5th of November 1981 News
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JERSEY ELECTION POSED PROBLEMS FOR TV NEWS UNITS
Date: 05 November 1981
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
The chief of polling operations for CBS News said yesterday that ''I sure made a mistake somewhere.'' That mistake led WCBS-TV to announce incorrectly at 8 P.M. Tuesday that Representative James J. Florio had been elected Governor of New Jersey. The news director for the station said, hovever, that ''no one was hurt'' by the error and defended the editorial decision to call the election result on the basis of a survey of 6,700 voters as they left the voting booths. The closeness of the race posed problems for many news organizations. Facing deadlines and competitive pressures, they wanted to be able to report the result before, as it turned out, there was one.
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Vietnam Veteran Takes 6 Captive at Newspaper
Date: 05 November 1981
AP
A Vietnam War veteran took six newspaper employees hostage at gunpoint today, saying he was angry over continued news media attention to the former American hostages in Iran while his fellow veterans were ignored. No one was injured in the incident at Muncie Newspapers Inc., which occurred on the second anniversary of the seizing of the United States Embassy in Iran.
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Serby Charges Todd
Date: 06 November 1981
Richard Todd, the Jet quarterback, was formally charged with assault yesterday by Steve Serby, the New York Post reporter whom Todd had injured the day before by shoving him into a locker and then to the ground.
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Notes on People; Cagney to Be Honored by Journalists
Date: 05 November 1981
By Albin Krebs and Robert Mcg. Thomas
Albin Krebs
His first job was as a copy boy on The New York Sun, he's made half a dozen appearances as a newspaper reporter over the years and now James Cagney will finally get a press card. The New York Press Club has decided to do better than that.
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JETS' TODD ROUGHS UP REPORTER
Date: 05 November 1981
By Gerald Eskenazi, Special To the New York Times
Gerald Eskenazi
Richard Todd, the Jets' quarterback, injured a reporter for The New York Post today by shoving him into a locker and then to the floor during the pre-practice time allotted for interviews at the team's camp here. The reporter, Steve Serby, was treated at the Nassau County Medical Center for facial injuries, then released. The incident occurred in a half-empty locker room, with many of the players already on the field. Todd, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 205 pounds, several times had asked Mr. Serby, who said he is 5-8 and 152, to leave. When the reporter did not, Todd grabbed him by the throat, knocking his head into a locker, then shoving him to the floor.
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LA PRENSA'S LISTS
Date: 05 November 1981
To the Editor: In Oct. 27, The Times published a statement by Jacobo Timerman in which he refers to the protests sent by Argentine publishers and journalists because this year he was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, an inter-American journalism award. ''They never invested the same amount of energy and time to do something to publicize the names of the missing people,'' said Mr. Timerman.
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News Anaylsis
Date: 05 November 1981
By Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer
Despite predictably partisan differences in explaining the immediate meaning of Tuesday's elections around the country, professionals in both parties found at least two important messages in the results, and each of them contained a warning for the Republicans. The first is that money is not enough. From the gubernatorial race in Virginia to the Houston mayoral contest, and in referendums in one state after another, the big-spending side lost. Even though politicians often proclaim that ''money is the mother's milk of politics,'' the side that spends the most does not always win. What was unusual Tuesday is that it almost always lost.
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News Analysis
Date: 06 November 1981
By Philip M. Boffey, Special To the New York Times
Philip
The acquittal of Elvis Presley's doctor today followed a month of testimony touching on issues significant far beyond the confines of a small, modern courtroom in Memphis. Dr. George Nichopoulos, a white-haired 54-year-old internist with an extensive family practice, was found not guilty of charges that he criminally overprescribed large quantities of stimulants, sedatives and painkillers to Mr. Presley, the country-western singer Jerry Lee Lewis and seven others. The jury unanimously concluded that the doctor had made a goodfaith effort to help difficult patients. The defense had contended that he was a ''good Samaritan'' who got into trouble only because he helped desperate patients that other doctors shunned. The jury was not persuaded by several doctors' testimony that, in their opinion, Dr. Nichopoulos prescribed addictive drugs too readily, sometimes in excessive quantities and in patterns that some experts consider improper.
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COMPANY NEWS
Date: 05 November 1981
Special to the New York Times
Directors of the Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Company today recommended that the company's minority shareholders accept a merger proposal, valued at more than $1 billion, announced last night by the company's 52.9 percent owner, Dome Petroleum Ltd., of Calgary, Alberta. Under the proposal, which has the support of the Hudson's Bay Company of Winnipeg, Manitoba, owner of 10.1 percent of the shares, Dome would offer one preferred share in a Dome subsidiary, plus a warrant to purchase one and a third more shares, for each share of Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas. Wilfred Gobert, oil analyst with Peters & Company in Calgary, said today that the proposal had a potential value of $1.13 billion (Canadian).
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News Analysis
Date: 06 November 1981
By Jonathan Fuerbringer, Special To the New York Times
Jonathan Fuerbringer
The struggle within the Reagan Administration for the President's favor on economic policy is pitting the budget balancers against the supply-side advocates. Regardless of the outcome, the all-out debate has already provoked doubts, even within the Administration's highest councils, over whether the Reagan economic program can work. In pushing for tax increases of about $80 billion over three years, David A. Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget and an advocate of balancing the Federal budget, is implicitly acknowledging that the original Reagan economic program cannot work. This program assumed that, with large domestic spending cuts, there could be at the same time big military spending increases, large tax cuts, a balanced budget by 1984 and strong economic growth.
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