10th of August 1985 News
Ειδήσεις όπως εμφανίστηκαν στην πρώτη σελίδα των New York Times στο 10 Αυγούστου 1985
EVENING NEWS EASES STANCE ON SALE
Date: 10 August 1985
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
The Evening News Association, one of the nation's largest communications companies, has permitted its investment bankers to circulate financial data among ''8 to 10'' prospective investors, a source with direct knowledge of the situation said yesterday. The move is regarded by analysts as a significant step toward the sale of the company. Salomon Brothers Inc. is circulating a brochure about the private Detroit-based company to a group of major communications companies that are regarded as ''friendly, good managers and good people,'' according to the source, who asked not to be identified. Communications companies have been hot acquisition properties recently, with prices at record levels. This puts great pressure to sell on companies such as Evening News, whose stock is widely dispersed among several generations of family owners. The company's holdings, which have been valued at between $500 million and $1 billion, include its flagship newspaper, The Detroit News; television stations in Washington, Oklahoma City, Austin, Tex., Mobile, Ala., and Tucson, Ariz.; two Detroit radio stations, and small newspapers in California and New Jersey.
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NBC USES 'FOCUS GROUP' ON 2 NEWS PROGRAMS
Date: 10 August 1985
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
NBC's two newest forays into the television magazine format are the first news programs at the network to be subjected to a ''focus group,'' one of the standard tools of market research in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue. Both ''American Almanac,'' the prime-time news magazine that had its premiere last Tuesday, and a news program tentatively titled ''Mainstreet,'' which is aimed at teen-agers, have used the technique. In a focus group, small numbers of people are gathered to watch and discuss the programs under the guidance of a market researcher. ''It's standard in movies and television entertainment, so there's no reason why, if we are embarking on a new program, we shouldn't use whatever tools are there,'' said Timothy J. Russert, vice president and assistant to the president of NBC News.
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REPORTERS SAY PASTORA REBELS HELD 29 IN NICARAGUA
Date: 11 August 1985
By Stephen Kinzer, Special To the New York Times
Stephen Kinzer
Armed men who detained a group of Americans for a day this week were probably commanded by the anti-Sandinista guerrilla Eden Pastora Gomez, journalists who accompanied the group said today. But spokesmen for Mr. Pastora and the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance, with which he has been associated, denied their forces were involved. Most of the 29 American peace activists, who are members of a group called Witness for Peace and oppose United States policy in Central America, were reported today to be at the town of San Carlos. The town is on Lake Nicaragua where it is joined by the San Juan River. The activists' launch was traveling on the river, reportedly at a point on the Costa Rican border about 40 miles southeast of San Carlos, when it was stopped Wednesday. The Americans were expected to return to Managua Monday.
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EX-TURKISH CHIEF SAYS DEMOCRACY IS ON RISE
Date: 11 August 1985
By Henry Kamm, Special To the New York Times
Henry Kamm
Bulent Ecevit, the former Prime Minister who has been banned from politics since the military coup of 1980, says the spirit of democracy is gaining in Turkey despite what he called an undemocratic government. Mr. Ecevit, interviewed in his modest suburban apartment, said the situation presented a paradox. ''Before the military intervention,'' he said, ''in many ways there were ample constitutional guarantees for democracy and freedom. Yet we felt a lack of deep-rooted democracy.
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THE VATICAN IS PUTTING VIDEO TO WORK
Date: 11 August 1985
By E. J. Dionne
E. Dionne
The Vatican, which over the decades has developed sophisticated press and radio operations, is now trying to come to terms with the video age. It is doing so by means of the Vatican Television Center, which was founded in 1983 with the mission of documenting all Pope John Paul's activities. Indeed, the center, known as CTV after its Italian name, is serving as a supplement to John Paul's success in winning the Catholic Church an almost permanent place in the secular media. More than just a technological device, the center is a symbol for the kind of papacy John Paul is conducting. His friends and critics both refer to him as a ''populist,'' a label that refers as much to the methods he uses as to the content of his ideas. His frequent trips abroad have provided him with vast new audiences. And the journeys are organized not simply to reach those who turn out for the mass gatherings but to the millions more who watch on television. By traveling so much, the Pope has created a series of events - and backdrops -that the media often find themselves unable to resist. The Pope has, in effect, put the secular media, particularly television, to work for him. Some of the evidence is visible during the Pope's current visit to Africa.
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STRIKE AT TRIBUNE RAISES ANGER AT TEAMSTERS
Date: 10 August 1985
By E. R. Shipp, Special To the New York Times
E. Shipp
While members of the country's oldest national union, the International Typographical Union, are voting on whether to merge with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, union printers here are striking against the Chicago Tribune, and teamsters are crossing the picket line. The conflict has angered some labor leaders as well as the printers, mailers' union and pressmen's union, who began the strike July 18 over hiring practices, job classification and transfers all necessitated by changes in technology. ''There's a lot of hard feelings, a lot of grumbling,'' said Dennis Doyle, a pressman who is acting as a spokesman for the three unions, Local 16 of the I.T.U., Local 7 of the Chicago Web Printing Pressmen's Union and Local 2 of the Chicago Mailers Union. ''Some are saying, 'I wish I hadn't mailed my ballot back.' ''
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KEY CLERIC SEIZED AS HE LEADS MARCH NEAR CAPE TOWN
Date: 11 August 1985
By Alan Cowell, Special To the New York Times
Alan Cowell
One of South Africa's most outspoken critics of apartheid, the Rev. Allan Boesak, was arrested today along with 18 other people, many of them clergymen, after defying a police order against attending a funeral in a black township near Cape Town. In the same township, Guguletu, five policemen and a sound technician working for CBS News, Anton van der Merwe, were injured when a protester lobbed a hand grenade from the back of a crowd that the police had charged after firing rubber bullets and telling demonstrators to disperse. Mr. Boesak, President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, is a key patron of the United Democratic Front and is regarded within South Africa as one of the nation's most prominent anti-apartheid activists. He has called for economic boycotts of white businesses to add to pressures for change, and he is generally included in a list of what pro-Government forces call ''troublesome priests,'' after Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and the Rev. Beyers Naude, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.
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FREED U.S. ACTIVISTS IN NICARAGUA TOWN
Date: 10 August 1985
AP
The 29 American peace activists who said they were held captive for a day by anti-Sandinista rebels arrived today in this town on Lake Nicaragua, a spokesmen for them said. Fourteen journalists who had been with the group arrived here earlier. Steven Hall-Williams, a spokesman in Washington for the Witness for Peace organization, which sponsored a trip by the activists along the river separating Costa Rica and Nicaragua, said the group arrived in San Carlos by boat late in the afternoon. The accounts brought back by the reporters and activists appeared to leave unclear the answers to several questions about the incident.
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NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, AUGUST 10,1985
Date: 10 August 1985
International Violence spread in black townships around Durban, pitting South African black rioters against white policemen and Indian vigilantes armed with shotguns and pistols. At least 52 people were reported to have been killed in four days of riots, The fatalities represented the most sustained bloodletting in 11 months of unrest in South Africa that has now claimed about 600 lives. [Page 1, Column 6.] South Africa's political climate will have a direct impact on relations between Pretoria and Washington, the Reagan Administration told South African officials in a ''serious''discussion, Administration officials said. The presentation of the United States position stopped short of an ultimatum on the part of the American officials who met with the South Africans in Vienna this week. [1:5.] The Arab League did not endorse the Jordanian-Palestinian accord outlining a joint effort for peace with Israel. It only ''noted'' the accord at a special meeting in Casablanca, Morocco, that was attended by moderate Arab countries. In a communique expressing the consensus of the 16 Arab delegations, issued at the end of the three-day meeting, the Arab League members ''noted with appreciation'' a ''detailed explanation'' of the accord of Feb. 11 presented in a closed session of the meeting by King Hussein of Jordan and Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the accord's major signers. [1:1.] National Federal deficits will be higher than projected through 1988 even if Congress achieves all the spending cuts in the budget plan it approved last week, according to Reagan Administration and Congressional budget officials.
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NEWS SUMMARY: SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1985
Date: 11 August 1985
International South African clergymen defied a police order forbidding them to attend a black township funeral and were arrested. Among them was the Rev. Allan Boesak, a prominent campaigner against minority rule. A tense calm prevailed in black townships around Durban, where more than 50 people died in four days of violence. [Page 1, Column 6.]
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