Genafspiller torsdag den 19. december 1985

NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1985

Date: 19 December 1985

International Bonn's interest in ''Star Wars'' was confirmed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl's center-right coalition. It announced that Economics Minister Martin Bangemann would go to Washington next month to negotiate over a role for West German industry in a space-based missile defense system. [Page A12, Column 4.] Assam voters rebuffed Rajiv Gandhi. The Prime Minister's governing Congress Party was defeated in elections in the troubled northeastern Indian state. [A4:3-4.]

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NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1985

Date: 20 December 1985

International An armed man interrupted a trial in Nantes, France, and, with the aid of four robbery defendants, took about 35 people hostage and chained the judge to a chair. The gunman said he was a Palestinian guerrilla who wanted to ''give the French state a slap in the face.'' Over several hours, the captors released about half the hostages as they negotiated with France's national police chief. [Page A9, Column 1.] An Ethiopian official seeks to defect to the United States, according to a highly placed Washington source. The source said the official in the Marxist Government who is seeking asylum is Dawit Wolde Giorgis, who has headed Ethiopia's famine relief program. [A3:3-6.]

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Deceptive Good News on Teen-Age Pregnancy

Date: 19 December 1985

To the Editor: Your Dec. 4 editorial on the need for increased family-planning services in New York State is a reminder that those of us who write about teen-age pregnancy are constantly negotiating a minefield of statistics. While I support the editorial's views, I must caution against being misled by the statement that there has been a ''25 percent drop in pregnancy rate among sexually active teen-agers between 1974 and 1980.''

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POLLING AT VOTING PLACES UPHELD BY FEDERAL JUDGE

Date: 19 December 1985

AP

A state law banning the polling of voters within 300 feet of a voting place is unconstitutional, a Federal district judge ruled today in a challenge of the law that was brought by two newspapers and the nation's three major television networks. The judge, Jack E. Tanner, ruled in favor of a challenge of the law by ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, The New York Times and The Everett (Wash.) Herald, which is owned by The Washington Post Company. The State of Washington had contended the law was an effort to maintain order at voting places. The plaintiffs contended that the real purpose of the 1983 law was to prevent the use of vote projections based on interviews with voters as they left the polling place.

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SHULTZ DEPLORES FORCING OFFICIALS TO TAKE LIE TESTS

Date: 20 December 1985

By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that he had ''grave reservations'' about polygraph tests and would resign ''the minute in this Government I am told that I'm not trusted.'' His open dissent from a directive signed by President Reagan requiring polygraph, or lie-detector, tests by officials with access to highly sensitive information touched off an unusual public debate in the Administration. A senior White House official said that despite Mr. Shultz's strong words it was highly unlikely that the Secretary of State would resign. ''Shultz has strong feelings,'' the official said. ''This is one thing that sends him through the roof. It touches a nerve.''

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NEW GROUP OF U.S. SOLDIERS LEAVES SINAI FORCE FOR HOME

Date: 19 December 1985

Special to the New York Times

A contingent of about 250 American soldiers who had completed a six-month tour of duty with the multinational peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula left Cairo today to return to their base in the United States amid tight security and a news blackout. Their departure came nearly a week after 248 of their fellow soldiers from the Army's 101st Airborne Division were killed in a plane crash in Gander, Newfoundland, while returning to their home base in Fort Campbell, Ky. The contingent left today as part of a routine six-month troop rotation. Officials here refused to say when today's contingent left or to give any details of the troops' itinerary.

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A BLIND AND DEAF INFANT'S SHORT LIFE ON THE ROLLS OF NEW YORK'S HOMELESS

Date: 20 December 1985

By Barbara Basler

Barbara Basler

Shamal Jackson was 8 months old and weighed only 7 pounds when he died last May in Beth Israel Medical Center, the luckless baby of a homeless family. Blind, deaf and brain damaged, he finally died of an infant virus, complicated by an infection around a shunt or tube that had been inserted in his head, and by his generally frail condition, according to hospital records viewed by advocates for the homeless. In response, the city released a detailed account of its handling of Shamal's case yesterday. In some ways the accounts by the city and the advocates are similar, in most ways they are not. Both, however, serve to put an unusually sharp focus on the crisis of the homeless, and how a system intended to help them somehow failed a seriously ill infant.

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U.S. SAYS CAR CRASH SHOWS SANDINISTA ARMS FLOW

Date: 20 December 1985

By Shirley Christian, Special To the New York Times

Shirley Christian

The Reagan Administration said today that a recent traffic accident in Honduras had turned up strong evidence that cars with secret compartments were being used to move military supplies from Nicaragua to Salvadoran guerrillas. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, displayed photographs and a videotape that the Honduran authorities said they took when they dismantled a car after it was in an accident on the Pan American Highway near La Leona on Dec. 7. He said the bright green Lada car, which is built in the Soviet Union under Fiat license, was carrying 7,000 rounds of ammunition, 86 electric blasting caps, 20 fragmentation grenades, 17 grenade fuses, radios and walkie-talkies, computer-made coding and de-coding material and $27,400 in $100 bills. The Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington said the authorities in Managua had told them that they knew nothing about the car crash. The embassy repeated previous assertions that the Sandinista Government was not involved in providing arms and ammunition to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in El Salvador. An embassy spokesman, Miriam Hooker, called on the United States to take its accusations to the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

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REAGAN DENIES CUT WILL HIT MILITARY

Date: 19 December 1985

By Bernard Weinraub, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Weinraub

President Reagan, pledging to maintain the nation's military buildup, said today that balancing the Federal budget by 1991 would require deep cutbacks of what he called ''wasteful and unnecessary'' domestic programs. In his first detailed statement on the far-reaching budget measure that he signed last week, Mr. Reagan made it clear that he would seek to apply the brunt of the proposed restraints to domestic programs. Mr. Reagan's proposed budget for the 1987 fiscal year, which begins next October, will be sent to Congress early in February. Aides said Mr. Reagan was especially uneasy that the new law, demanding five years of steady deficit reductions, was being viewed as compelling him to restrain military spending. Further Speeches Are Planned Mr. Reagan's comments today, the aides said, to be followed by further speeches in the next two months on the budget, were designed to affirm his commitment to a military buildup and to lay the groundwork for far-reaching efforts to reduce domestic programs.

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NEW ARMS OFFER MADE BY MOSCOW

Date: 20 December 1985

By Philip Taubman, Special To the New York Times

Philip Taubman

The Soviet Union offered today to permit the United States some on-site inspection of nuclear test ranges in return for American participation in a test moratorium. Moscow also said it would extend its five-month moratorium on testing beyond the end of the year if Washington agreed to join the halt. The Soviet proposals, which were in an editorial published in Pravda, the Communist Party daily, were immediately rejected by Washington.

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