Toistetaan lauantaina 31. maaliskuuta 1984

TOP U.S. RIGHTS AIDE ACCUSES PRESS OF DISTORTION

Date: 01 April 1984

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

The Reagan Administration's chief human rights spokesman has asserted that the public gets a distorted view of rights violations around the world because news organizations report abuses in nations that the United States supports and ignore those in countries it opposes. The accusation was made Friday in a debate in New York between Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut. Mr. Dodd replied that the chief source of distortion was the Reagan Administration's ''indifference'' to human rights infractions of allies and opponents alike. Senator Dodd said, however, that the press should expand its reporting of such abuses even if the Administration was not calling attention to the problem.

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Mubarak and Arafat Meet

Date: 01 April 1984

Reuters

President Hosni Mubarak and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, have held talks in Conakry, Guinea, where they were attending the funeral of President Ahmed Sekou Toure. The meeting was announced here today after President Mubarak's return. The two men last met in December after the expulsion of Mr. Arafat from Tripoli, Lebanon.

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POST IS PICKETED BY STRIKING GUILD MEMBERS

Date: 01 April 1984

By Robert D. McFadden

Robert

Newspaper Guild picket lines appeared at The New York Post yesterday as 400 editorial, advertising and accounting employees struck the paper in a dispute over a management effort to cut the costs of a three-year contract extension. Saturday editions rolled off presses before the walkout, and The Post has no Sunday paper, so readers were not immediately affected. The Post said it would try to publish tomorrow, with supervisors filling in for strikers, but it was unclear whether it would be able to do so.

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Arabs Warn the U.S. On Embassy in Israel

Date: 31 March 1984

Reuters

Arab ministers meeting in Tunis decided today to warn the United States of unspecified retaliation if it moved its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, conference sources said. The sources said the text of a resolution worked out this morning but still to be voted on by the Arab League council session here threatened that the Arab nations would take ''adequate measures'' if the embassy were moved. They said Arab hard-liners, identified by some delegates as Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization, had pressed for a clear commitment to break diplomatic relations.

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NEW YORK POST IS STRUCK BY THE NEWSPAPER GUILD

Date: 31 March 1984

By Douglas C. McGill

Douglas McGill

Nearly 400 employees of The New York Post went on strike at 12:01 this morning after negotiations with the newspaper's management over a new three-year contract broke down, union officials said. The employees, who are members of The New York Post Unit of the Newspaper Guild, include reporters, photographers and accounting and advertising employees. They constitute nearly a third of the newspaper's 1,200 employees, Guild officials said.

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ARMS UNIT CRITICAL OF LEFT AND RIGHT

Date: 01 April 1984

By Leslie H. Gelb

Leslie Gelb

President Reagan's Commission on Strategic Forces has issued a report that is critical of the arms control approaches of both the Reagan Administration and its detractors. The report says both expect too much too soon from arms control talks with the Soviet Union. It urges a modest, step-by-step approach in arms negotiations. Several commission members and people close to the commission said the commission'sintention in the report was to create more support for arms control in the center of the political spectrum and to free the arms control process from what they saw as the unrealistic demands of the left and right, particularly with the political pressures of a Presidential election year.

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Prodding the Pentagon

Date: 31 March 1984

William E. Farrell and Warren Weaver Jr

William Farrell

A Republican Congressman from New Jersey, sponsor of a bill that is apparently an irritant to the Pentagon, is beginning to think the military is deliberately malingering by not providing requested comments on the draft legislation. The bill, sponsored by Representative Jim Courter, would require the Department of Defense to increase competitive bidding for the purchase of military goods and services. Mr. Courter has labeled his proposal the ''creeping capitalism bill'' and says the Pentagon's current contractual system is monolithic and noncompetitive, similar, he says, to the ''centrally authorized and planned authoritarian defense model used by the Soviet Union.'' In a letter to Russell Rourke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for legislative affairs, Mr. Courter says that in October he sent a letter asking for the Defense Department's comments on his bill, to no avail. In January, he says, his staff was told a reply had been prepared. It was not received. In mid-March Mr. Courter was told the letter was awaiting the approval of the Office of Management and Budget.

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A GOOD SUBMARINE IS HARD TO FIND

Date: 01 April 1984

By Wayne Biddle

Wayne Biddle

When a Soviet submarine rose undetected from the Sea of Japan recently and smacked the bottom of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, there were other red faces than those at the helm of each vessel. The United States Navy has spent a fortune on keeping enemy subs from coming within miles of its big carriers, let alone lolling under them like clumsy whales. According to a recent analysis by Frost & Sullivan, a Wall Street research company that specializes in high technology, Navy appropriations for antisubmarine warfare in fiscal year 1983 reached $13 billion, or about 15 percent of the service's total budget. Frost & Sullivan projects that the spending will grow steadily through 1987, with the major portion of the increase going for the purchase of new ships and helicopters to escort the carriers through submarine-infested waters.

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ADMIRAL REPORTS MISSILE SHORTAGE

Date: 01 April 1984

By Richard Halloran

Richard Halloran

The Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. James D. Watkins, says his service has a critical shortage of missiles, torpedoes and other munitions and has assigned high priority to filling that gap in the 1986 military budget now being drawn up. In a memorandum to Navy planning officers, Admiral Watkins asserted that funds alloted so far ''are still not sufficient to fully relieve all critical shortages.'' He instructed staff officers to ''rebalance'' programs to enable forces to sustain combat over many months.

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DEFICIT REDUCERS ARE OUT FOR BLOOD, BUT IS PENTAGON A STONE?

Date: 01 April 1984

By Jonathan Fuerbringer

Jonathan Fuerbringer

Before the House and the Senate can approve a deficit reduction package this year, the Democrats will have to square off against the Republicans and the Reagan Administration over the size of the military budget. The battle will be waged in numbers - the percentages of real growth in military spending. In a compromise with Senate Republicans, the Administration agreed to slow growth in 1985 from 13 percent after inflation to 8.3 percent. House Democratic leaders are backing a limit of 3.5 percent. Under the pay-as-you-go approach contained in the budget resolution approved by the House Budget Committee last week, the 3.5 percent limit would contribute to a deficit reduction of $182 billion over three years. The plan, which would also require spending increases to be matched with equal increases in taxes or spending cuts, is the main alternative to the White House-Senate compromise, which would reduce deficits by $150 billion over three years. That package will come to the floor of the Senate as soon as a wrangle over the rules of debate, which grew increasingly heated as the week progressed, is resolved. The House will vote on the Democratic leadership's plan this week.

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