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DEAL ENDS MURDOCH'S FIGHT TO TAKE OVER WARNER

Date: 18 March 1984

By Wolfgang Saxon

Wolfgang Saxon

Warner Communications Inc. and Rupert Murdoch, the Australian publisher, have announced a deal that ends Mr. Murdoch's three-month attempt to take over Warner and gives him a profit of more than $40 million. Warner will pay Mr. Murdoch about $172.6 million, or $31 a share, to buy back his 7 percent holding in Warner, an entertainment and consumer-electronics conglomerate, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Murdoch had acquired the stock for just over $130 million, or about $24 a share. In addition, Warner is to pay $8 million to News International P.L.C., the Murdoch subsidiary that owned the stock, as compensation for legal expenses and other costs incurred during the struggle for control.

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Reagan and FitzGerald Meet

Date: 17 March 1984

Reuters

President Reagan joined Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald of Ireland today in calling for an end to terrorism in Northern Ireland and reconciliation between the British province's Roman Catholics and Protestants. Mr. Reagan, who is to visit Ireland in June, spoke at a White House luncheon for Mr. FitzGerald after they held talks.

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Kremlin's Warning to Turkey Brings Response on Missiles

Date: 18 March 1984

The Soviet Union has told Turkey that its increased military cooperation with the United States ''is creating a threat again Russia'' and has asked whether Turkey is considering installing cruise or Pershing missiles on its soil, according to Turkish press reports. In response to the reports, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nazmi Akiman, said on Thursday that ''Turkey does not want any missiles on its soil.''

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Take a Mideast Timeout

Date: 18 March 1984

Sometimes even half-truths can be liberating. The half-truths uttered about the Middle East in Washington and Amman last week may finally free American diplomats from their obsessive need to broker a breakthrough.

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EAST-WEST TALKS ON TROOPS RESUME

Date: 17 March 1984

By James M. Markham

James

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact today resumed the negotiations on troop reductions in Central Europe that were suspended last December as part of a Soviet protest over the deployment of American medium-range missiles. The resumption of the talks in a Baroque Hapsburg palace that has housed them for a decade seemed to be a psychological lift for some European nations that are concerned about the deterioration of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. But diplomats from both sides quickly cautioned against expecting a breakthrough. At a news conference, Krzysztof Stronczynski, a Polish delegate who spoke for the Warsaw Pact, chastised the NATO side for not having used what he portrayed as an extended break to come up with a fresh position to match an Eastern draft agreement put forward last summer.

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MAGAZINE EXPANDS BLACK AUDIENCE

Date: 18 March 1984

By Rhoda M. Glinsky

Rhoda

BLACK LIVING IN WESTCHESTER, a magazine that appeared in August 1982, has been growing slowly but steadily, according to its founders and editors, Dr. John Howard and his wife, Mary Howard. Originally a monthly, the magazine is now published six times a year and is distributed free at various sites in the county, including many county libraries and community centers. The Howards, who have lived in the county since 1971, are sociologists who had had experience as writers and editorial consultants before embarking on this project. ''The idea of doing our own magazine was something we both liked,'' Dr. Howard said. ''What we had to determine was the kind of publication we wanted.''

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The Right Link in SalvadorThere's a storm in Congress over linkage. Speaker O'Neill thunders that Mr. Reagan is ''unfit to be President'' because the Administration linked military aid for Central America to food relief for Africa. Secretary Shultz sputters that human rights purists on Capitol Hill have linked aid for El Salvador to impossible conditions, thus effectively abandoning an ally. But this is a skirmish, not a showdown.

Date: 17 March 1984

Congress by its votes has shown no willingness to cut off aid to El Salvador or to C.I.A.-backed rebels in Nicaragua. It's not about to risk appearing to coddle Marxist-Leninists in an election year. And the Administration, meanwhile, is stuck with a flawed, unworkable policy. It all spells deadlock.

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U.S. AND EGYPTIANS CONSIDER AIRLIFT OF ARMS TO SUDAN

Date: 18 March 1984

By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

The United States and Egypt are considering an emergency airlift of military equipment to the Sudan because of a bombing attack on Omdurman, the Sudan's main city, on Friday, Administration officials said today. A senior Administration official said today that there was no doubt the bombing attack, which killed five people, was carried out by a Libyan Air Force TU-22 based at an airfield in Kufra, Libya. On Friday, President Gaafar al-Nimeiry of the Sudan accused Libya of the attack but the State Department was unable to confirm his charge then. The Sudan has made several requests for more American military help. The requests now have high priority, and officials from the State Department, Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency were working this weekend to come up with recommendations for the National Security Council.

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A TACTICAL RETREAT ON MILITARY SPENDING

Date: 18 March 1984

By Steven R. Weisman

Steven Weisman

WASHINGTON W ITH televised fanfare, President Reagan came out to the Rose Garden last week to announce that he was pulling back on his military spending requests. But the first sign that there may be less than meets the eye in the Administration's ''compromise'' spending levels came from the Administration itself. A White House ''fact sheet'' said Mr. Reagan was now seeking only a 5.1 percent increase in military spending authority for the 1985 fiscal year after of inflation, rather than the 13 percent increase he proposed in January. A day later, however, the Office of Management and Budget acknowledged that the increase was actually 7.8 percent. To placate Republican Congressional leaders, the Administration had joined in Washington's time-honored percentage game. There was a discrepancy, the O.M.B. explained, because two different figures could be used as a base for the calculation. A White House official gave the political explanation: the President was hoping to make his concession look bigger than it was.

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THE THIRD WORLD LIMITS ITS ARSENALS

Date: 18 March 1984

By Paul Lewis

Paul Lewis

PARIS THE third world's appetite for military hardware, for years a major factor on the order books of such arms makers as General Dynamics of the United States, Dassault-Breguet of France and BAC of Britain, appears to be diminishing after a decade of dramatic growth. ''The arms market has declined, and the trend is generally downward for everybody,'' said an American State Department official. ''We're not likely to see many more monster sales of Awacs to Saudi Arabia,'' he said, referring to that country's $8.5 billion purchase of American radar/ command planes in 1981. Marc Cauchie, the French Government's chief arms salesman, expressed the same views in a recent interview. ''There is little demand right now, and everything connected with our activity is slowing down,'' he said.

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