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STATE TV NETWORK IN JERSEY WALKS POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL TIGHTROPES

Date: 18 February 1985

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

The commercial from the bank ends, and the logo of the New Jersey Nightly News swirls across the screen and fades to reveal a television studio newsroom. Kent Manahan and Marc Levenson, the anchors, banter with the business reporter, the sports reporter and the weather forecaster before turning to tell viewers the day's New Jersey news. The 30-minute broadcast looks like a standard evening news program, but it is unusual in several ways. Unlike any commercial station in the area, its mission is to provide detailed daily coverage of events and issues in New Jersey. It also differs from standard prime-time fare because it is produced by the New Jersey Network, a 17-year-old state-financed television system.

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PRESS CAUTIOUSLY HAILS WESTMORELAND'S WITHDRAWAL OF LIBEL SUIT

Date: 19 February 1985

Television, newspaper and magazine executives yesterday applauded Gen. William C. Westmoreland's decision to drop his libel suit against CBS and said the outcome affirmed that journalists should examine public issues without having to fear legal action. Many were cautious, however, about claiming the result as a clear-cut victory for CBS or the press in general. ''Some legitimate questions were raised about the fairness of that particular editing process,'' noted Dave Lawrence, chairman and publisher of The Detroit Free Press, who is directing a study of press credibility for the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ''The questions still stand in the public mind about our devotion to accuracy and fairness.'' General Westmoreland, who commanded American troops in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, had sued CBS for $120 million, saying he was libeled by its assertion in a 1982 documentary that his command had underreported enemy strength in a conspiracy to withhold information that might lessen public support for the war.

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Reagan Thanks Syria For Aiding Reporter

Date: 18 February 1985

UPI

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The White House said today that President Reagan telephoned President Hafez al-Assad of Syria Saturday to thank him for Syria's aid in the return of an American reporter. ''He thanked him for his role in assisting Jeremy Levin,'' a White House spokesman, Mark Weinberg, said.

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'Star Wars' Plan Criticized

Date: 19 February 1985

Reuters

West Germany's main opposition leader added his voice today to the criticism of President Reagan's ''Star Wars'' proposal. Hans-Jochen Vogel, parliamentary leader of the Social Democratic Party, told NATO ambassadors at a lunch in Brussels that he shared ''the skepticism voiced in Paris and London'' about the proposed space- based antimissile research.

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Once More With Feeling

Date: 19 February 1985

By Phil Gailey and Marjorie Hunter

Phil Gailey

Sometimes timing can be everything. Last year the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a local research organization, came out with ''The Military Payoff: A Report on the U.S. Government's Most Generous Pension Plan.''

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Craxi and Peres Meet; No Mideast Plan Seen

Date: 19 February 1985

Reuters

Prime Minister Bettino Craxi of Italy told Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel tonight that the time was not yet right for a new Middle East peace initiative. ''There are not yet enough conditions for a new peace initiative,'' Mr. Craxi told Mr. Peres, who arrived today on a three-day visit to Italy.

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A RURAL CHILEAN LEGEND COME TRUE

Date: 18 February 1985

By Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman

Old legends are still told in the Chilean countryside. One legend explains what happens when a child disappears: he has been kidnapped by witches, and his captors, to insure his servitude, break all his bones, sew together different parts of his body and turn his head around so he must always look and walk backward. His eyes, ears and mouth are constantly stitched up. The creature is called an Imbunche. There is no way of knowing if Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Chile's strongman for 11 years, ever heard that tale when he was young, but there can be no doubt that he has done everything in his power to turn each Chilean, and Chile itself, into an Imbunche.

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WASTE IN HOUSING COSTS CITED

Date: 19 February 1985

UPI

Upi

Pentagon auditors, tracing allegations that servicemen and landlords were defrauding a military housing program, have reported that taxpayers paid $49 million in unnecessary expenses in Alaska and Hawaii for two years. The audit reported that the Air Force alone destroyed records essential for tracking $17 million in annual costs in the ''rent-plus'' program for personnel living off base in Hawaii.

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TALES FROM THE RANCH

Date: 18 February 1985

By Bernard Weinraub

Bernard Weinraub

The temperature climbs to 90 degrees, the air is scented with jasmine and wildflowers, and the terrazzo walks are filled with teen-agers and families walking to the beach. Arriving at nearby Point Mugu Naval Air Station Wednesday afternoon, President Reagan grinned as sunlight warmed his cheeks. ''I can't think of a better place to go,'' he said. Then the President handed a 10- pound heart-shaped box of Valentine candy to his wife, Nancy, boarded a helicopter with her and flew to their five-room adobe ranch home atop a narrow, twisting mountain road 26 miles northwest of here.

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SCIENCE MAGAZINES FROM U.S. THRIVE IN SOVIET AND CHINA

Date: 19 February 1985

By Walter Sullivan

Walter Sullivan

EACH month, 20,000 Russian language copies of Scientific American magazine are snapped up as soon as they hit the streets in the Soviet Union. In Peking, the circulation of Discover magazine, published in the United States by Time Inc., is expected to go above 100,000 by 1986. In Shanghai 50,000 translated copies of the American publication Science News are printed each week. The popular science journals of the United States are being circulated to the far corners of the earth as foreign governments, including the Soviet Union and China, recognize their education value in keeping pace with the explosive growth of high technology elsewhere.

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