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SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ

Date: 17 November 1984

By Linda Amster

Linda Amster

Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 29. 1. This man is bringing ''Swan Lake'' to its conclusion. Explain. 2. ''The politicians, who once stated that war was too important to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves,'' a former head of state said as he delivered a stinging attack on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and his former colleagues. Who is he?

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U.S. TO EMPHASIZE PRIVATE MEETINGS ON ARMS CONTROL

Date: 18 November 1984

By Bernard Gwertzman , Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

Administration officials said today that they would give priority in coming weeks to private discussions with Soviet officials in the hope of beginning high-level talks early next year on a wide range of arms-control issues. After a year in which negotiations on key nuclear arms-control issues have been suspended, Administration officials now assert that, in the aftermath of President Reagan's re-election, signs of movement toward the bargaining table have become apparent in recent statements from both Moscow and Washington. Because of this perceived movement, Administration officials said Secretary of State George P. Shultz would step up talks here with Ambassador Anatoly F. Dorbrynin. Talks between Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko and Ambassador Arthur A. Hartman in Moscow are also to be stepped up, they added.

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CHERNENKO URGES REAGAN TO RETURN TO ERA OF DETENTE

Date: 17 November 1984

By Bernard Gwertzman , Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

The Soviet leader, Konstantin U. Chernenko, called today for a return to the era of Soviet-American detente. He said this could open the way to ''broad possibilities for cooperation'' in such things as combating famine and protecting the world's environment. In answers to written questions submitted by an NBC News correspondent, Marvin Kalb, Mr. Chernenko also said that if the Reagan Administration was sincere, the way was open to resolving key arms-control questions. ''If the statements that are being made lately in Washington with regard to the desire to seek solutions to problems of arms limitation do not remain just words, we could, at last, start moving toward more normal relations between our two countries and toward a more secure world,'' Mr. Chernenko said.

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WEAKNESS IN COVERAGE

Date: 17 November 1984

By Carl Sessions Stepp

Carl Stepp

Hardly are the ballots cold in their boxes, and already we hear the perennial cries that press coverage of Campaign '84 was obsessed with the horse race and heedless of the issues. This oversimplification, however, may mask a more telling journalistic lesson of the election: not that the press ignored the issues (in fact, some fine reporting was done on them) but that it shortchanged certain crucial categories of issues that lie beyond the reach of traditional journalism. What the press covered well this campaign were matters that are concrete and material, such as the Federal budget and the ''Star Wars'' military proposal. What the press fumbled - in fact, what its professional values served to place off-limits - were issues that are subjective, abstract and morally ambiguous. Here are some examples:

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REPORTERS ARE A CONTINUING STORY FOR MOVIEMAKERS

Date: 18 November 1984

By Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby

Among others things, the arrival of the Television Age appears to have made more sharp and contradictory the nature of the American public's longstanding love-hate relationship with journalists and journalism. If various polls are to be believed, many Americans today are convinced that newspaper and television reporting, especially of politics, is more biased than it's ever been, usually in favor of liberal positions. There also are people who seem to feel that too much space is devoted to the reporting of downbeat events - to disasters, natural and man-made, to tales of duplicity in places of public trust, to stories of the private scandals of well-known people. Why, someone must ask at least once each night on a radio phone-in show, don't reporters spend more time on heartwarming, inspiriting stories about heroism and other uplifting human achievements? Isn't there enough trouble in the world without harping on all of the unpleasantnesses? The reporter, like the messenger in Greek tragedy, is punished for the tidings he brings.

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NEW U.S. EXERCISE SEEN IN HONDURAS

Date: 17 November 1984

By Richard J. Meislin

Richard Meislin

More than 100 United States military officials have gathered here this week, and United States and Honduran sources say the officials are planning a major military exercise next year. A statement from the Honduran military implied that the planning involved an exercise to be known as Tall Pines 3, a sequel to two large-scale training exercises here in the last two years.

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ARAB REQUESTS FOR ARMS BEING WEIGHED BY U.S.

Date: 18 November 1984

By Leslie H. Gelb

Leslie Gelb

With the Presidential election behind them, Reagan Administration officials say they are once again looking at multibillion-dollar requests from Saudi Arabia and Jordan for advanced weapons. To Israeli and American officials, the decisions will have profound implications for the regional military balance, the Israeli economy and the Middle East peace process. Administration officials indicated that approval was likely for additional high- performance aircraft and a variety of missiles for the Saudis, and for new kinds of mobile surface-to-air missiles and air-defense radars for the Jordanians. Israeli officials and American backers of Israel have been telling White House and State Department officials that the quality and quantity of these arms would be a serious blow to Israeli air power and thus to the heart of Israeli military superiority.

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CORRECTION

Date: 17 November 1984

A picture caption in Business Day on Oct. 18 with an article about Silicon Valley incorrectly described reporting by The San Jose Mercury-News on trade secrets obtained from an industry newsletter. The Mercury- News reported how the secrets became public but did not describe them.

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The President And the Press

Date: 18 November 1984

The illustration on the opening page of Steven R. Weisman's article ''The President and the Press'' (Oct. 14), suggests one remedy for the unhappy situation he describes. Look at all those soup-can- sized zoom lenses used to create the impression that the news media and the President are in close proximity.

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NEWS SUMMARY;

Date: 17 November 1984

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1984 International A return to Soviet-American detente was called for by Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet leader. He said this could open the way to ''broad possibilities for cooperation,'' such as in combating famine and protecting the world's environment. In responding to written questions submitted by an NBC News correspondent, Mr. Chernenko also said that if the Reagan Administration was sincere, the way was open to resolving key arms-control questions. (Page 1, Column 6.) Salvadoran rebels eased their policy of refusing to participate in elections until they gain a formal role in the Government, one of the rebel leaders said. He said they are prepared, in principle, to take part in elections organized by the Government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. (1:3.)

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