กำลังเล่นซ้ำ วันอังคารที่ 28 ธันวาคม ค.ศ. 1982

News Analysis

Date: 29 December 1982

By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times

Hedrick Smith

At midterm, the once-dazzling political momentum of what conservatives enthusiastically called the Reagan Revolution has stalled. In the year ahead, President Reagan faces what his allies and advisers see as the most critical tests of his Presidency both at home and abroad. ''Historically, the third year is the one that makes or breaks a Presidency, and Ronald Reagan's third year is more critical for him than any President since World War II,'' said Richard Wirthlin, the President's longtime poll-taker and a fellow California Republican conservative. ''It's the year when people will judge the President not only by the goals he articulated in the campaign or the legislation he has passed, but how his program has affected their lives,'' Mr. Wirthlin said. ''It's also a year in which foreign policy will be given a more severe test.''

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HEAD OF JUVENILE JUSTICE

Date: 29 December 1982

By Maurice Carroll

Maurice Carroll

If you cannot write straight, Herbert Sturz decided, you cannot think straight. So, when he was one of New York City's deputy mayors, he would assign an essay topic or two to every job applicant. ''Come back with it in a couple of days,'' he would say. Ellen Schall came back with essays on how to speed up the time between arrest and arraignment and how judges should be trained. Mr. Sturz hired her on the spot.

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News Analysis

Date: 28 December 1982

By David K. Shipler, Special To the New York Times

David Shipler

Negotiations between Israel and Lebanon start Tuesday in an atmosphere of uncertainty about the ability and willingness of President Amin Gemayel to reach an accord on Israel's major demands for security arrangements and normalization of relations. Despite assertions by Israeli officials during the last 10 days that the Beirut Government has endorsed a working paper setting forth Israel's main points, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon is reported to have failed, in a trip to Beirut late last week, to get a Lebanese signature on the document. And officials here now say that Moslem figures in the Lebanese Government, including Prime Minister Shafik al-Wazzan and others, are resisting key elements of an accord for fear it would damage Lebanese ties with the rest of the Arab world, just at a time when considerable infusions of oil money are needed for economic recovery and reconstruction. Informed officials in Jerusalem expect the talks to take at least two months, and possibly much longer. U.S. Viewed as Dubious In addition, there is a vague sense in Israeli political circles that the United States is somewhat cool to Israel's desire for an immediate accord on normalization, fearing that it would contribute to further internal strife in Lebanon, which could open opportunities to the Soviet Union for renewed influence there.

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LASER-PLAYED DISKS DUE

Date: 28 December 1982

By Gerald Gold

Gerald Gold

THE CD's are coming! The CD's are coming! Not the banking CD's, but the audio compact disks. The hoopla for the new technology is evident in the technical magazines, which are busy reviewing the equipment for playing the disks. The record companies are busy preparing the disks, which are expected to be available commercially in this country sometime after their introduction in Europe in March. The disks, drawn from digitally recorded masters, use only one side, are a little over four inches in diameter, are played by a laser instead of a stylus and contain about an hour's worth of music. They are reported to be impervious to wear or mishandling and have surfaces that are absolutely silent and afford great dynamic range. Of course, a special machine is needed to play them, and many manufacturers are already in the field, with Sony leading the way.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1982

Date: 28 December 1982

International Yuri V. Andropov is the first leader of the Soviet Union since Lenin to have lived abroad. Mr. Andropov served in the Soviet Embassy in Budapest from 1953 to 1957, at the time of the Hungarian uprising. Some Hungarians recall him as a shrewd, calculating official. (Page A1, Columns 1-2.) The Kremlin declared an amnesty for convicts to mark the 60th anniversary of the formal merger of republics into the Soviet Union, but the wording of the decree indicated that it excluded those convicted of political offenses and a wide variety of other crimes considered serious. (A9:1-3.)

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News Summary; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1982

Date: 29 December 1982

International Lebanon and Israel opened talks designed to bring about a withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian forces from Lebanese soil. Israel also hopes that the negotiations, being held outside Beirut amid tight security, will pave the way for an Israeli-Lebanese peace treaty. (Page A1, Column 1.) Ethnic tension among Israeli Jews has re-emerged over the fatal shooting of a man by a policeman in a housing dispute. The shooting occurred in a Tel Aviv slum dominated by Sephardic Jews from Middle Eastern countries. Officials have received threats, and swastikas and slogans against Ashkenazim, or Jews of European stock, have been spray-painted on cars and buildings in affluent sectors of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. (A7:1.)

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KENYA AND FLORIDA EXCHANGE JOURNALISTS

Date: 29 December 1982

By Jonathan Friendly, Special To the New York Times

Jonathan Friendly

G.C.M. Mutiso and Michael A. Moscardini do not expect their little experiment in swapping skills to change the world. They will be happy, they say, if it simply makes the newspapers they work for a little better, a little more professional, a little more sensitive to the interests and needs of their readers. Mr. Mutiso is assistant managing editor of The Nation, one of Nairobi's three dailies, with a circulation of 100,000 throughout Kenya. For three months he has been working at The St. Petersburg Times, sitting in with the top editors and studying how the newspaper is managed. In January Mr. Moscardini, who supervises the national and international coverage of The Times, will go to The Nation for three months. The swap is a low-key statement in what has been a long debate over how to expand the communications skills of developing countries and give Western audiences third-world news that is not limited to coups, earthquakes and famines.

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A NEW LIBEL LAW STIRS PROTEST BY MEXICO PRESS

Date: 29 December 1982

By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times

Alan Riding

Within days of taking office this month, Mexico's new President, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, moved to carry out an ambitious campaign pledge to end corruption and curb abuses of power by the Government. But the huge package of ''moral renovation'' proposals the President sent to Congress also included a new libel law purportedly aimed at punishing irresponsible journalism. And the resulting protests by newspapers at what they call the gag law has come to overshadow the entire anticorruption debate. Every day columnists have been denouncing the law as an attack on press freedom. One recent morning, cartoonists in most Mexican newspapers published a blank space to protest the bill. The previous day, journalists held a silent demonstration outside the Senate building where the law was being debated.

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New Voice for Mets

Date: 28 December 1982

Tim McCarver, the St. Louis Cardinals' catcher in three World Series in the 1960's, will be the new voice in the booth for the Mets for their games on commercial and cable television next season. He succeeds Lorn Brown, who had been badly received by television critics and sports columnists during his one season in New York this year. Al Harazin, a vice president for the Mets, said McCarver would join Ralph Kiner and another announcer to be named in the Channel 9 telecasts, and that he would work with Kiner and Bud Harrelson on the cable telecasts.

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Navy Orders 2 Nuclear Ships

Date: 28 December 1982

The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company said it had received a $3.14 billion contract to build two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers for the Navy. The contract is one of the largest the Navy has made.

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