Replay Dienstag, 6. November 1984

ABC News Shifts Policy On Early Projections

Date: 06 November 1984

ABC News announced yesterday that it would refrain in its election night broadcasts from ''characterizing'' probable winners before the polls close in a given state. But the network, which forecasts winners by interviewing a sample of voters leaving the polling places in each state, will project a Presidential winner once a candidate reaches the number of projected electoral votes needed for victory, even if people are still voting in some states.

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A SANDINISTA ON THE MOVE

Date: 06 November 1984

By Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer

Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who claimed victory today as this country's new President, has spent his life making revolution. Nicaragua is a country where power normally changes hands only at gunpoint, where men of action have always guided national destiny. Nearly all of Nicaragua's most formidable historical heroes rose to power by overthrowing their predecessors, and Mr. Ortega is firmly within this tradition. Born into a country that Nicaraguans say was ruled like a private plantation by the Somoza family, the son of parents who were anti-Somoza activists, Mr. Ortega marched in protests as a young student even before the formation of Sandinista National Liberation Front, which toppled Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle's Government in 1979.

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Los Angeles Reporter Says He Was Kidnapped

Date: 07 November 1984

UPI

Upi

The police said today that they did not have enough evidence to book the man a newspaper reporter said took him on a harrowing nightlong ride while threatening to ''blow his head off.''

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HOW THE POLL WAS CONDUCTED

Date: 07 November 1984

The New York Times/CBS News exit poll is based on questionnaires completed by 3,258 voters as they left polling places in 190 randomly selected precincts in all parts of the United States. In theory, in 19 cases out of 20, the results from such a poll should differ by no more than 2 percentage points in either direction from what would have been obtained by interviewing all voters in the United States.

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Laos Says It Has Closed Its Re-education Camps

Date: 06 November 1984

AP

An American professor said here today that he had been told in Laos that ''re-education camps'' set up after 1975 had been dismantled.

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UNESCO REPORTED TO MOVE AWAY FROM ISSUE OF LICENSING REPORTERS

Date: 06 November 1984

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

A longtime critic of the communications policies of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said yesterday that the agency's Director General had sent him a statement of Unesco policy that represents a ''significant shift'' away from involvement with the issue of licensing journalists. The letter comes only weeks before President Reagan is scheduled to review his decision to withdraw the United States from Unesco as of Jan. 1, 1985. When he announced the decision last December, Mr. Reagan said it was subject to change if Unesco made changes this year in areas such as management and its policies on the free flow of information. The policy statement was contained in a letter dated Oct. 20 from Amadou- Mahtar M'Bow, Director General of Unesco, to Leonard R. Sussman, executive director of Freedom House, which has monitored Unesco policies on the press.

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ECONOMY THE KEY ISSUE

Date: 07 November 1984

By Hedrick Smith

Hedrick Smith

For all the careful orchestration of campaign rallies and political commercials, the televised debates, the partisan clashes over fine points of foreign and military policy, it was the economy that set the basic pattern for President Reagan's stunning re- election sweep yesterday and that fueled Republican gains in Congress. In a very real sense the election returns followed the well-established script of the Reagan Presidency to make economic policy the central issue of American politics, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll of 5,051 people as they left the voting booths. For Ronald Reagan vaulted into the White House in 1980 largely on the strength of his biting attacks on the economy under President Carter and his telling question, ''Are you better off today than you were four years ago?'' In the midterm Congressional elections two years ago, he suffered a stinging setback with the recession that eroded Republican ranks in the House of Representatives. Now this year, interviews showed, the President won a resounding vote of confidence for his handling of the economy and used it to power a coast-to-coast landslide for a second term in the White House.

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CHERNENKO SAYS SOVIET IS READY TO MATCH U.S. IN ARMS BUILDUP

Date: 06 November 1984

By Seth Mydans

Seth Mydans

Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet leader, said today that the United States and its allies bore full responsibility for a world situation that he said could cause alarm. Mr. Chernenko, addressing Soviet- bloc youth leaders on the eve of the American elections, said that the United States had set itself the ''insane'' goal of achieving military superiority and that the Soviet Union would not allow this to happen. Western diplomats saw no new elements in his speech and said the Soviet Union was likely to await the first steps of the next Administration before taking any policy initiatives.

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LESSONS OF THE U.S.S. IOWA

Date: 06 November 1984

By Verne W. Newton

Verne Newton

The U.S.S. Iowa was expecting a tranquil mooring when it opened itself to the public in Brooklyn last month. Instead, the old World War II battleship, which has been taken out of mothballs and retrofitted so that it can carry nuclear weapons, has been rocked with attacks that it is a ''holocaust machine,'' exposing New York to a nuclear accident similar to the one threatening the globe. Whatever the substance of such protestors' fears - in fact, the Navy has neither confirmed nor denied that the ship is carrying nuclear weapons - this is a sadly telling incident, a symbol of all too many Americans' view of our military and civilian leaders and indeed of the nation itself. If the protestors joined the tour of the Iowa, they might find out about a little known incident that, at first glance, would seem to vindicate their fears. But they also would risk discovering that the issues they see with such ringing clarity are far more complex.

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ARMS CURB STUDY HELD UP TILL VOTE

Date: 06 November 1984

By Wayne Biddle

Wayne Biddle

The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency has withheld making public a study of antisatellite arms control issues pending the election. The study, written on contract for the agency by a Harvard University researcher, is not classified, and it departs from Reagan Administration policy in concluding that agreements with the Soviet Union to limit antisatellite weapons could benefit American interests. Joseph Lehman, director of public affairs for the agency, an independent body that advises the President and the Secretary of State, said today that he did not want the study to become a ''political football'' before the election. He said he was using his ''own discretion'' in refusing reporters' requests for the paper, but he offered to make a copy available Tuesday.

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