Replay Samstag, 10. September 1983

COAST FREELANCE UNIT THRIVES ON REPORTING FOR TV

Date: 10 September 1983

By Frank J. Prial

Frank Prial

After years as an also-ran in the San Francisco audience ratings, KRON, the NBC television affiliate in San Francisco, decided last year to do something about its news coverage. First, a new reporting team was created, called Target 4. Then station officials called in the Center for Investigative Reporting. The center is a six-year-old group of freelance reporters who hire out their investigative skills. It is a nonprofit organization that depends almost as much on foundation grants as it does on clients' fees. Six months ago KRON signed a year's contract with the center, and so far it says it is very happy.

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IN AUSTRALIA, LIBEL SUITS ARE PUBLIC TRADITION

Date: 11 September 1983

By Jane Perlez

Jane Perlez

When Prime Minister Robert J. Hawke recently sued three Australian news organizations here for financial compensation, including money from the taxpayer-supported national broadcasting system, there was little surprise and not much comment. When another leading politician also sued the public television network, the Prime Minister cheered him on, saying $1 million seemed like a fair deal for his colleague. Australian journalists say there is a long history of politicians suing newspapers for damages, and there are fears this tradition will increase with the advent to power this year of Mr. Hawke, a former leader of the trade union movement. He Boasts of Settlements In his authorized biography, Mr. Hawke boasts that the money he has collected from publishers in out-of- court settlements enabled him to build luxury additions to his Melbourne home. He filed his first libel suit against a Sydney newspaper in 1964.

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A.P. REPORTER QUITS SALVADOR AFTER DISPUTE

Date: 10 September 1983

By Lydia Chavez

Lydia Chavez

A reporter for The Associated Press left El Salvador today after the American Embassy told him his ''safety could not be assured.'' Arthur Allen, who heads his agency's bureau here, became involved in a disagreement with the chief of intelligence of the treasury police over two articles he wrote about the security force's arrest of a suspect in the murder of Lieut. Comdr. Albert Schaufelberger, an American adviser here.

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AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT IN MOSCOW

Date: 10 September 1983

By Serge Schmemann

Serge Schmemann

It was a scene for which old Moscow hands could not recall a precedent. Here, in a country where military matters are concealed behind a formidable screen of secrecy and where foreigners are barred from even photographing men in uniform, sat the Soviet Union's top soldier facing an often aggressive grilling for two hours by foreign reporters. Nikolai V. Ogarkov, the large gold stars of a Marshal on his shoulder boards and the medal of a Hero of the Soviet Union surmounting nine rows of campaign ribbons, held the jampacked conference hall spellbound as he reconstructed in slow, succinct cadences the Soviet Government's case that Korean Air Lines Flight 7 had been on a ''deliberate, thoroughly planned intelligence mission'' when a SU-15 jet fighter brought it down with an air-to-air missile. Traced Flight's Path At one point the rugged 65-year-old Marshal wielded a long pointer to trace the flight's last two and a half hours on a giant wall map marked with the normal air corridor across the North Pacific, the path he said the jetliner took across sensitive Soviet territory. He also pointed to the locations of various American and Japanese beacons and air control stations that Moscow says should have alerted Western controllers to the plight of the jetliner.

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OHIO NEWSPAPER FIGHTS LAW ON RETRACTIONS

Date: 11 September 1983

A man identified only as ''Bill'' in an Akron newspaper article in June about wrongdoings at a race track is trying to obtain a retraction and has asked the Summit County prosecutor's legal help. The Akron Beacon Journal has filed a request for an injunction in Common Pleas Court to prevent the prosecutor from taking any legal steps. And the prosecutor, Lynn Slaby, agrees with the newspaper.

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WESTERN NATIONS REFUSE TO WIDEN ROLE IN LEBANON

Date: 11 September 1983

By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

The United States and the other Western nations with forces in Lebanon have turned down an urgent Lebanese request that they enter the Shuf area around Beirut and try to halt the fighting there, according to Secretary of State George P. Shultz and other officials. Speaking to reporters aboard his Air Force plane as he returned to Washington from Madrid late Friday, Mr. Shultz said President Amin Gemayel of Debanon asked the United States, Britain, France and Italy last week to broaden the scope of the peacekeeping force and move into the area recently vacated by Israel, where fighting has stepped up in the last two weeks. But he said ''under the present circumstances, there isn't any disposition to change our mission'' in Lebanon. President Reagan also indicated on Friday that he contemplated no change in the mission of the American forces. Calls Fighting a 'Civil War' ''We are not planning on expanding the forces that are there,'' he said in a telephone question-and-answer session with the Republican Western Regional Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. He described the fighting in Lebanon for the first time as ''a civil war'' that he had not anticipated when he authorized the sending of the American marines nearly a year ago.''I don't think we were prepared for, or believed there would be an outright civil war as there seems to be going on right now,'' he said.

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News Analysis

Date: 11 September 1983

By John F. Burns, Special To the New York Times

John Burns

The television interview today with the pilot who shot down a Korean Air Lines 747 marked another reluctant step into the public view for the Soviet armed forces, which have been perhaps the most secretive in the world. In putting its version of the incident before the world, the Kremlin has divulged unusual scraps of information about its fighter aircraft, its air and naval bases in the Far East and the command system within the armed forces. The disclosures have also revealed what appear to be disastrous miscues that point to problems in training, equipment and command procedures. If the Soviet version is correct, perhaps the surest sign of these miscues came in the admission that Soviet air defenses tracked the 747 for two and a half hours before shooting it down, and never succeeded in identifying what kind of aircraft it was.

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McGovern News Talk Set

Date: 11 September 1983

AP

Former Senator George McGovern will announce Tuesday whether he will seek the 1984 Democratic Presidential nomination, a spokesman has said. Mr. McGovern, 61 years old, became the biggest loser in a Presidential election when President Nixon beat him in 1972.

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Station Platform

Date: 11 September 1983

By Mervyn Rothstein

Mervyn Rothstein

The concrete platform at the New Canaan, Conn., rail station had crumbled, and was closed early in 1982 as a safety measure. The only way off the eight-car rush-hour trains for the 1,000 commuters was through two or three cars served by steel stairways to the rear of the platform, a slow process that prolonged the journey.

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Ebbets Done

Date: 11 September 1983

By Mervyn Rothstein

Mervyn Rothstein

A State Senator had visions of a stately Ebbets Dome in Brooklyn, and in February 1982 he got the Legislature to approve $30,000 for a feasibility study of building a domed sports stadium in the borough. The study was to be conducted by the state's Urban Development Corporation, which built a 55,000-seat, $28 million domed stadium in Syracuse.

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