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EX-AMSTERDAM NEWS EDITOR

Date: 22 January 1986

By Wolfgang Saxon

Wolfgang Saxon

James L. Hicks, a former editor of The Amsterdam News and a pioneer black American correspondent, died Sunday at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center after suffering a stroke. He was 70 years old and lived in Manhattan. Mr. Hicks served twice as the top editor of The Amsterdam News, from 1955 to 1966 and from 1972 to 1977, and helped to build it into one of the country's largest and most influential weeklies directed toward blacks. In between, he was an assistant commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights and a public-relations officer of the National Urban League.

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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1986

Date: 23 January 1986

International Claims by Ferdinand E. Marcos that he headed a guerrilla resistance unit during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines are ''fraudulent'' and ''absurd,'' according to American Army conclusions after World War II. President Marcos, throughout his political career, has portrayed himself as a heroic guerrilla leader, but documents in United States Government archives for 35 years show that repeated Army investigations found no foundation for his assertions. [ Page A1, Column 1. ] Three Sikh men were convicted in New Delhi and sentenced to be hanged for conspiracy and murder in the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Two of the men were security guards at the former Indian leader's residence. Lawyers for the defendants said they would appeal, a process that could take months. [ A11:1-3. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1986

Date: 22 January 1986

International Nicaraguan rebels need more aid, in the view of President Reagan, according to a White House official. He said Mr. Reagan had decided to ask Congress for $90 million to $100 million in military and other aid for the insurgents. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] A bomb killed 22 people in Beirut and wounded more than a hundred, many of them seriously. The explosion occurred in a car on a busy street in the eastern section near a building housing the offices of President Amin Gemayel's party. No one took responsibility for the blast. [ A3:4-6. ]

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3 DIE AS COPTER CRASHES

Date: 22 January 1986

UPI

Upi

A helicopter carrying an ABC News crew to a meatpackers' strike crashed today in thick fog, killing the two ABC News employees and the pilot, the authorities said. An ABC News spokesman in New York City identified the two employees as Joe Spencer, a correspondent, and Mark McDonough, a producer, both 31 years old and based in Chicago.

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TICKET COMPUTER PROVING SUCCESSFUL

Date: 23 January 1986

By Richard J. Meislin

Richard Meislin

Police officials in Newport News, Va., said yesterday that their experiment with computerized traffic-ticket writing - similar to the system New York City had hoped to adopt - has thus far been largely successful. The city of 155,000, a major port at the mouth of the James River, has been using three portable Ticketwriter computers since last August to issue traffic summonses and catch scofflaws in its downtown area. Officials of the Newport News Police Department, interviewed by telephone, said the system was achieving its goals in terms of writing tickets, identifying people who ignored traffic tickets and simplifying the entry of ticket information into the Police Department computer system.

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AQUINO SEEKS U.S. TV NETWORK TAPES

Date: 23 January 1986

By Francis X. Clines, Special To the New York Times

Francis Clines

The Philippine opposition tried today to subpena tapes made by American television networks of local news shows to demonstrate that President Ferdinand E. Marcos had unfairly monopolized election coverage of the presidential campaign. In challenging Mr. Marcos's 20 years of rule, Corazon C. Aquino, the major opposition candidate, has complained that she is being systematically denied equitable news coverage and commercial opportunitites on the Government-owned television channel. Government officials have rejected the charge.

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TV NEWSMAN'S TRANSITION TO NOVELS

Date: 22 January 1986

By Herbert Mitgang, Special To the New York Times

Herbert Mitgang

Gerald Seymour once had it made as a British television journalist: he carried a company air-travel card, appeared on camera in a street-scarred overcoat (''I was against the romantic trenchcoat image'') and did his two minutes of stand-up reporting from many of the magic-carpet datelines of the world. Then, three years after his acclaimed first novel, ''Harry's Game,'' was published in the United States and became a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1975, he decided to give up the television glamour - the recognizable face on the screen, the chance to have his voice heard at once by millions, the punditry that came with being on the scene when big stories broke - for the aloneness of a novelist. As a seasoned craftsman behind the microphone and the typewriter, whose novels are regularly published in London and New York -a new one is coming from W. W. Norton, his American publisher, this spring - Mr. Seymour has very definite views on the advantages offered by fiction over fact for a onetime journalist.

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The Hash Bashers

Date: 22 January 1986

By Russel Baker

Russel Baker

Eight men met secretly in Washington. They were the Hash-Settling Committee of the National Security Council. Their job: to settle the hash of foreign troublemakers. Since their work was top secret, the press always referred to them as ''the hush-hush Hash-Settling Committee.''

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AIDS FEARS OF THE UNMARRIED

Date: 22 January 1986

Eighteen percent of people who are single, divorced or separated have changed their sexual behavior for fear of AIDS, according to a nationwide NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll released yesterday, while just 3 percent of married people have changed their practices. Half of those who changed said they relied more heavily on condoms, and more than 90 percent spoke of carefully choosing partners or avoiding promiscuity. Three-quarters of those polled said they believed that acquired immune deficiency syndrome would spread beyond the groups the fatal illness has hit hardest: homosexual men and intravenous drug users. This finding spanned divisions by age, race or sex.

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U.S. Reporter Detained Overnight by Nigeria

Date: 22 January 1986

AP

Security forces Saturday held Charles T. Powers, a correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, overnight at Murtala Muhammed International Airport without explanation and refused to let him call the United States Embassy. Mr. Powers said that after he arrived from Nairobi agents from the National Security Organization seized his passport and held him in their airport offices before taking him to security headquarters the following morning.

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