Ponovno predvajanje nedelja, 27. november 1983

CUTS IN DAILY NEWS LAID TO PRINTING PROBLEMS

Date: 27 November 1983

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

The Daily News has reduced the space it gives to general news, sports, business and feature coverage by 10 percent because of problems with printing the paper that have also contributed to a 10 percent drop in circulation, according to its editor, James G. Wieghart. Mr. Wieghart said in an interview last week that the reduction in the news columns was not caused by economic difficulties, but rather by limitations related to moving the paper's presses out of Manhattan. He said the difficulty was compounded by the need to accommodate a heavy volume of Thanksgiving and Christmas advertising. The cut of four pages a day in news space has upset some of Mr. Wieghart's subordinate editors, who said it reflected a willingness to cut back on news to increase profits. Mr. Wieghart said that he shared some of their unhappiness, particularly since he had won an increase in news space earlier in the year, but that the cuts were solely due to production problems.

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THE INTRICACIES OF INITIATING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Date: 27 November 1983

By Alan S. Oser

Alan Oser

THE DAILY NEWS made it. Joshua Muss didn't. Two recent tales of economic development efforts in the city are especially interesting in the light of an announcement by Mayor Koch earlier this month. He said he would propose legislation to increase significantly the real estate-tax benefits available for new commercial and industrial development in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, and sections of Manhattan as well.

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COMPONENTS OF THE CRUISE ARRIVE IN ITALY

Date: 28 November 1983

AP

The first components of 112 cruise missiles have arrived in Sicily, the Defense Ministry said today. Italy is the third country to begin receiving the NATO nuclear weapons. There were no immediate reports of any demonstrations similar to those that marked the arrival of cruise missiles in Britain and that were held in West Germany Saturday.

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GERMANY, UBER ALLES

Date: 27 November 1983

The news is about new American missiles in Europe, threats of new Soviet deployments and the Soviet walkout from negotiations to regulate this phase of the arms race. The underlying realities are these: It will take five years for all the new NATO missiles to be put in place. . . . Any limit on Euromissiles will have to be part of a global arms compact. . . . No such pact seems possible until after America's 1984 election. Then why all the Soviet fury? Because the Kremlin, countering a President it took to be stalling all negotiations until he could acquire more missiles, has found profit in a political counterattack against the NATO alliance. The true contest concerns not Western Europe's weapons but its adherence to the United States. Above all, the struggle is about the future of Germany.

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BRITISH NEWSPAPER OWNERS TO SUE PRINTERS' UNION OVER STRIKE

Date: 27 November 1983

By Barnaby Feder

Barnaby Feder

As a printers' strike against Britain's national newspapers went into a second day today, the publishers announced that they would each sue the strikers' union for damages. Continuation of the action affected all seven of Fleet Street's Sunday papers. The owners' announcement today clouded prospects that the walkout would end in time to publish Monday's papers, and increased the chances that other unions would join the strike.

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FOUR BRITISH PAPERS TO PUBLISH DESPITE STRIKE

Date: 28 November 1983

By Barnaby J. Feder

Barnaby Feder

Four of Britain's struck national newspapers announced tonight that they would publish Monday after some printers returned to work. But six other papers ousted their printers, setting the stage for a prolonged struggle over the impact of the union's refusal to comply with restrictive labor laws passed by the Conservative Government, or with court orders enforcing them. The National Graphical Association printers who returned to work at The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Daily Mail did so without meeting the publishers' demand for assurances that there would be no repeat of the unofficial strike that began Friday.

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THE GREAT CHASE IN NETWORK NEWS

Date: 28 November 1983

By Sally Bedell Smith

Sally Smith

Beginning this evening, ABC's ''World News Tonight'' will originate in Chicago instead of New York for the entire week. The move is just one of the ways in which the nightly newscasts on ABC and NBC are trying to differentiate themselves as they seek to become more competitive with ''The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather,'' the most widely watched of the three. In separate interviews with editors and reporters of The New York Times, Peter Jennings, anchor of ABC's ''World News Tonight,'' and Tom Brokaw, anchor of the NBC ''Nightly News,'' described changes being made in their broadcasts, their roles as anchors and other issues facing network news organizations today, including a viewership that is increasingly critical of their programs. Both Mr. Jennings and Mr. Brokaw have been solo anchors since Sept. 5. Previously, ABC had three anchors - Frank Reynolds in Washington, Mr. Jennings in London and Max Robinson in Chicago. NBC used a dual-anchor format with Mr. Brokaw in New York and Roger Mudd in Washington. The CBS broadcast, on the other hand, has revolved around Mr. Rather as solo anchor broadcasting from New York for two-and-a-half years.

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FOLLOW UP ON THE NEWS

Date: 27 November 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

'Child Substitute' When Rex Wheatland and his wife, Judi, were divorced in Santa Ana, Calif., a sticky problem arose over a dependent called Runaway. Both sides were adamant in demanding sole custody.

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FOLLOW UP ON THE NEWS

Date: 27 November 1983

By Richard Haitch End To Measles

Richard End

The year was 1978, and Joseph A. Califano Jr., then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, set a health goal: the elimination of domestic measles in the country in four years. In October 1982 the National Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, acknowledging that the goal had not been met, indicated that success was near.

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Disputed Grant

Date: 27 November 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat who has often complained that the Government gives grants to colleges for frivolous research, was accused last March of abetting the practice. Administration officials suggested that he present his Golden Fleece Award to himself for getting Congress to approve $1.4 million for continued studies by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin.

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