16th of December 1985 News
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SAUTER DISCUSSES CBS NEWS ROLE
Date: 16 December 1985
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
Van Gordon Sauter, who began his second tour as president of CBS News last week, spent part of his first few days back on the job talking with staff members about the importance of documentaries. They were noteworthy discussions, because it was during Mr. Sauter's first tenure, in 1982 and 1983, that the role of documentaries, a once-cherished form in CBS News tradition, was severely diminished. The championing of documentaries is a gesture, part of Mr. Sauter's mission, defined by his corporate superiors, as well as himself, to win back the hearts and minds of CBS News after a year of outside assault and internal upheaval, including Mr. Sauter's replacing Edward M. Joyce as president of CBS News. ''The most compelling thing we have to do is to conclude the turbulence,'' Mr. Sauter said in an interview last week. ''I mean, the turbulence just can't continue, or this institution, like any institution, will begin to break away at key points.''
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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1985
Date: 17 December 1985
International American pressure to remove the Philippines' Chief of Staff, Gen. Fabian C. Ver, contributed to a factional dispute that is hampering the work of the military, President Ferdinand E. Marcos said. Mr. Marcos, who despite this pressure reinstated General Ver after his acquittal on charges of involvement in the slaying of Benigno S. Aquino Jr., said in an interview that he expected the general to be removed from his post soon. [Page A1, Column 2.] A statewide election in Assam that brought out large numbers of voters was seen as a crucial test for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's political control over the state. Tens of thousands of policemen and paramilitary troops kept watch. [A3:4.]
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NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1985
Date: 16 December 1985
International Israel said Syria has stationed a variety of surface-to-air missiles along its border with Lebanon, seriously threatening the regular Israeli reconnaissance missions over Lebanese territory. Israeli military sources said Syria's move was a ''dangerous change in the status quo.'' [Page A1, Column 3.] Rumania's preferred trade status in the United States is at stake unless it meets American concerns about purported persecution of Christian sects, Secretary of State George P. Shultz told President Nicolae Ceausescu at a meeting in Bucharest. The two agreed to set up machinery under which high officials in Washington and Bucharest will deal directly with charges that human rights are being violated in Rumania. [A1:1.]
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Buy One, Create 23 More
Date: 16 December 1985
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
It's hard for the current generation of bureaucrats to believe that Washington functioned at all in the primitive days before the photocopier. But along with its effortless multiplication of paper, the photocopier has brought substantial legal problems to a city where communication not infrequently becomes a substitute for action.
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SYRIA DEFENDS MISSILE PLACEMENT
Date: 17 December 1985
By Ihsan A. Hijazi, Special To the New York Times
Ihsan Hijazi
Syria acknowledged today that it had stationed surface-to-air missiles along its border with Lebanon and said it was within its right of self-defense to station missiles anywhere in Syrian territory. The Damascus radio also said Syria rejected Israeli statements that the deployment posed a threat to Israel.
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BIBLE STUDY FIGHT IN CAROLINA TOWN
Date: 16 December 1985
Special to the New York Times
The family of a woman who challenged the legality of Bible study in the Dunn public schools has left town after what family members describe as weeks of harassing telephone calls and attacks published in the local newspaper. Hoover Adams, publisher and editor of the paper, The Daily Record, defended its reporting of the dispute. He said he believed that the family, Frederic and Laurey Wyble, their three sons and Mrs. Wyble's parents, Arnold and Marlene Gaspersohn, left more because of business reverses than harassment. Mr. and Mrs. Gaspersohn closed their business, the Woodcomp Corporation, a manufacturer of roof trusses and panels. Family members moved this fall to the Greensboro area from Dunn, a town of about 10,000 people 35 miles southeast of Raleigh.
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WIDOW SAYS ARMY OFFICER FEARED PLANE'S CONDITION
Date: 17 December 1985
By John Holusha, Special To the New York Times
John Holusha
The Arrow Air jet that took elements of the 101st Airborne Division to the Middle East in July appeared so rickety to an officer and his wife that both worried about the safety of the return trip, the captain's widow says. The officer, Capt. Edward Manion, was ''extremely depressed'' when he talked to her by telephone about two days before he was to return to the United States aboard an Arrow Air plane, his widow, Christine Manion, said today. Mrs. Manion said the Arrow aircraft that took her husband's A Company of the 3rd Brigade to the Sinai Peninsula last summer for duty with the international peacekeeping force there appeared unkempt and overloaded.
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The Wrong Beat for American Cops
Date: 16 December 1985
The Reagan Administration's Central American counterterrorism bill repackages a dubious idea derived from a flawed premise. It would earmark $54 million for hardware and training for police in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Costa Rica. The hope is to turn bad cops into good cops under the tutelage of Uncle Sam.
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CHARTER COMPANY STILL FLIES FOR U.S.
Date: 17 December 1985
By Richard Halloran, Special To the New York Times
Richard Halloran
The Defense Department is continuing to fly people and cargo aboard planes chartered from Arrow Air despite the crash last week in Newfoundland that took the lives of 248 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division. A senior Pentagon spokesman, Col. Robert O'Brien, said today, ''We have no idea of what caused the crash,'' and added that to suspend flights on Arrow Air until the investigation had been completed would be to prejudge the outcome. Spokesmen for the Defense Department and the Air Force also noted that the Arrow Air plane that crashed was under charter to the Rome office of the international peacekeeping force in the Sinai Desert, and not to the United States Government. The men who were killed were returning from a tour of duty with the peacekeeping force.
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MICRONESIA PACT ENDS U.S. CONTROL
Date: 17 December 1985
By Marjorie Hunter, Special To the New York Times
Marjorie Hunter
After nearly 16 years of complicated negotiations, Congress has approved legislation that would end Unites States' stewardship of the Micronesian islands in the Pacific Ocean. A so-called Compact of Free Association recognizes the islands' right to self-government, but at the same time retains vital United States defense interests in the area. President Reagan is expected to sign the compact into law this week, probably on Friday, at a ceremony attended by representatives of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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