Replay martes, 8 de febrero de 1983

News Analysis

Date: 08 February 1983

By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times

Bernard Gwertzman

Despite some tough language in China's official commentary on Secretary of State George P. Shultz's four-day visit to Peking, there seems to be considerable agreement by American and Chinese officials on what Mr. Shultz did and did not accomplish there. In interpreting the results of the Shultz mission, however, the two sides appear to be practicing what one of Mr. Shultz's aides today called ''half full, half empty diplomacy.'' The aide meant that Peking persists in seeing the same ''cup'' of relations as half empty that the Americans see as half full. Mr. Shultz was informed of the New China News Agency commentary when he awoke this morning. He read the text along with senior advisers, Paul D. @Wolfowitz, the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, and Thomas Shoesmith, Mr. Wolfowitz's deputy. The commentary said Mr. Shultz's visit had helped Chinese-American relations ''to some extent'' but unless the Taiwan issue was resolved ''mutual trust between China and the United States is out of the question.''

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News Summary; WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1983

Date: 09 February 1983

International Israel's top leaders were criticized by the special state investigating commission in Jerusalem. The panel said that both civilian and military leaders bore ''indirect responsibility'' for the massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christian militiamen in Beirut and recommended the resignation or dismissal of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and three senior generals. The commission's report, issued after a four-month investigation, also criticized Prime Minister Menachem Begin. (Page A1, Column 6.) The Israeli report confirmed for the first time the name of the Christian Phalangist officer in charge of the operation in which the Palestinians were massacred - Elias Hobeika, the head of Phalangist intelligence. The report also revealed that Israel's Chief of Staff, Lieut. Gen. Rafael Eytan, later made a personal appeal to Phalangist commanders to admit their guilt and to try to publicly explain their behavior. (A1:5.)

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Armco Plans to Sell Coal Assets to Arch

Date: 09 February 1983

AP

Armco Inc., the nation's seventhlargest steelmaker, said today that it was negotiating the sale of ''substantially all its West Virginia coal properties'' to a subsidiary of the Arch Mineral Corporation of St. Louis, which is 50 percent owned by the Ashland Oil Company, for about $320 million. Armco, which lost $345 million on sales of $5.4 billion last year, had said it would try to sell its coal properties as part of a program to divest itself of ''nonstrategic assets'' and improve its cash position.

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A 'SYSTEMS PERSON' AS TAX CHIEF: RODERICK CHU

Date: 09 February 1983

By Edward A. Gargan, Special To the New York Times

Edward Gargan

Even before Governor Cuomo publicly announced the appointment of Roderick Chu as the state's new Commissioner of Taxation and Finance, Mr. Chu was deep in meetings with administration budget aides and tax agency officials in a quest for a few hundred million dollars. ''With a systems person in taxation, you can save a couple of hundred million dollars,'' Mr. Cuomo said bluntly. Indeed, it was as a ''systems person'' that Mr. Chu made his first mark on the State of New York. From December of 1980 until last April, Mr. Chu, as head of a team of consultants, charted the complex course of steering the state from its archaic and undisciplined method of accounting to a sounder footing known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

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F.T.C. Won't Object To I.B.M.-Intel Deal

Date: 08 February 1983

AP

The Federal Trade Commission has told the International Business Machines Corporation that it will not attempt to block I.B.M.'s plan to purchase 12 percent of the Intel Corporation, the two companies said today. I.B.M. agreed in December to pay $250 million for the holding in Intel, which makes semiconductors for computers.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1983

Date: 08 February 1983

International Iran launched a new offensive against Iraq in Misan Province and claimed to have occupied 100 square miles of Iraqi territory and destroyed the combat capability of the Iraqi army. Iraq confirmed that the Iranians had tried to invade but said its forces had crushed the two Iranian divisions involved. Western intelligence sources said they could not confirm either side's claims. (Page A1, Column 4.) American impatience with Israel was displayed again by President Reagan. He asserted that Israel was delaying the withdrawal of its troops from Lebanon and was neglecting its ''moral'' obligation not to become an ''occupying force.'' (A1:5.)

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STEEL UNION FACES MANY DIFFICULTIES AS IT HEADS INTO '83 NEGOTIATIONS ; News Analysis

Date: 08 February 1983

By William Serrin

William Serrin

As it begins its 1983 bargaining with the nation's major steel companies, the United Steelworkers of America, for decades one of the country's major unions, faces enormous problems. Its membership is about half what it was a few years ago. Its president is in the hospital. And, above all, its leadership must succeed in negotiating an agreement acceptable to the presidents of union locals, who last year rejected two contracts that the national officers had labored weeks to put together.

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U.P.I. OWNERSHIP TRANSFERS SEEM TO INVOLVE LITTLE CASH

Date: 09 February 1983

By Wendell Rawls Jr., Special To the New York Times

Wendell Rawls

John Jay Hooker, new chairman of the board of United Press International, says he obtained a 30 percent interest in the nation's second largest news agency last week with virtually no outlay in money. Mr. Hooker, a former politician and publisher in Tennessee, said in an interview this week that he acquired the stock for ''$1 and other valuable considerations'' after two of the four men who bought the ailing service from E.@W. Scripps Company last June relinquished their shares. The ''other considerations'' were described as his extensive contacts in the journalistic, political, entertainment and financial communities and his ability to obtain funds, if necessary, for continued operation of the news service till its losses could be overcome. Mr. Hooker's statements amounted to additional indications that Scripps turned over the news service to four new owners last year for little more than an assumption of pension obligations. All but Gave It Away, One Says One source said this week that Scripps all but gave away the news service in the original transaction. Another source, at Media News Corporation of Nashville, the new parent company of U.@P.@I., said Len R. Small and Cordell J. Overgaard, the two directors who returned their shares, which the company then passed on to Mr. Hooker, had made ''only an insignificant investment'' of money and received no payment when they returned their shares.

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Soviet, Citing Attack On Pope, Assails U.S.

Date: 08 February 1983

AP

The official Soviet press agency Tass accused the White House today of trying to wreck United States-Soviet arms talks by ''stirring up'' allegations that Bulgaria was involved in the shooting of Pope John Paul II. Tass introduced its article by referring to a report on NBC News that said Vice President Bush had carried a message from President Reagan to Italian officials in which the investigation into the shooting was discussed. The Soviet agency quoted NBC News as saying the message encouraged Italy to pursue its investigation of Bulgarian involvement in the shooting of John Paul in May 1981 even if it implicated the Soviet leader, Yuri V. Andropov. Mr. Bush and the Italian Government have denied that President Reagan's message mentioned the shooting.

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5 Protestant Leaders Ask To Reply to CBS Show

Date: 08 February 1983

UPI

Upi

Leaders of five Protestant denominations demanded time from CBS News under the ''personal attack'' rules today to answer charges that the National Council of Churches aided Marxist-Leninist groups and governments. The charges were broadcast in a ''60 Minutes'' television program Jan. 23.

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