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3 NETWORKS IN DISPUTE WITH ISRAEL

Date: 25 June 1982

By Sally Bedell

Sally Bedell

The three major United States commercial television networks have come into conflict with the Israeli Government over what network news executives charge is ''political censorship'' of their reports on the war in Lebanon. The networks charged that this week the Israelis began to censor certain film segments - primarily depicting Lebanese casualties - because such sequences are politically embarrassing. Israeli officials said that these reports constituted enemy propaganda that Israel has no obligation to help transmit to the United States. ''Every country normally has military censorship in wartime,'' said Ze'ev Chafets, director of the Government press office. ''No other country has been asked to put its communications at the disposal of the enemy. Israel has been bending over backward to help, but the networks have brought in things that were clearly psychological warfare. When we didn't permit them, they selfrighteously attacked us for political censorship.''

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SUPREME COURT REAFFIRMS PUBLIC'S RIGHT OF ACCESS TO CRIMINAL TRIALS

Date: 24 June 1982

Special to the New York Times

The Supreme Court, reaffirming a 1980 ruling that the press and the public have a ''constitutional right of access to criminal trials,'' today declared unconstitutional a state law that required courtrooms to be closed during the testimony of young rape victims. By a vote of 6 to 3, the Court struck down a Massachusetts law, the only law in the country to bar both the public and the press from a specific portion of a trial. Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr., writing for five Justices, said that while the state's interest in protecting young victims of sex crimes from the trauma of public testimony was ''compelling,'' the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press does not allow the state to make the courtroom closing mandatory. The state's interest, Justice Brennan said, ''could be served just as well by requiring the trial court to determine on a case-by-case basis whether the state's legitimate concern for the well-being of the minor victim necessitates closure.''

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News Analysis

Date: 24 June 1982

By Stuart Taylor Jr., Special To the New York Times

Stuart Taylor

The cascade of public outrage after John W. Hinckley Jr.'s acquittal Monday on the ground of insanity reflects a widespread suspicion that law and psychiatry have combined in a way that confuses juries and almost presumes that people cannot be held responsible for even the most bizarre and heinous crimes. Indeed, some psychiatrists and lawyers argue that the entire orientation of psychiatry flies in the face of the law's general presumption of free will and moral accountability. ''Psychiatry and the law operate from two essentially incompatible views of human nature,'' Dr. Willard Gaylin, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School, wrote in a recent book titled, ''The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice.'' Psychiatry explains behavior in the deterministic terminology of diagnoses, impulses, environmental factors and hereditary causes. The notion of moral blame, central to criminal law, is almost foreign to psychiatric diagnosis.

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News Analysis

Date: 24 June 1982

By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

Administration officials said today that the coming days would tell if President Reagan's decision not to rebuke Prime Minister Menachem Begin publicly would lead to flexibility by Israel in helping produce a solution to the Lebanon crisis. Mr. Begin returned to Israel today after receiving a measure of public support from Mr. Reagan during his two-day visit here. But Administration officials, uneasy over criticism on Capitol Hill that the President was too conciliatory, said Mr. Reagan firmly insisted in private on more cooperation from Israel in resolving the crisis in Lebanon and negotiating self-rule for the Palestinians of the West Bank. The officials said Mr. Begin promised Mr. Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. that Israel would not try to crush the Palestine Liberation Organization forces in west Beirut. They said he pledged to support diplomatic efforts for a solution in Lebanon, including an Israeli troop withdrawal. He also reportedly promised to rededicate Israel to the Palestinian autonomy talks.

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News Summary; FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1982

Date: 25 June 1982

International The P.L.O. is finished in Lebanon, according to a faction leader who has been the main leftist ally of the Palestinian guerrillas in Beirut. Walid Jumblat, a leader of the Druse, told reporters that the guerrilla group ''is outdated - it is over.'' In the fighting, Israeli jets continued attacking the positions of the Palestinian guerrillas trapped in Beirut. (Page A1, Col. 6.) The evacuation of hundreds of Americans and Lebanese with American immigration papers was carried out by a transport ship of the Sixth Fleet hours after the American Embassy in Beirut closed. At the 11th hour, scores of other Americans, Lebanese and Western Europeans arrived at the docks in the Mediterranean port of Junieh and were also taken aboard. (A1:3-5.)

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News Analysis

Date: 24 June 1982

By Edward B. Fiske

Edward

The reversal of lower-court decisions in the Levittown case yesterday represents a significant blow to forces seeking to eliminate unevenness in spending by rich and poor school districts across the state. Whether the finding by the New York State Court of Appeals constitutes a fatal, or even a serious, blow - and whether its effects will be felt outside New York - remains to be seen. Peter M. Fishbein, who argued in behalf of 85 wealthy school districts, in favor of overturning the earlier decisions, predicted yesterday that the decision would lead to ''a dramatic reversal in the trend up to now'' in cases involving the financing of public schools. He cited the prestige of the New York courts as the reason.

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News Analysis

Date: 24 June 1982

By John Herbers, Special To the New York Times

John Herbers

For several months the United States Conference of Mayors has been trying to put together a ''road show.'' A group of leading mayors would travel throughout the country to appeal for public support of their opposition to the Reagan Administration's domestic policies. A similar effort a decade ago in the Nixon Administration succeeded in winning broad support for the cities and enactment of new Federal aid programs for both social services and capital outlays. But this time the conference leaders have not been able to get a single Republican mayor to join the ''road show,'' which, to be effective, would need the bipartisan participation that was easily obtained 10 years ago.

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A BRIDGE BUILDER FOR CITY UNIVERSITY

Date: 24 June 1982

Not long after becoming head of Queens College in 1971, Joseph S. Murphy was invited to a Sholom Aleichem festival being held on campus. Those attending the gathering in memory of the Yiddish writer quickly learned how adept the young college president could be in charming an audience. He spoke in Yiddish. Whether conversing in English, Yiddish, his mother's native tongue, or either of the other two languages he speaks -German and Amharic - Dr. Murphy's wit and affability tend to be disarming.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1982

Date: 24 June 1982

International Israeli forces attacked Syrians just south of the Beirut-Damascus road as a cease-fire announced by Israel collapsed. The Israelis used planes, tanks and artillery in intense, daylong exchanges of fire, and fighting was reported in at least nine places along the highway. The American Embassy is closing today, and all Americans in Lebanon have been urged to leave. (Page A1, Column 6.) Israel said heavy fighting was continuing at Beirut as well as along the Beirut-Damascus highway. An Israeli military spokesman said that Syrian and Palestinian forces had first broken the cease-fire. (A15:1.)

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JOVIAL BRITON FOR U.S. POST: JOHN OLIVER WRIGHT

Date: 25 June 1982

By R.w. Apple Jr., Special To the New York Times

When he goes to Washington to replace Sir Nicholas Henderson as British Ambassador this fall, Sir Oliver Wright will finally be assuming a job that people have been suggesting him for since the early 1970's. In 1971, when the post ultimately went to Lord Cromer, and in 1974, when it went to Sir Peter Ramsbotham, journalists and politicians in London suggested that Sir Oliver should get the Washington job, which is considered the plum of the diplomatic service. But the Washington posting - and with it the sumptuous Lutyens mansion on Massachusetts Avenue - never came Sir Oliver's way, and in February of last year, he retired. Now, like Sir Nicholas, he has been called out of retirement by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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