6th of December 1983 News
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CRONKITE NOW CRITICAL OF CBS NEWS
Date: 07 December 1983
By Peter Kerr
Peter Kerr
Walter Cronkite, who anchored the ''CBS Evening News'' for more than 18 years, is leveling criticism at his successors on the half-hour nightly news broadcast, saying the program has become more concerned with entertaining audiences and less committed to covering all the important stories of the day. ''My successors have a much different approach to news,'' Mr. Cronkite said in a recent interview in his New York office. The people responsible for producing ''CBS Evening News'' now attempt, he said, ''to lighten up the news, make it a little brighter. Perhaps they feel that they can't cover everything and therefore don't try,'' he said.
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KREMLIN AIDE SAYS US. IMPERILS TALKS ON STRATEGIC ARMS
Date: 06 December 1983
By John F. Burns, Special To the New York Times
John Burns
A Soviet official said today that the same American tactics that led the Russians to break off talks on medium-range nuclear weapons were now threatening the talks on intercontinental nuclear weapons. The official, Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, chief of the general staff, said that efforts by the United States to achieve military superiority were moving the talks on limiting strategic nuclear weapons ''in the same direction'' as the negotiations on medium-range weapons in Europe that were broken off by the Kremlin on Nov. 23. Another session of the strategic arms talks is scheduled Tuesday in Geneva, where the talks on medium-range arms were also held. Andropov's Health Is Discussed The warning of a possible breakdown in the talks on strategic weapons came at a news conference at which a senior Communist Party official made the fullest statement yet on the health of Yuri V. Andropov, the Soviet leader.
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NAVY STUNG BY CRITICISM, DEFENDS COST OF BOMBING RAID IN LEBANON
Date: 07 December 1983
By Richard Halloran, Special To the New York Times
Richard Halloran
A senior United States admiral said today that information about Syrian antiaircraft batteries in Lebanon was inadequate and American pilots encountered more intense fire than they expected during Sunday's bombing raid. The admiral, who declined to be identified, said in a briefing that this was among the reasons for the American losses. Two planes were shot down, one of them crashing into a Lebanese home, severely injuring a dozen civilians. A third plane was damaged but made it back to its carrier. One American airman was killed and another captured.
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SHULTZ ASKS SOVIET TO PRESS SYRIA NOT TO WIDEN CONFLICT IN LEBANON
Date: 06 December 1983
By Bernard Gwertzman
Bernard Gwertzman
News session excerpts, page A20. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 - Secretary of State George P. Shultz called on the Soviet Union today to use its influence with Syria ''to look at the Lebanon problem in a sensible way'' and not widen the conflict there. At a press conference in which virtually all questions were related to the American air attack on Syrian positions in Lebanon, Mr. Shultz was blunt in saying that ''we will defend ourselves'' if American reconnaissance planes are attacked again. But he said the American goal was to promote peace, not to enlarge the war.
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CRITICS IN CONGRESS DECLARE REAGAN IS HEADING FOR WAR
Date: 06 December 1983
By Steven V. Roberts
Steven Roberts
Critics of the Administration's Middle East policy in both parties expressed fears today that President Reagan was leading the country into war. They renewed calls for the removal of American troops from Lebanon. Supporters of Mr. Reagan argued that retaliatory air strikes ordered against Syrian positions over the weekend had been justified, to protect the Marine contingent based at the Beirut airport. But even these supporters worried openly that the intensifying battles in Lebanon could prove politically troublesome for the President and his fellow Republicans.
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BEFORE HIGH NOON
Date: 06 December 1983
By Mark A. Uhlig
Mark Uhlig
Virtually all arms control initiatives now under negotiation neglect the most fundamental truth of nuclear strategy: It is the quality, not the quantity, of nuclear weapons that determines the stability of the nuclear balance. Early arms control efforts sought to restrict both qualitative and quantitative improvements. Today, however, negotiations have come to focus almost exclusively on limiting the numbers of weapons, while far more important measures to halt improvements in the quality of those weapons have been quietly - and deliberately - laid aside. The dangers of this trend can hardly be overstated, because unlike the incremental risks posed by increases in the numbers of weapons, improvements in their quality are fast eroding the very foundations of the nuclear balance. Advances in missile guidance, anti-submarine warfare and other attack technologies are making possible a grave new offensive potential - the ability to destroy an adversary's own weapons and, thus, his capacity to strike back. This will remove the greatest deterrent to nuclear aggression: the threat of retaliation. By making nuclear war a winner-take-all contest, it will push superpower relations into a dark new age of acute instability in which aggression is rewarded and restraint is fatal.
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AIR POWER IN LEBANON: LIMITS TO EFFECTIVENESS
Date: 07 December 1983
By Drew Middleton
Drew Middleton
Military operations and intelligence specialists in Washington and other NATO capitals question whether bombing alone or in concert with naval gunfire will halt shelling of the Marines in Beirut. They also question whether such action will stifle missile and artillery antiaircraft fire against American reconnaissance planes. Although air forces have demonstrated their punitive power around the world since 1939, the orthodox military view is that only tanks and infantry can take, occupy and hold disputed ground. The attacks on Sunday by Navy bombers on a Syrian command and control center may have eliminated that target for the time being, officials said in interviews here today, but it can be rebuilt quickly and be operational again.
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A PHYSICIAN FOR VENEZUELA'S ILLS
Date: 06 December 1983
By James Lemoyne
James Lemoyne
Twenty-five years ago, when the exiled Jaime Lusinchi worked at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, a dictator ruled Venezuela and the young doctor was dedicated to his overthrow. Today, with democracy long restored in his homeland, the 59-year- old Mr. Lusinchi, as President-elect, is preparing to take over the reins of power. On Sunday he led the opposition Democratic Action Party to what may be the biggest electoral victory since Venezuela returned to democratic rule in 1958. Some would say that Mr. Lusinchi, a pediatrician, is not the most compelling public speaker, but he effectively blamed the Government of President Luis Herrera Campins for the country's deep economic recession and promised to end what Venezuelans have come to call La Crisis. 'A One-on-One Politician' Unofficial returns by two major television stations and the Democratic Action Party give Mr. Lusinchi 48 to 56 percent of the more than seven million votes cast, with 28 to 35 percent going to his main opponent, Rafael Caldera of the governing Social Christian Party. The official returns have yet to be announced.
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EXCERPTS FROM SHULTZ'S COMMENTS ON THE MIDEAST AT HIS NEWS CONFERENCE
Date: 06 December 1983
Following are excerpts from a transcript of Secretary of State George P. Shultz's news conference in Washington yesterday, as recorded by The New York Times: Q. Is the United States prepared to keep the marines in Beirut until there is a national reconciliation, until the Lebanese Government is able to assert its sovereignty? A. Well, we will work with the Lebanese Government so that it can create a broadly based government for itself, and we will work for the removal of all foreign forces so that Lebanon can be sovereign over all its territory. Precisely what tactical moves will implement that policy remains to be seen, but we intend to see this through with the Government of Lebanon. Risk of the Clashes Q. Mr. Secretary, in our recent clashes with the Syrians and other elements in Lebanon, don't these place us in the position of becoming a party to the conflict? Are we becoming the enemy to some elements who then want to attack us? A. Well, there are many who try to put us in that position, but that's certainly not our position. We are there at the invitation of the duly constituted, legitimate Government of Lebanon. And we, as any armed force, is present with the understanding that, of course, we have the right to self-defense. And that's universal. And we will defend ourselves, as we are doing.
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Condec, Dissidents Reach Agreement
Date: 07 December 1983
The Condec Corporation and a dissident group of shareholders said yesterday that they had resolved litigation involving the dissidents' campaign to elect a slate of directors in recent voting. Under the agreement, Condec's board will be increased to 15 members, from 11.
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