Head of Detroit News Hints at Going Public
Date: 27 February 1985
By Kenneth N. Gilpin and Todd S. Purdum
Kenneth Gilpin
As president of the 112-year-old Evening News Association, corporate parent of The Detroit News, Peter B. Clark has his hands full.
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JERSEY'S WATCHDOG OVER CASINOS: THOMAS ROGERS O'BRIEN
Date: 26 February 1985
By Donald Janson
Donald Janson
When the Casino Control Commission decides Tuesday whether to renew the license of Resorts International, it will be acting on the recommendation of the Attorney General's division of gaming enforcement. And the foundation of the division's recommendation that the license be revoked was built by the director of the division, 46-year-old Thomas R. O'Brien, according to Attorney General Irwin I. Kimmelman.
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ISRAEL BARS BEIRUT-BASED JOURNALISTS FROM ENTERING SOUTH LEBANON
Date: 27 February 1985
By John Kifner
John Kifner
The Israeli Army today banned Western journalists based in Beirut from entering territory it controls in southern Lebanon.
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EX-DEFENSE CHIEFS BACK MILITARY REVAMPING
Date: 26 February 1985
Six former Defense Secretaries today called for increased joint control of the nation's military to restrain rivalries among the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
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DANIEL SCHORR WEIGHS MERITS OF CABLE TV
Date: 27 February 1985
By Peter W. Kaplan
Peter Kaplan
Nine years ago this week, Daniel Schorr, one of the best-known network correspondents in America, was relieved of his duties as a CBS reporter after he passed a House intelligence report to a newspaper. Almost 60 years old, a newsman with a reputation for tough reporting and personal abrasiveness, he was, many said, finished in the broadcast world.
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AIDE BIDS U.S. END 'DOUBLE STANDARD' ON ARMS ACCORDS
Date: 26 February 1985
By Bernard Gwertzman , Special To the New York Times
Bernard Gwertzman
The Defense Department's top arms control official said today that it was ''a great mistake'' for the United States to continue honoring past accords with the Soviet Union while Moscow was violating ''quite important provisions'' of those agreements.
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New Zealand's Leader Arrives on Visit to U.S.
Date: 26 February 1985
UPI
Upi
Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand arrived here today to defend his nation's ban on port calls by nuclear warships. The policy has strained relations with Washington and shaken the Anzus military alliance.
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Pakistan Calls Atom Program Peaceful, a U.S. Official Says
Date: 26 February 1985
AP
The State Department, responding to reports that Pakistan tried to get timing devices whose main function is to trigger nuclear bombs, said today that the Pakistani Government has given assurances its nuclear program is ''peaceful in intent.''
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ARMS NEGOTIATOR URGES PERSISTENCE
Date: 27 February 1985
The Reagan Administration's new chief arms control negotiator said today that the United States and the Soviet Union ''must try to find a formula under which we can live together in dignity'' even though the negotiations were likely to be difficult.
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FRANCE IS WARMING TO 'STAR WARS' IDEA
Date: 27 February 1985
Foreign Minister Roland Dumas of France described the space-based defense plan of the United States today as having ''seductive elements'' for public opinion because, he said, it replaces an offensive nuclear strategy with a defensive one.
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