The November 2, 1985 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 305 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
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2nd of November 1985 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on November 2, 1985
SOUTH AFRICA TOLIMIT NEWS COVERAGE
Date: 02 November 1985
AP
The Government plans to ban radio, television and photo coverage of unrest in 38 districts under an emergency decree in an attempt to cut down on violence, it was reported today. The regulations, which are expected to be carried in the Government Gazette on Saturday, would ban television, still photography and coverage with sound equipment of unrest in areas covered by the emergency decree declared 60 days ago by President P. W. Botha. Publication would make the regulations effective immediately.
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NEWS SUMMARY: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1985
Date: 03 November 1985
International South Africa cutback news coverage of unrest in areas under a state-of-emergency decree. The Government placed sweeping restrictions on local and foreign journalists and barred television crews, photographers and radio reporters from areas affected by the emergency decree. Violators of the new press rules face a prison sentence of up to 10 years or a $8,000 fine, or both. [Page 1, Column 6.]
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NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1985
Date: 02 November 1985
International A new arms-control proposal offered by the United States in Geneva would abandon plans for the deployment of mobile, land-based missiles, Congressional and Administration officials say. It would require that the Russians scrap plans for its mobile SS-24 and SS-25 missiles. In return, the United States would abandon its development of the ''Midgetman''mobile missile. [Page 1, Column 6.] Ferdinand E. Marcos's resignation as President of the Philippines was called for by the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The Senator, Dave Durenberger, Republican of Minnesota, said President Marcos was incapable of bringing about reform. He issued a committee staff report on the worsening economic, military and political situation in the Philippines. [1:5.]
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NEWS REPORTS BRING SOUTH AFRICA'S TURMOIL INTO AMERICA'S LIVING ROOMS
Date: 03 November 1985
In the last nine months South Africa has penetrated the American consciousness with a breadth that it rarely has during a quarter-century of racial strife in that troubled country. Significantly, this turnabout has coincided with sustained and vivid coverage of South Africa by American television. Funerals and riots, overturned cars aflame and armored vehicles rolling through black townships have all become familiar images. The names of Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, the Anglican leader who opposes apartheid, and P. W. Botha, the South African President, have practically become household names. Calls for disinvestment and sanctions have sounded with wider and more foreful emphasis in recent months from campuses to Congress. In both the power it exerts and the controversy it excites, the television coverage of South Africa bears comparison to the reporting by broadcast journalism on the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
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NEWSMEN WORRIED BY PRETORIA CURBS
Date: 03 November 1985
By Marvine Howe
Marvine Howe
Representatives of American news organizations expressed deep concern yesterday over South Africa's plan to impose severe restrictions on coverage of the widespread unrest in the country. In general, the news organizations indicated they would keep their reporters in South Africa and continue to give information as best they could. Edward Joyce, president of CBS News, sent a telegram to President P. W. Botha of South Africa strongly protesting the ban and urging him to reconsider his action. ''Clearly these measures are so restrictive that our people will be in effect denied the capability of doing their job,'' Mr. Joyce said.
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Post to Halt Purchases Of South Africa Paper
Date: 03 November 1985
By United Press International
United International
The publisher of The New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, has announced that The Post will no longer buy newsprint from South Africa. ''The New York Post will not make any further purchases of South African newsprint,'' a Post spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, said Friday.
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WHEN SOVIET JOUIRNALISTS APPEAR ON AMERICAN TV
Date: 03 November 1985
By John Corry
John Corry
What is a Soviet journalist, and is he a journalist at all? It is not an academic question. Soviet journalists appear with increasing frequency on American television, full of analysis, interpretation and varying degrees of charm. If you have not seen Vladimir Posner, for instance, on a news program or talk show, you probably do not watch much television. As a rule of thumb, appearances by Soviet commentators on American programs are in inverse proportion to the thickness of their accents, and Mr. Posner, born in New York, has no accent at all. He is a popular guest on ABC's ''Nightline'' and elsewhere. Meanwhile, we are certain to have not only Soviet journalists on American television in the future but Soviet programs as well: The Cable News Network will soon exchange programs with Intervision, a consortium of Eastern bloc broadcasting systems, while the Public Broadcasting System is now negotiating a similar agreement with the Soviet State Committee for Television and Radio. This is a new adventure for the global village. Nonetheless, there is an enormous difference between Soviet and American television. One is in the service of the state and the other is not, particularly when journalism is involved. American journalists speak for their news organizations; Soviet journalists speak for their Government. There is tacit recognition of this when Soviet journalists are asked for comment. After President Reagan's recent speech at the United Nations, for example, NBC went immediately to Moscow to speak to Vladimir Bolshakov of Pravda.
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U.S. Says Two Ships Joined Moscow's Fleet in the Pacific
Date: 03 November 1985
Reuters
A 28,000-ton Soviet cruiser and a 7,900-ton destroyer are heading into the South China Sea from the Indian Ocean, apparently the first ships of their class to join the Soviet Pacific Fleet, a United States Navy spokesman said today.
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SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ
Date: 02 November 1985
By Linda Amster
Linda Amster
Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. 1. This word confirmed a historical record and corrected it. Explain. 2. The authorities have excluded as the motive for the theft of nine major Impressionist paintings from a Paris museum a type of blackmail that was behind other art thefts. What type of blackmail is it and why was it dismissed as a motive?
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SOUTH AFRICA PUTS WIDE RESTRICTIONS ON ALL REPORTERS
Date: 03 November 1985
By Sheila Rule, Special To the New York Times
Sheila Rule
The South African Government imposed sweeping restrictions on local and foreign journalists today, including barring television crews, photographers and radio reporters from covering unrest in areas affected by an emergency decree. Journalists found guilty of defying the rules, which are considered the most stringent imposed on the press in recent memory, could face a jail sentence of up to 10 years or a maximum fine of about $8,000, or both. Government officials said reporters working for newspapers would be allowed into areas where unrest was occurring but would first have to report to the local police and obey their instructions. Newspaper reporters could be banned from covering unrest unless they agreed to a police escort. Correspondents' Group Protests The Foreign Correspondents' Association immediately condemned the regulations ''as the beginning of the slippery slide toward a totally controlled press'' in South Africa and called on its members' governments to lodge strong protests.
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