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CBS-TV SETS 2-5 A.M. NEWS REPORT

Date: 12 March 1982

By Tony Schwartz

Tony Schwartz

CBS News yesterday announced plans to begin a three-hour news and information service from 2 to 5 A.M. each weekday, which would be the longest news program on a commercial television network. The service, which CBS said would start next September, will include a mixture of breaking news, longer stories running up to seven or eight minutes, and extended interviews with newsmakers. CBS will also offer its affiliated stations at least five minutes during each hour for local news segments.

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A CHASTISED 'CORNER TO THE STARS'

Date: 12 March 1982

By Robert Lindsey, Special To the New York Times

Robert Lindsey

When John Belushi died last week, it was an event that had the time-honored trappings of a death in Hollywood: Intensive coverage by the news media, testimonials from famous people about the untimely death of a talented performer and even a mystery regarding the cause of his death. It had all of the usual ingredients except one: Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi, the medical examiner of Los Angeles County, who has been called ''coroner to the stars,'' was missing. Dr. Noguchi was uncharacteristically silent about the actor's death, apparently because he was heeding an order from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in January to restrain his public comments about the deaths of famous people. Finally, six days after Mr. Belushi's death, the pathologist, who normally calls a news conference in cases of great public interest, issued a three-sentence statement Wednesday night saying the actor had died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine. He refused to return reporters' telephone calls regarding the statement.

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WARNER IS OUT OF BIDDING TO BUY THE DAILY NEWS

Date: 11 March 1982

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

Warner Communications Inc. said yesterday that it had withdrawn as a potential purchaser of The Daily News. Martin Payson, general counsel for the New York-based entertainment company, said Warner could not deal effectively with the paper's unions as long as there are other possible buyers who might not require contract givebacks as extensive as Warner believes are needed. He said that Warner could conclude a deal only if the unions understood that it was ''the purchaser of last resort.''

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News Analysis

Date: 12 March 1982

By Richard Eder, Special To the New York Times

Richard Eder

President Francois Mitterrand sets out on a oneday trip to Washington Friday to try to reduce some of the obstacles to a closer French-American partnership. Mr. Mitterrand apparently seeks to explore a notion he has held since he took office last May, that France might partly replace West Germany as the political keystone of a reinvigorated Atlantic alliance. One requisite for such a role is a more active relationship with the United States than France has had of late. But the prospect is still some way off. The immediate task the French President has set for himself is to take up with President Reagan the current strains in the relationship.

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WILLIAMS'S CHIEF ACCUSER IN SENATE

Date: 11 March 1982

By Phil Gailey, Special To the New York Times

Phil Gailey

In late 1979, when Senator Malcolm Wallop agreed to fill a Republican seat on the Senate's Select Committee on Ethics, he recalls, Howard H. Baker Jr., the Senate minority leader at the time, told him, ''It should be an easy tour.'' The committee had already disposed of the cases of two errant senators, Herman E. Talmadge of Georgia and Edward Brooke of Massachusetts. There was nothing left on the committee calendar, Mr. Wallop said. but ''routine bureaucratic matters,'' such things as advising senators on what outside activities might present ethical concerns. ''The committee is the Senate's security blanket in normal times,'' said Mr. Wallop, a 49-year-old Yale-educated rancher from Wyoming. By early 1981, when the Senate came under Republican control and Mr. Wallop took over the chairmanship of the ethics panel, the case of Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, had swept the routine business off the committee agenda. It presented the Senate with the difficult choice of what to do about the only member of its chamber to be convicted in the Abscam investigation.

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News Analysis

Date: 11 March 1982

By Philip Shabecoff, Special To the New York Times

Philip Shabecoff

Interior Secretary James G. Watt, in an almost insouciant move, has made a bold bid to snatch victory for the Administration's public lands policy from the jaws of what appeared to be approaching political defeat. On national television, Mr. Watt, in a marked departure from past policy, said he would ask Congress to withdraw Federal wilderness areas from all drilling and mining activities for the rest of this century. He also said that areas proposed for protection as wilderness areas but not yet acted upon by Congress would similarly be withdrawn. Critics of Mr. Watt's land policies reacted with surprise and skepticism. When the fine print was read in the legislation that was later introduced, the critics declared their skepticism well-founded.

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Thrift Unit Merger Planned on Coast

Date: 12 March 1982

Financial Federation Inc., a Los Angeles-based holding company with assets of more than $2.4 billion, announced yesterday that it had decided to merge its 11 separate savings and loan associations into one unit to be named United Savings and Loan Association. The action is subject to Federal and state regulatory agency approval.

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Sports News Briefs; Tolentine Gains Final With Power Memorial

Date: 11 March 1982

Tolentine turned back a determined St. Francis Prep team, 53-41, and Power Memorial beat LaSalle, 62-55, in double overtime in the semifinals of the Catholic High Schools Athletic Association basketball tournament at Fordham University last night.

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News Summary; THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1982

Date: 11 March 1982

International No plans to send G.I.'s to El Salvador have been prepared, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General David C. Jones, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He testified that ''We do not have plans to go into El Salvador with military forces,'' but he refused to speculate on Washington's next move if present efforts by the Salvadoran Government to eliminate the guerrilla threat were unsuccessful. (Page A1, Column 6.) Covert aid to Nicaraguans is being provided by the Reagan Administration, according to senior Administration officials. They said that millions of dollars were being sent to individuals and private organizations in hopes of bolstering moderate Nicaraguan groups. The officials said that the effort, begun late last year, was being managed by the C. I. A. (A1:4-5.)

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News Summary; FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1982

Date: 12 March 1982

International Support for nuclear arms control was expressed by the Reagan Administration. It said it shared the concern of 139 members of Congress who have urged a freeze on the levels of Soviet and American weapons arsenals, but asserted it could not support the proposal because it would ''freeze the United States into a position of military disadvantage and dangerous vulnerability.'' (Page A1, Column 1.) A big U.S. arms sale to Britain was announced by London and hailed by Washington. The British Government has decided to buy an advanced new nuclear submarine fleet designed to take its independent deterrent into the next century. The Trident 2 missile system, which Britain said would cost $14 billion over 18 years, will replace Polarismissile submarines. (A1:1.)

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Sports News Briefs; Exhibitions Planned To Keep Holmes Sharp

Date: 11 March 1982

Because the television networks were not interested in a Larry Holmes-Jimmy Young match, Holmes will instead prepare for his June 11 heavyweight title defense against Gerry Cooney with a series of exhibitions, Don King said yesterday. Young, 33, was not regarded by the networks as a prime-time opponent, said King, the promoter who is an adviser to Holmes.

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News of Music; CARNAGIE HALL NAMES ROSEN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Date: 11 March 1982

By John Rockwell

John Rockwell

CARNEGIE HALL has completed the restructuring of its management with the appointment of Seymour Rosen as artistic director, effective July 1. Mr. Rosen joins Edward H. Michaelsen, the recently appointed managing director and chief executive officer, to replace Stewart J. Warkow, who has resigned as executive director. Mr. Michaelsen formally assumes his duties on Nov. 1. Mr. Rosen, 56 years old, brings a 20-year background in orchestra management to his new post. Born in New York, he was manager of the Columbus Symphony in Ohio in 1962-63, the Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-66; executive director of the American Symphony Orchestra League, 1966-67, managing director of the Pittsburgh Symphony, 1967-79, and until very recently executive director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Rosen's new duties at Carnegie Hall are still under discussion, but will apparently not involve the sponsorship of a new full-sized orchestra at the hall, although Mr. Rosen confirmed plans yesterday to explore the feasibility of a resident chamber orchestra. He also mentioned added outreach programs, the development of young artists and a stronger commitment to new music and American music.

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