Rejouer jeudi 9 juin 1983

REYNOLDS'S ABSENCE AFFECTING ABC NEWS RATINGS

Date: 09 June 1983

By Sally Bedell Smith

Sally Smith

The prolonged absence of Frank Reynolds, the principal anchor of ABC's ''World News Tonight,'' has lowered the program's ratings and could affect planning decisions, according to top officials at the network. The 59-year-old Mr. Reynolds, the Washington anchor of the earlyevening newscast, has been severely ill with hepatitis since mid-April and is unlikely to return to work until late August, according to Roone Arledge, president of ABC News. The absence ''has hurt us badly,'' said David Burke, a vice president of ABC News. Since Mr. Reynolds has been out, ''World News Tonight'' has dropped from second to third in the audience ratings behind the ''NBC Nightly News'' with Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd and the ''CBS Evening News'' with Dan Rather, which for the last year has been first in the ratings by a substantial margin.

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Atwater Named Dean Of Journalism School

Date: 09 June 1983

James D. Atwater, a 54-year-old senior editor for Time magazine, has been appointed dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, the university announced yesterday.

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O'NEILL LEADING PARTY OFFENSIVE AGAINST REAGAN

Date: 10 June 1983

By Martin Tolchin, Special To the New York Times

Martin Tolchin

Fifteen minutes before the House goes into session each day, 50 reporters file into the Speaker's office to hear what has become an almost daily attack on President Reagan. It is a wide-ranging foray, whose underlying theme is that the Reagan Presidency is ''of the rich, by the rich and for the rich,'' the words used by Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. on Monday to describe the Administration's tax program. On deficits, the Massachusetts Democrat has charged that the President is trying to ''pass the buck'' on the worst record of Government red ink in American history. On Central America, he has said flatly that Mr. Reagan ''broke the law'' by using covert funds to help Nicaraguan rebels. On the budget, he has accused the President of attempting to ''derail'' the established Congressional process.

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A RIO PARTY FOR 2,000 HONORS A SOCIAL CHRONICLER

Date: 10 June 1983

By Warren Hoge

Warren Hoge

''Who invited you? I certainly didn't.'' Uttered by the Brazilian playboy Baby Pignatari in 1952, these turned out to be a lifetime's fighting words to the young man being turned away. ''At that moment I swore to myself that never again would anyone ever dare keep me out of a party,'' said Ibrahim Sued, ''and that, to the contrary, people would have to feel honored and delighted with my presence.'' The son of a Lebanese immigrant who ran a Rio cigar store, the 55-year-old Mr. Sued has been conducting his personal battle for status ever since, in a nationally syndicated society column. Last Friday night he got his wish. More than 2,000 of Brazil's elite feted him at Rio's Copacabana Palace Hotel at a black-tie banquet and dance celebrating his 30 years as the leading chronicler of the country's social goings-on.

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TV CAMERAS: NOT FOR COURTROOMS

Date: 10 June 1983

To the Editor: The Times reports CBS as being critical of the reporting of the $30 million slander suit filed by Dr. Carl A. Galloway against the network and Dan Rather over a 1979 segment on ''60 Minutes'' (news story June 2). Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News, is quoted as saying, ''I am frustrated that the coverage has been sporadic.

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News Analysis

Date: 10 June 1983

By Alan Cowell

Alan Cowell

There is an air of selfcongratulation among African leaders here who, finally, and after much division, have been able to convene the Organization of African Unity's twice-postponed 19th summit meeting. It is as if a notion central to the continent's self-image - that a collective African resolve is capable of overcoming individual disputes - has been rescued. Yet the manner in which the gathering was finally assembled has left some critical questions unanswered and has posed a new hazard. In the process of debate, compromise and pressure that led to the summit opening Wednesday night, the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was further alienated from Africa's mainstream. That probably removes the restraints, if any, there had been on his behavior and raises the possibility of a renewal of Libyan adventurism, perhaps in Chad, Libya's neighbor to the south.

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News Summary; THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1983

Date: 09 June 1983

International Flexibility in arms control talks was urged by President Reagan as the American-Soviet negotiations on strategic weapons resumed in Geneva. Mr. Reagan made the appeal in announcing he was relaxing proposals that Moscow scrap a substantial part of its missile force but at the same time was maintaining his goal of large reductions in the total number of missile warheads. (Page A1, Column 6.) Two Israeli soldiers were killed and five Lebanese civilians were wounded when a remote-controlled car bomb was detonated near an Israeli Army patrol entering East Beirut. (A7:1.)

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News Summary; FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1983

Date: 10 June 1983

International Conservatives won a major victory in Britain's general election, seizing a majority of about 140 seats over the combined opposition in the House of Commons. The sweep for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative Government was the most far-reaching since the Labor Party's landslide of 1945. Polling barely one vote in four, Labor suffered its worst debacle since 1922 and barely edged out the new Liberal-Social Democratic alliance in the popular vote. (Page A1, Column 6.) Washington's new arms control plan was rebuffed in Moscow's initial response. A commentary by the Soviet press agency Tass said President Reagan's revised proposals for strategic weapons cuts were still aimed ''at gaining military superiority and pressing the Soviet Union into unilateral disarmament.'' (A1:4.)

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STERN DOCTOR, STERN REMEDY

Date: 10 June 1983

By Jon Nordheimer, Special To the New York Times

Jon Nordheimer

April 3, 1982, was perhaps the darkest day in the political life of Margaret Thatcher. A national opinion poll published a week before reported that the British public thought she would go down as the worst Prime Minister in history. Her monetarist policies were being blamed for an unemployment rate that had almost doubled in the three years since she took office. Her constant declarations that she would halt the decline of Britain and get it back on the road to health and prosperity fell on many ears as the sound of someone trying to drown out criticism with strong but hollow words. Speculation About Departure And on that Saturday in April, during an emergency meeting of the House of Commons to debate her Government's failure to recognize the threat that led to the taking of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, the lobbies of Parliment buzzed with the prospect of the Prime Minister's departure in disgrace. In less than 75 days all that changed. The British task force that retook the Falklands also recaptured for Mrs. Thatcher a confidence that she came perilously close to losing early that spring. Now, in a surprising recovery, her Government was swept back into office today.

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Sears Raising Stake In Simpsons-Sears

Date: 10 June 1983

Reuters

The Hudson's Bay Company said today that it had agreed to sell 17,595,925 class B voting shares, or 20.2 percent, of Simpsons-Sears Ltd. to Sears, Roebuck & Company at $12 a share for a total price of $211.2 million (Canadian). The acquisition, scheduled for July 1, would increase Sears, Roebuck's holding in Simpsons-Sears to 60.5 percent.

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