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Date: 26 April 1984
Reuters
The police used water cannon today to break up a demonstration by 200 Chilean journalists after 20 of them staged a 24-hour hunger strike to protest censorship. Witnesses said one demonstrator had been detained but was released later in the drive against publications opposed to Chile's military Government.
Date: 26 April 1984
AP
Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier, who was freed by the Italian police two years ago after 42 days as a prisoner of Red Brigade terrorists, received his second star Tuesday with his promotion to major general. General Dozier, the deputy commander of III Corps and of Fort Hood. said at a ceremony it was ''an exciting time to be in the Army.''
Date: 26 April 1984
AP
Ivan V. Arkhipov, a Soviet First Deputy Prime Minister, will go to China on May 10 for a 10-day visit, the Soviet press agency Tass said today.
Date: 26 April 1984
By James David Barber
James Barber
America is drifting into a mode of political thinking that is not only illusory but consciously, even proudly so. Both Republicans and Democrats alike are afflicted with this malady. President Reagan's indifference to reality is hardly news. His criterion of validity is drama, not empiricism. As David A. Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, once summed up the White House system: ''Every time one fantasy doesn't work they try another one.'' Mr. Reagan, told by a reporter that one of his favorite, endlessly repeated anecdotes - how a black hero at Pearl Harbor ended segregation in the armed forces - was total fiction, replied: ''I remember the scene. . . . It was very powerful.'' What matters to him is the grace and theatrical force of a performance; as a lifelong practitioner of illusion, he is in no way embarrassed by its victory over the facts.
Date: 26 April 1984
By David K. Shipler
David Shipler
A leftist Israeli magazine, Haolam Hazeh, today became the first news organization here to publish a photograph of a man being led away alive from the hijacked bus in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago. The photograph is of extremely poor quality, too blurry for the faces to be identified. It is a different picture, apparently showing a different man, from a key photograph taken by another publication, the newspaper Hadashot. The military censor has barred publication of the other, clearer photograph. Both photographs were taken after Israeli troops stormed the hijacked bus just before dawn on April 13. The authorities said two hijackers were killed and the other two died on the way to the hospital.
Date: 26 April 1984
By Arnold H. Lubasch
Arnold Lubasch
A Federal appeals court yesterday restricted judges' authority to bar the press and public at pretrial hearings. In the ruling, which involved a newspaper's complaint about a closed hearing on suppressing evidence, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declared in Manhattan, ''The First Amendment assures some degree of access to suppression hearings.'' The press and public should rarely be excluded from courtrooms, Judge Jon O. Newman said in the decision. He said a judge should find good reasons before closing a suppression hearing, state the reasons and provide public notice, to permit an appeal.
Date: 26 April 1984
President Reagan has assured Taiwan officials that he will not agree to any new curbs on American dealings with Taiwan during his visit to China, Administration and pro-Taiwan sources said today. The assurances, they said, have been delivered orally through briefings by White House and State Department officials both to Taiwan representatives in Washington and to American conservatives who oppose any further restrictions on American arms sales to Taiwan. In addition, a Taiwan supporter provided a copy of a document he said he had received from Taiwan authorities. The document is said to be a statement of what Mr. Reagan will tell the Chinese leaders in Peking about American policy toward Taiwan. It was said by the Taiwan supporter to have been sent by Mr. Reagan to President Chiang Ching-kuo of Taiwan via the unofficial American diplomatic mission in Taipei headed by James Lilley.
Date: 27 April 1984
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
-West Africa - When they buy his newspaper, Hannes Smith says, some people slide its tabloid pages between the folds of a larger publication so as not to be seen in possession of it. Others, he asserts, have shot themselves because of disclosures he has printed about their private lives. Still more, he reckons, live in trembling of what he might publish in the future. Mr. Smith, in short, has cast himself as a nation's conscience. The Windhoek Observer, now six years old, is one of southern Africa's most talked-about and irreverent publications. Each week, for instance, it carries a full-page picture of a seminude woman, challenging the morality laws that extend from South Africa to this territory under its domination.
Date: 26 April 1984
By Drew Middleton
Drew Middleton
Western intelligence sources said yesterday that Afghan guerrillas were withdrawing into the mountains from the valley stronghold in which they were hard hit Tuesday by Soviet and Afghan Government forces. The sources said the rebels were being attacked by Soviet Su-24 planes. Afghan refugee spokesmen in Pakistan ridiculed a claim made Tuesday by the Soviet-supported Government of Afghanistan that the attacking forces had scored a decisive victory in the 50- mile-long Panjshir valley, which runs northeast from a point 50 miles north of Kabul, the Afghan capital. But rebel groups in the battle zone appeared to take a different view.
Date: 26 April 1984
By Susan Heller Anderson and David Bird
Susan Anderson
Tourism in New York City increased a meager 1.2 percent in 1983 - from 16.9 million visitors in 1982 to 17.1 million in 1983. But the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau looks on the bright side.