Replay Montag, 16. April 1984

Farrakhan on Race, Politics and the News Media

Date: 17 April 1984

On the Record From remarks made March 11 by Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim sect, in a radio broadcast. The references to Milton Coleman and Hitler stirred controversies that are still plaguing the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whom Mr. Farrakhan supports. Our leaders are maligned and falsely accused by those in this society who hate to see strong black men exercising a leadership over our poor people. So we have today a Michael Jackson who is winning all kinds of awards because he is a great and marvelous performer, but the image he projects to young black men is an image that we all should reject. But, of course, men like this will live to die of old age because they threaten nothing.

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ZIMBABWE WARNS JOURNALISTS

Date: 17 April 1984

AP

Prime Minister Robert Mugabe was quoted today as having threatened to restrict foreign journalists because of reports published abroad about atrocities said to have been committed by the Zimbabwean Army. Mr. Mugabe, speaking with local editors at his official residence, accused foreign reporters of having waged a campaign to discredit him and he called their reporting ''mischief-making,'' the Zimbabwe Inter-African News Agency said.

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WINNERS OF PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM, LETTERS AND THE ARTS;

Date: 17 April 1984

Public Service The Los Angeles Times In one of the largest reporting efforts it has made, The Los Angeles Times assigned 11 reporters and 2 editors, all Mexican-Americans, to a series on the more than three million people of Hispanic descent in Southern California. The editors and reporters conducted more than 1,100 interviews and polled nearly 1,500 people, including non-Hispanic residents. The result was a 27-part series, ''Latinos,'' that began last July with an examination of a Mexican-American family and concluded with an essay on the Chicano movement of the 1960's and what it meant for the future. The study included autobiographical accounts of growing up in the East Barrio of Los Angeles and being employed as migrant workers. The problems, achievements and changing nature of the Hispanic people were examined, leading to what the Pulitzer board said was a better understanding among the non-Hispanic majority about the minority group.

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TOP SALVADORAN SECURITY WORKER IN U.S. EMBASSY SLAIN BY GUNMEN

Date: 17 April 1984

The senior Salvadoran security employee of the United States Embassy here was slain today by unidentified gunmen. The security man, Joaquim Alfredo Zapata Romero, 59 years old, was driving with his wife and daughter when a taxi with five armed men pulled up beside his car and the occupants began shooting, according to witnesses. The incident took place at 6:45 A.M. on a street near the Camino Real Hotel. Foreign journalists staying at the hotel said they had heard about 10 shots.

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B.P. Drilling In Yellow Sea

Date: 17 April 1984

(AP)

- A group led by the British Petroleum Company today started drilling the first exploratory well in the southern Yellow Sea in a venture with China's state-run Nanhuanghai Oil Corporation, the official New China News Agency reported. The well is 186 miles northeast of Shanghai.

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STUDY ASSESSES EFFECTS FROM TV EVANGELISM

Date: 17 April 1984

By Peter Kerr

Peter Kerr

Religious television shows are not cutting into church attendance as some social scientists and religious organizations had suggested in recent years, according to a study of religious television programming released yesterday. The two-year study, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications, also found that religious broadcasts appeal to 13.3 million people - 6.2 percent of American television viewers - who, for the most part, already have strong religious beliefs. The programs, the study suggested, fail to reach large numbers of viewers who are not actively religious, nor do they seem likely to make many new converts. ''This is both good news and bad news for evangelical broadcasters,'' said Dr. George Gerbner, dean of the Annenberg School. ''The good news is that they do not reduce the number of people going to local churches. On the bad side, we found they are reaching a stable audience of those who are already religiously active.''

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AMERICAN RESCUED BY BEIRUT MILITIA

Date: 16 April 1984

By Thomas L. Friedman, Special To the New York Times

Thomas Friedman

An American professor who was kidnapped more than two months ago was rescued today by Shiite Moslem militiamen who stormed a West Beirut house in which he was being held. A French construction engineer who was abducted five days after the American and held along with him was also freed by the militiamen, members of the Amal Shiite militia. Both the American, Prof. Frank Regier of the American University here, and the Frenchman, Christian Joubert, appeared dazed and were unshaven, but otherwise seemed physically sound. Kidnappers' Indentities Unknown The identities of the kidnappers, who were being interrogated this evening, were not immediately clear. Security officials close to the investigation said they appeared to be ''Moslem extremists'' who had been holding the two men for still undetermined reasons.

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Warner to Offer Preferred Stock

Date: 16 April 1984

Reuters

Warner Communications Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a shelf offering of 7.26 million shares of series C cumulative convertible preferred stock, the company said Friday. The filing is in connection with the repurchase of Warner shares held by News International P.L.C., which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the publisher.

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TEXT OF STATEMENT BY C.I.A.

Date: 17 April 1984

Following is a statement today by George Lauder, the Central Intelligence Agency spokesman, on behalf of the agency concerning its efforts to keep appropriate committees of Congress informed of C.I.A. covert operations: During the 13 January 1981 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on the nomination of Mr. Casey to be Director, C.I.A., Mr. Casey said: ''I intend to comply fully with the spirit and the letter of the Intelligence Oversight Act. I intend to provide this committee with the information it believes it needs for oversight purposes.'' Mr. Casey believes the record will reflect that he and his staff have kept that pledge. A chronology of briefings of the Congressional oversight committees in connection with events in Central America reveals that from December 1981 through March 1984, either the director or deputy director briefed the Congressional committees 30 times on Central America.

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Peking Says Its Militia Killed 21 Vietnamese on the Border

Date: 17 April 1984

AP

Chinese militia units killed 21 Vietnamese soldiers and espionage agents in recent clashes along the border, the New China News Agency said today. It gave no Chinese casualties and said the frontier incidents occurred between April 9 and 12 on the border of Yunnan Province and of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

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