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COMA TRIAL: AFTER HOOPLA

Date: 12 June 1985

By Alex S. Jones, Special To the New York Times

Alex Jones

In the news media center here, amid a litter of discarded newspapers and abandoned coffee cups, reporters who covered the two-month trial of Claus von Bulow reflected today on what most regard as a very peculiar experience. For most of them, the end of the trial has brought a mixture of the melancholy that comes for reporters at the end of a particularly dramatic news event, and a sense that they have been part of what many describe as a circus. ''It's been very zooy here,'' said Alan Rosenberg, a reporter for The Boston Herald who is writing a book about the trial, which offered a sultry mixture of money, sex and society that made much of the coverage sound like an account of an extra-tawdry television miniseries. Mr. von Bulow was acquitted Monday of attempting to murder his wife, and, consistent with the frenzy the trial has aroused, television stations all over New England interrupted their regular programming for a live report on the jury's decision. Some 200 journalists converged on Providence for the climactic moment, and the event attracted reporters from Denmark, Ireland and Britain as well as from across the United States. About 25 news organizations covered the trial from beginning to end.

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Belushi Case Judge Holds 2 Reporters in Contempt

Date: 12 June 1985

AP

A judge in the murder case of John Belushi, the actor, found two reporters in contempt of court and sentenced them to jail today for refusing to testify about an interview with the defendant, Cathy Evelyn Smith. Michael Montagna, a deputy district attorney, said that ''the issue of the murder can never be resolved'' without the testimony of Chris Van Ness, a freelance writer, and Anthony Brenna, a reporter for The National Enquirer.

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U.S. COURT TO REHEAR APPEAL OF LIBEL AWARD IN MOBIL CASE

Date: 12 June 1985

AP

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed today to reconsider a decision reinstating a $2 million award to the former president of Mobil Oil in his libel suit against The Washington Post. The 10-member court voted 7 to 2, with Judges Edward Allen Tamm and Antonin Scalia dissenting, to rehear the appeal of the libel case of the oil executive, William Tavoulareas. The two-page order gave no grounds for the decision. Judge Robert H. Bork did not participate in the decision.

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Publisher Is Elated By S.E.C. Victory

Date: 12 June 1985

By Kenneth N. Gilpin and Todd S. Purdum

Kenneth Gilpin

Christopher L. Lowe freely admits he is a convicted felon, found guilty of kiting checks and tampering with evidence related to his handling of an investment client's funds. Three years ago, he says, he served four months in jail. But on Monday the Supreme Court ruled, 8 to 0, that Mr. Lowe's past misconduct did not give the Securities and Exchange Commission authority to block him from publishing an investment newsletter. The decision overturned an appeals court ruling, and was seen as a significant setback for the S.E.C.'s recent efforts to regulate specialized publications that offer stock market advice.

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IN NORTH KOREA: POLEMICS OF PAST DISCARDED

Date: 13 June 1985

By John F. Burns, Special To the New York Times

John Burns

As the train from China crosses the Yalu River, there is no mistaking the legacy of war. A hundred yards downstream stands a second bridge, with all six supports on the North Korean side of the river missing, blown away by American bombing. Nearly 32 years after the armistice that ended the Korean War, the first thing a traveler sees on arrival in this tightly sealed nation is a reminder of the destruction wrought by American forces under Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur. In October 1950 United States troops approached within a few miles of the Yalu, prompting the Chinese to enter the war. The evidence is even starker where the express from Peking halts, beside a red-and-white barrier manned by a soldier in the olive green uniform of North Korea's army. Between the shoreline and the first of the concrete bridge pontoons is a tangled mass of rusted steel. On shore, workmen are busy clearing it away for scrap.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 12 June 1985

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1985 International An East-West spy exchange was carried out on the Glienicke Bridge between West Berlin and East Germany, State Department officials announced. They said the United States had freed four East Europeans imprisoned on espionage charges in exchange for 25 Western agents who had been held prisoner in East Germany and Poland. [Page A1, Columns 4-5.] The son of Josef Mengele, the Nazi death camp doctor, said he had ''no doubt'' that the body exhumed from a grave in Brazil last week was that of his father. [A1:3.] Brazilian police said they wanted scientific proof that Josef Mengele died there. [A12:3.]

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Lester Irving Cooper Is Dead; Produced TV Documentaries

Date: 13 June 1985

Lester Irving Cooper, a television documentary producer for more than 30 years, died of cancer last Thursday at his apartment in Manhattan. He was 66 years old.

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T.W.A. Reply Due

Date: 12 June 1985

Resorts International Inc. expects to hear whether Trans World Airlines Inc. will accept its takeover bid within ''24 hours,'' a source close to Resorts told the Reuters news agency yesterday. Wall Street sources said the T.W.A. board reviewed Resorts' offer of $22 a share last Friday. Separately, American Airlines confirmed reports that it had taken an informal look at T.W.A. But Lowell Duncan, an American spokesman, said the airline had decided not to make an offer.

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UNION TO PROTEST U.P.I. PLAN FOR CURB ON PAY AND BENEFITS

Date: 13 June 1985

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

United Press International has proposed a wage freeze and benefit cuts that company officials say would save millions of dollars and help assure the news agency's survival. A union official has denounced the proposal as ''ultimate hardball.'' In what appeared to be a showdown, the Wire Service Guild yesterday called for ''coast-to-coast informational picketing'' at U.P.I.'s facilities at today's lunch break to protest the cuts, according to Dan Carmichael, the secretary-treasurer of the guild, which is a local of the Newspaper Guild. The union represents about half of U.P.I.'s employees worldwide but nearly all of its domestic employees, including reporters, editors and photographers.

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Israel Halts Canal Project

Date: 13 June 1985

Reuters

Israel has abandoned plans for a $1.5 billion project to produce hydroelectricity through a canal between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, Energy Minister Moshe Shahal said today. Jordan and other Arab countries had protested about the plan, which proposed a 100-mile canal through the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Mr. Shahal said at a news conference he had given the order to abandon the project because of lack of funds.

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