Genafspiller torsdag den 3. september 1981

News Analysis

Date: 04 September 1981

By Clyde Haberman

Clyde Haberman

As he looks toward the likelihood of another four years of running City Hall, Mayor Koch faces the prospect that his tasks will be shaped by circumstances that appear quite different, and less favorable, than what they seemed only a few months ago. The economy, he acknowledged the other day, is stagnant and the bond market for now seems inhospitable. The future for Federal and state aid is uncertain. Next year may bring a new Governor in New York and, even though Mr. Koch downplays the significance, new people as well in important positions in his own administration.

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News Analysis

Date: 04 September 1981

By Andrew H. Malcolm, Special To the New York Times

Andrew Malcolm

Some years ago Maclean's, a prominent Canadian magazine, ran a contest challenging readers to complete the phrase, ''As Canadian as ...'' The winner was, ''As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.'' That self-putdown is also an apt description of the energy pricing agreement announced Tuesday night by two of Canada's perpetually feuding forces, the federal Government and the provincial government of Alberta, the country's chief oil producer. The five-year agreement, which took more than a year of bitter headlines and quieter backroom bargaining to hammer out, was necessary because under Canadian law the federal Government controls the pricing of resources, but the provincial governments control the development and production of resources. This kind of basic power split - the result of compromises forged toget four highly individual and jealous provinces to merge into one Canada in 1867 - has combined with a host of geographic, economic and political factors to produce a form of institutionalized friction that threatens to make Canada virtually ungovernable and regularly pushes this seemingly sedate nation of 21.1 million people onto the world's front pages.

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News Analysis

Date: 04 September 1981

By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times

Hedrick Smith

A month ago, President Reagan headed westward on vacation, riding the crest of big legislative victories, seeming almost politically invincible with the main pillars of his economic recovery program in place. His return to the capital today after his C alifornia sojourn was far less triumphant. He arrived by way of Chi cago, where he faced a tough union audience, endeavoring to explain away Wall Street's skeptical plunge over high interest rates and the prospect of inflationary budget deficits, under pressure to pull back from his own ambitious military buildup and confrontin g a tougher political climate. 'All This Gloom and Doom' ''There's no question there's been a change,'' a senior Administration official conceded. ''On the first of August, everybody was crowing. Now there's all this gloom and doom. We are caught in this vicious cycle: as long as the big budget deficits persist, the markets are skeptical; that keeps interest rates high and that feeds the deficit.''

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News Analysis

Date: 03 September 1981

By Jonathan Fuerbringer, Spe Cial To the New York Times

Jonathan Fuerbringer

President Reagan's economic recovery program, despite the successes of his first seven months, appears to be entering its most critical and vulnerable phase, both supporters and critics of the program are saying. Alan Greenspan, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and an influential outside adviser to the President, contends that the Administration now has no more than six months to convince the financial markets - mainly by making more budget cuts - that the Reagan program will work and bring down interest rates before the economy falls into severe trouble. In Mr. Greenspan's view, unless conditions change dramatically, the nation's thrift institutions can hold together only another six months. Mr. Greenspan, who also says he doubts the President can balance the Federal budget by 1984, says Mr. Reagan will have to persuade the already skeptical and stubborn financial markets that significant movement toward a balanced budget is enough progress to warrant confidence and lower interest rates.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1981

Date: 04 September 1981

International Angola and South Africa exchanged charges over the raid by South African troops. Angolan officials in Lisbon charged that the troops had begun a new drive deep into southern Angola east of the area where the raid began on Aug. 24. A South African spokesman in Pretoria denounced the statement as ''ridiculous propaganda.'' (Page A4, Columns 1-2.) South Africa is withdrawing its forces from Angola, officials in the Reagan Admi nistration said, based on informat ion received in Washington. They said that if there was new f ighting in southeastern Angola it was between rival Angolans. (A1:2.)

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News Summary; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1981

Date: 03 September 1981

International Angola threatened again to call in its allies to help expel South African troops from its territory. The Marxist regime, whose allies include the Soviet Union and Cuba, assailed the United States for its veto Monday of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning South Africa and demand ing a withdrawal of its forces. (Page A1, Col umns 2-3.) Preliminary arms talks have begun between the United States and the Soviet Union on the issue of how to verify compliance with future accords, the State Department spokesman said. He confirmed that Eugene V. Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Aleksandr A. Bessmertnykh, the Soviet charge d'affaires in Washington, met on Aug. 21 to discuss limiting strategic nuclear weapons. (A1:1.)

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Air Florida Backed In Bid for Western

Date: 04 September 1981

AP

The Civil Aeronautics Board today gave tentative approval for Air Florida to take over Los Angeles-based Western Airlines, although a final ruling is not expected until October. The C.A.B. in mid-July gave Air Florida permission to purchase up to half of We stern Airlines' stock as long as the shares were placed in a trust aw aiting final takeover approval.

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News of Music; MET OPERA GEARS UP FOR GALA 100TH

Date: 03 September 1981

By Peter G. Davis

Peter Davis

THE Metropolitan Opera's centenary celebrations are still two years in the future, but plans are already afoot to make the season of 1983-84 one that operagoers will never forget. The festivities will begin in mid-September 1983 with an opening-night revival of Berlioz's epical ''Les Troyens'' starring Placido Domingo as Aeneas. About a month later, on Oct. 22, 100 years to the day since the Met first opened its doors with a performance of ''Faust,'' there will be a gala concert, and operatic luminaries all over the world have been asked to reserve the date so that they may participate. The Met's anniversary will automatically inspire a tremendous amount of nostalgia about the company's glamorous vocal past. Fortunately, many great performances have been preserved on records and tapes. The ongoing series of historic Met broadcast releases, seven of which are now available through the Metropolitan Opera Guild, will offer a special anniversary album of six disks featuring excerpts from several memorable Saturday matinee broadcasts dating back to the 1930's.

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800 HEAR PEALE PRAISE LOWELL THOMAS

Date: 03 September 1981

By David Bird

David Bird

A funeral service for Lowell Thomas at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church yesterday drew 800 people, including former President Gerald R. Ford, Vice President Bush and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. ''In my book there was never anyone like him,'' said the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a lo ngtime friend who delivered the eulogy at the church, a t 51st Street and Park Avenue. Looking down from the pulpit at the gold-flecked coffin draped with the church's embroidered pall, Dr. Peale decribed the veteran newscaster as ''one of the most remarkable men of our time, or, indeed, of any time.'' Dr. Peale said that Mr. Thomas, who died at his estate in Pawling, N.Y., last Saturday at the age of 89, rose from humble beginnings in a ''personification of the Horatio Alger tradition.'' He said the broadcaster always had a desire to excel and to explore, and always cared for people.

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RICHARD BAKER, 68, PROFESSOR WHO HELD PULITZER POST, DIES

Date: 04 September 1981

By Peter Kihss

Peter Kihss

Richard T. Baker, a professor of journalism at Columbia University for 34 years and retired secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board, died of cancer yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 68 years old. Mr. Baker, who was an ordained Methodist minister, had been a correspondent and journalism teacher in China during World War II. He served as acting dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism from August 1968 to February 1970. In 1953-54, he took a year out from teaching to work as a reporter for The New York Times.

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