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Date: 03 April 1981
Special to the New York Times
Bill Moyers, the television commentator, said today that the Soviet side had withdrawn from a planned Soviet-American debate in protest against American refusal to extend the visa of a Soviet participant. Mr. Moyers said he had hoped to do the debate anyhow by satellite, with the three Soviet participants in Moscow and the three Americans in New York.
Date: 03 April 1981
To the Editor: I must take exception to Sevan Nisanyan's March 25 letter lamenting the lack of condemnation of the temporary military administration in Turkey by the American news media. I have read, understandably with great lack of enthusiasm, the reviews of an ethnic Armenian passing judgment based upon the flimsiest of information about the developments in my country.
Date: 02 April 1981
To the Editor: Your March 16 Editorial Notebook alleges that the fairness doctrine in television is "dying." Just because there is now cable television with many additional channels does not eliminate the need for fairness by broadcasters in the coverage of public issues.
Date: 03 April 1981
By Angel Castillo
Angel Castillo
Had they been alive, the state's highest court would have allowed Brother Joseph Charles Fox of Mineola, L.I., to die this week at the age of 84, while it would have required John Storar, 52, of Newark, N.Y., to go on living. The hearts of both men gave out while doctors used the latest medical technology to try to keep them alive. Brother Fox, a member of the Roman Catholic Order of the Society of Mary, died on Jan. 24, 1980. Mr. Storar, a mentally retarded resident of the Newark Developmental Center, died last Jan. 1. In a decision dealing with their ''right to die'' cases, the state's highest tribunal, the Court of Appeals, ruled on Tuesday that when there is no reasonable chance of recovery, doctors may legally stop administering ''extraordinary'' medical care to terminally ill and incompetent patients who have previously ''clearly and convincingly'' expressed opposition to being kept alive artificially. Competent persons, the court reiterated, may always decline such treatment.
Date: 03 April 1981
A major distributor of magazines and newspapers pleaded guilty in Manhattan to Federal charges of giving $37,000 in payoffs to officials of the Newspaper and Mail deliveres Union between 1976 and 1979. The defendant is 54-year-old Robert Cohen of Englewood, N.J., who owns the Hudson County News Company of North Bergen. He could face up to a year on each of 20 counts and could be fined $200,000.
Date: 02 April 1981
By Richard Eder, Special To the New York Times
Richard Eder
Behind the messages of sympathy from heads of state and government - perhaps even the ''shock'' expressed by the Chinese Prime Minister and the ''indignation'' of the Soviet leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev - a quieter, troubled strain can be sensed in the international reaction to the attempted assassination of President Reagan. It could be summed up like this: There is a vulnerability in what is still generally reckoned the most powerful nation in the world; and, one way or another, much of the world feels vulnerable through it. It is a strain that underlay the dismayed comments about the failure of the United States to curb the sale of handguns. London's Daily Express wrote: ''The sickness of America comes fully loaded with the safety catch off. It's almost as easy to buy a gun as a bar of candy, and every public figure in the country must walk in danger because of it.''
Date: 03 April 1981
UPI
Upi
Braniff International plans a 10 percent expansion of its operations at the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport at the end of April, Braniff officials said.
Date: 03 April 1981
By John Darnton, Special To the New York Times
John Darnton
When two adversaries struggle against each other long enough and hard enough, the axiom goes, they begin to resemble each other. The independent union organization Solidarity and the Polish Communist Party are a long way from being mirror images, but a number of striking similarities did emerge during the latest crisis. Both organizations responded to the crisis in the same way: hard-line factions geared up for a confrontation and were overruled and repudiated. In both cases the moderate leaders - Stanislaw Kania in the party and Lech Walesa in the union - were strong enough to carry the day, but only because their positions received strong support from the majority of the rank and file. On Sunday, the day before an agreement was struck between Government and union negotiators, the party convened a crucial meeting of its Central Committee. The hard-liners, notably Stefan Olszowski and Tadeusz Grabski, who are both Politburo members, came under fierce attack and offered their resignations, which undoubtedly would have been accepted except for fear of further antagonizing the Soviet Union.
Date: 03 April 1981
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft of Canada, a unit of the United Technologies Corporation, said TransBrasil Airlines had selected its PW2037 turbofan engines to power six Boeing 757 aircraft. Pratt said the engine order, the first from a foreign carrier for use on the 757, is valued at $53 million. The company said production of the new fuel-efficient engine is to begin in 1984 and that deliveries of the aircraft to the private Brazilian airline would begin in 1985.
Date: 03 April 1981
AP
The Chrysler Corporation will permanently close its 53-year-old Lynch Road assembly plant in Detroit tomorrow and will lay off 2,160 employees, marking the end of production of full-sized cars by the nation's No.3 auto maker. The shutdown will mark the fifth Chrysler factory to be closed since 1978 and will leave Chrysler with 22,600 hourly employees in the Detroit area - fewer than half the 1978 average. The plant, which produced the fullsized New Yorker and Cordoba, was originally scheduled to close a year ago.