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AT SKI AREAS, SNOW NEWS IS GOOD NEWS

Date: 23 January 1983

By Patricia Turner

Patricia Turner

NEW JERSEY homeowners may have been pleased with the relatively mild winter - and low fuel bills - that lingered until mid-January, but the state's ski-resort operators saw the unseasonable weather in terms of layoffs and low returns. They are hoping that the recent snowstorm and drop in temperature, together with Ski Fest '83, which opened yesterday and runs through next Sunday, will give them a chance to recoup. Four areas make up the New Jersey Ski Areas Association - Vernon Valley/Great Gorge in McAfee, Craigmeur in Newfoundland, Hidden Valley in Vernon and Ski Mountain in Pine Hill. Peggy Kurlander, president of the association, said that the poor ski weather, especially the washout during Christmas week, had been disastrous.

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A LITTLE GOOD NEWS

Date: 23 January 1983

By James Reston

James Reston

There is some good news in the capital of the United States, after all. Recently, when it appeared that the American economy was getting out of hand, and even that its Social Security system was going bankrupt, some longing for unity began to intrude on the clamor of the front pages. For example, when the executive and legislative branches of the Government could not agree on how to resolve the Social Security crisis, President Reagan appointed a non-partisan commission of politicians and economists from outside the Government to study the problem. Under the leadership of Alan Greenspan they came up with a compromise. They recommended it as the best they could do in the national interest. It was accepted within a few days by the President and the leaders of Congress.

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Charity at Odds

Date: 23 January 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

When Robert Brinkley Smithers of Mill Neck, L.I., a recovered alcoholic, said in 1971 that he intended to give $10 million to Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan to set up an alcoholic treatment center, he was about to set a record. It was destined to be the largest single grant to fight alcoholism ever made by anyone, including the Federal Government.

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SPORTS NEWS BRIEFS

Date: 24 January 1983

Arrows Beaten, By Spirit, 3 To 2, Ap

Arrows Beaten

Steve Buttle's goal gave the Pittsburgh Spirit a 3-2 victory over the New York Arrows today in a Major Indoor Soccer League game.

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SPORTS NEWS BRIEFS

Date: 24 January 1983

Skating Mark Set, By Andrea Schone, Upi

Skating Set

Andrea Schone of East Germany set a women's world record of 7 minutes 40.97 seconds in the 5,000 meters today and won the European speed skating championship at the end of a two-day meet.

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News Analysis

Date: 24 January 1983

By John Vinocur, Special To the New York Times

John Vinocur

President Francois Mitterrand's address to the West German Parliament, warning about the dangers of splitting the United States from the defense of Europe, has opened up a new area of the missile debate that American speechmakers have carefully avoided. In a direct, forceful presentation Thursday, Mr. Mitterrand said in substance that the debate on deploying American medium-range missiles in Europe was less one of numbers than of political will, with the essential test for the Atlantic alliance being its ability to stop an attempt to ''decouple'' the United States and Western Europe. Criticism by Mitterrand Although he never used the word neutralism, Mr. Mitterrand attacked ''all those who would bet on a decoupling'' and said they were the people who risked creating an imbalance of forces that would threaten peace. The speech served as a warning about the consequences of the rise of neutralism in West Germany, and as an attack on those Bonn politicians who do not fully support Mr. Mitterrand's thesis that Europe ''must not be deprived of a means to answer the nuclear weapons specifically directed against her.''

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Musings on Muse

Date: 23 January 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Britain has its poet laureate; the United States has its Consultant in Poetry in English to the Library of Congress. When Anthony Hecht, the Pulitzer Prize poet and professor of poetry at the University of Rochester, took over last October as the 20th Consultant, it became almost obligatory for him to write a poem about the city of Washington.

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Doria Treasure

Date: 23 January 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

So when will that safe recovered from the sunken liner Andrea Doria be opened? In March 1982 it was at rest in a special cold-water tank in the New York Aquarium, and Peter Gimbel, who led the expedition that recovered the reputed treasure, said he hoped to open it live on television that fall at the end of a film about the expedition. ''Well, everything takes longer than one thinks,'' Mr. Gimbel observes.

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Mount Laurel Revisited

Date: 23 January 1983

In the years since the New Jersey Supreme Court struck down exclusionary zoning in Mount Laurel Township, and by extension communities like it throughout the state, it has become apparent that landmark rulings do not always change the lay of the land. So last week the state's highest court handed down Mount Laurel II.

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Budget or No, Reagan Keeps The Show Going

Date: 23 January 1983

As White House budget hands scurried about backstage last week trying to find the right numbers, their principal was front and center, looking to set the right tone. To mollify party moderates, President Reagan journeyed to Chicago for a fundraiser for Republican Senator Charles H. Percy, where he promised new proposals for job training for the unemployed. On the way, he dropped in on a nearby all-black parochial high school where, as if to reassure traditionalists, he emphasized the link between education and employment. At a cheerful news conference he celebrated the second anniversary of his inauguration with a review of ''the accumulated damage'' in economic and international affairs he had inherited and the progress he had made. Yesterday, he covered his social agenda, promising in his weekly radio address to press for Congressional action on tuition tax credits for private schools, school prayer and abortion.

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Army Job Bias

Date: 23 January 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

As an employer, the Army concedes that it discriminates. Because of the nature of its work, it says, it cannot hire homosexuals.

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