THIEVES TAKE SUBSCRIBER LIST OF RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE PAPER
Date: 20 February 1984
By Robert D. McFadden
Robert
The Manhattan office of a Russian- language daily newspaper was entered early yesterday by intruders who stole subscription lists and left a threatening note, according to the police and to executives of the paper. The police said the break-in occurred at about 1:20 A.M. at the office of the newspaper Novosti, on the second floor of a nine-story building at 350 West 31st Street. Officers who responded to a burglar alarm found no one in the one- room office.
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PRESS CORPS AND GOVERNMENT, AT LATER PERSPECTIVE
Date: 20 February 1984
By Barbara Gamarekian
Barbara Gamarekian
''The Government always wants the reporters on the team,'' says James Deakin. ''But if the journalists are on the team, who will report the game?'' Before his retirement from daily journalism in 1981 to teach and write books, Mr. Deakin was White House correspondent for The St. Louis Post- Dispatch and for 25 years he did daily battle with what he calls ''the great White House publicity machine.'' Mr. Deakin, who describes himself as an iconoclast, has now written a book about the endless conflicts between Government and the news media, ''Straight Stuff: The Reporters, the White House and the Truth,'' which has been published by William Morrow and Company. It explores the mysteries of pool reports, national security classifications and ''leaks.'' The differences between briefings, backgrounders and ''deep backgrounders,'' which, Mr. Deakin maintains, ''often cloak an official who is furnishing information of staggering ordinariness.''
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POLL FINDS ORGANIZATION LED TO MONDALE VICTORY
Date: 21 February 1984
By Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer
Walter F. Mondale's sweeping victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses was a triumph of organization, and his support came mainly from middle-aged and older voters, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll of caucus participants. Answers given by 1,141 Democrats in 25 precincts showed that 70 percent of Mr. Mondale's supporters said they had been asked to come to the caucuses by his organization. Only 43 percent of those who backed other candidates said the same.
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COMPANY NEWS
Date: 21 February 1984
* Harris Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., said it signed an agreement with Execucom Systems Inc., Austin, Tex., to market Execucom software products for computers. * Hercules Inc. announced plans to build a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor production facility at an undisclosed site in Japan in a joint venture with Sumitomo Chemical Co.
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Date: 21 February 1984
Network Reports Hurt, Iowa Democrat Says DES MOINES, Feb. 20 (AP) - Iowa's Democratic chairman said tonight that the national television networks interfered with his party's precinct caucuses by reporting before they began that projections showed Walter F. Mondale had won them. The caucuses generally convened at 8 P.M., Central standard time, but the Democrats who participated were not supposed to register their Presidential preferences until 8:30 P.M. Results from the first two precincts were reported by the News Election Service at about 8:15 P.M. CBS News reported at 8:12 P.M. that Mr. Mondale would win. NBC News projected the Mondale victory at 8:18, ABC News at 8:46.
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4 Killed in Indian Protest
Date: 20 February 1984
Reuters
Four people were killed and about 25 were wounded today when police officers opened fire to disperse demonstrators in the troubled northern Indian town of Panipat, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
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Red Brigades Threaten Another U.S. Diplomat
Date: 21 February 1984
Reuters
Letters sent to Italian news organizations purporting to come from Red Brigades guerrillas today threatened the life of another United States diplomat in the aftermath of last week's killing of Leamon R. Hunt, director general of the multinational force in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The letters, signed by the ''militarist wing'' of the Red Brigades and sent to the Rome dailies Il Giornale d'Italia and Il Manifesto and the Milan office of the Italian news agency ANSA, took responsibility for the Hunt shooting.
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Service for Arthur Elwood
Date: 21 February 1984
A memorial mass for Arthur H. Elwood, a makeup editor at The New York Times and a former associate news editor at The New York Herald Tribune, will be offered at 11 A.M. March 6 at St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church, 66th Street and Lexington Avenue. Mr. Elwood died on Feb. 10 while on vacation in Florida.
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103 Introductions
Date: 21 February 1984
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
Even though January is a slow month for product introductions, Martin Friedman, editor of the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample New Product News, reports that last month saw 103 introductions, a slight improvement over January 1982 and well above the 66 that was the monthly average from 1964 to 1980. Mr. Friedman's count is only for food and nonprescription drugs.
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