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Date: 17 March 1981
In sensational criminal trials, defense lawyers often make the sweeping charge that once an open pretrial hearing has been held, it's impossible to pick an unbiased jury. Therefore, they argue, judges should bar the press from the hearing.
Date: 17 March 1981
By B.drummond Ayres Jr
Eleven years retired and on the eve of his 80th birthday, Turner Catledge still has the hunger to know and the compulsion to tell that made him one of the leading journalists of his time. A conversation today with the former executive editor and vice president of The New York Times is the same as always - something akin to a third degree on the state of the world, with the talk ranging over everything fit to print, from art to politics to sports. No matter that he is a decade and 1,400 miles removed from the newsroom that he presided over for two decades, formulating and perfecting many of The Times's modern-day approaches to news. He continues to ruminate on the condition of American journalism, which he thinks is not bad, and he remains, at heart, a reporter, his inquisitiveness unceasing as he goes after whatever facts, figures, opinions and gossip his visitor possesses.
Date: 17 March 1981
By Steven R. Weisman, Special To the New York Times
Steven Weisman
President Reagan, whose economic program is based on diminishing the Federal pork barrel, showed this weekend during his visit to New York City that the Reagan White House also understands how to hand out Government largess with political sensitivity. In his first stop in the city since his inauguration, Mr. Reagan played a role familiar to Democratic Presidents perhaps but unexpected for a President who has been inveighing against the ''business as usual'' politics of serving constituencies with announcements of Federal grants. Mr. Reagan's main announcement was a move to unfreeze funds for two city economic development projects that had been thrown into jeopardy by his budget cuts. Mayor Koch had requested that three such projects be unfrozen, but the President relented only on a $4.5 million grant to help convert the Brooklyn Army Terminal into an industrial park and $540,000 loan guarantee to rebuild the Elgin Theater for dance.
Date: 17 March 1981
By Richard Eder, Special To the New York Times
Richard Eder
If you leave out the British Embassy and a chic shop or two on the Faubourg St. Honore, the American Embassy is virtually cheek by jowl with Elysee Palace, the official quarters of the President of France. Cheek has rarely fitted jowl quite so closely as it does these days. Relations between the Government of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and the new American Administration are in cheerful contrast to the fretfulness that prevailed over the past decade or two. The French Government not only speaks well of the United States but does a bit of proselytizing among its neighbors as well. After a dinner with President Giscard d'Estaing over the weekend, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany, who has indicated some doubts, was moved to describe the Franch-German view of the new United States Administration as ''very positive.''
Date: 18 March 1981
By H.j. Maidenberg
The credit markets rallied in late trading yesterday after the Government reported that housing starts had plunged 24.6 percent last month. The news was considered a further indication that the nation's economy was slowing and that the demand for credit would ease further. Dealers said investors in long-term, fixed-income securities were also encouraged by the quick sales of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's $600 million of 10-year notes and the Washington State Public Power Supply System's $200 million of tax-exempt bonds due in 2009. The A.T.&T. issue, the biggest corporate sale thus far this year, carried a 13.25 percent coupon, almost 3 points more than it cost the phone company to borrow a like sum last May 29. Salomon Brothers led the underwriting syndicate handling the notes, which were reportedly 95 percent sold by early afternoon.
Date: 17 March 1981
By David E. Rosenbaum, Special To the New York Times
David Rosenbaum
More than half the people in the country with incomes below the official poverty line either receive no protection from what President Reagan has termed the ''social safety net'' or get, at most, a free lunch for their children on school days. At the same time, an examination of Federal statistics shows that the seven programs the President has exempted from his proposed budget reductions, as a ''safety net'' for the needy, assist not only the poor but also many people who are not poor and some who are quite well off. With the placement of some programs and not others in the safety net, the President's economic plans would protect elderly Americans and veterans, regardless of their means, from the loss of Government benefits, while it would make deep cuts in welfare programs, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps and Medicaid, that are relied on primarily by younger families. Dispute Over Who Is 'Truly Needy' David A. Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget and the principal architect of the budget plan, acknowledges that some people who are clearly poor will have some Federal assistance reduced and that some who are clearly not poor will continue to get payments.
Date: 17 March 1981
Reuters
The Gulf Oil Corporation said its United States unit would close its Toledo, Ohio, refinery and a portion of its Venice, La., refinery because of declining demand for petroleum products and excess refining capacity in the industry. Gulf said the two refineries represent about 8 percent of its United States refining capacity.
Date: 18 March 1981
International Fear about possible Soviet intervention in Poland during Warsaw Pact military exercises has eased in Washington. The Reagan Administration said intelligence information and Soviet assurances had diminished its concern over the prospect. The maneuvers in and around Poland are due to begin today. (Page A1, Columns 3-4.) Improved United States-Argentine ties were sought by President Reagan. He conferred with Gen. Roberto Viola, who is to become Argentina's president on March 29. Administration officials said Mr. Reagan was considering a request to Congress to repeal an embargo on military aid to Buenos Aires. About 6,000 people are believed to have been arrested or abducted by Argentine security forces. (A1:3-5.)
Date: 17 March 1981
UPI
Upi
The consumer products unit of the Jacobsen division of Textron Inc. will be merged with Textron's Homelite division in Charlotte, N.C., it was announced today by Textron, parent company of the two concerns.
Date: 17 March 1981
AP
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. said it had raised prices of its cars and trucks an average of 3.9 percent, or about $252.