Ponovno predvajanje četrtek, 11. april 1985

CUOMO SEES POLITICAL NEWS AS OVER SIMPLIFIED

Date: 11 April 1985

By Maurice Carroll

Maurice Carroll

News coverage of politics and the Washington political world is overly dependent upon labels, Governor Cuomo of New York said here today. ''To be honest, it's a little disorienting to come here as Governor and find that we're back in the land of capsule truths, where perceptions rule over realities,'' Mr. Cuomo told the convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Mr. Cuomo offered the familiar lament that complex political and governmental realities were oversimplified into 28 seconds on television, and he blended that lament with a description of the way the budget battle between Congress and the White House was being reported.

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APPELLATE RULING ON LIBEL

Date: 11 April 1985

By Stuart Taylor Jr

Stuart Taylor

Investigative reporting, variously characterized as muckraking, sensationalism and exposing wrongdoing, has become a bit more risky. That was the import of a 2-to-1 decision by a Federal appeals court panel reinstating a jury verdict that The Washington Post had libeled the president of the Mobil Oil Corporation in a 1979 article. The article said that William P. Tavoulareas, then Mobil's president, had ''set up his son'' in business in a shipping company that had dealings with Mobil. In reaching this conclusion, the court included a novel holding that a newspaper's general orientation toward ''hard-hitting investigative stories'' could, together with other evidence, support an inference that it was inclined to publish reckless falsehoods.

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NEW YORK DAY BY DAY ; On the Lobster Shift And Out of Touch

Date: 12 April 1985

By Susan Heller Anderson and David W. Dunlap

Susan Anderson

When he had the time, he got his news from newspapers.

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U. S. EDITORS DESCRIBED AS REMISS ON REPORTING THE PLIGHT OF BLACKS

Date: 12 April 1985

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

A politician, an academic and a journalist, all black, today told the nation's newspaper editors that they were not reporting vital aspects of the black experience in the United States, especially what were described as damaging changes in civil rights policies by the Reagan Administration. ''For the first time in 25 years, there is an Administration hostile to aspirations of racial equality,'' Julian Bond, a Georgia State Senator, told the members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, whose members represent most of the nation's daily papers. They are here for their annual convention. ''It's a radical, radical, radical, radical shift, and it's a frightening story,'' Mr. Bond said, adding that the ''public has no idea'' that it had happened.

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NEWS SUMMARY;

Date: 11 April 1985

THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1985 International U.S. ambiguity on summit talks was acknowledged by Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan's national security adviser. He said Mr. Reagan could meet with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, this year even if a full-fledged summit conference was not possible. (Page A1, Col. 6.) A major review of U.S.-Soviet ties will be held over the next two weeks by the Reagan Administration, according to officials. They said the policy study would determine whether Secretary of State George P. Shultz would offer any new initiatives to Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko when they meet in Vienna on May 14. (A11:6.)

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NEWS SUMMARY;

Date: 12 April 1985

FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1985 International An unexpected Israeli pullback in Lebanon occurred when Israeli forces withdrew from a Shiite-populated area where the troops have come under repeated attack. The withdrawal, from around the town of Nabatiye, places Israel's northern frontier settlements within range of guerrilla rockets. (Page A1, Col. 6.) Enver Hoxha, Albania's leader, died at the age of 76. He led Europe's most secretive and poorest country through more than 40 years of strict Stalinism. President Ramiz Alia, Mr. Hoxha's heir-apparent, is expected to emerge as the successor. (A1:3.)

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Communication Unit Honors CBS Founder

Date: 11 April 1985

William S. Paley, the founder and former chairman of CBS, received the Center for Communication's annual award at a luncheon in New York City on Tuesday. Thornton F. Bradshaw, chairman of the RCA Corporation, presented the award to Mr. Paley, who built CBS from a small chain of radio stations into a multibillion-dollar communications company.

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GORBACHEV, RECEIVING O'NEILL, URGES U.S. TO END 'ICE AGE'

Date: 11 April 1985

By Seth Mydans

Seth Mydans

The Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, told a visiting Congressional group today that United States-Soviet relations had been suffering an ice age, and he urged Washington to show the political will to overcome it. In remarks reported by the Tass press agency, he told Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., the Speaker of the House of Representatives, that the Soviet Union favored detente and that ''our nations can gain much from the development of broad and fruitful cooperation.'' Later, at a news conference, Mr. O'Neill said he and three other House members had met with Mr. Gorbachev in the Kremlin for three and three- quarter hours, more than twice the planned time, and had been impressed by his toughness, knowledge and persuasiveness. Letter From Reagan Delivered The Speaker, who is a Massachusetts Democrat, said the Americans had delivered a letter from President Reagan, though he declined to disclose the contents.

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QADDAFI MENACES REAGAN ON SUDAN

Date: 11 April 1985

By Henry Kamm

Henry Kamm

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi said today that President Reagan's ''nose will be cut'' if the United States interferes in the Sudan. ''Reagan has nothing to do with Sudan,'' the Libyan leader said in English to an American reporter as he left a news conference at his military headquarters here. ''Sudan is ours, not an American matter. Reagan must take care of his county, and he has big problems there. He don't interfere here, or his nose will be cut.''

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SUDAN CHIEF ANNOUNCES TALKS TO FORM A CABINET

Date: 11 April 1985

By Edward Schumacher

Edward Schumacher

The Sudan's new military leader said today that he was negotiating with civilian opposition groups to form a coalition Cabinet, and that he had sent an envoy to start negotations with guerrillas in the southern part of that north African nation. General Siwar el-Dahab, in his first news conference since he led a coup Saturday, also said he was anxious to maintain good relations with the United States. Long quotes from the news conference were reported from Khartoum by Egypt's official Middle East News Agency. The Sudan's telephone and telex lines were mostly shut down and its airports remained closed.

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