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NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1986

Date: 25 April 1986

International President Reagan prepared for a trip to the Far East. He conferred with Congressional leaders and aides as he made ready for his longest journey in office, a 22,000-mile, 13-day trip. The journey will include meetings with Southeast Asian foreign ministers in Bali and with the leaders of other major industrial democracies in Tokyo. [ Page A1, Column 3. ] A pre-dawn bomb blast in London damaged a British Airways office and other stores on Oxford Street, the capital's busiest shopping area, spraying glass into the street and igniting a fire. One passer-by was treated for shock. [ A6:1-2. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1986

Date: 24 April 1986

International South African blacks may move more freely, the Government announced. It pleged to abolish virtually all laws prohibiting blacks from traveling within the country and from migrating into black sections of cities. Included among the laws to be abolished are the infamous ''pass laws,'' a cornerstone of apartheid for more than 70 years. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] A pro-Libyan group boasted in Beirut that it had killed another British hostage in retaliation for the British-backed American air raid against Libya last week. The hostage was identified as Alec Collett, a 64-year-old freelance journalist based in New York. [ A1:4. ]

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Chili Con Pickle

Date: 24 April 1986

By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr

Wayne King

The House Press Gallery celebrated J. J. Pickle Chili Day yesterday for the 20th consecutive year, believed to be a gustatory record for journalists' consumption of a preparation by a member. The Democratic Congressman from Texas for whom the day is named brought in a bubbling cauldron of what he calls Venison Texas Red, which he makes to the recipe of the legendary chili maker Wick Fowler and from which he rigorously excludes beans. One consumer pronounced it ''nice and spicy but a little furry.''

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Jakarta Bars Times Reporter From Reagan's Visit to Bali

Date: 24 April 1986

AP

The Government has barred a New York Times reporter, Barbara Crossette, from covering the visit of President Reagan to Bali next week because of articles she wrote that it considers offensive, authoritative sources said today. She is the 10th foreign correspondent barred by the Government from covering Mr. Reagan's visit April 29-May 2 to meet with President Suharto and the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Brunei.

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NEWSPAPERS TOLD OF STRONG PROFITS

Date: 24 April 1986

By Alex S. Jones, Special To the New York Times

Alex Jones

With newspaper profits strong and thought likely to remain so in 1986, North America's newspaper publishers ended their convention here today expressing confidence that they were in a business with a strong future. Such optimism contrasts the gloomy meetings of the American Newspaper Publishers Association only a few years ago, when there was widespread fear that electronic communications, especially television, might make newspapers obsolete. At this year's convention the American and Canadian publishers were told by the Newspaper Advertising Bureau that advertising revenue in 1985 increased about 10 percent over 1984 and was expected to do the same in 1986. Many publishers say that as the television audience becomes fragmented by cable and the spread of video cassette recorders, newspapers will be even more attractive to advertisers because they will command a clear, dependable audience.

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LIBYAN AIDES ORDER 200 REPORTERS OUT, THEN CHANGE MIND

Date: 24 April 1986

Special to the New York Times

Libyan officials today ordered more than 200 foreign journalists to leave the country. Hours later, they retracted the order. The seeming confusion was widely seen here as the result of differences within the Government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and between Information Ministry and security officials over how to handle the foreign press.

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CAPTORS IN BEIRUT ARE SAID TO KILL ANOTHER BRITON

Date: 24 April 1986

By Ihsan A. Hijazi, Special To the New York Times

Ihsan Hijazi

A pro-Libyan group asserted here today that it had killed another British hostage in retaliation for the American air strike against Libya last week. The hostage was identified as Alec Collett, a 64-year-old freelance journalist based in New York. Last week, he was mistakenly reported to have been among three Western hostages who were found slain in Lebanon. Mr. Collett was seized by gunmen in the southern suburbs of Beirut on March 25, 1985, while on a writing assignment for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which works with Palestinian refugees.

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2 Journalists Are Slain By Philippine Rebels

Date: 25 April 1986

Reuters

Communist guerrillas ambushed a military convoy today, killing six soldiers and a Manila newspaper reporter and wounding five people, according to a news photographer traveling with the convoy. One of the wounded was a Reuters photographer who died later today of his wounds.

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Iran Denies Accusation Of Arms Smuggling

Date: 24 April 1986

AP

Iran today denied allegations by United States prosecutors that it had tried to buy $2 billion worth of American-made weapons through illegal channels. The official Islamic Republic News Agency, monitored in Nicosia, said the charges were a ''hasty scenario by ruling groups in America'' intended to cover up Washington's failure to bring down the Libyan Government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

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L.I. Comptroller Seeks Bid to Oppose Abrams

Date: 24 April 1986

Peter T. King, the Nassau County Comptroller, said yesterday that he would seek the Republican nomination to oppose State Attorney General Robert Abrams in the November election. Mr. King announced his candidacy at a news conference at Nassau County Republican headquarters in Westbury, L.I., where he was flanked by the Nassau and Suffolk County Republican chairmen, Joseph N. Mondello and William M. Blake, respectively.

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