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20th of October 1984 News
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News of the Island On Television
Date: 21 October 1984
I read with great interest the article on Long Island television news (''Cablevision Plans Major News Show,'' Sept. 16). The main question raised was: ''Should Long Island have its own nightly television news program?'' I join with others who say, ''Absolutely yes!'' But what the article failed to mention, in a startling omission, is that Long Island already has its own television nightly news show - ''Long Island News Tonight'' - which airs on five cable companies in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
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NEWS SUMMARY;
Date: 20 October 1984
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1984 National Eight ex-police officers were charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of two accused terrorists who had surrendered to them in a mountainous area of Puerto Rico more than six years ago. (6:1-2.) Metropolitan A self-closing fire door that had been propped open with a 55-gallon drum allowed smoke and heat to fill an eight-story downtown residential hotel in Paterson, N.J., trapping people on the upper floors and preventing firefighters from reaching many victims, fire officials said. Thirteen people were killed and 57 were injured in the blaze on Thursday that, the authorities charge, was set by a hotel handyman. (26:1-2.)
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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS ; Cracking 'Glyphs'
Date: 21 October 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
One of the country's leading authorities on hieroglyphics received a $128,000 award in February to pursue any work he chose over the next five years. ''It's really a shock - still a little hard to comprehend,'' said the recipient, 18-year-old David Stuart of Silver Spring, Md.
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Fruit Fly Fight
Date: 21 October 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
For southern California farmers, there was good and bad news two months ago. Agriculture officials in Los Angeles County announced that they eradicated the Mexican fruit fly.
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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS ; 'Open Door' Jail
Date: 21 October 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
The new Travis County jail in Austin, Tex., cost $12 million to build, and it had an advanced electronic locking system. The locking system was integrated with other security equipment, and this created problems.
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ANOTHER ROUND OF NOBELS
Date: 21 October 1984
Perhaps nothing in modern science inspires quite as much guesswork as who will win the Nobel Prizes. Nominators are a tight- lipped bunch, and the process by which the Swedish Academy of Science and Stockholm's Karolinska Institute cull through candidates' credentials is a carefully guarded secret. Still, many expected this year's award for medicine to go to three immunologists - Dr. Cesar Milstein of England, Dr. Georges J.F. K"ohler of Switzerland and Dr. Niels K. Jerne, who was born in Britain and raised in Denmark - for their work developing monoclonal antibodies, biological bullets that may one day be used to ''seek and destroy'' cancer cells. Last week, it did.
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Insurance Evasion
Date: 21 October 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
A computerized campaign to get 500,000 uninsured cars off the roads was started in July by the Motor Vehicles Department in New York State. The program called for insurance companies to notify the department whenever a motorist's policy was canceled.
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EL SALVADOR GETS BRIEF GLIMPSE OF PEACE
Date: 21 October 1984
The men of El Salvador interrupted four years of killing last week, but only for a moment. Unarmed leaders from both sides got together and took a hesitant first step toward peace. Then they went back to warmaking.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES / CBS NEWS POLL
Date: 20 October 1984
The Undecided Voters on Key Questions Total Approve of Reagan's handling 46% Disapprove 40* Approve his handling of economy 54* Disapprove 38* Support aid to rebels in Nicaragua 30* Oppose 50* Believe Russians would take 51* Believe Russians would 30* Has favorable view of Reagan 55* 25* Has unfavorable view 32* 21* Has favorable view of Mondale41* Has unfavorable view38* Think Republicans treat50* Believe they show her less respect37*
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OIL PRICE-CUTTING CHALLENGES OPEC
Date: 21 October 1984
World oil producers scrambled to rebuild their defenses last week after Britain, Norway and Nigeria broke through the price ramparts. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries called an emergency meeting amid fears that the cartel could crack under renewed pressure to cut prices and raise production.
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