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GROMYKO NEWS CONFERENCE: A 'VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCE'

Date: 04 April 1983

By Serge Schmemann, Special To the New York Times

Serge Schmemann

Though the headlines today focused on Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko's rejection of President Reagan's latest arms proposal, those here who watch the Kremlin were at least as intrigued by the fact that he had chosen to announce the rejection at a wide-open news conference. Such public confrontations with foreigners are exceedingly rare by Politburo members. Even Mr. Gromyko, who has faced the Western press fairly frequently when abroad, has done so at home only on rare occasions. The last time was in June 1979, after President Carter and Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the second strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna, when Mr. Gromyko warned that if the pact went unratified the arms limitation process would fizzle. The treaty was not approved by the United States Senate.

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Reston Is Smith Lecturer

Date: 05 April 1983

James Reston, the columnist of The New York Times, will deliver the first Red Smith Lecture in Journalism at the University of Notre Dame on April 20. The lecture, planned as an annual event, is being established as a memorial to Mr. Smith, a Notre Dame alumnus, who died last year at the age of 76 after half a century as a sportswriter and columnist.

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Turkish Court Puts Off A Verdict on Publisher

Date: 05 April 1983

Special to the New York Times

A military court today put off until May 9 its verdict in the case of a newspaper publisher accused of inciting people to violate existing legislation through his reprinting of an editorial first published in 1961.

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Salvador Police Clear A U.S. Journalist

Date: 04 April 1983

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The police today cleared an American journalist in their investigation of possible arms trafficking from the United States to leftist guerrillas.

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BRIEFING

Date: 05 April 1983

By Phil Gailey and Warren Weaver Jr

Phil Gailey

Eyes on Speakes It was in early February when John S. Herrington, an Assistant Secretary of the Navy and a Reagan loyalist, arrived at the White House with a mandate that made him an unsettling presence in parts of the West Wing: At the request of James A. Baker 3d, the President's chief of staff, he was to spend two months studying some of the most sensitive offices and making recommendations for improving the ways the White House communicates with the general public, as well as various political and special interest groups. One of the operations to come under his scrutiny was the White House press office run by Larry Speakes. Mr. Herrington has been showing up at some of Mr. Speakes's daily briefings, observing from a corner the sometimes heated exchanges between reporters and the President's spokesman over hints of scandal at the Environmental Protection Agency and other places in the Administration. Mr. Herrington, who is to stay on as White House personnel director, is said to have come away from these briefings with considerable sympathy for Mr. Speakes. He has reportedly concluded that Mr. Speakes could be a more effective spokesman for the President if he were given greater access to Mr. Reagan and his inner circle of advisers.

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News Analysis

Date: 05 April 1983

By Joyce Purnick

Joyce Purnick

Edward I. Koch made it one of his goals when he was running for office five years ago, and it has been a goal of his ever since: gaining control of the city's public school system. If the Mayor's candidate for Schools Chancellor, Deputy Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., is chosen, it will emphasize what has been clear to educators for some time but may not yet be fully understood even by Mr. Koch: He already has a good deal of that control. ''The Mayor has another mayoral agency, that's all it is,'' said Marilyn Gittell, professor of political science at the Graduate Center of City University. ''It's no different, really, than any other mayoral agency. He controls it.''

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New York Tribune Publishes; Paper Replaces News World

Date: 05 April 1983

The New York Tribune began publication yesterday and its circulation director, Lew Zedicoff, said it had sold most of the 100,000 copies printed. The paper replaces the six-year-old News World, which ceased publication Friday, and will operate with virtually the same staff.

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MEN IN THE NEWS: PAUL J. WEITZ

Date: 05 April 1983

Paul Weitz, a retired Navy officer, is making his second journey into space as commander of the space shuttle Challenger on its maiden flight. But the current flight is quite different from the one he made nearly 10 years ago, when he spent almost a month in space in the first manned Skylab mission, helping to set what was then a world's record for time in space by spending 672 hours aboard the earthorbiting laboratory. The 50-year-old astronaut fondly recalls his Skylab experience and says that in 28 days he never got tired of looking at the Earth. ''Nearly all my time was spent at the window,'' he said. Before joining the space program, Mr. Weitz went through Navy flight training and received his wings in 1956. Two years earlier, he was commissioned as an ensign through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program at Pennsylvania State University while he was earning a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1983

Date: 05 April 1983

International A gain by Vietnamese troops was reported to international aid workers by Cambodian refugees in Thailand. They said that the Vietnamese forces had enlarged their control of Cambodian areas along the Thai border, overruning another insurgent headquarters and sending more than 20,000 Cambodians fleeing into Thailand. (Page A1, Column 3.) Authorization to restrict imports from countries that sell to the Soviet Union or another Communist bloc country in violation of American trade sanctions is sought in Congress by President Reagan. The proposed legislation, in the form of amendments to the Export Administration Act, would be the first to restrict imports during East-West trade disputes. (A1:4-5.)

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News Summary; MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1983

Date: 04 April 1983

International The Soviet leadership's rejection of President Reagan's interim proposal for limiting medium-range nuclear missiles is not likely to be its last word on the issue, according to Western European governments. Senior North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials said in Brussels Saturday that Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko's rejection of the new proposals disappointing, but not surprising. Meanwhile, organizers said about 200,000 Western Europeans took part in demonstrations over the weekend protesting the possible stationing of the Uinited States missiles in Europe next fall. (Page A1, Column 6.) Anti-Americanism of young people in Europe has troublesome implications, Government officials said, and to counteract it the Reagan Administration is planning a broad strategy aimed at a new generation of young European leaders. The goal is to re-establish the close bonds between leaders on both sides of the Atlantic after World War II. (A1:5.)

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