Toistetaan tiistaina 6. heinäkuuta 1982

News Analysis

Date: 06 July 1982

By David K. Shipler, Special To the New York Times

David Shipler

Israel has been a study in extreme contradictions in the last month, displaying the most diverse capacities for both open debate and suppression of information. The army and the Government have exercised substantial control over television and radio broadcasts in an effort to protect what they see as the morale of the troops and of the nation. Political and military authorities have tailored the information available to Israelis in a way that some Israeli and foreign journalists say has disguised the objectives of the military campaign in Lebanon, enhanced the humane image of the army and played down the hardship of the war on Israeli soldiers and Arab civilians. Vehement Criticism Voiced Yet vehement criticism of the Government, even by soldiers, has been permitted and widely published. Dissenting officers have met with Government officials. Antiwar demonstrations have drawn tens of thousands. Politicians and former generals have spoken and written in sharp disagreement with the aims of the invasion.

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TV: EARLY-MORNING NEWS PROGRAMS

Date: 06 July 1982

By John J. O'Connor

John O'Connor

ATLANTA'S Ted Turner started it all with his 24-hour Cable News Network operation that evidently proved news addicts were looking for a fix just about any hour of the day. Inevitably, there will be other 24-hour news operations on cable. Meanwhile, the networks are moving to expand their own news-scheduling territories. Yesterday, two early-morning shows made their debuts: ''ABC News This Morning,'' at 6 o'clock, and ''Early Today'' on NBC-TV, at 6:30. In essence, both are providing still another smattering of headline services.

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News Analysis

Date: 06 July 1982

By Adam Clymer, Special To the New York Times

Adam Clymer

The nuclear freeze issue, as an influence on this year's elections, is a political enigma. Most experts on both sides of the political aisle feel the issue will matter in this year's elections, and that it will help Democrats more than Republicans because more Democrats favor a freeze. But they are hard put to identify races where it seems to rate as a key question in voters' minds. Even after the Democrats attached themselves fairly tightly to the nuclear freeze issue at their Philadelphia mini-convention a week ago, defining its partisan impact remains uncertain. The issue is almost as elusive for politicians to measure today as the arms limits it seeks have proven to be for diplomats for decades.

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Republic Steel Cuts Output and Staff

Date: 07 July 1982

The Republic Steel Corporation said yesterday that it had halted iron and steel production at its South Chicago plant and had laid off 2,000 workers temporarily. Republic officials said the plant's blast and oxygen furnace operations would probably be closed for at least two or three weeks, while the rolling mills, electric furnaces and finishing facilities would resume operations next week and would be scheduled on a weekto-week basis thereafter.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1982

Date: 06 July 1982

International West Beirut was bombarded by Israeli gunboats and artillery, while ground troops continued the blockade of the Moslem half of the capital, where Palestinian guerrillas are encamped, causing serious shortages of food, gasoline and some medical supplies. An end to the Israeli siege, intended to force out the Palestine Liberation Organization and its members, was demanded by Prime Minister Shafik al-Wazzan, who called the siege ''criminal.'' (Page A1, Col. 6.) Restoring the cease-fire in Lebanon was essential, the United States said and called on Israel to observe a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding that the Israeli blockade of supplies to west Beirut be lifted. (A8:1-2.)

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News Summary; WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1982

Date: 07 July 1982

International An American peacekeeping offer for Lebanon was confirmed by President Reagan. He said he had ''agreed in principle to contribute a small contingent'' of United States troops as part of a multinational force for ''temporary peacekeeping'' in Beirut if a settlement was reached there. Earlier, Israeli officials said that the American plan included French participation in a peace force of about 1,600 troops. (Page A1, Column 6.) The P.L.O. spurned a U.S. offer to evacuate Palestinian guerrillas from west Beirut on ships of the Sixth Fleet. But Yasir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said he did not oppose American participation in a proposed multinational peace force in Lebanon. (A1:4.)

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PRESS LEVEL AT SHEA A MAZE OF DESPAIR

Date: 07 July 1982

By John Leonard

John Leonard

T heseus had his labyrinth. Borges had his library, Kafka had his castle and I, curse Ormazd, have a box seat on the Press Level at Shea Stadium. This is the second time in as many Dodger games that the Mets have stiffed me with a Press Level box seat. The first time, last year before the strike, was the night Valenzuela came to town, and so did everybody else from as far away as the Crab Nebula, and I forgave the Mets, even though from Press Level, Valenzuela looked like a black hole, or at least a blue dwarf. But Monday? You will remember Monday. Because the Mets had been rained out on Saturday, Monday was also Saturday. That is, ''King Kong'' on Diamond Vision, and the fireworks were transferred from Saturday to Monday, from the Phillies to the Dodgers. Expecting a primal horde in Flushing, my son and I arrived at Shea three hours before the game. I let my son buy the tickets because, as a junior in college, he's had more practice spending my money than I have.

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BRITONS JAILED IN ARGENTINA SAW WAR FROM A CELL'S WINDOW

Date: 06 July 1982

By James Feron, Special To the New York Times

James Feron

Simon Winchester, one of the three British journalists imprisoned for 77 days by Argentina on spying charges, reported this weekend that while in prison he kept records of the movements of military planes and ships ''which we could glimpse through the cell's grimy little window.'' Mr. Winchester, of The Sunday Times, was being held in Ushuaia, at the southern tip of Argentina, with two staff members of another Sunday newspaper, The Observer: Ian Mather, a reporter, and Tony Prime, a photographer. They were freed on bail last Tuesday and said on their arrival in Britain that they would return to stand trial.

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Guatemala Censorship Order

Date: 07 July 1982

AP

Gen. Efrain Rios Montt's military Government today banned political activity and ordered censorship of all news about leftist guerrillas fighting for power here. A Government decree prohibited ''the publication of news and commentaries related to subversive activities occurring in the country, be it news that originates in the country or comes from abroad.'' The Government declared a state of siege last Thursday, giving it wide powers to search homes and make arrests without warrants.

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NEW WASHINGTON PAPER TRIES TO ANSWER SKEPTICS

Date: 07 July 1982

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

The Washington Times has invited a group of 25 newspaper editors and publishers and their spouses on a 10-day all-expenses-paid tour of the Soviet Union this fall, with an option to spend a week in South Korea. James R. Whelan, editor and publisher of the newspaper, which began publication six weeks ago, said the offer was intended as a ''bold and dramatic'' gesture that would help ''establish The Washington Times as a major, highly respected member of the journalistic community.'' The newspaper has been greeted with some skepticism on the part of other journalists and public officials who think it could be a propaganda vehicle for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the South Korean evangelist. The newspaper is owned by News World Communications, which in turn is owned by business associates of Mr. Moon.

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