Ponovno predvajanje četrtek, 16. maj 1985

'TICKET TO SEOUL,' JOURNALISTS' FREE TRIP

Date: 16 May 1985

By Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

WHEN Kenneth Ellis, a producer at KQED, a public television station in San Francisco, was invited to a two-week, all-expenses-paid trip to Asia by the World Media Association, an arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, he asked himself, ''Why would the Moonies take journalists to Asia?'' So, Mr. Ellis relates in a rather self-satisified way at the outset of ''Ticket to Seoul,'' he decided to go on the trip but pay his own way. The documentary, on Channel 13 tonight at 10 o'clock on the ''Intercom'' series, is the result. The tour took Mr. Ellis and a cameraman to a refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border for Cambodians on the run from their Vietnam-controlled regime; to the Phillipines, where we hear from opponents of the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos as well as its supporters; to Taiwan, where we witness signs of industrial activity and military readiness; to Tokyo, where Mr. Ellis surmises that he wasn't invited to see Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone because ''we had declared our ideological independence by paying our own way,'' and finally to South Korea and the demilitarized zone, where the camera plays on a North Korean soldier whose hand keeps fidgeting in the vicinity of his holster.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 17 May 1985

FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1985 International Jose Napoleon Duarte, in Washington, told President Reagan that El Salvador had achieved at least a partial success in battling insurgents, and he called for new negotiations with the leftist rebel leaders. The Salvadoran President also cited progress in human rights and political stability, but acknowledged that his country still had a ''long, difficult road to travel.'' [Page A1, Column 3.] Many Sikh extremists are at large in India and abroad and are almost certain to try to carry out more bombings and shootings, according to statements attributed to Indian law-enforcement officials. [A3:1.]

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 16 May 1985

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1985 International Summit details are not settled, according to Secretary of State George P. Shultz. He told reporters abroad his plane en route back to Washington after a meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko in Vienna that the two sides had not agreed where and when President Reagan might meet with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. [Page A1, Column 1.] The Senate approved foreign aid totaling $12.8 billion by an overwhelming majority after agreeing not to take up the issue of aid to insurgents fighting the Nicaraguan Government. [A13:1-3.]

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But Will It Still Be Tax Reform?

Date: 16 May 1985

There's a great spate of news about President Reagan's tax reform plan these days, except it's not news at all. It's trial balloons and speculation, yet enough to warrant a News of the Leaks in Review. What's happening, and can it be taken seriously? The bewildered reader can try applying four tests to the reports.

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Dunston Sent Down

Date: 16 May 1985

Shawon Dunston, the 22-year-old, Brooklyn-born rookie who got off to a jittery start after winning the Chicago Cubs' shortstop job over the veteran Larry Bowa, has been sent to the minors. Dallas Green, the general manager, and Jim Frey, the manager, gave Dunston the news Tuesday night after he watched from the bench as the Cubs beat the Dodgers, 8-3, in Los Angeles.

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BANKERS TRUST CUTS PRIME RATE

Date: 16 May 1985

By Nicholas D. Kristof

Nicholas

The Bankers Trust Company cut its prime lending rate yesterday by half a percentage point, to 10 percent. The move, which analysts expect other major banks to follow soon, means that the prime rate will be at its lowest level since 1978. This should provide a boost to the economy and make it easier for many businesses and debtor nations to repay their loans.

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Topics; All in the Family Budget Priorities

Date: 17 May 1985

The cutting of Federal spending is much in the news, but so far there hasn't been a word about budget cuts for a significant Federal expenditure: Congress. Why? Because -surprise, surprise - there's been no cut.

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TRIBUNE IN TV DEAL FOR $510 MILLION

Date: 17 May 1985

By Richard W. Stevenson

Richard Stevenson

The Tribune Company yesterday joined the parade of companies making media acquisitions, announcing that it had agreed to purchase KTLA-TV, an independent station in Los Angeles, for $510 million in cash. The price is the highest ever for a single television station. The previous record had been the $450 million that the Hearst Corporation agreed last week to pay to Rupert Murdoch and Marvin Davis for WCVB-TV in Boston, which is part of a package of seven stations that Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Davis are buying from Metromedia Inc. The Tribune Company, which owns The Daily News and WPIX-TV in New York, is buying KTLA from a group led by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company, a New York investment concern. The group acquired the station two years ago for $245 million in a leveraged buyout that included KTLA's management.

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TOP OFFICIAL TELLS CHURCH COUNCIL THAT IT'S TIME TO MEND ITS WAYS

Date: 16 May 1985

By Ari L. Goldman, Special To the New York Times

Ari Goldman

Like a minister preaching to a congregation that has strayed, the new chief executive of the National Council of Churches told its governing board today that the council had to confess its organizational sins and mend its ways. Only then could the council get on with the task of reorganizing itself, said the Rev. Arie R. Brouwer, who has been general secretary of the council since January. In his address today and in a news conference that followed, the 49-year-old executive reaffirmed the council's programs of social action but said the council needed to reorganize in terms of Christian worship, ecumenism and financial accountability.

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DEMOCRATIC PANEL IS FORMED TO LURE VOTERS BACK TO PARTY

Date: 16 May 1985

By Phil Gailey, Special To the New York Times

Phil Gailey

Democratic leaders unveiled a policy commission today to guide the party's search for a new message and image as it struggles to regain voters lost to the Republican Party in recent election years. At a news conference to announce the new panel's membership and plans, Paul G. Kirk Jr., chairman of the Democratic National Committee, predicted that the new Democratic Policy Commission would be able to work in harmony with an independent policy council formed earlier this year by disenchanted Democratic officeholders. Mr. Kirk said the commission, which is headed by former Gov. Scott Matheson of Utah and loaded with elected officials, would attempt to ''set a tone'' for the national party that would be an asset to Democratic candidates in the 1986 and 1988 elections.

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