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News Analysis

Date: 21 May 1981

By Paul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger

The decision on Tuesday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission to give blanket landmark protection to a 1,044-building chunk of the Upper East Side is the strongest pro-preservation stance the city has taken since it went to the United States Supreme Court to argue on behalf of the saving of the Grand Central Terminal. It will not necessarily end a 15-year controversy over the development of the Upper East Side, since the debate that preceded the commission's vote is almost certain to spill over into the Board of Estimate, which by law must ratify the panel's actions within 90 days. But it does place the Koch administration squarely on the side of preservation, rather than development, of some of the city's most expensive real estate. The Upper East Side Historic District, which covers most of the blocks between 61st and 79th Streets and Fifth and Lexington Avenues, will not by any means be the city's largest landmark district. The historic districts of Greenwich Village, Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights are all substantially bigger.

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PRAGMATIC FRENCH PREMIER

Date: 22 May 1981

Special to the New York Times

''Facts are stubborn,'' Pierre Mauroy told the Socialist Party congress assembled at Metz in 1979 to thrash out the leadership battle between Francois Mitterrand and his young challenger, Michel Rocard. Mr. Mauroy, who at the time was allied with Mr. Rocard, was trying to persuade his colleagues that Mr. Mitterrand and his left-wing supporters were freezing the party into dogmatic intransigence and were out of touch with the centrist feelings of the French electorate. Facts may be stubborn, but Mr. Mitterrand proved even more so. He won the fight and clung to his vision that the way to beat the Communists was to strangle them with love: to maintain the notion of a united left, that is, win over the Communist voters and eventually force the Communist leaders to break with him out of sheer selfpreservation.

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News Analysis

Date: 21 May 1981

By Henry Scott Stokes, Special To the New York Times

Henry Stokes

The Government of Japan has recently run into a series of mishaps, disputes and embarrassing disclosures - all unrelated but forming a pattern of difficulty for Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki - and the question is how seriously these affect the relationship with the United States. At the Government level, ties appear likely to remain close. Both Governments are determined to strengthen relations, as shown by the recent Washington visit of Mr. Suzuki, who had cordial talks with President Reagan. But there is a mood of quiet disenchantment with the United States and mistrust of it because of recent events, and that has to limit what the Government does.

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Dow and Saudi Basic In Chemical Venture

Date: 21 May 1981

AP

The Dow Chemical Company said today that it had reached a final agreement with the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, the Saudi Arabian state-owned petrochemical company, to form a joint venture to build a $1.5 billion petrochemical facility at the Jubail Industrial complex in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Dow and Saudi Basic Industries will form the Arabian Petrochemical Company and will use an ethane cracker to produce 550,000 tons of ethylene annually and 198,000 tons of polyethylene a year starting in mid-1985, Dow said.

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News Summary; FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1981

Date: 22 May 1981

International A withdrawal of the nomination of Ernest W. Lefever as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs has been requested by Senator Charles H. Percy, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to Administration and Congressional officials. Aides to the Senator reported that Mr. Percy told White House officials that Mr. Lefever might ''hurt the foreign policy goals'' of the Administration. (Page A1,Column 1.) Syrian missiles must be removed not only from Lebanon but also from Syrian territory near the Lebanese border, Prime Minister Menachem Begin said in a television interview. The broadening of demands by the Israeli leader, which included the demand that Syria not fire antiaircraft missles from its own territory at Israeli planes over Lebanon, was expected to complicate efforts to resolve the conflict. (A1:4.)

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News Summary; THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1981

Date: 21 May 1981

International The United States voted against the adoption of a code by the World Health Organization that would ban all promotion of infant formulas that could discourage mothers from breast-feeding. The measure was adopted in a committee of the whole by 93 votes to 3 with 9 abstentions. The measure was strongly opposed by the baby food industry, but activists charged that the code is needed to protect infants in third world countries from the dangers of bottle-feeding.(Page A1,Column 3.) The leaders of Israel and Syria exchanged sharp public criticism of each other's policies, but both said Philip C. Habib, the special American envoy, should continue his efforts to ease the tension between them. The Israeli Cabinet decided to continue diplomatic efforts toward a peaceful solution of the missile crisis in Lebanon. President Hafez al-Assad of Syria accused Israel of making demands that are ''outside any logic.'' Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel called the Syrian President's remarks ''extremist,'' but said his country would not attack Syrian forces unless provoked. (A1:4-5.)

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News of Music; ROCHBERG FINISHING HIS FIRST OPERA

Date: 21 May 1981

By Peter G. Davis

Peter Davis

GEORGE ROCHBERG is putting the finishing touches on his first opera, ''The Confidence Man,'' based on Herman Melville's book of the same name. The world premiere will take place on July 31, 1982, at the Santa Fe Opera, and as soon as the work is safely launched, Mr. Rochberg plans to get right down to work on another opera. Perhaps the opera bug was bound to bite Mr. Rochberg sooner or later, because the form offers a composer the widest possible range of musical variety. Several years ago, Mr. Rochberg caught the musical world by surprise with a dramatic shift in stylistic direction that led him to renounce Serialism in favor of a free idiom suggesting everything from Beethoven through Mahler to the avantgarde. With ''The Confidence Man,'' Mr. Rochberg apparently feels he has found just the subject to exploit his newfound eclecticism.

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Nu-West Acquires Cities Service Stake

Date: 22 May 1981

AP

Nu-West Group Ltd., a diversified Canadian real estate development concern, said today that it had purchased a 6.3 percent stake in the Cities Service Company, the integrated oil and copper-mining company, for $249.5 million. Although Nu-West said its purchases between March 23 and May 19 were ''an investment,'' it said in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that ''it also may purchase additional common shares or sell shares from time to time depending on market conditions and business circumstances.''

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Southern Democrats Are Key To Reagan Tax Plan Outlook; News Analysis

Date: 22 May 1981

By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times

Hedrick Smith

Once again, Reagan political strategists have capitalized on a break-away group of Southern conservative Democrats to put political pressure on the House Democratic leadership to go along with much of President Reagan's tax program. At this point, both the White House and some of the House leaders show more inclination to work for a mainstream compromise on the tax program than they did during their battle over the budget. Privately, Democrats concede that their House leadership would like to avoid a repetition of the drubbing they took from President Reagan on the budget, and the White House is reported to prefer a broad bipartisan vote of confidence rather than a narrow victory for Mr. Reagan's controversial tax program. Neither side can yet be really confident of winning.

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East-West Trade Gets China Tabloid Account

Date: 22 May 1981

By Philip H. Dougherty

Philip Dougherty

East-West Trade Publications here in New York has been named to solicit advertising worldwide for International Trade News, a tabloid circulated only in China, according to Louis F. Sharpe, president of East-West Trade. He said the Chinese had ended a 20-year ban on advertising in the country's only official foreign trade newspaper. According to Mr. Sharpe, the paper has 100,000 subscribers and an advertising page rate of $6,000.

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