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News Analysis

Date: 12 January 1983

By Nathaniel Sheppard Jr., Special To the New York Times

Nathaniel Sheppard

In an apparent effort to improve her standing among blacks here, Mayor Jane M. Byrne has appointed a black lawyer to the board of the Chicago Housing Authority and ordered the dismantling of iron gates that have helped keep adjacent black and white neighborhoods segregated. The Mayor's standing among blacks has seriously eroded in the last three years as a result of appointments and other actions that have seemed to ignore the importance of Chicago's 41 percent black population. Black dissatisfaction with Mrs. Byrne boiled over last summer after she sought to unseat a black member of the City Council who refused to support two whites the Mayor had nominated to the school board. The two school nominees, who were subsequently confirmed by the City Council, opposed many of the board's desegregation plans.

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News Analysis

Date: 13 January 1983

By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times

Hedrick Smith

At a critical moment in the Reagan Administration, the President's leadership has taken some new setbacks from two unsolicited Cabinet resignations and the disclosure that the Senate majority leader, Howard H. Baker Jr., will probably not seek re-election in 1984 and could be positioning himself for a run for the Presidency if the President decides not to run again. Although historically the start of a President's third year can be a time for Cabinet changes and early maneuvering for the next Presidential election, many politicians here are watching to see whether these and other developments signal disaffection among Republican moderates. White House officials assert that the recent resignations of Drew Lewis as Transportation Secretary and Richard S. Schweiker as Secretary of Health and Human Services were strictly motivated by personal considerations and not by ideological or policy differences. But Congresional Republican moderates say privately that Mr. Reagan should read these developments, and criticism of his prospective budget even by Republican conservatives, as signals to moderate his policies.

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News Analysis

Date: 12 January 1983

By Michael Oreskes, Special To the New York Times

Michael Oreskes

With the uprising at Cell Block B in Ossining peacefully resolved, Governor Cuomo must now deal with the larger problems that helped bring on the rebellion: the serious overcrowding and antiquated conditions at state prisons. Since he took office 11 days ago, Mr. Cuomo has known that he would have to deal with this situation and that his own campaign pledges would make the problems more difficult to solve. What Mr. Cuomo clearly could not have anticipated is the dramatic way in which the issues have suddenly been pushed to the forefront so early in his administration. It is too soon to assess to what extent, if at all, the Ossining takeover crisis, and Mr. Cuomo's success in handling it, will influence him in forging a solution to broader prison issues or help him rally support for those solutions. But corrections experts say the issues are clear.

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News Analysis

Date: 13 January 1983

By Richard Witkin

Richard Witkin

The crash of an Air Florida Boeing 737 taking off from snow-swept Washington National Airport just a year ago has generated or hastened several safety measures by the plane's manufacturer and governmental authorities. The Boeing Company has a design improvement for the wing antiicing system that will allow it to be used routinely on the ground as well as in the air. Britain has promulgated more stringent rules for operations in icy weather. The National Transportation Safety Board urged yesterday, for the second time, that similar rules be adopted in this country.

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News Summary; WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1983

Date: 12 January 1983

International Wide search warrants in Ontario have been suspended while appellate courts weigh their constitutional validity. The all-purpose search warrants, called writs of assistance, helped to inflame the American colonists to rebellion. (Page A7, Column 1.) King Hussein is being counted on by officials of the Reagan Administration to declare his readiness to join in negotiations on Palestinian self-rule by the end of next month. But they say that, to do so, the Jordanian leader must receive increased support from Saudi Arabia. (A11:1.)

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News Summary; THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1983

Date: 13 January 1983

International Eugene V. Rostow was dismissed as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency by President Reagan, who said that Secretary of State George P. Shultz would play the principal role in coordinating arms control policies. Officials said that the dismissal of Mr. Rostow and other changes announced in the management of arms control matters were not based on ideological or policy reasons, but rather were intended to end the fragmentation and chaos that has existed for months in the bureaucracy. (Page A1, Column 1.) Poland expelled a U.S. reporter after holding her for 23 hours in Warsaw's police headquarters. The expulsion of Ruth E. Gruber, a correspondent for United Press International, centered on a packet on a train from Gdansk that officials said contained two illegally photographed rolls of pictures of military installations. (A12:4-6.)

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REBELIOUS SALVADOR COMMANDER AND FAVORITE OF THE RIGHT:SIGIFREDO OCHOA PEREZ

Date: 12 January 1983

By Lydia Chavez

Lydia Chavez

When Lieut. Col. Sigifredo Ochoa Perez refused last week to accept the orders transferring him from his post as commander of the northern province of Cabanas to be military attache in Uruguay, it was not the first time that he had been at odds with the Government. Colonel Ochoa, who was born on April 2, l942 into a middle-class family in the southeastern province of San Miguel, was removed from active duty in May 1972 after an attempted coup against President Fidel Sanchez Hernandez. But he says it is not his intention now to stage a coup against the Government. ''Never again will there be a coup against the state by the military,'' he said. ''We only want to clean up the state.''

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REAGAN'S CHOICE FOR HEALTH CHIEF: MARGARET MARY HECKLER

Date: 13 January 1983

By Marjorie Hunter, Special To the New York Times

Marjorie Hunter

Years ago when Margaret M. Heckler was an elected member of the Massachusetts Governor's Executive Council, her 4-year-old son announced one day, ''When I grow up, I am going to be Governor.'' ''You can't, silly,'' his 6-year-old sister Alison informed John Jr. loftily. ''You're a boy.'' Young Alison's early feminist views, as related by Mrs. Heckler, were perhaps only a slight exaggeration of those long held by her mother, who was chosen today by President Reagan to head the vast domain of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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U.P.I. CORRESPONDENT ORDERED EXPELLED BY POLAND

Date: 13 January 1983

By John Kifner, Special To the New York Times)

John Kifner

The Polish authorities today ordered the expulsion of a reporter for United Press International after holding her for 23 hours at police headquarters here. The affair centered on a mysterious packet on a train from Gdansk that the police said contained two illegal rolls of pictures of military installations. The expulsion of the reporter, Ruth E. Gruber, came against a background of strained relations between the authorities and the foreign press corps. There have been sharp exchanges between Western reporters and the Government spokesman, Jerzy Urban; attacks on reporters in the official press, the refusal to extend work permits for a number of Polish employees of news organizations, and the publication of a Government pamphlet criticizing the work of reporters as ''rubbish.''

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U.P.I. REPORTER IN POLAND IS BEING HELD BY THE POLICE

Date: 12 January 1983

By John Kifner, Special To the New York Times

John Kifner

The United Press International bureau chief and a secretary for the news service were being held tonight in the central police station for questioning about what the police said were possible ''crimes against the state.'' An American diplomat who tried to talk to the bureau chief, Ruth E. Gruber, 33 years old, said the police had told him that he could expect to see or speak to Miss Gruber Wednesday morning. Miss Gruber has been the Warsaw bureau chief for U.P.I. for more than two years.

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