22nd of September 1981 News
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BRINKLEY SIGNS 4-YEAR ABC CONTRACT
Date: 23 September 1981
By Tony Schwartz
Tony Schwartz
David Brinkley, who suddenly quit NBC News two weeks ago after 38 years with the network, confirmed yesterday that he had signed a four-year contract with ABC News to anchor a new hourlong Sunday morning news program, play a major role in ABC's political coverage and work on news specials. At a news c onference attended by friends of Mr. Brinkley, including for mer Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, the designer Molly Parnis and former Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, Roone Arledge , president of ABC News and Sports, announced that ''This Week W ith David Brinkley,'' an expanded version of ''Issues and Answers,' ' would make its debut Nov. 15. Describing Mr. Brinkley as ''one of the two or three gigantic figures in broadcasting history,'' Mr. Arledge said, ''We are overjoyed that someone of David Brinkley's stature is going to join ABC News.'' Documentary on Roosevelt The expanded program, partly a response to CBS's success with ''Sunday Morning,'' will include a hard-news segment, interviews with newsmakers and an analytic summation at the end of each program. Mr. Brinkley will also begin work on a documentary about Franklin D. Roosevelt, to be broadcast in January on the 100th anniversary of the President's birth.
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U.S. REPORTER IN CHINA GETS OFFICIAL WARNING
Date: 22 September 1981
By James P. Sterba, Special To the New York Times
James Sterba
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused a Washington Post reporter today of defying Government regulations in reporting a dissident's purported account of his imprisonment in a Peking jail and a provincial labor camp. It was the strongest admonition issued to a member of the foreign press here si nce American journalists were allowed to open newsgathering offices here two and a half years ago. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Michael Weisskopf, The Post's Peking correspondent, had violated Article XII of provisional regulations adopted by the State Council in May regulating foreign journalists in China. The article states that ''The journalistic activities of resident correspondents shall not go beyond the limit of normal news coverage.'' Until today, that limit had not been defined.
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News Analysis
Date: 22 September 1981
By David Margolick
David Margolick
The legal wrangle that culminated in yesterday's ruling overturning Governor Carey's cancellation of a rugby game involving the South African Springboks brings up a constitutional issue not previously addressed by the courts: whether an ostensibly apolitical sporting event is protected by the right to free speech. Only when that question is resolved, scholars say, can the courts engage in the more traditional balancing act between the First Amendment's protection and the need to maintain public order that the Springbok case presents. No one seems quite sure of the political views of the various Springbok players, whose tour of the United States has sparked bitter protests from opponents of apartheid in South Africa. But according to a friend-of-the-court brief filed yesterday by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the players' preferences are secondary. The union's attorneys asserted that the controversy surrounding the tour ha itself turned the game into a political event, thereby cloaking it in the broad protections of the First Amendment.
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News Analysis
Date: 22 September 1981
By Charles Mohr, Special To the New York Times
Charles Mohr
Because there is now little doubt that President Reagan's proposal to sell $8.5 billion in air defense materiel to Saudi Arabia is in significant difficulty in Congress, the Administration is confronted by a number of unappealing choices. Last week, even the Republican leader of the House said there seemed to be no question that the House would veto the proposed package, which includes the sale of five Airborne Warning and Control System planes, called Awacs. The Saudis would also get advanced airto-air missiles, flight-extending fuel tanks for F-15 fighters and other equipment. Last week, 50 members of the Senate, 18 of them Republicans, agreed to cosponsor a resolution of disapproval. A Republican senator later withdrew from that list, but his staff said he was ''leaning against'' the sale.
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News Summary; TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1981
Date: 22 September 1981
International Moscow stepped up warnings to Poles by giving wide publicity to an open letter from Soviet workers that invoked the Soviet and Polish Governments' obligations under the Warsaw Pact to defend Communism ''against any encroachment.'' Meanwhile, Pravda alluded to the situation in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and in Hungary in 1956, when Soviet troops crushed efforts for liberalization. (Page A1, Column 6.) Polish union locals defied Moscow, characterizing a warning letter issued last week as interference in Poland's internal affairs. A Polish official said that the union was becoming a political opposition. (A12:3-5.)
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News Summary; WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1981
Date: 23 September 1981
International Moscow accused Washington of promoting a nuclear arms race to counter what it termed a nonexistent Soviet threat. In a stern 75-minute address before the United Nations General Assembly, Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister, assailed United States policy around the world. (Page A1, Column 1.) Hopes for Soviet-American comity were expressed by President Reagan in a letter to Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, on the eve of talks in New York between Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Foreign Minister Gromyko. (A1:2.)
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American to Offer Fixed-Fare Passes
Date: 22 September 1981
American Airlines, in a marketing bid aimed squarely at the industry's cherished business customer, announced yesterday that it would offer fixed-cost flight passes for periods from five years up to a lifetime. American said that the various options in the plan, called ''AAirpass,'' include passes good for 2 5,000 coach miles a year for 5, 10 or 15 years, at a cost of $19,900, $39, 500 and $58,900, respectively, and a lifetime ticket for peopl e 52 and older allowing 25,000 miles of travel a year for a one-time charge of $66,000.
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Economic Scene; Wall Street In Wonderland
Date: 23 September 1981
By Leonard Silk
Leonard Silk
''IN another moment,'' Lewis Carroll wrote, ''Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind. 'So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room,' thought Alice: 'warmer, in fact, because there'll be no one here to scold me away from the fire. Oh, what fun it'll be when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!' '' Deeply wounded by the scolding of the Man in the Oval Office for not responding more enthusiastically to his benefactions, Wall Street has gone through the looking glass into a world where everything is topsy-turvy.
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Japan Sets Oil Stockpile Rise
Date: 23 September 1981
Reuters
The Japanese Government has decided to increase its floating crude oil stockpile by 30 percent through purchases from privately held stocks in Japan, the International Trade and Industry Ministry said today. A ministry spokesman said at a news conference that the official stockpile, held in idle tankers, would be increased by 22.01 million barrels, to 69.18 million barrels, enough to cover the nation's needs for almost 18 days.
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Sports People; Gerulaitis Suspended
Date: 23 September 1981
Vitas Gerulaitis has been suspended from the Volvo Grand Prix tennis circuit for 21 days for minor-offense fines accumulated over the last year. Gerulaitis has been fined a total of $5,800, including an assessment of $2,000 during the United States Open for abusing a fan during his fourth-round victory over Ivan Lendl, for verbal ly abusing an of ficial during his semifinal-round loss to John McEnroe and for missi ng a news conference. M. Marshall Happer, the administrator of the International Professional Tennis Council, also said that on a recommendation by Keith Johnson, the Grand Prix supervisor, h e had begun an investigation to determine if Gerulaitis should be cha rged with a major offense of aggravated behavior under the players' code of conduct.
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