NEWS SUMMARY SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1987
Date: 04 January 1987
LEAD: International#3-17 A Brazilian jetliner crashed and disintegrated in a forest outside Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and 49 of the 51 people aboard were presumed dead. Soon after takeoff, the pilot reported an engine on fire. Page 1 A Cuban-American's role in supplying weapons to Nicaraguan rebels was described in his first public statement on the subject.
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A Seasoned Counselor: Peter Lenard Zimroth
Date: 03 January 1987
By Alan Finder
Alan Finder
LEAD: Early in 1980, Peter L. Zimroth, then chief assistant to the Manhattan District Attorney, was considering two job offers, one to join a small Wall Street law firm and the other to become Mayor Koch's criminal-justice coordinator.
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On His Nerves
Date: 04 January 1987
LEAD: T. Boone Pickens Jr., the Texas oilman, seems to be getting thinner of skin as he gets thicker of wallet. Mr. Pickens, the chairman of Mesa Petroleum and a well-known player in the corporate take-over game, has lately been feuding with his hometown newspapers, the Amarillo Daily News and Globe Times.
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IN SHORT: FICTION
Date: 04 January 1987
By Nancy Forbes
Nancy Forbes
LEAD: THE NEWS OF THE WORLD. By Ron Carlson. (Norton, $15.95.)
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SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ
Date: 03 January 1987
By Donna Anderson
Donna Anderson
LEAD: Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 44. 1. Syzygy is partly to blame for this condition. What is it? 2. The city government of Beijing announced there would be a dramatic change in the way local elections are held. What is the change? 3. The United States is going ahead with plans to build two new large radar systems despite a sharp debate over whether they would violate the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The Region; A Joyful Celebration But Pain and Division, Too
Date: 04 January 1987
By Samuel G. Freedman
Samuel Freedman
LEAD: EVEN IN ITS DULLEST YEAR - and that is a deceptive adjective indeed when speaking of New York - this city presumes its centrality to the nation and the world. If it matters to us, the supposition goes, then it must matter to you. And in 1986, the events from baseball in a Queens stadium to hardball in a Connecticut courtroom justified the municipal ego.
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The Nation; A Feeling of Uncertainty Moves Across the Land
Date: 04 January 1987
By R.w. Apple Jr
LEAD: THE EARLY REAGAN YEARS constituted an epoch of confidence regained in the United States, but 1986 had more of a feeling of uncertainty. It began with the horrifying explosion of the Challenger space shuttle and ended with the Presidency mired in the kind of problem that Ronald Reagan hoped the country had left behind in the Nixon and Carter years.
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REPORTER FIGHTS TESTIFYING AT TRIAL IN MURDERS
Date: 04 January 1987
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: A New Hampshire newspaper reporter faces a charge of contempt of court if he refuses to show up in Maine on Monday and testify at a murder trial there.
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The World; Terror and Arms Deal, But Also Hopes of Peace
Date: 04 January 1987
By David K. Shipler
David Shipler
LEAD: THE ANCIENT RHYTHMS OF warfare and peacemaking, of catastrophe and reconstruction, of subjugation and liberation ran through 1986 like the powerful crosscurrents of a weary sea. The danger and the hope of modern times seemed concentrated in this span of a year.
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CORRECTIONS
Date: 04 January 1987
LEAD: An article on Dec. 21 about the Bingham publishing family of Louisville misidentified the recipient of a $1 million gift from Sallie Bingham. The gift went to The Women's Project, formerly a part of the American Place Theater and now a totally separate entity.
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