2 U.S. Reporters in Uganda Freed After 2 Days' Detention
Date: 20 May 1982
AP
Two American journalists detained by the Ugandan Army for two days were handed over to the United States consul in Kampala today.
Replaying Wednesday, May 19, 1982
The May 19, 1982 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 138 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
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19th of May 1982 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 19, 1982
Half-Closed Courtrooms
Date: 19 May 1982
Two years ago the Supreme Court, with only one dissent, proclaimed that ''a presumption of openness inheres in the very nature of a criminal trial under our system of justice.'' That didn't stop lawyers from seeking secret justice or judges from trying to restrict the right of the public and reporters to attend criminal trials. The erosion of the openness principle appeared in two cases that, on Monday, the Court declined to hear.
Benjamin Crisler, Journalist; New York Times Film Critic
Date: 19 May 1982
Benjamin R. Crisler, a former film reviewer for The New York Times and a freelance journalist, died Sunday morning at his home in Pacific Grove, Calif. He was 77 years old and had lived in New York and, until his retirement 10 years ago, in Stamford, Conn.
Hazel H. Hallinan, 91, Journalist and Activist
Date: 19 May 1982
Hazel Hunkins Hallinan, an activist for women's equality since 1917, died Monday at her home in London. She was 91 years old and had been living in London since going there as a newspaper correspondent in 1920.
News Analysis
Date: 20 May 1982
By Josh Barbanel, Special To the New York Times
Josh Barbanel
The 1982 battle to maintain rail commuter fares at current levels and save the 75-cent bus and subway fare has begun with a bombardment of contradictory numbers and words. Richard Ravitch, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has warned of a $406 million deficit during the next two years unless action is taken. But Democrats in the Assembly have predicted that the agency will have a slight surplus of $2 million. Legislators say they caught Mr. Ravitch using overly pessimistic figures as part of a scare tactic to put pressure on the Legislature to revise a package of state taxes passed last year and to obtain additional assistance. Democratic and Republican fiscal aides indicated they were inclined to agree.
News Analysis
Date: 19 May 1982
By Robert A. Bennett
Robert Bennett
The inability of Drysdale Government Securities to meet at least $160 million in interest payments aroused fears yesterday of a chain reaction of failures among other securities firms. But even if Drysdale's problem is contained, the markets have been shaken and questions are sure to be raised about whether the Federal Government should more closely regulate the free-wheeling business of trading in Government securities. What Drysdale owes is the interest on securities that it borrowed from other securities dealers. They, in turn, had either borrowed the securities themselves, or had borrowed money to finance their purchase - expecting to use the interest payments to meet their own obligations.
News Analysis
Date: 20 May 1982
By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times
James
Washington's badly strained ties to Argentina, and its future role as a mediator between Buenos Aires and London, appear to be at the mercy of Argentine politics and the United States commitment to support Britain's military effort in the South Atlantic. As the negotiations at the United Nations over the Falklands have faltered and the British task force apparently gets ready for an assault, Argentine officials have privately made it clear that they believe the United States will eventually have to play a central role in bringing about a negotiated solution. ''They are trying to set up a parallel negotiating channel to the United States,'' said one Argentine editor with good access to the top levels of Government and the junta. ''They know Washington has to be involved, and they hope it will put pressure on the British.''
CONTROVERSAL LEADER
Date: 19 May 1982
By Joseph B. Treaster
Joseph
When Sun Myung Moon was 16 years old, he says in his official biography, Jesus appeared before him on a mountaintop in Korea and told him he had been chosen to ''complete My still uncompleted mission.'' During the next 18 years, Mr. Moon, who was convicted yesterday of conspiring to evade income taxes, studied electrical engineering in Japan, worked on the docks in Seoul and, having written a book entitled ''Divine Principles,'' founded what he called the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. Eighteen years after he started his church, Mr. Moon introduced it to the United States in 1972 with a coast-to-coast evangelistic tour, igniting controversy that has never flagged. What the short, stocky, round-faced evangelist calls a church, his critics call a cult. They accuse him of brainwashing his young followers, who are known as ''Moonies,'' and they say he appears to be inordinately involved in politics and fund-raising for a religious leader.
COMMANDO WITH A BIBLE
Date: 20 May 1982
By William Borders, Special To the New York Times
William Borders
One sultry afternoon 20 years ago, in the swampy jungle of northern Borneo, a company of Royal Marine commandos was moving by barge up a winding river, looking for insurgents. Suddenly, the marines were ambushed by a much larger hostile force, which opened fire from only 30 yards away. Disregarding the danger, Capt. John Jeremy Moore led the British troops ashore, storming the assault position, and, after an intense fight, the rebels fled, leaving behind prisoners whom they had been planning to hang. For his part in that operation, Captain Moore was awarded the Military Cross, Britain's third-highest military decoration.
News Summary; WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1982
Date: 19 May 1982
International Leonid I. Brezhnev welcomed President Reagan's readiness to resume talks on strategic nuclear arms, but said the American arms proposals were one-sided and prejudicial to Soviet security. The Soviet leader countered with the suggestion that the two sides freeze the deployment of their nuclear arsenals as soon as the negotiations begin. He said a freeze now would prevent either side from taking steps that ''would upset the strategic situation.'' (Page A1, Column 6.) President Reagan rejected Mr. Brezhnev's proposal for an American-Soviet freeze on strategic weapons, but expressed optimism that the Soviet leader had opened the way for arms control talks. ''I think we'll be meeting,'' he said. (A1:5.)
News Summary; THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1982
Date: 20 May 1982
International An extension of peace talks was requested by the United Nations Secretary General, Javier Perez de Cuellar, in telephone calls to the leaders of Argentina and Britain as negotiations over the Falkland Islands were on the verge of collapse. Security Council members said they had the impression that he had won ''perhaps 24 hours more.'' (Page A1, Column 6.) Britain's membership in the European Economic Community could be in doubt after the nine other members ignored a British veto, President Francois Mitterrand of France said. For the first time, a majority refused to allow the veto that all members had been assumed to enjoy over majority community decisions. (A1:5.)