The August 6, 1986 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 217 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
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6th of August 1986 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 6, 1986
CBS NEWS IS CRITICIZED FROM INSIDE
Date: 06 August 1986
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
CBS News management, which recently decided to relinquish the ''CBS Morning News'' in favor of an entertainment program, has been criticized from within over the action. Andy Rooney, one of the stars of ''60 Minutes,'' took CBS News management to task for dropping the morning news program in a syndicated newspaper column that was published yesterday. And at least one CBS-affiliated station, WAGA in Atlanta, has protested CBS's failure to develop a successful morning program by telling the network that it would drop the ''CBS Morning News'' for its final months this fall.
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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1986
Date: 07 August 1986
International The House failed to override President Reagan's veto of a bill that would have put strict limits on imports of textiles from 12 countries, most of them in Asia. The vote to override the veto was 276 to 149, eight votes short of the needed two-thirds margin. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Top United States arms negotiators will meet with Soviet officials in Moscow on Monday to discuss negotiations to curb nuclear and space weapons, the White House announced. A United States official said the American team would go to the Soviet capital with instructions to get a reaction to President Reagan's latest arms control proposals, outlined in a letter to the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, late last month. [ A1:5. ]
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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1986
Date: 06 August 1986
International Pretoria will impose trade curbs against black-governed neighboring countries because of new economic sanctions against South Africa imposed by the Commonwealth. Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha said the new economic countermeasures would include import licenses, a levy on goods traveling across the country and stricter frontier controls. [ Page A1, Column 1. ] 13 more U.S.-Soviet exchanges have resulted from the meeting last November held by President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The agreements on educational, scientific and cultural exchanges bring them to a higher level than that of late 1979, when President Carter cut them off to protest the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. [ A1:2. ] Malta gave Libya advance notice of the American air attack in April and would do so again if it had similar information, Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici said in an interview. He said Maltese air controllers had notified Libyan controllers soon after the detection that ''a number of unidentified planes'' were flying toward North Africa. [ A1:3. ] American Army actions in Bolivia have dramatically cut cocaine trafficking, and Washington is considering providing more economic aid to Bolivia, according to the American ambassador in La Paz. Bolivian officials say the decreased cocaine production has seriously damaged the nation's economy. [ B4:1-3. ] National The Administration retreated and agreed to give the Senate Judiciary Committee access to memorandums and legal opinions prepared by William H. Rehnquist when he was a Justice Department official in the Nixon Administration. The action came after 10 Senators, all eight Democrats on the panel and two of its Republicans, got ready to vote to issue a subpoena for the material.
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Dept. of Pen and Sword
Date: 07 August 1986
By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr
Wayne King
A new newsletter, Kwacha News, has appeared in Washington, a publication of the Free Angola Information Service, the educational arm of the Union for the Total Independence of Angola.
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COALITION OF UNIONS' WANTS 3 CITY DAILIES TO OPERATE JOINTLY
Date: 07 August 1986
A coalition of 10 labor unions representing workers at three major New York City newspapers proposed yesterday that publishers of the papers consider combining their production, advertising and circulation operations. Spokesmen for the three papers, The New York Times, The Daily News and The New York Post, declined comment on the unions' proposal, saying it had not yet been presented to them.
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Reactions to Robertson As Candidate Reported
Date: 06 August 1986
Nine percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Rev. Pat Robertson, the television evangelist who had Presidential convention delegate candidates running in the Michigan Republican primary Tuesday, while 12 percent have an unfavorable view and 79 percent have no opinion, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows. The findings on Mr. Robertson, from a national poll of 1,618 adults taken by telephone June 19-23, had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus two percentage points. The most frequent reason given for supporting the Virginia minister was his Christianity; the leading reason for opposition was the view that church and state should be separate.
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BUSH'S HOPES IN MICHIGAN RACES ARE SUPPORTED BY A POLL OF VOTERS
Date: 06 August 1986
By Phil Gailey, Special To the New York Times
Phil Gailey
Michigan Republicans went to the polls today to elect precinct delegates in a primary that posed the first major test of Vice President Bush's ability to survive early challenges to a bid for the Presidency from his party's conservative wing. While the votes were being tabulated tonight, the results of a poll by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal showed Vice President Bush to be the overwhelming Presidential choice of the Michigan Republicans who voted today. Mr. Bush, who has spent close to $1 million in this race, was named by more than 40 percent of 2,552 primary voters questioned as they left the polls. His two challengers in the Michigan contest, Representative Jack F. Kemp of upstate New York and the Rev. Pat Robertson, the television evangelist from Virginia, were each named by 9 percent.
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Unprovoked Adventures on a Trip to Panama
Date: 06 August 1986
To the Editor: The chord struck in me by the recent detention in China of your correspondent John F. Burns produced nothing short of sympathetic vibrations since, when I first read of it, I had just been released after five harrowing days of totally unlawful detention by the Government of Panama. As a lawyer traveling on behalf of a client in Amsterdam, I and a representative of my client arrived in Panama the morning of Thursday, July 10, for a meeting at a local law firm the following morning. When we reached our hotel, I was given a letter that, I was told, had been delivered earlier in the week. It contained threats against the lives of my traveling companion and me and our families and told us to leave the country forthwith. We were shaken, and I telephoned my client to tell him I would do nothing except leave as soon as I could. I booked the first flight back to New York, which unfortunately was not until the following morning.
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Reagan News Conference
Date: 06 August 1986
AP
President Reagan will hold a news conference next Tuesday in Chicago, the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said today. Mr. Speakes said the President would answer questions from the White House press corps and local reporters in a session that would be made available for live broadcast by television networks. The news conference will be held at P.M. (8 P.M. Eastern time).
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Good and Bad News for Grey
Date: 06 August 1986
By Isadore Barmash
Isadore Barmash
Grey Advertising got both good and bad news yesterday. The Stroh Brewery Company named Grey Advertising its new agency responsible for national television and radio campaigns, as well as spot television purchases, with billings adding up to more than $50 million.
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