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NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1985

Date: 29 November 1985

International The U.S. won global support for a new round of trade-liberalizing negotiations it is seeking to reinforce the world's faltering commitment to free trade and to revitalize the international economy. After three days of often difficult talks, officials from 90 countries agreed unanimously to name a panel to draw up a detailed program for the proposed talks and said their governments would adopt it. [Page A1, Column 4.] Washington has warned New Zealand that if it enacts legislation to bar visits by ships capable of carrying nuclear weapons the United States will almost certainly scrap a mutual defense treaty, senior Administration officials said. [A1:5.]

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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1985

Date: 28 November 1985

International Mikhail S. Gorbachev said his talks with President Reagan were a success and he declared that preparations for the next summit meeting should begin at once. The Soviet leader spoke in an 80-minute televised speech. [Page A1, Column 6.] The U.S. does not plan to modify its current negotiating proposals significantly before the Geneva arms talks convene again in January, Kenneth L. Adelman, the director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said. [A3:1-3.]

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NBC Delays Cable Decision

Date: 28 November 1985

A spokesman for the National Broadcasting Company said the network would not decide until Jan. 31 whether to proceed with a proposed all-news cable television network. NBC had previously said that it would make a decision by mid-December.

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SINGAPORE ACTION TROUBLING PRESS

Date: 28 November 1985

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

A recent apology to a Singapore court by the editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal for an editorial has raised some troubling journalistic questions, according to journalism and human rights organizations. In particular, the apology has touched off discussion on the appropriate response when a foreign court challenges the editorial freedom of a United States news organization publishing abroad. It has also focused scrutiny on the degree of press freedom in Singapore. On Nov. 19, Fred Zimmerman, editor and publisher of The Asian Wall Street Journal, apologized to the High Court in Singapore for any contempt of court caused by an editorial that appeared Oct. 17. The apology came at a hearing on contempt charges, prompted by the editorial, against The Asian Wall Street Journal and several other parties. The case is still pending.

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No Columnist, He

Date: 29 November 1985

By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr

James Clarity

Senator Gary Hart of Colorado has declined an offer by The Washington Times, a daily newspaper published here, to write a regular column for its opinion section.

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HEMISPHERE COURT BACKS FREE PRESS

Date: 29 November 1985

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

In a recent landmark opinion, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that compulsory licensing of journalists is not compatible with the 1978 American Convention on Human Rights, a hemisphere covenant. According to journalism and human rights activists who have reviewed the court's opinion and considered its implications, the court may have reversed the momentum toward the licensing of journalists in Latin America and elsewhere in the world. ''It is an extremely important decision,'' said Leonard R. Sussman, executive director of Freedom House. The decision was issued on Nov. 13 in San Jose, Costa Rica, where the court sits.

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Gannettt Buys Peekskill Star

Date: 29 November 1985

AP

The Peekskill Evening Star, a newspaper with a daily circulation of 10,500 and a Sunday circulation of 12,500, was purchased Wednesday by Gannett Westchester-Rockland Newspapers, its publisher said. The Star was sold by Ogden Newspapers, a West Virginia-based company that had owned it for 12 years. No sale price was announced.

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Dear Nasa

Date: 28 November 1985

This mysterious letter turned up on our video display terminal yesterday. It appears that the cockroach who used to leave messages in a newspaper office by dive-bombing the keys of Don Marquis's typewriter is still around, or that he taught his descendants how to use a computer keyboard and that they, like him, can't shift and type at the same time. dear nasa i hear you are still looking for a journalist to fly into space on your shuttle and report on the wonders of the firmament so now you realize senator jake garn s bowel sounds were not the final word on the emptiness of space but ever since you flew mr garn the senator who decides how much money to give you each year your choice of passengers has seemed a little tainted taint is what we roaches feed on and after crouching all day in a crevice behind the stove at night we yearn like nobody else for the coolness of space yes i would make a good passenger on your shuttle nasa i have no human frailties and muck is what i live in i sure wouldn t rake it you don t want the muckraking kind do you nasa not aboard your shuttle you want someone who believes in sending men to mars even though there s nothing that robots couldn t do there cheaper well i believe in that my kind can t colonize mars without humankind there too you want someone who will laud space as the new universal frontier of humankind and also the perfect basis for strategic defense against those other humans i can subscribe to those two things i often harbor incompatible thoughts in different nerve ganglia it doesn t upset me unless i try to walk as well you want a writer who understands congress won t vote big budgets for nasa unless there are humans cavorting in space so we need the shuttle to take them there and the space station to house them and missions to mars to keep them busy rockets and robots may be the most efficient way to explore space but they lack panache and sang froid sang froid nasa is something we roaches have in our veins they say you expect 5000 applications from reporters for the seat on your shuttle pick me nasa i won t take up much room and i ll report the story of why we need humans in space just the way you want it

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MANY IN POLL SEE BLESSINGS CLOSE AT HAND

Date: 28 November 1985

By Sara Rimer

Sara Rimer

In a year of violence and disaster on the world stage, Americans will give thanks today for blessings close to home. ''I'm thankful for my husband,'' Margaret Mills of Wilmington, Del., said as she prepared for the holiday. She met her husband, Walter, 24 years ago when they were living across the street from each other, she a young widow, he a young widower then working as a repairman for the Chrysler Corporation. For both, it was a second chance. ''I was out front sweeping,'' Mrs. Mills, 61, recalled recently. ''We just sort of looked at each other, and that was it.''

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Advertising; 'Bad News' From Red Lobster

Date: 29 November 1985

By Philip H. Dougherty

Philip Dougherty

RED LOBSTER INNS OF AMERICA, the only General Mills division to achieve its profit objectives in fiscal year 1985, will move its advertising to another agency in February. Backer & Spielvogel, which helped move the country's largest ''dinner house'' system of restaurants to record sales of $827 million, is being replaced by Grey Advertising. The billings should be around $35 million.

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