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NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1986

Date: 20 December 1986

INTERNATIONAL 3-8 A special prosecutor was appointed to take charge of the Iran arms sales case. Lawrence E. Walsh, a 74-year-old former Federal judge in Manhattan, will have broad powers to investigate wrongdoing. Page 1 Man in the News: Lawrence Walsh, whose career has included frequent trouble-shooting missions, occasional controversy and moments in the spotlight, has experience as a prosecutor, judge and advocate. 6 Edwin Meese 3d told Congress that the diversion of funds from Iranian arms sales to the Nicaraguan rebels was uncovered when a memo proposing the idea was found in Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North's files, a Congressional source said.

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NEWS SUMMARY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1986

Date: 21 December 1986

International 30,000 Chinese students protested for democracy and press freedom in Shanghai, according to foreigners who saw the students' demonstrations, the largest since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Page 1 Two prominent Republicans differ in their views about President Reagan's handling of the Iranian arms crisis. Vice President Bush said the idea that he and the President would ''stay down'' is ''complete nonsense.'' But Senator Bob Dole said the President had not yet convinced the public that he had done all he could to get at the truth. #1 Panama companies are used as foils, enabling their foreign owners to do business anywhere in the world anonymously and tax-free. Three such companies were linked to the Iran arms deals last week. #20 Triad America may be near collapse. The Utah-based investment corporation is owned by Adnan M. Khashoggi, the Saudi businessman who played a key role in financing the American arms sales to Iran. #20 Andrei D. Sakharov, in an interview, said he planned to continue advocating human rights when he returns to Moscow after nearly seven years of internal exile. He said he made no promise to curb his public activities. #1 A more flexible human rights policy in the Soviet Union and an acknowledgment that treatment of dissidents affects other issues are reflected in the decision to let Dr. Sakharov return to Moscow, Western diplomats said. #14 A jailed Soviet dissident's notes, reportedly smuggled out of the country, say that he has been in solitary confinement for almost three years and and a hunger strike for more than two years.

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MAN IN THE NEWS: A Jurist in Varied Roles: Lawrence Edward Walsh

Date: 20 December 1986

By Linda Greenhouse, Special To the New York Times

Linda Greenhouse

Lawrence E. Walsh has spent 50 years weaving the threads of public service and private representation into a career that has included frequent troubleshooting missions, occasional controversy, moments in the spotlight, experience as a prosecutor, judge and advocate and service at the highest levels of the profession. Today he said that the job of independent counsel was ''probably the most important that I've been asked to do.'' Then he added: ''And so I wanted to do it.'' Thirteen years ago Mr. Walsh was on the list of potential special prosecutors to head the Watergate investigation. For decades, his name has been on nearly any list of lawyers required for various blue-ribbon assignments. Over the years, one of his former law partners said today that ''private clients have turned to him when they were in trouble and public officials have turned to him when government was in trouble.''

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BY VAN AND SATELLITE, LOCAL NEWSCASTS ARE GOING NATIONAL

Date: 21 December 1986

By David G. Shaffer

David Shaffer

Last August, when a deranged postal worker went on a shooting spree in Edmond, Okla., a nearby television station drove its satellite news-gathering van to the scene and fed live reports the same day to 19 other stations around the country. More recently, on some local evening news programs it has become a common occurence to see a non-network reporter, standing in front of the White House, reporting live on the latest development in the Iran arms affair. He then says goodnight to the local television anchor and signs off. In the old days, such events weren't covered in these ways. Television viewers would have to wait for the network evening news to hear about a domestic story of widespread interest or an international development like the Iran controversy. But new satellite technology and portable transmission equipment have made it possible for stations in places like Indianapolis, Phoenix, Tampa and Minneapolis to report live directly from Washington or just about anywhere else. The technology has altered a basic rule of broadcast journalism: the networks covered national and international developments and local stations covered local events.

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Staking Out the Stakeout

Date: 20 December 1986

By Martin Tolchin

Martin Tolchin

Before the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded its hearings Thursday on the Iran arms deal, three dozen reporters had spent three weeks of 12-hour days outside the hearing room. Their duty there involved chasing tight-lipped witnesses through the Capitol corridors and begging senators and aides for scraps of information on the connection between the arms deal and the diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. Such bits of information were occasionally provided, but usually in oblique phrases that would test the skills of a cryptographer, lest the speaker stand accused of breaking his pledge to uphold the committee's rule of secrecy. The stakeout is a journalistic institution, one that takes on added importance in a major world news center like Washington.

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On Feeding the Press

Date: 21 December 1986

By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr

Wayne King

Reporters covering the closed hearings of the Senate Intelligence Committee, staked out all day in the second-floor corridor of the Hart Office Building, are improving their meager diet. Earlier, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, a committee member, twice sent them pizza for lunch.

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PRETORIA IS HOPING THE UNKNOWN WON'T HURT IT

Date: 21 December 1986

By Alan Cowell

Alan Cowell

SOUTH AFRICA'S black majority has long been used to being told what it may not do - hold public meetings, for example, or vote on national affairs. But under the newest tightening of emergency rules, blacks and other dissenters were also told what they may not refuse to do - patronize stores, accept the draft, go to school or use the buses that provide apartheid's umbilical link between white-run cities and black labor in the townships. Under regulations imposed Dec. 11, such activities, their incitement or press reporting of them became ''subversive'' - punishable by maximum fines of $9,000 and up to 10 years in jail. Resistance was outlawed, and the residual channels of peaceful protest seemed closed.

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SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ

Date: 20 December 1986

By Donna Anderson

Donna Anderson

Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 54. 1. This is part of one of the most important private collections of English literature. What is it? What is happening to the collection?

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GORBACHEV ORCHESTRATES NEW VARIATIONS ON SOVIET THEME

Date: 21 December 1986

By Philip Taubman

Philip Taubman

FREEDOM from exile for the dissident physicist Andrei D. Sakharov. The end of the Soviet nuclear testing moratorium. The ouster of a non-Russian Politburo member and the open reporting of a subsequent anti-Russian riot in Soviet Central Asia. These extraordinary events last week reflected the growing power and boldness of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, although the Soviet leader was invisible most of the week. The rapid-fire developments seemed to distill in an usually clear way some of the major themes of Mr. Gorbachev's first 20 months in office, including his efforts to enhance Moscow's image, give its diplomacy a new look, induce greater domestic candor and reshuffle the leadership.

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SOVIET PROJECTS DEBATED IN PRESS

Date: 21 December 1986

By Theodore Shabad

Theodore Shabad

As the Gorbachev administration in the Soviet Union appears to loosen controls and to encourage more open discussion of public issues, an increasing number of Government-approved construction projects have come into question in the press. The most widely publicized example has been opposition to a long-planned diversion of rivers from Siberia to arid Central Asia. Public criticism led the Government to abandon the project earlier this year as too costly and possibly harmful to the environment. But other undertakings such as dams and associated hydroelectric power plants, some well along in their construction, have also become embroiled in public debates.

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