27th of October 1981 News
الأخبار كما ظهرت في الصفحة الأولى لصحيفة نيويورك تايمز في ٢٧ أكتوبر ١٩٨١
FIRST FILM AND PRESS FESTIVAL OPENS IN STRASBOURG
Date: 28 October 1981
By Frank J. Prial, Special To the New York Times
Frank Prial
Against a backdrop of some 30 feature and documentary films dealing with the news and with journalists, film makers and newsmen are meeting here for a week to explore the relationship between their two crafts. Participating in this First International Festival of the Film and the Press are such American directors as Sidney Lumet and Michael Cimino along with editors, publishers and television and newspaper reporters from all over the world. Does television express the horror of war - or make it banal? Do Hollywood films such as ''Network'' and ''All the President's Men'' explain and interpret the news business or romanticize and distort it? Are films about current events objective? Are newspapers objective? These are among the issues to be argued here by some 300 journalists and film people at the Strasbourg Convention Hall through Saturday.
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Greek Publisher Is Freed From Prison
Date: 28 October 1981
Special to the New York Times
A Greek newspaper publisher, sentenced to two years in prison for accusing former Prime Minister George Rallis of involvement in financial corruption, was released today pending his appeal before the Supreme Court.
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Date: 27 October 1981
DENVER, Oct. 26 (AP) - Three men won reinstatement of a $69,500 libel judgment against The Greeley Daily Tribune when the state Supreme Court ruled today that many ''facts'' in an article implying an exchange of favors by public officials were ''essentially fabrications.'' The 5-to-2 decision reinstated a district court jury award to Leon Kuhn, Peter A. Morrell and Richard K. Wright from the Tribune-Republican Company and a reporter, John Seelmeyer.
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Maria Moors Cabot Prizes Presented
Date: 28 October 1981
By Albin Krebs and Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr
Albin Krebs
The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for distinguished contributions to the advancement of inter-American understanding were presented yesterday at a convocation in Low Memorial Library of Columbia University. The winners of the prizes this year are Karen DeYoung, foreign editor of The Washington Post; Marlise Simons, a correspondent for The Post, Newsweek and the Dutch newspaper Handelsblad; and Jacobo Timerman, former editor of the Buenos Aires newspaper La Opinion.
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News Analysis
Date: 28 October 1981
By Edward B. Fiske
Edward
The decision this week by an appellate court that the New York State system of financing public education was ''constitutionally defective'' came seven years after the case was originally brought by the town fathers of Levittown, L.I. At issue is not only the potential redistribution of billions of dollars of state funds but also a potential clash between the judicial and legislative branches of government. It could easily take at least another seven years before the full impact is felt. The ruling by a four-judge panel of the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn held that the current system of financing public education, which relies heavily on local property taxes, violated the State Constitution by discrimination against school districts with low property values and by failing to take into account the exceptional needs of large urban school districts. The decision Monday upheld a lower court ruling by Justice L. Kingsley Smith in a case brought in 1974 by Levittown and 25 other moderately large districts and joined by New York City, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse. It is the latest in a series of similar decisions in nearly a dozen states since 1971. Given the importance of the issue, it is expected that State Attorney General Robert Abrams will appeal the decision to the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.
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News Analysis
Date: 28 October 1981
By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times
Hedrick Smith
For President Reagan, the crucial Senate vote tomorrow on his proposed arms sale to Saudi Arabia offers an opportunity to revive his leadership image during a difficult time when he has lost the momentum of his Administration's early months. Although Mr. Reagan can ill afford the setback of a major defeat, he has risked his personal prestige heavily on the final effort to swing undecided senators to his side and has brought himself to the brink of victory on the eve of the vote. White House strategists have calculated that the outcome will have an impact not only on the President's conduct of foreign policy but also on the general perception in Washington of his influence with Congress in this second, more trying phase of his Presidency. ''There's more at stake here than the President's ability to conduct foreign policy,'' asserted James A. Baker 3d, the White House chief of staff, between calls to influential senators. ''A win here would really restore momentum to our overall efforts. A loss makes it tougher to get back the momentum that we had before the summer break.''
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News Analysis
Date: 28 October 1981
By Robert Pear, Special To the New York Times
Robert Pear
The most significant change that has been evolving in social welfare programs this year is not simply the reduction in Federal financing, but a basic shift in purpose and philosophy, separating the poorest people from the ''working poor'' and middle-income families. As Reagan Administration officials whittle away at ''entitlement'' programs and redefine the ''social safety net'' in the second round of budget cuts, they are searching for ways to distinguish the poorest of the poor, the ''truly needy,'' from lower-middle-class and middle-income families who have other means of support. The officials expect to announce their latest budget cutting proposals next week. Reductions in spending can always be made up by increased appropriations at a later date, but a change in eligibility rules or in the philosophy of a program is harder to reverse.
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News Analysis
Date: 27 October 1981
By Steven V. Roberts, Special To the New York Times
Steven Roberts
The farm-state coalition, which has long dictated agricultural policy on Capitol Hill, is cracking under budget pressures and political rivalries. Few political experts are ready to pronounce the coalition dead, but its problems were evident last week as the House passed the huge four-year farm bill that set price supports and loan guarantees for a wide variety of crops. ''The farm bill we are considering today,'' said Representative Don Albosta, Democrat of Michigan, ''is nowhere near as strong as it should be.'' Representative William C. Wampler of Virginia, ranking Republican on the Agriculture Committee, added, ''Everyone is feeling a lot of frustrations because of the budget cuts.''
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News Analysis
Date: 27 October 1981
By Robin Herman
Robin Herman
Throughout the last two years, and again last Tuesday, New York City has been prodded by court orders into providing decent shelter for its tens of thousands of homeless men - action the city insists it always intends to take, but not on the court's timetable. Finding shelter for the homeless has been an odious political task for the Koch administration, which has stepped slowly and gingerly in planning shelters in neighborhoods. Even the proposal of a shelter can spark community rage and fear, emotions in part fed by Mayor Koch's own statements about the neighborhood deterioration that vagrants can bring with them. Until now, the city had been able to confine the shelters to remote areas like Wards Island and some acreage in Orange County, as well as the traditional Bowery neighborhood. But last Tuesday, when the city - facing a sudden overflow of homeless men as the weather chilled - was ordered to open a new shelter immediately, the decision was taken out of its hands and the responsibility shared with the courts.
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MARY PELTZ, EDITOR OF OPERA NEWS
Date: 27 October 1981
By Edward Rothstein
Edward Rothstein
Mary Ellis Peltz, founder and former editor of The Opera News and archivist for the Metropolitan Opera, died Saturday at her New York home. She was 85 years old. Mrs. Peltz was asked in 1936 to be the first editor of the Metropolitan Opera Guild's publication by the late Eleanor Robson Belmont, the guild's founder. Under her editorship, which lasted until 1957, Opera News developed a circulation of 60,000.
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