Replay do quarta-feira, 27 de maio de 1981

NEWS MEDIA FIND IT HARD TO COVER JERSEY PRIMARY

Date: 28 May 1981

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

New Jersey's June 2 gubernatorial primary is frustrating reporters and confounding editors who say they do not quite know how to cover a race among 21 candidates with their flood of forums, position papers, rallies, news conferences and strategic maneuvers. It has become a staple of modern mass-media politics for candidates to complain that the news people are ignoring the issues, but in this race some of the editors and reporters agree with the charge. To round up what 21 candidates think about crime control or the economy would take two columns in a newspaper, said Richard E. Benfield, news editor of The Record, in Bergen County. ''I don't think anybody's going to read that sort of a piece,'' he added. Having written a couple such articles, Patrick Breslin, an Associated Press correspondent in Trenton, has given up, he said, because nobody printed them.

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Around the World; Publishers' Group Attacks Moves to Regulate News

Date: 27 May 1981

Reuters

Newspaper publishers from more than 20 countries have called on Unesco and other international bodies to abandon ''attempts at regulating news content and formulating rules for the press.'' Resolutions adopted at the 34th congress of the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers, whose members represent publishing organizations in 25 countries, also expressed opposition to any controls imposed on journalists in the name of protecting them. The resolutions called for ''free flow of information'' as well as improved training for journalists, increased professional exchanges and lower communications tariffs.

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News Analysis

Date: 28 May 1981

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

Even on the morning after, it was difficult to be certain, but yesterday's Dutch general election appeared to have made it highly unlikely that cruise missiles would ever be deployed on the soil of the Netherlands. That was the conclusion of both Dutch political analysts and Western diplomats as they studied the contradictory voting patterns that deprived Prime Minister Andries van Agt's center-right coalition of its majority in Parliament and at the same time made his Christian Democrats Parliament's biggest single party. Amid all the political complexity, with no one having any idea who will head the next government, it seemed clear that any administration would find it impossible to assemble the 76 or more votes necessary to win approval for emplacing new medium-range nuclear missiles in this country. Major Blow to the Alliance A Dutch ban on the missiles would be viewed by Western strategic planners as a major blow to the Atlantic alliance. It would leave, on purely military grounds, a large hole in the nuclear shield that the West had hoped to build against the Soviet Union's medium-range SS-20's. And, perhaps more important, it could undermine the hard-won unanimity of the North Atlantic Treat Organization on measures to counter a Soviet threat to Western Europe.

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DOW GAINS BY 12.24 ON OPEC NEWS

Date: 27 May 1981

By Vartanig G. Vartan

Vartanig Vartan

Stocks rallied sharply late yesterday on news that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had agreed to freeze oil prices at current levels. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 12.24 points, with virtually all of the advance occurring in the final hour, to finish at 983.96. That single hour of trading almost overcame the cumulative decline of 14.23 points last week, when the Dow retreated for five straight sessions amid conflicting reports about the strength of the American economy. Meanwhile, records levels were reached yesterday for both the American Stock Exchange's market-value index, which rose 1.94, to 375.47, and the Nasdaq composite index of over-the-counter stocks, which added 1.01, to 220.24.

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News Analysis

Date: 28 May 1981

By Steven Rattner

Steven Rattner

The semiannual meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries adjourned last night, but the final communique may not have been the last word. Among the questions it left unanswered were: Will Saudi Arabia, now charging $32 a barrel for its principal grade of oil, raise prices to the other countries' $36 level and reduce production? Will the production quotas adopted here by other members push prices up in a market that appears to be pushing them relentlessly down? For some, the meeting also left questions about OPEC's cohesiveness. Amid such uncertainties, quick judgments are highly speculative. But the prevailing view in the halls of the InterContinental Hotel here among ministers and onlookers was that the Saudis would move within a few months to raise prices and reduce production. And the agreement whereby most of the 12 other OPEC members will cut production 10 percent was viewed as an important precedent, although too vague to have a substantial impact.

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TIRELESS TROUBLE-SHOOTER FOR THE U.S.

Date: 28 May 1981

By Irvin Molotsky, Special To the New York Times

Irvin Molotsky

When Philip C. Habib was selected to try to head off an Israeli-Syrian clash over Syria's missiles in Lebanon, White House and State Department officials were attracted by his past record as a negotiator in one seemingly insoluble problem after another. The 61-year-old Mr. Habib is described by his friends and colleagues as tireless in his pursuit of a solution. Moreover, they point out, he is also a Lebanese-American, with a heritage that has opened doors for him in the Middle East. The special Middle East envoy, who began his mission for President Reagan on May 7 and was called home by the President today for consultations, was a career State Department officer whose previous diplomatic challenges included South Korea, Vietnam and Lebanon. At his retirement in 1978 because of a heart condition, Mr. Habib had risen to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the highest career position in the Foreign Service.

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News Summary; THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1981

Date: 28 May 1981

International Philip C. Habib was recalled to Washington for consultations on what the United States should do next in seeking to avert an Israeli-Syrian clash over Syria's stationing of antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. Mr. Habib, the special American envoy, has been in the Middle East for three weeks. Officials said that the main diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis were being left to Saudi Arabia until Mr. Habib returned to the region, probably late next week. (Page A1, Columns 3-4.) Israel pledged to back further efforts to solve its differences with Lebanon peacefully, but Prime Minister Menachem Begin charged that Syria had mobilized reserves and increased the deployment of missiles in Syria in apparent preparation for battle. (A3:3-6.)

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News Summary; WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1981

Date: 27 May 1981

International A milestone in Soviet space missions was apparently marked. Two Soviet astronauts landed their Soyuz spacecraft in Central Asia after making the final mission to the Earth-orbiting Salyut 6 space station. A more sophisticated space station is expected to replace the Salyut 6, which has been the base for Moscow's record-setting tests of human endurance for nearly four years. (Page A1, Column 1.) Italy's Cabinet resigned after the four parties in the coalition could not agree on how to deal with a major scandal. Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, a Christian Democrat, stepped down after the coalition disagreed on how to cope with the revelation that hundreds of top officials had belonged to a secret Masonic lodge. (A1:2.)

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News of Music; A FEAST OF OPERA AWAITS TV VIEWERS

Date: 28 May 1981

By Peter G. Davis

Peter Davis

OPERA fans have much to anticipate when the fall television season gets under way -a far cry from the days, not so long ago, when opera on the home screen was considered television box-office poison. The turning point came with the first ''Live From the Met'' telecast over the Public Broadcasting Service on March 15, 1977, a ''La Boheme'' with Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti that attracted an unprecedented 7,655,000 viewers. Since then, opera has become an increasingly important ingredient in PBS's programming, and the 1981-82 lineup promises more than ever. The Metropolitan leads off on Sept. 30 with ''La Traviata,'' taped last March 28, with Ileana Cotrubas, Placido Domingo and Cornell MacNeil. Also scheduled is a ''Rigoletto'' starring Christiane Eda-Pierre, Mr. Pavarotti and Sherrill Milnes, and the company's new production of ''La Boheme.'' James Levine conducts all three operas. Two or three other ''Live From the Met'' telecasts are in the planning stage, with operas and casts to be announced later.

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Shoppers Renew Interest in Used Cars; Sticker Prices Of New Autos Revive Market

Date: 28 May 1981

Special to the New York Times

With the price of the average new car approaching $10,000, shoppers recovering from ''showroom shock'' are finding themselves on the used-car lots more frequently these days. Smaller, sleeker, more fuel-stingy autos, some carrying cash rebates, have not seemed to stop what the auto makers think of as an unhealthy upward trend in the used-car market. Despite the fact that national statistics are not easily attainable because of the fragmented market and numbers of unreported private sales, industry executives and analysts say the trend is undeniable. ''Many die-hard new-car buyers have come to realize that they can have safe reliable transportation in a used car, and for considerably less money than for a new car,'' said Dan Ray, executive director of the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association.

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