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STORM

Date: 20 March 1983

By Sally Bedell

Sally Bedell

''Is your public persona what you are really like, or is that an act you put on?'' asked Emily Nussbaum, a senior at Scarsdale Alternative High School. Miss Nussbaum was one of five high school students questioning Mayor Koch of New York on the Public Broadcasting Service program ''Why in the World.'' The show, which tries to make news events understandable to teen-agers, is in its second year on 116 public television stations. ''Why in the World'' is one of a few regularly scheduled television news programs aimed at children and teen-agers. They appeared in the early 1970's to counteract criticism that television ill-served its young audience. Last week, as the industry marked National Children and Television Week with press conferences and statements of support, the limited number of these news programs seemed to underscore the continued neglect of young people when it comes to educational programming.

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Conservative Publisher Slain in Athens Office

Date: 20 March 1983

Special to the New York Times

A prominent Greek newspaperman, Tzortzis Athanasiades, publisher of the conservative daily Vradyni and president of the Union of Greek Publishers, was shot and killed in his office today. The shooting occurred at 8:15 P.M. in the Vradyni office on Omonia Square.

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SPRING IN THE CAPITAL

Date: 20 March 1983

By James Reston

James Reston

It's spring again in Washington - some things do run on time here. You can tell, for the star magnolia tree at the northwest gate of the White House is blooming once more, and the Gridiron Club is tuning up for its annual spoof of the resident politicians. So, while Secretary of Defense Weinberger is proposing to spend $2 trillion or $3 trillion to save the Republic in the next few years and the President is trying to put over on the press his version of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the reporters of the Gridiron Club are taking their revenge in an evening of fun. And this year Washington is talking frivolously about a personal political question.

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News Analysis

Date: 21 March 1983

By Robert Pear, Special To the New York Times

Robert Pear

The latest dispute between the Reagan Administration and the United States Commission on Civil Rights, now headed by a conservative Republican, comes as something of a surprise. The commission chairman, Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., a former president of the Urban League of San Diego, and the vice chairman, Mary Louise Smith, a former head of the Republican National Committee, were both appointed by President Reagan. White House aides had expected the commission, under such leaders, to be friendly to a Republican President, or at least not so hostile as civil rights lobbyists, many of whom have close ties to the Democratic Party. Yet, in a letter to Mr. Reagan last week, Mr. Pendleton complained about ''a growing pattern of difficulties'' and a ''lack of cooperation'' by Administration officials. He said the commission planned to issue subpoenas to obtain documents from the White House and other agencies responsible for enforcing civil rights laws.

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News Summary; MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1983

Date: 21 March 1983

International An effort to redefine currency values failed again at a meeting of Common Market finance ministers in Brussels. The ministers of the eight countries that maintain fixed exchange rates between their currencies also did not take other steps to turn back a wave of speculation that has engulfed their financial markets. Their inaction means that the central banks of the eight countries will not buy or sell currencies on the financial markets today to defend the fixed exchange rates they are required to maintain under the terms of the European Monetary System. Negotiations, however, will continue. (Page A1, Column 6.) A member of France's Cabinet quit, the first of President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Government to depart. The Minister of Foreign Trade, Michel Jobert, resigned, saying that he had not been given enough authority to carry out his assignment to close France's foreign trade deficit. His resignation was announced during hectic Government consultations on economic policy and the flagging negotiations in Brussels on the Common Market's monetary system. (A1:5.)

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Sequel to a Slaying

Date: 20 March 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

A year and three months after a burglar fatally shot Dr. Michael J. Halberstam in his home in Washington, a Federal court held the murderer liable for $5.7 million in damages. The court assessed the damages in March 1982 against Bernard C. Welch Jr., who killed the physician, and said the money was to go to Dr. Halberstam's widow, Elliott Jones, and the doctor's two sons.

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School Scandal

Date: 20 March 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Community School Board 3 on Manhattan's Upper West Side was shaken in February 1982 by charges that its chairman, Jerry Evans, had misused board funds for personal limousines, liquor and petty cash. Some $1,000 was believed to be missing.

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Subway Hero

Date: 20 March 1983

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Reginald Andrews, who lives with his wife and eight children in a sparse apartment at 513 West 145th Street, was unemployed, in debt and on his way home from a job interview when he became a hero last Dec. 20. A blind man had fallen between two subway cars at a station in lower Manhattan. The 29-year-old Mr. Andrews jumped to the tracks, injuring his knee, and dragged the man to safety.

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At E.P.A., It Goes With the Territory

Date: 20 March 1983

John W. Hernandez must have known what a hot seat he was taking when he became acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, but he probably did not foresee how fast the temperature would rise. He had scarcely settled into Anne McGill Burford's old chair last week when the accusations of favoritism to business that helped unseat her made the White House accelerate its search for a new E.P.A. chief. The White House said yesterday that William D. Ruckelshaus, in 1970 the agency's first head, has been asked to return and is ''interested.'' His resignation as Deputy Attorney General during the Saturday Night Massacre and consequent reputation for independence make him an attractive candidate. But confirmation difficulties could be expected. Since 1975, he has been an executive in a major lumber company.

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OPEC Epoch On the Skids

Date: 20 March 1983

After 10 years of prices going up up up, OPEC last week admitted there was no place to go but down. The 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed in London to cut the official price by 15 percent, dropping it from $34 to $29 a barrel based on Saudi Light crude. But in a glutted marketplace where OPEC no longer called the shots, many experts predicted a further slide to the mid-$20 range.

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