The October 29, 1985 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 301 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
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29th of October 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on October 29, 1985
The News Conference, Soviet Style
Date: 30 October 1985
By Philip Taubman
Philip Taubman
That great Washington institution, the news conference, has come of age here in Moscow, complete with many a free-wheeling Washington twist, but not too many. With increasing frequency, Soviet leaders are fielding questions from reporters before a battery of television cameras, apparently hoping, much like their American counterparts, that such sessions will help promote and clarify the Government's policies.
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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1985
Date: 30 October 1985
International
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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1985
Date: 29 October 1985
Special to the New York Times
International Moscow would halt building a radar in central Siberia in return for Washington's forgoing plans to modernize radars in Britain and Greenland, according to American and Soviet officials. Washington says the Siberian installation is an early warning radar and violates the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. Moscow contends that the radar is for space tracking and is allowable. [Page A1, Column 6.] King Hussein and Yasir Arafat met for two and a half hours at the Jordanian monarch's palace over strains in their uneasy alliance. The meeting broke up apparently without a resolution, and more meetings between the King and the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization were scheduled for today. [A1:4-5.]
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FEDERAL JURY GETS ISLANDS LIBEL CASE
Date: 30 October 1985
By Robert Trumbull
Robert Trumbull
A seven-year-old libel case, in which the President of the world's smallest and richest republic sued America's largest newspaper chain for $40 million, went to the jury in Federal District Court here today. President Hammer DeRoburt of Nauru, a tiny Pacific island state whose extensive phosphate deposits have given its 5,000 or so citizens the highest per capita income in the world, alleges in the suit that he was defamed by two articles published in 1978 by The Pacific Daily News, on Guam, one of 86 newspapers owned by the Gannett Company of Rochester, N.Y.
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POLLS COMPARE JOURNALISTS' AND PUBLIC VIEWS
Date: 30 October 1985
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
Newspaper journalists consider themselves more accurate and unbiased than does the public, but they share many of the public's concerns about how newspapers do their job, according to a survey of newspaper reporters, editors and other newsroom employees released here today. A wide majority, 85 percent, of the journalists polled said that improving the credibility of their newspaper was a ''high priority,'' the annual convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors was told. The trade group includes key editors of newspapers that are members of The Associated Press.
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COLUMBIA GIVES CABOT PRIZES FOR JOURNALISM IN AMERICAS
Date: 30 October 1985
By Wolfgang Saxon
Wolfgang Saxon
Columbia University yesterday named four recipients of the 47th annual Maria Moors Cabot Prizes in inter-American journalism, to be presented at a ceremony tomorrow. They are Shirley Christian, a Washington correspondent of The New York Times specializing in Latin American affairs; William H. Heath, Associated Press bureau chief in Buenos Aires; Rafael Herrera, editor of Listin Diario of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Aldo Zuccolillo, founder of ABC Color of Asuncion, Paraguay.
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SICILIANS WON'T PURSUE INQUIRY ON U.S. TROOPS
Date: 29 October 1985
By John Tagliabue, Special To the New York Times
John Tagliabue
A Sicilian prosecutor said today that there were no grounds for a formal investigation of the behavior of United States soldiers after the interception of an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. Sicilian prosecutors let it be known over the weekend that they were looking into possible crimes committed by United States military forces during a standoff with Italian soldiers at Sigonella Air Base near Catania, Sicily, on the night of Oct. 10. But Dolcino Favi, the assistant prosecutor in Syracuse, Sicily, said by telephone that a study of an exhaustive police account of the 22 hours the Egyptian plane was on the ground at Sigonella found no cause to continue inquiries. ''Nothing emerged that would mandate a further urgent investigation,'' Mr. Favi said.
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BRITISH WANT SPACE-ARMS ORDERS
Date: 29 October 1985
Special to the New York Times
Michael Heseltine, the British Defense Secretary, is to meet with Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger in Brussels on Tuesday. British sources say Mr. Heseltine will press for assurances that Britain will get a $1.5 billion share of the estimated $26 billion to be spent on the United States' space-based missile defense program, known as ''Star Wars.'' Britain also wants the right to use the new technology in its own missile research programs. According to American officials, it may be impossible to meet some of the British demands.
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PENTAGON CITES SAFETY CONCERN IN CAMPAIGN FOR NERVE GAS FUNDS
Date: 29 October 1985
By Charles Mohr, Special To the New York Times
Charles Mohr
The Pentagon said today that leaks had been detected in ''hundreds'' of poison gas weapons stored at military depots in eight states and that, although the leaks had caused no casualties, they constituted a ''safety concern.'' Dr. Thomas J. Welch, the assistant for chemical warfare to the Secretary of Defense, also said that it was ''not tolerable'' that the Soviet Union could deploy chemical weapons over a battlefield hundreds of miles deep while the United States would be confined to artillery that can lob nerve gas shells only a few miles into an ememy's lines. These statements and the publication of a new edition of a Pentagon booklet on the ''Soviet Chemical Weapons Threat'' were meant to encourage Congress to restore $163.5 million in funds to produce a new generation of nerve gas weapons. The House Appropriations Committee deleted the money from the 1986 appropriation bill last week.
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3 EUROPEANS AND 5 AMERICANS SET FOR LAUNCHING OF SHUTTLE TODAY
Date: 30 October 1985
By John Noble Wilford
John Wilford
A space shuttle mission conducted primarily by West German scientists is set for launching here at noon Wednesday, and both American and German space officials emphasize the flight's importance as a step toward a major European role in the space station being planned for the 1990's. Countdown preparations for the shuttle Challenger and its German scientific cargo continued to proceed smoothly today. But rainstorms spawned by Hurricane Juan threatened to hit the Kennedy Space Center. Meteorologists said they expected the rain to be sporadic, giving launching crews a chance to get the mission under way in the planned three-hour liftoff ''window.''
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