Genafspiller tirsdag den 17. april 1984

Farrakhan on Race, Politics and the News Media

Date: 17 April 1984

On the Record From remarks made March 11 by Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim sect, in a radio broadcast. The references to Milton Coleman and Hitler stirred controversies that are still plaguing the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whom Mr. Farrakhan supports. Our leaders are maligned and falsely accused by those in this society who hate to see strong black men exercising a leadership over our poor people. So we have today a Michael Jackson who is winning all kinds of awards because he is a great and marvelous performer, but the image he projects to young black men is an image that we all should reject. But, of course, men like this will live to die of old age because they threaten nothing.

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A PLAYFUL PRINCE PAINTS THE PRESS

Date: 18 April 1984

UPI

Upi

Prince Andrew of Britain, who has largely ignored his huge press entourage on a southern California tour, playfully sprayed eavesdropping reporters with white paint today while visiting a vacant house in Watts. Wiping his hands on a piece of newspaper afterward, he said, ''I enjoyed that.'' Andrew, 24 years old, was visiting the house with Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn when the incident occurred.

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ZIMBABWE WARNS JOURNALISTS

Date: 17 April 1984

AP

Prime Minister Robert Mugabe was quoted today as having threatened to restrict foreign journalists because of reports published abroad about atrocities said to have been committed by the Zimbabwean Army. Mr. Mugabe, speaking with local editors at his official residence, accused foreign reporters of having waged a campaign to discredit him and he called their reporting ''mischief-making,'' the Zimbabwe Inter-African News Agency said.

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LONDON DUEL: BUSINESS VS. JOURNALISM

Date: 18 April 1984

By R

W. APPLE Jr. LONDON, April 17 - A public dispute involving a clash between business and journalism has broken out between the owner and the editor of The Observer, Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper. Employees of the paper said the fight could end in the dismissal of the editor, Donald Trelford, or with a change in the ownership of the paper, which was bought in 1981 by Lonrho Ltd., a huge conglomerate with business operations in more than 60 countries. Before approving the acquisition by Lonrho, which is headed by R. W. Rowland, the Government attached stringent operating limitations.

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SALVADOR OFFICER SAYS NICARAGUA SENDS AMMUNITION, NOT WEAPONS

Date: 18 April 1984

By Lydia Chavez, Special To the New York Times

Lydia Chavez

The Salvadoran military commander of an area in which guerrillas have been active says rebels are now receiving mostly ammunition, not weapons, from Nicaragua. The ammunition has been entering the country overland through Honduras and Guatemala and by boat to areas on the Pacific coast of El Salvador, said Lieut. Col. Domingo Monterrosa, the military commander in the eastern part of El Salvador, nearest to Nicaragua. ''I believe that more than anything else they receive ammunition, and we know that it comes in through Honduras and Guatemala,'' he said. View Shared by U.S. Aides The colonel's assessment of what kind of support the guerrilla forces fighting in El Salvador are receiving from Nicaragua is essentially in agreement with that of United States Embassy officials, who have said the rebels receive primarily ammunition, medicine and communications equipment. In Washington, the Reagan Administration has accused Nicaragua of supporting, training and arming the Salvadoran left.

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WINNERS OF PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM, LETTERS AND THE ARTS;

Date: 17 April 1984

Public Service The Los Angeles Times In one of the largest reporting efforts it has made, The Los Angeles Times assigned 11 reporters and 2 editors, all Mexican-Americans, to a series on the more than three million people of Hispanic descent in Southern California. The editors and reporters conducted more than 1,100 interviews and polled nearly 1,500 people, including non-Hispanic residents. The result was a 27-part series, ''Latinos,'' that began last July with an examination of a Mexican-American family and concluded with an essay on the Chicano movement of the 1960's and what it meant for the future. The study included autobiographical accounts of growing up in the East Barrio of Los Angeles and being employed as migrant workers. The problems, achievements and changing nature of the Hispanic people were examined, leading to what the Pulitzer board said was a better understanding among the non-Hispanic majority about the minority group.

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TOP SALVADORAN SECURITY WORKER IN U.S. EMBASSY SLAIN BY GUNMEN

Date: 17 April 1984

The senior Salvadoran security employee of the United States Embassy here was slain today by unidentified gunmen. The security man, Joaquim Alfredo Zapata Romero, 59 years old, was driving with his wife and daughter when a taxi with five armed men pulled up beside his car and the occupants began shooting, according to witnesses. The incident took place at 6:45 A.M. on a street near the Camino Real Hotel. Foreign journalists staying at the hotel said they had heard about 10 shots.

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BOOKS OF THE TIMES

Date: 18 April 1984

By Bernard Gwertzman

Bernard Gwertzman

CAVEAT. Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy. By Alexander M. Haig Jr. 367 pages. Illustrated. Macmillan. $17.95. AS Alexander M. Haig Jr. recalls it, the White House seemed to him in the first days of the Reagan Administration ''as mysterious as a ghost ship.'' You could hear the creak of the rigging and the groan of the timbers and sometimes even glimpse the crew on deck, he writes in this memoir about his contentious 18 months as Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of State. ''But which of the crew had the helm? Was it Meese, was it Baker, was it someone else? It was impossible to know for sure.''

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Tough Journalism Law Is Published by Nigeria

Date: 18 April 1984

Reuters

The military Government published a tough new law today giving it the power to close newspapers and radio stations and jail journalists.

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CHINA TRYING TO COMPETE WITH HONG KONG TV

Date: 18 April 1984

By Christopher S. Wren

Christopher Wren

A new television station in this Chinese border city faces what may be the world's toughest competition in trying to offer an ideologically acceptable alternative to the brassy television fare of nearby Hong Kong. ''Because our audience can push the button and change channels to get Hong Kong television, we have to try to make our programs better,'' said Chen Xuebiao, the deputy director of the new television center in Shenzhen, 20 miles from the British colony. The decision by the Government to establish the station is part of China's broader effort to shore up the ideology of the Communist regime against erosion by Western trends and values. The struggle has been hardest in Guangdong Province of southeastern China, which abuts Hong Kong and Macao. Once they can afford television sets, many Cantonese prefer to watch Hong Kong's four channels, two of which broadcast in the Cantonese dialect.

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