Ponovno predvajanje torek, 15. oktober 1985

TRAILBLAZER AND TEAM PLAYER

Date: 16 October 1985

By Eric N. Berg

Eric Berg

The choice of Franco Modigliani as winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science is a popular one among economists, a tribe often given to highly refined and sometimes vocal dispute. Yesterday congratulatory telephone calls and laudatory telegrams poured in to his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ''Economists all over the world are students, admirers and friends of Franco Modigliani,'' said Paul A. Samuelson of M.I.T., himself a Nobel laureate, Like previous winners of the award, Professor Modigliani (pronounced ''mo-deel-YAH-nee'') is considered a consummate academic and an intellectual pathfinder. But unlike some others, whose work was either obscure or accessible only to specialists, his ideas have shaped generations of students. ''If you took finance at business school, if you studied economics, or if you studied corporations in law school, chances are you will have heard of Franco's propositions,'' said Eugene Flood, professor of finance at the Stanford Business School. He studied in graduate school under Professor Modigliani.

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PROGRESS IN NEWSPAPER STRIKE

Date: 16 October 1985

By William R. Greer, Special To the New York Times

William Greer

The two Philadelphia newspapers and nine striking newspaper unions appeared close to a settlement tonight in a six-week strike that has idled 4,500 workers and cost the city millions of dollars in revenue. Negotiators representing Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., which publishes The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily News, and the papers' unionized employees last month concluded an agreement on what both sides said was the strike's central issue, the installation of an automated collating system for the various sections of the paper. And today the Philadelphia Council of Newspaper Unions, representing the nine unions, said that they were close to an agreement on economic issues.

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Malaysia Fines Journalist Under Secrecy Law

Date: 15 October 1985

UPI

Upi

The head of The Far Eastern Economic Review, was convicted today on two counts of publishing secret information and fined the equivalent of $4,166.

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PRESS COVERAGE CRITICIZED IN DISASTER IN PUERTO RICO

Date: 15 October 1985

By Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell

Some Puerto Ricans and others on the mainland have expressed frustration, disappointment and bitterness over news coverage of the mud slide last week that the authorities say may have killed more than 500 people. Newspapers from Boston to Los Angeles tended to cover last week's disaster in Ponce as if it had taken place in a far-off country, critics said, when in fact Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States. ''It's actually shameful and disturbing,'' said Gerson Borerro, associate director of the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy in Manhattan. ''People have noticed it.''

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Topics; Carrying On; Surprise Party?

Date: 16 October 1985

The President's Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution has met twice, in secrecy. When asked why the celebration of an open society's charter should be planned behind closed doors, Chief Justice Burger, the chairman, explained: ''We are following the precedent of the original meeting of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

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Working Profile: Edward P. Djerejian; New Rose Among White House Press Thorns

Date: 16 October 1985

By Bernard Weinraub, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Weinraub

''You couldn't get Hertz, you're getting Avis,'' Edward P. Djerejian remarked with a laugh the other afternoon as he climbed up to the podium in the White House press room. Although he is No. 2 to the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, on foreign affairs, Mr. Djerejian has emerged as one of the more unusual figures at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The first career Foreign Service officer in years to serve as a White House spokesman, he is a nonpolitical diplomat amid Republican appointees, a fairly candid spokesman in a White House whose officials are often stonily unresponsive, and a dapper dresser - he favors double-breasted blazers - among charcoal grays. Mr. Djerejian was hired by Mr. Speakes over the summer to replace Robert B. Sims, the former chief foreign-policy expert in the White House press office who moved to the Pentagon as chief spokesman.

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APPROVAL RATING OF REAGAN BY BLACKS HAS RISEN SIGNIFICANTLY, POLLS SHOW

Date: 15 October 1985

By Phil Gailey, Special To the New York Times

Phil Gailey

President Reagan's approval rating among blacks has increased significantly since he took office, although most still disapprove of the way he is handling his job, according to polls conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. This year 28 percent of the nation's blacks said they approved of Mr. Reagan's performance on the job, up from 10 percent in 1982, when a recession and cuts in social programs pushed the approval rating down. A large majority of blacks, 60 percent, disapprove of Mr. Reagan's job performance, down from a high of 76 percent in 1982. As in the population as a whole, Mr. Reagan received his highest approval rating among blacks, 33 percent, from those 18 to 29 years old, according to the polls. Also, a considerably higher percentage of black men than black women say they approve of the way the President is doing his job, 35 percent to 22 percent in polls taken this year.

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U.S. PLANS WERE MADE ON OPEN LINE

Date: 15 October 1985

By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times

Bill Keller

President Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger laid plans to intercept an Egyptian airliner last week over an open radio line that would have been audible to ham radio operators over a wide area, Pentagon and White House officials said today. A White House official said the two men decided not to use a coded communications line because ''time was of the essence'' and their separate coding machines were not compatible without time-consuming adjustments. What was apparently a security lapse became known after the brother of an amateur radio operator in Chicago called CBS News in New York to say his brother had overheard the conversation. 'Whatever It Takes' In a telephone interview today, the brother said the amateur radio operator had listened in on an open shortwave channel as Mr. Reagan ordered that Navy F-14 fighter pilots force down the civilian airliner carrying four hijackers of an Italian cruise ship.

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COURT TO RULE PRESS ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HEARINGS

Date: 16 October 1985

Special to the New York Times

The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether the First Amendment gives the public and press a right to attend preliminary hearings in criminal cases. The case poses a new variation on the conflict between the interest of the public and press in open judicial proceedings and the interest of criminal defendants in a fair trial free of prejudicial publicity. Several Federal appellate courts have held that there is a First Amendment right to attend preliminary criminal hearings, but the California Supreme Court disagreed in the case the Supreme Court added to its docket today. The issue is important to press organizations because in California and many other states, the vast majority of criminal cases are disposed of before trial and preliminary hearings are the only public proceedings held.

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U.S. SENDS LAXALT TO TALK TO MARCOS

Date: 15 October 1985

By Bernard Weinraub, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Weinraub

President Reagan has sent Senator Paul Laxalt to the Philippines to discuss the worsening military, political and economic situation there, Administration officials said today. Officials said Mr. Laxalt, one of Mr. Reagan's closest friends, would probably meet President Ferdinand E. Marcos in the next two days. According to the officials, Mr. Laxalt, a conservative Nevada Republican, is carrying a message to Mr. Marcos from President Reagan. The White House declined to divulge details of the message, but Administration officials said Mr. Reagan wanted to ''express his concern'' about the situation in the Philippines.

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