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CANCELED NEWS PROGRAM IS HONORED

Date: 09 February 1984

By Peter Kerr

Peter Kerr

''NBC News Overnight,'' the late- night news broadcast that the network canceled last year because of poor ratings, yesterday won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for what the jurors said was ''conceivably the best-written and most intelligent television news anywhere.'' Terry Drinkwater, the Los Angeles- based CBS News correspondent, won an award for a four-part series about cancer and its cures on ''The CBS Evening News,'' and Richard Threlkeld won an award for his ''Status Reports'' on ABC's ''World News Tonight.'' They were among the 13 awards and 18 citations presented last night at the 42d annual awards ceremony held at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library. The awards honored excellence in broadcast journalism during the 1982-83 season. David Brinkley acted as host for the ceremony, which was broadcast on public television.

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PENTAGON NEWS PANEL HEARS TESTIMONY

Date: 09 February 1984

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

Executives of seven of the nation's largest news organizations testified today before a Pentagon panel, saying repeatedly that the press could be trusted to keep military secrets and that the Government had a responsibility to inform the public through the press. The testimony was unusual not because of its message but because it was given by news organizations that have in the past hesitated to detail their procedures for covering events. ''We have never testified before anyone,'' said one witness, Benjamin C. Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post. The panel was created after the invasion of Grenada, when military commanders, supported by the Secretary of Defense and the White House, barred reporters from the first two days of combat. The press and other groups protested the curbs, and the panel was formed to draft principles or guidelines for combat coverage.

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LILCO'S NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Date: 09 February 1984

By Deirdre Carmody

Deirdre Carmody

The news conference began promptly at 11 A.M. yesterday. Dr. William J. Catacosinos, the new chairman and chief executive officer of the Long Island Lighting Company, stepped up to the lectern. He announced that first he would speak and afterward take questions for 30 minutes. Then, speaking in measured tones, he outlined the company's history, ticked off its problems, said he would welcome the opportunity to meet with his opponents and opened the floor to questions. When time started to run out, he said there was time for three more questions. Then he let it be known that the news conference was over.

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JOINT CHIEFS PLAN NEW PRESS POLICY

Date: 10 February 1984

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have adopted new procedures to plan for press coverage during military operations, a Pentagon panel was told today. The chairman of the panel, Maj. Gen. Winant Sidle, retired, and other members said the action indicated a recognition by the military that blocking press coverage of the United States invasion of Grenada Oct. 25 had been a mistake and should not be repeated. As evidence of a shift, they also cited a Dec. 1 statement of ''principles of information'' put out by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. The statement directs military officers to make information ''fully and readily available'' to the public, the Congress and the press.

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AS TABOOS FALL, PRESS IN YUGOSLAVIA TURNS BOLD

Date: 09 February 1984

By David Binder

David Binder

For years it was an axiom of Western foreign correspondents that their Yugoslav colleagues were likely to be among the best informed reporters, especially in other Communist capitals. During China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960's, the Central Intelligence Agency itself counted on the dispatches of Branko Bogunovic of the Tanyug press agency for news from Peking. Now this foreign expertise has been complemented by an incisive and bold style in the domestic coverage by the Yugoslav press - sometimes too bold for senior Communist Party officials. Last fall in Ljubljana a reporter for the Slovenian daily Delo learned that the price of gasoline was soon to be increased - as it was a week later, to the equivalent of $2.50 a gallon - and Delo published the news.

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HEART SPECIALIST IN CREW OF 3

Date: 09 February 1984

By John F. Burns

John Burns

The Soviet Union today launched three men into space, one of them a heart specialist, in what officials implied would be another in a series of long orbital flights. After a series of mishaps that struck the Soviet manned space program in the last 14 months, the launching of the Soyuz T-10 craft from the Baikonur space center at Leninsk in Kazakhstan attracted widespread interest. As shown later on television the blast-off at 3:07 P.M. appeared trouble-free, with the craft leaving a trail of bright orange flame as it climbed into a clear sky.

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IS THE SOVIET MILITARY RISING IN POWER?

Date: 09 February 1984

By Cynthia A. Roberts

Cynthia Roberts

The Soviet military's unprecedented public prominence in recent months is generating heightened speculation that the military's influence is rising. The increased visibility of defense officials has coincided with the prolonged public absence of Yuri V. Andropov from all official functions. But whether the military is merely helping fill a temporary power vacuum or carving a larger policy-making role for itself remains an open question. Circumstantial evidence suggesting an increased military role is impressive. Most startling was a regional commander's decision in September to shoot down the Korean Airlines passenger plane. This surprising announcement came from Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, chief of the general staff, at a highly unusual news conference. Marshal Ogarkov played a leading part in presenting Soviet allegations that the airliner was on a spy mission.

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NAVY'S GUNS RAKE HILLS OVER BEIRUT WITH 150 ROUNDS

Date: 10 February 1984

United States naval gunners bombarded anti- Government artillery batteries in Lebanon today for the second day in retaliation for the shelling of Christian- dominated East Beirut. The destroyer Moosbrugger fired ''roughly 150 rounds from its five-inch guns at artillery positions in the hills east of the capital'' at about 7 P.M., according to Maj. Dennis Brooks, spokesman of the Marine contingent at the airport. On Wednesday, the battleship New Jersey and the destroyer Caron reportedly firing more than 550 rounds toward Syrian-controlled areas. (The Damascus radio said Syria might be ''compelled to react'' unless the naval fire stops. The statement was broadcast as Syrian leaders met with Lebanese opposition leaders in Damascus. Page A10.)

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NAVY'S DEFENSES FOR ATTACKS BY SUICIDE PILOTS QUESTIONED

Date: 10 February 1984

By Wayne Biddle

Wayne Biddle

A Navy admiral's remark this week that an Army infantry antiaircraft weapon had been deployed on American vessels off Lebanon has raised questions in Congress about how well the Navy can defend itself against suicide attacks. Adm. James D. Watkins, the Chief of Naval Operations, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that a hand-held missile called the Stinger had been given to United States sailors. Military officials have expressed concern in recent months that pilots flying small planes packed with explosives might mount suicide attacks against naval targets, and the Stinger missiles were to be used to defend against such attacks. With American forces in Beirut under orders to move from the city to ships off the Lebanese coast, this concern would presumably heighten.

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PHYSICIAN'S COLUMN ROILS COLLEAGUES

Date: 10 February 1984

By Susan Chira

Susan Chira

Dr. Peter Gott thinks doctors spend too much time talking about sports cars and golf games and not enough time seeing patients. He thinks doctors are condescending when they call patients by their first names. He thinks patients should send bills to doctors if they are kept waiting more than 45 minutes at doctors' offices. His colleagues across the New York State border at the Dutchess County Medical Society think Dr. Gott has a big mouth.

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