Replaying Thursday, February 7, 1985

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE DEBATED

Date: 08 February 1985

By Reginald Stuart

Reginald Stuart

The president-elect of the Radio and Television News Directors Association told the Federal Communications Commission today that news organizations often decide against covering controversial issues for fear of being confronted by groups displeased with the coverage and threatening action under the Fairness Doctrine. ''We're making concessions instead of journalistic decisions because it's the easy way out,'' said the president- elect, John Spain, a broadcast station news director. He said deciding against doing a story despite its newsworthiness was the employees' way of keeping the public and station owners ''off their backs.''

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SCHLESINGER SAYS DISTRUST HINDERS FOREIGN POLICY

Date: 07 February 1985

By Hedrick Smith

Hedrick Smith

Former Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger asserted today that President Reagan's main difficulty in winning support for his Pentagon budget, Nicaragua policy and missile defense proposal was Congressional distrust of Administration objectives and credibility. ''A national consensus cannot simply be wished into being,'' he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. ''It can be restored only gradually over time, if at all. It will come about only through the development of mutual trust, reasonable success and the sustained credibility of the executive branch.''

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SUPPORTERS OF THE MILITARY ASSAIL STOCKMAN'S REMARKS ON PENSIONS

Date: 07 February 1985

By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times

Bill Keller

An attack on the military pension system by David A. Stockman, the budget director, drew angry responses today from veterans' groups, Pentagon officials and some Congressional champions of the military. But some key members of Congress picked up Mr. Stockman's call for reform and said this might be the year for a major overhaul of military compensation. ''I would have said it differently, but Stockman is right,'' said Representative Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the House Armed Services Committee. ''Military retirement is too expensive. The Pentagon has failed to grapple with this issue.''

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NEWS SUMMARY;

Date: 08 February 1985

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1985 International Four Polish officers were convicted and sentenced to prison for their role in the abduction and slaying of a pro- Solidarity priest. The 25-day trial was believed to be the first in which a Communist country has publicly prosecuted members of its internal security forces for murdering a dissident. A five-judge tribunal sentenced the four men to terms ranging from 14 to 25 years. (Page A1, Column 1.) Moscow's desire for U.S. computers is expected to be satisfied by new, more liberal high-technology trade regulations adopted by Washington and its allies. Industry sources say Soviet officials have begun negotiations to buy large numbers of Western-made personal computers, apparently for Soviet scientific institutes and schools. (A1:2.)

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BRIEFS

Date: 08 February 1985

Communications Satellite Corp. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. said Comsat would carry Cable News Network to Europe, beginning Sept. 15.

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Making Progress

Date: 08 February 1985

Theotis Brown, the 27-year-old running back for the Kansas City Chiefs who suffered a heart attack Wednesday, had a bit of good news yesterday when his cardiologist said that an enzyme injection had dissolved a clot in a coronary artery and that he had no further blockage. ''Hopefully, this will limit the extent of damage,'' said Dr. Michael Sweeney .

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Italy Asks Extradition

Date: 08 February 1985

Italy has asked Bulgaria to extradite a Turkish businessman, Bekir Celenk, on charges of plotting to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981, the Italian news agency ANSA said today. Mr. Celenk was among seven people indicted last October for involvement in the alleged conspracy to kill the Pontiff.

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Best Man, Busy Man

Date: 08 February 1985

By Phil Gailey and Warren Weaver Jr

Phil Gailey

Representative Jim Wright of Texas, the House majority leader, figured he would have nothing much to do yesterday in between a morning floor fight over a contested Indiana election and a mid- afternoon news conference where he planned to announce that he had locked up enough votes to become Speaker after Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. retires in 1986.

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BULGARIA AND U.S. TRADE CHARGES ON DRUG TRAFFIC

Date: 07 February 1985

By Henry Kamm

Henry Kamm

Bulgaria and the United States exchanged accusations today over drug smuggling, with the Bulgarians charging that the Americans, for political reasons, had halted talks aimed at cooperative control of narcotics and arms traffic. The United States responded with a statement by Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, saying that the Bulgarian Government had failed to move against known foreign narcotics dealers residing in Bulgaria. At a news conference in the modernistic Palace of Culture, Bulgaria also disclosed that it was preparing a trial in absentia against Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, on charges of slandering Bulgarian nationals.

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Yankees Relive Good Old Days

Date: 08 February 1985

By Thomas Rogers

Thomas Rogers

George Steinbrenner insists he looks more like Butch Cassidy, but the principal owner of the Yankees is meant to resemble Jacob Ruppert, the Yankee owner from 1915 to 1939 in a color photo on the cover of The Sporting News this week. Steinbrenner, disguised behind a gray walrus mustache, stares stonily ahead, a black derby hat on his head, a black bowtie under his chin, his hands crossed atop an 1889 cane. To his left is Yogi Berra, dressed as John McGraw, the fabled New York Giant manager; to his right, Rickey Henderson, the recently acquired center fielder, as Ty Cobb.

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