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12th of May 1984 News
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REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: TRUST AND NEWS
Date: 12 May 1984
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
Public trust in journalism is very much on the minds of newspaper editors these days. It is a perennial issue for newsgatherers, but some editors at the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which ended here today, said they were more worried about the problem now than they had been at any time in their professional careers. A new study presented to the convention said they should be concerned. It said a telephone survey of 1,200 readers last winter showed 57 percent did not think newspapers as an insitution were fair and 39 percent felt that even their hometown dailies were often biased in their coverage.
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ZIMBABWE VILLAGERS TELL OF ABUSES
Date: 12 May 1984
By Ari L. Goldman
Ari Goldman
With a Government escort standing by, foreign journalists on a tour of a rebel area have heard charges from residents that soldiers pressing a counterinsurgency drive have resorted to raping, torturing, beating and murdering villagers. These statements by villagers and others, some given in the open, others privately, came during a two-day Government-conducted visit to Matabeleland, an area where many followers of the opposition leader Joshua Nkomo live. As the tour ended Thursday night, a Government spokesman said it had proved that allegations published abroad of ''brutality on a massive scale have been false.''
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THE UNEASINESS BETWEEN BLACKS AND UNION LEADERS
Date: 13 May 1984
By Bill Keller
Bill Keller
When the executives of the A.F.L.-C.I.O convened here last week to talk politics, their mood was one of subdued self-congratulation. Even after Walter F. Mondale lost Ohio and Indiana on Tuesday, the labor political director, John Perkins, consoled himself that union voters stayed with the former Vice President by a comfortable margin. The feeling was that union members have by and large delivered for the labor federation's candidate. But one group of union members has not. According to New York Times/CBS News exit polls, black union members have overwhelmingly voted for the Rev. Jesse Jackson. In Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, and now Ohio - union strongholds all - they, like blacks at large, have turned out for Mr. Jackson. In so doing, they have aligned themselves with a candidate who has on occasion poked fun at the organized labor establishment. In a favorite Jackson metaphor, labor is one of the institutional ''old wine skins'' that should be making room for ''new wine.'' He has faulted unions for being slow to pute blacks into leadership positions, saying, ''A black or a woman will clearly be President of this country before one will even be able to run for head of the A.F.L.- C.I.O.'' He has charged that when unions control the gateway to employment - as they do in the building trades, where employers commonly muster their manpower at the union hall for each project - they have protected white workers at the expense of young blacks entering the workforce.
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2 SENATORS CALL ON PENTAGON TO MAKE ITS PLANS IN COSTA RICA PUBLIC
Date: 13 May 1984
By Hedrick Smith
Hedrick Smith
Senator Jim Sasser of Tennessee, who has been a critic of the Administration's construction of military airfields in Honduras, released a letter on Friday pressing Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger to make public the Pentagon's plans for military construction and exercises in Costa Rica this year. Mr. Sasser and Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, both Democrats, expressed concern that the Administration's efforts to promote exercises by 1,000 United States military engineers in Costa Rica and increase arms sales to that country were intended to shift the country away from political neutrality to closer alignment with the United States against Nicaragua. In a letter to Mr. Weinberger drafted May 4, Senator Sasser said he had been told that in late March the United States Ambassador, Curtin Winsor Jr., had ''secured an agreement with Costa Rican officials to permit U.S. military engineers to participate in construction projects in the northern zone as well as in southern Costa Rica.'' He asked to see the agreement and information on what arrangements were made to assure the security of United States forces.
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Guzzling Gas
Date: 13 May 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
It appeared last fall that General Motors and Ford might not meet Federal fuel economy standards with their newer cars, thereby subjecting the companies to millions in fines. The standards, based on the average fuel consumption of all cars produced by a company in a year, called for 26 miles to the gallon for 1983 model cars and 27 miles for 1984.
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Earthquake City
Date: 13 May 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
It was a year ago that an earthquake shook the small city of Coalinga, Calif., destroying 350 houses and wiping out 46 of the 51 buildings in the six-block downtown business area. Forty-five of the city's 7,350 people were hurt, but no one was killed. The quake, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, caused damage estimated at more than $50 million.
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Black Fly Battle
Date: 13 May 1984
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
For years the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania was so polluted by sewage and acid drainage from coal mines that not much life of any kind survived in it. After the river was cleaned up in the mid-1970's, one of the first insects to return was the black fly.
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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1984 International
Date: 12 May 1984
Jose Napoleon Duarte got 54 percent of the vote in Sunday's presidential election in El Salvador, according to the Central Elections Council's official figures. The far-right opposition party said it would not accept the council's tally. (Page 1, Column 6.) Two Salvadoran political parties received $1.4 million from the Central Intelligence Agency, according to a Reagan Administration official familiar with C.I.A. operations. He said the C.I.A. was seeking to prevent the election of a right-wing candidate as president. (6:3.)
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THE REGION;
Date: 13 May 1984
By Alan Finder and Richard Levine
Alan Finder
'Shield' Law Strongly Upheld Freedom of speech allows a news reporter to remain silent, New York State's highest court ruled last week, even if a grand jury wants him to disclose a confidential source. A reporter, in fact, need not comply with such a request even if the information involves criminal activity or if the refusal to comply would hinder a criminal investigation, the Court of Appeals ruled.
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Networks Are Asked To Withhold Projections
Date: 13 May 1984
AP
Twenty-nine California Democrats in the House of Representatives have asked three television networks to withhold Election Day projections of voting results that they say could affect voter turnout in the state's June 5 Presidential primary. ''We are asking that you voluntarily refrain from publishing, announcing or characterizing projected election results before the polls have closed,'' the lawmakers said Friday in a letter to the news division presidents of the ABC, CBS and NBC networks. ''We urge you to allow all Californians their basic right to an unencumbered vote.''
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Cyanide in Coke Bottle Kills Man in Wisconsin
Date: 13 May 1984
AP
Cyanide in a bottle of Coca-Cola has killed a 34-year-old man, and the police warned local consumers to check other soft drink bottles for tampering, the authorities said today. Denis Vogel, the Manitowoc County District Attorney, and LeRoy Strauss, the Police Chief, made the announcement at a joint news conference to report results of the investigation into the death of Thomas Dresser of Manitowoc, whose body was found Thursday.
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