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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1986

Date: 24 June 1986

International The President met for the first time with the new Soviet Ambassador, Yuri V. Dubinin, who presented his credentials and a letter from Mikhail S. Gorbachev. White House officials said the Kremlin had been sending ''positive signals'' about a summit meeting in the United States this year. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] The House Speaker rejected a White House request that President Reagan be permitted to address the House today to make an appeal for $100 million in aid for the Nicaraguan rebels. Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. said the President was welcome to address a joint session of Congress, but that ''having the President appear before only one house to lobby for a legislative proposal would be unprecedented.'' [ A1:2. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1986

Date: 23 June 1986

International Spain's Socialists won in national elections, according to official preliminary returns. According to the Interior Ministry, the Socialist Party of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez will have a slightly reduced majority in Parliament, but it decisively turned back a spectrum of rightist, leftist and centrist parties that challenged it. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Three bombs exploded in Durban, one of them causing a huge fire near an oil refinery and spilling a mile-long slick of oil into the Indian Ocean. The explosions came a week after a car bombing that killed 3 people and wounded 69 in the South African port city. [ A1:5. ]

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THE TAKEOVER THREAT AT FAMILY NEWSPAPERS

Date: 24 June 1986

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

Traditionally, the newspaper industry has functioned as a fraternity in which an unwelcome offer to acquire a newspaper was rare. And while that restraint remains the norm within the business, a new breed of buyer has emerged that suggests the old rules no longer apply. In today's market, no communications company is too big to be swallowed by someone else, newspaper analysts and brokers say. Newspapers have routinely been reaping operating profits of 20 percent or more of revenues. That enviable record has attracted extraordinary interest in newspaper companies.

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SYRIA HOLDS OUT HOPE FOR END OF HOSTAGES' ORDEAL

Date: 23 June 1986

By Ihsan A. Hijazi, Special To the New York Times

Ihsan Hijazi

Syria said today that the release last week of two French television journalists who had been held by Moslem militants was the beginning of the end of captivity for all Western hostages in Lebanon. ''The end of the ordeal of the foreign hostages in Lebanon is at hand now that two of the French captives have been freed,'' the state-controlled Damascus radio said in a commentary. Five Americans and seven Frenchmen are among the Westerners missing in Lebanon. Despite the Syrian statement, it was not known if there had been any concrete progress toward the release of the remaining hostages.

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SOUTH AFRICA TREASON TRIAL ENDS WITH AQUITTAL OF 4

Date: 24 June 1986

By Edward A. Gargan, Special To the New York Times

Edward Gargan

One of South Africa's biggest treason trials ended today with the acquittal of the last four of 16 defendants. The four, all union activists, would have faced the death penalty had they been convicted. The charges were dropped after the prosecutor said he wished to stop the trial. He offered no explanation for his request.

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WILD CARD IN SOUTH AFRICA: COMMUNIST PARTY

Date: 24 June 1986

By Alan Cowell, Special To the New York Times

Alan Cowell

President P. W. Botha has spoken at length about a Communist threat to the nation. The theme is not new among the nation's white leaders, but increasingly it finds a kind of counterpoint in the nation's segregated black townships. For roughly a year at black political gatherings it has been a custom to pay some kind of homage to Marxism, for which any support is perceived as a challenge by the white authorities. Sometimes it is the unfurling of a Soviet flag that makes the tribute. Other times, demonstrators chant slogans lauding the formal alliance between the outlawed African National Congress and the banned South African Communist Party.

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CITY STUDENTS' SCORES RISE IN GENERAL ON READING TEST

Date: 24 June 1986

By Jane Perlez

Jane Perlez

Almost two-thirds of the students in New York City's public elementary and junior high schools read at or above grade level, according to test results announced yesterday by Mayor Koch and Board of Education officials. They said the results, which showed ''overall improvement,'' were encouraging because they came from a new kind of test intended to measure the more difficult task of comprehension, rather than just vocabulary. To stress what the board considered the surprisingly good results - 63.7 percent of students reading at or above grade level - Mayor Koch attended the news conference at the board's headquarters at 110 Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn. ''I was told there was great trepidation,'' Mayor Koch said. ''The news is very good.''

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Advertising; Stability Is Stressed By W.R.G.

Date: 23 June 1986

By Philip H. Dougherty

Philip Dougherty

IT was announced by Wells, Rich, Greene at a news conference Friday that Gardner Advertising, its St. Louis subsidiary, had established a seven-person office of the president. Since many agencies these days are billing in the billions of dollars, Gardner's $117 million a year barely makes it medium-sized. Also, Gardner is only a subsidiary and is headquartered way out there to boot. So it hardly seemed to rate a calling together of the New York advertising press corps unless there were other reasons for such a gathering, other things that had to be said.

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ALABAMA CONTEST A REMINDER OF THE OLD DAYS

Date: 23 June 1986

By William E. Schmidt, Special To the New York Times

William Schmidt

When George C. Wallace decided he would not seek a fifth term as Governor, this spring's statewide primary was cast as the beginning of a new political era in Alabama. But as voters prepare to go to the polls here Tuesday, the two Democratic candidates in a runoff for his job are mired in a campaign so fraught with name-calling and accusations of racial politics that it is more evocative of the Alabama politics of the past than the future. In the last few days, one of them, Lieut. Gov. Bill Baxley, has characterized his opponent, Attorney General Charles Graddick, as a coward because he pulled out of a debate scheduled for the weekend. Mr. Graddick, in turn, called Mr. Baxley a liar, saying he had not told the truth about reports that he used state cars and state troopers to ferry a woman to and from his apartment.

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BID FOR DEBT RELIEF SEEN IN MEXICAN'S REMARKS

Date: 24 June 1986

By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times

Alan Riding

Mexico's new Finance Minister, Gustavo Petricioli, said tonight that the country could no longer maintain ''strict'' servicing of its foreign debt because of the sharp drop in its oil revenues. In his first news conference since succeeding Jesus Silva Herzog last week, Mr. Petricioli also said he was exploring ''transitory mechanisms'' to protect the country's foreign reserves pending a long-term agreement with its creditors. Although Mr. Petricioli did not clarify his remarks, financial experts here interpreted them as meaning that Mexico will seek a temporary suspension of at least a part of the $1.8 billion coming due for payment in July. In recent weeks, many foreign bankers have said that they expected Mexico would need to negotiate some short-term relief along these lines and they viewed such an arrangement as a preferable alternative to a unilateral moratorium on payments.

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