Replay Dienstag, 25. März 1986

NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1986

Date: 26 March 1986

International American Navy forces struck against Libya for a second day. United States officials said Sixth Fleet forces destroyed two more fast attack patrol boats in the Gulf of Sidra and bombed a missile site on the Libyan coast a second day. The attacks were made as the Reagan Administration vowed to continue American Navy operations in the gulf, which Libya claims as its own. [ Page A1, Columns 4-6. ] Libya is ready ''for war'' with the United States over the Gulf of Sidra, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi announced. If Washington wants to expand the struggle, the Libyan leader said, ''we will carry it out all over the world.'' [ A1:6. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1986

Date: 25 March 1986

International American and Libyan forces clashed in and around the disputed waters off the Libyan coast. Washington said the encounter began in the Gulf of Sidra when Libyan ground batteries fired six missiles at American planes and the aircraft retaliated by attacking two Libyan patrol vessels and a missile site. Officials said one vessel was set afire and dead in the water while the second was ''severely damaged'' and the missile site was ''out of action.'' [ Page A1, Columns 1-6. ] Legislators generally voiced support for the action taken by American warplanes against a Libyan missile site and two patrol boats. However, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee charged that President Reagan had not fully complied with the War Powers Resolution of 1973. [ A1:5. ]

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CULTURAL ACTIVIST: GEORGE WEISSMAN

Date: 25 March 1986

George Weissman saw his first opera, ''La Traviata,'' in Palermo, Sicily. The memory is particularly clear, and fond, because the performance came two days after American forces, including Mr. Weissman, liberated the Sicilian port. Half the orchestra performed in white tie and tails, the rest in fatigues. In wartime or amid the corporate wars in which he has spent most of his adult life, culture has been a constant for Mr. Weissman. With his appointment yesterday as the chairman of Lincoln Center, his avocation is at last his vocation, albeit unpaid.

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REPORTERS' POOL KEPT FROM ACTION

Date: 26 March 1986

By Philip Shenon, Special To the New York Times

Philip Shenon

No American journalists have been allowed to observe the clashes between the American fleet and Libyan forces in the Mediterranean. Before the hostilities began on Monday, a pool of reporters and photographers was flown to the aircraft carrier Saratoga to observe the maneuvers in which that carrier and two others were involved. The fighting began later in the day. The journalists were kept far away from the area off the Libyan coast where the hostilities took place, and were returned to Italy later in the day. They were not not flown across the boundary claimed by Libya as the limit of its territorial waters. Libya calls the boundary ''the line of death.''

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In Lebanon, 5 Forgotten Americans

Date: 26 March 1986

By Larry Pintak

Larry Pintak

It's hard to find mention in the European and American press of what the United States is doing to free its hostages who remain in Lebanon. The Reagan Administration's ''quiet diplomacy'' remains quiet. The forgotten Americans remain forgotten. Somewhere in Lebanon this month, probably chained to a radiator in a damp room, Terry A. Anderson marked the beginning of his second year in captivity. On the other side of the world, a service and candlelight vigil were held to try once more to remind everyone of his plight.

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GOVERNMENT BY CAUCUS MEETS AN AGGRESSIVE PRESS

Date: 26 March 1986

By Michael Winerip, Special To the New York Times

Michael Winerip

In recent years, Republicans have held control in Schoharie, an upstate county of dairy farms. Eleven of the 16 men who make up the Schoharie Board of Supervisors are Republicans. Tuesday nights, the Republican majority gathers for what it calls a closed political caucus. The Clerk and the County Attorney attend, too. A stranger walking in might think it is a public board meeting - except a stranger cannot walk in. ''We go over the upcoming issues,'' said Stewart Mace, a Republican and board chairman.

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How the President Gets on the Air Live

Date: 25 March 1986

To the Editor: As the members of the Washington network-bureau-chiefs' pool, we would like to correct an item about how the President gets time on the air (March 17). Presidents in recent administrations have not asked the networks for live radio or television time, because such a request implies a matter of extreme national urgency. Ordinarily, what happens is this: A member of the White House press staff tells a member of the bureau chiefs' pool that the White House is planning or considering a speech or a news conference, and that the event will be available for live radio and television coverage. The pool repre-sentative then tells the other bureau chiefs, and each informs his network's senior news executives.

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ABC NEWS PAYS $25,000 FOR A TAPE OF SAKHAROV

Date: 25 March 1986

By Peter J. Boyer

Peter Boyer

For ABC News, the temptation proved irresistible. The network paid $25,000, possibly to an agent of the K.G.B., for 18 minutes of videotape of Dr. Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet dissident living in internal exile in the city of Gorky. ABC used about two and a half minutes of the tape on its ''World News Tonight'' last night, and also broadcast an interview with the physicist's wife, Yelena G. Bonner. Miss Bonner, who is in the United States, was allowed to go abroad for medical treatment after having pledged not to discuss her husband's case.

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EXCERPTS FROM NEWS SESSIONS ON CLASH WITH LIBYA'S FORCES

Date: 25 March 1986

AP

Following are excerpts from the news conferences today by Secretary of Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, on the confrontation between the United States and Libya: OPENING STATEMENT BY WEINBERGER This morning, there were two Libyan SA-5 missiles fired at us and then there were two Libyan aircraft, two MIG-25's that we intercepted as they approached the planes and they turned back and then two more missiles were fired from the SA-5 site. All of these missed. The hostile acts, however, had very clearly been committed and it was after the firing of these missiles that we then took retaliatory action to insure that our ability to stay in international waters was maintained, and to respond to Libyan forces that had attacked us in these international waters. We do not believe our men should be required to subject themselves to risks of being fired at by SA-5 missiles and not do something about the SA-5 site.

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BOND PRICES ADVANCE WIDELY

Date: 25 March 1986

By Kenneth N. Gilpin

Kenneth Gilpin

The bond markets found a range of encouraging news yesterday, and traders reacted by pushing up prices on a wide range of taxable and tax-exempt securities. As on most Mondays, trading activity was generally light. But gains were recorded in almost every market sector. Prices of taxable and tax-exempt securities were up by about a half-point to three-quarters of a point.

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