14th of August 1985 News
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Evening News
Date: 14 August 1985
AP
Two television producers have agreed temporarily to stop soliciting Evening News Association stock from Michigan residents in a hostile $453 million takeover bid for the newspaper and broadcasting company, lawyers said. The agreement by Norman Lear and A. Jerrold Perenchio will remain in effect until a Federal appeals court decides whether Michigan law applies to the takeover fight, said Theodore Souris, a lawyer representing the producers. Arguments are scheduled for next Tuesday in Cincinnati.
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BILL MOYERS RETURNS TO CBS EVENING NEWS
Date: 14 August 1985
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
After an absence of seven months, Bill Moyers has returned to ''The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather'' as its resident commentator. But at the same time, Mr. Moyers said in an interview, he has given up on prime time at CBS as an regular outlet for reporting on serious issues. ''After several long and painful months I have concluded that serious public affairs reporting in depth isn't going to make it in the entertainment milieu of prime time,'' he said. ''I have to be a grown-up fellow and face the fact that reporting on social issues in depth isn't going to be given a fair shot.''
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U.S. AIDE AND JORDAN IN TALKS
Date: 15 August 1985
AP
A United States official discussed a Middle East peace plan today with King Hussein and top Jordanian officials, the Jordanian press agency said. The agency said the Jordanians had insisted on peace talks that would include the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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SOUTH AFRICA DAMPENS TALK OF RACIAL CHANGE
Date: 14 August 1985
Special to the New York Times
South African Government officials and pro-Government commentators seemed to have started a campaign today to dampen speculation that President P. W. Botha is about to announce radical racial change that will erode privileged white ways of life. At the same time, however, the campaign seemed designed to make clear that Mr. Botha has not been deflected by the violence in black townships, the worst in the country's history, from limited changes in South Africa's political system first announced last January. These include offers of freehold and unspecified political rights for blacks living in urban areas along with a form of citizenship for blacks, but exclude a wholesale departure from apartheid.
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INQUIRY IS SOUGHT ON AID TO REBELS
Date: 15 August 1985
By Joel Brinkley, Special To the New York Times
Joel Brinkley
Common Cause, the Washington-based lobbying group, called today for Congressional investigations of the National Security Council's involvement with the Nicaraguan rebels over the last year. Last week the White House confirmed reports, first published in The New York Times, that the National Security Council had been helping several Nicaraguan rebel groups plan some operations and raise private funds. The rebels have been fighting to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government.
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GORBACHEV OFFER IS DISPUTED BY U.S.
Date: 15 August 1985
By Gerald M. Boyd, Special To the New York Times
Gerald
The Reagan Administration, responding to a halt in nuclear testing by the Soviet Union, insisted today that the moratorium was being imposed at a time of Soviet nuclear advantage. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, was reacting to an assertion by Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Tuesday that Moscow had not completed its latest test series, as the United States contends, but had interrupted testing to announce its moratorium. The Soviet halt is to last until the end of the year, subject to indefinite extension if the United States were to join in.
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APPEALS PANEL UPHOLDS DISMISSAL OF LAWSUIT ON NICARAGUAN POLICY
Date: 14 August 1985
By Stuart Taylor Jr., Special To the New York Times
Stuart Taylor
A Federal appeals court today upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the United States Government of illegally supporting the Nicaraguan insurgents. In effect, the court ruled that in the absence of explicit Congressional restrictions on Government support for the rebels, it could not entertain a lawsuit challenging that support. The suit had been brought by 12 Nicaraguans who said that they or members of their families had been victims of rebel violence, by 12 members of the House of Representatives who said the Government was illegally waging war, and others. All the plaintiffs sought an order ending Government support for the rebels. The Nicaraguan plaintiffs also sought monetary damages.
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U.S. SEEKING TO DETERMINE IF SPY HAD GREATER ROLE THAN THOUGHT
Date: 15 August 1985
By Stephen Engelberg
Stephen Engelberg
Although Arthur J. Walker has been found guilty of spying for the Soviet Union, Federal officials say they are continuing to investigate whether his espionage activities were more widespread than he has acknowledged. Officials said they were pursuing leads relating to Mr. Walker in an effort to assemble further details about a purported espionage ring, which they said involved two other members of the Walker family and a retired Navy enlisted man. All the others have pleaded not guilty. The officials acknowledged that it was highly unusual for the Government to continue such an extensive background investigation on a defendant after his conviction. But the suspicion based on circumstantial evidence that Mr. Walker might have compromised Navy secrets in his military career has made it important to continue the inquiry, they said.
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NAVY ENDS BAN ON CONTRACTING WITH DYNAMICS
Date: 14 August 1985
By Wayne Biddle, Special To the New York Times
Wayne Biddle
The Navy announced today that it had lifted a ban on signing new contracts with the General Dynamics Corporation, bringing five months of penalties against the company to a close. By ending the moratorium on new work at the company's Electric Boat division in Groton, Conn., and Pomona arms factory in Los Angeles, the Navy signaled a return to normal business after one of the most tumultuous disputes over weapon costs in the Pentagon's history. ''There was no pattern of corruption - they were simply doing what our regulations allowed them to do,'' said Everett Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics, of General Dynamics' disputed contract charges. The charges were determined to be improper by Congressional investigators and Pentagon auditors.
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PLANS FOR A MILITARY DRAFT ATTRACT NEW ATTENTION
Date: 14 August 1985
By Richard Halloran, Special To the New York Times
Richard Halloran
The signs are no bigger than a sail on a distant horizon, but with the economy improving and jobs easier to get in civilian life, service in the armed forces has begun to look less attractive. Add to that a shrinking pool of men of military age over the next 10 years, and talk of resuming the draft begins to rumble. Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, has introduced legislation that would bring back military conscription, and Senator Gary Hart, Democrat of Colorado, has called for national service for young people, including military service. The Heritage Foundation, a research organization, recently queried advocates of a strong military and found them split on whether the volunteer force was satisfactory. Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's national security adviser, said he favored national service in which military service would be an option. Senator Malcolm Wallop, Republican of Wyoming, said volunteers had taken the middle class out of the military.
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