did not move as a group to impose similar sanctions. Instead, the so-called front-line nations issued what was viewed as an inconclusive communique Friday at the end of a meeting of heads of government in Luanda, Angola. [ Page 1, Column 6. ] The Korean airliner shot down by Russians in 1983 was not on an espionage mission, but Soviet forces, in a series of blunders, believed they were attacking an American reconnaisance flight, according to an article to be published by The Atlantic Monthly next month. The article is based on a review of American intelligence and on interviews with Soviet officials. It concludes that the plane's penetration of Soviet airspace resulted from navigational errors by the Korean Air Lines crew. [ 1:3. ] Three years of violence in Sri Lanka has uprooted more than 300,000 Sri Lankan Tamils, according to estimates by Government officials and human rights groups. Most of these uprooted ethnic Tamils, who make up Sri Lanka's largest minority population, are now displaced people in their own country, once South Asia's model of ethnic harmony, or in refugee camps in India. About 60,000 are in the West and Australia. [ 1:4. ] 50,000 Tamil refugees fled to Western Europe in the last five years. These mostly Hindu refugees fleeing a separatist insurgency in Sri Lanka are but one group who flee troubled third world nations for the welfare states of Western Europe.

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NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1986

Date: 23 August 1986

WORLD Soviet willingness to become part of the commerce and politics of Western business was indicated in an announcement in Moscow of a number of economic initiatives. Moscow said it was cutting oil exports to the West by 100,000 barrels a day, or about 6 percent, at the request of Iran, a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Western diplomats said it was a significant symbolic gesture of support for OPEC efforts to stabilize oil prices. Moscow also said it had applied for observer status at the next round of multilateral trade negotiations, scheduled to begin Sept. 15 in Uruguay. [ Page 1, Col. 4. ] Egypt frittered away its chance for basic economic and social change that peace with Israel had brought, Middle East experts agree. The country seems to be in more desperate shape than before it signed the treaty in 1979. [ 1:2-3. ]

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British Paper In Change

Date: 23 August 1986

Reuters

Eddie Shah, who led the revolution of Britain's newspaper industry with the first high-technology color national daily, has relinquished control of his troubled tabloid to its financial rescuers, sources at his newspaper said today. The sources, who asked not to be identified, said Mr. Shah returned from vacation on Thursday to sell his controlling interest in Today to Roland (Tiny) Rowland, head of the Lonrho Group, which owns The Observer, a prestigious Sunday newspaper.

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BRITISH URGE UNCLOAKING OF THEIR SECRETS ACT

Date: 24 August 1986

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

Francis Clines

Seventy-five years after the powers of British news reporters were considerably curtailed by the Official Secrets Act, a coalition of journalist, union and civic organizations are urging its repeal. The call, issued Monday, is based on a public-opinion poll showing that the public prefers far more access to Government information than exists in Britain. The Campaign for Freedom of Information, a private group representing 50 organizations, issued a poll concluding that 65 percent of the British public wanted greater access to information collected by the Government authorities, subject to reasonable safeguards for secrecy and privacy.

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BUSINESS DIGEST: SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1986

Date: 23 August 1986

Companies Norfolk Southern dropped its offer for Conrail. The railroad said it was withdrawing its $1.9 billion bid because of a six-month impasse in getting Congressional approval and its fears of the new tax bill. Conrail, the prime freight hauler in the Northeast, is 85 percent-owned by the Government. Transportation Secretary Dole said she would now consider a public stock offering. [ Page 1. ] Frontier will shut this weekend and file for bankruptcy Monday, a leader of the pilots union said he was told by a lawyer for People Express, which is trying to sell Frontier to United Airlines. Airline spokesmen did not confirm or deny the pilots' report. [ 29. ]

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ANSWERS TO QUIZ

Date: 23 August 1986

1. Tuna. 2. The Sudan. The population in the south, with a majority of Christians or animists, has long sought autonomy from the north, where Moslems, who comprise almost 75 percent of the nation's population, control the state apparatus. 3. Mark Rothko. 4. To repeal the deduction for state and local sales taxes. 5. Father Curran, a liberal theologian, said he would continue to teach Roman Catholic moral theology, despite the Vatican's ruling that he could no longer teach theology at the Catholic University of America. 6. President Reagan said that unless the Nicaraguan Government sought democracy, the ''only alternative'' for the rebels there would be ''to take over,'' a departure from previous statements against overthrowing the Sandinista Government. 7. Washington, D.C. 8. 25. 9. Bilingual teaching jobs. 10. Betting on horse races became legal in the state. 11. Operator errors. 12. Jim Kelly, the New Jersey Generals' quarterback, was signed by the Buffalo Bills to a five-year contract worth $7.5 million. 13. The Administration's order that the space agency get out of the commercial launching business marked the final abandonment of a 20-year struggle to run a space shuttle service that would pay for itself. 14. Paintings from the Museum of the Jeu de Paume will be transferred to the nearby Orsay Museum, a new exhibition space. 15. $10,000. 16. Santa Barbara repealed its ban on sleeping in public. 17. NBC. 18. Ice cream. 19. Israel and the Soviet Union. 20. 28 percent and 34 percent. 21.

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CATHOLICISM, DEMOCRACY AND THE CASE OF FATHER CURRAN

Date: 24 August 1986

By Ari L. Goldman

Ari Goldman

THE Vatican's censure last week of the Rev. Charles E. Curran was the latest, and probably the most dramatic, offensive in a long battle by Rome to keep the American Roman Catholic Church in line with Vatican teaching on sexual issues. In a letter written with the approval of Pope John Paul II, Father Curran was told that he was neither ''suitable nor eligible'' to continue teaching theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington. The step was taken, the letter said, because Father Curran has repeatedly challenged the church's absolute ban on artificial birth control, homosexuality, abortion, premarital sex and divorce. Father Curran has maintained that there are times when these acts can be morally justified - views that, according to public opinion polls, are shared by a majority of American Catholics.

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The Anchors

Date: 24 August 1986

I have watched all three of the network evening news programs (''The Anchors,'' by Alex S. Jones, July 27). Mr. Jones's article gave the reader an overall perspective of the complexities of the television news business (rather than presenting Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings in some kind of journalistic face-off).

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THE ANCHORS

Date: 24 August 1986

I don't care who reads the news as long as he speaks correctly, clearly and concisely.

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THE ANCHORS

Date: 24 August 1986

In Alex Jones's article, Dan Rather is portrayed as being chagrined by the recent fall of CBS News from the primacy of its ratings in past decades. Under Walter Cronkite, CBS flourished by providing the news without embellishment.

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