NBC News Show Close To Catching CBS Rival
Date: 26 February 1986
NBC's ''Nightly News'' broadcast, in its best performance since 1982, came close to catching ''The CBS Evening News'' in the ratings last week, but the CBS program won, maintaining its 199-week-long hold on first place.
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TENACIOUS ENGINEER: ALLAN J. McDONALD
Date: 26 February 1986
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
Although he is regarded by colleagues as one of the nation's leading rocket engineers, Allan J. McDonald has never been known as the sort of person who seeks the spotlight. But now an apparent combination of haunting prescience and tenacious character has thrust him into the news.
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Chilean Editor Is Jailed
Date: 27 February 1986
UPI
Upi
A military court today jailed Fernando Paulsen, news editor of an opposition publication and a freelance correspondent for Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal, pending a trial on charges of slandering the national police.
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TRAVELING ANCHORMEN EVERYWHERE BUT MANILA
Date: 27 February 1986
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
New technology and heated competition for news viewers are increasingly driving network anchormen to take their programs on the road, broadcasting their evening newscasts from distant and highly promotable locales. But that trend caused some awkward moments this week, when anchors found themselves in the wrong places when big news broke in the Philippines.
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Giuliani Given Honor By Jay College Paper
Date: 27 February 1986
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has been chosen to receive the annual Man of the Year award for 1985 of The Law Enforcement News, a publication of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.
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Allies Bar North Koreans From West Berlin
Date: 26 February 1986
American, British and French authorities in West Berlin barred four North Korean diplomats from the city today, apparently in an effort to halt the flow of combat helicopter parts through East Germany to North Korea.
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REAGAN PLANS SPEECH TONIGHT TO WIN SUPPORT FOR MILITARY SPENDING
Date: 26 February 1986
By Michael R. Gordon, Special To the New York Times
Michael Gordon
To combat waning public support for military spending, President Reagan plans to argue in a televised speech that there is a link between a successful arms control agreement and continued increases in military spending, Administration officials said today.
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ITALY MOVING TO JOIN 'STAR WARS'
Date: 26 February 1986
By Roberto Suro, Special To the New York Times
Roberto Suro
Prime Minister Bettino Craxi will ask Parliament to approve Italian participation in the research phase of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, senior Government officials said today.
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NICARAGUA AND COSTA RICA HOPE FOR PACT
Date: 26 February 1986
By Stephen Kinzer, Special To the New York Times
Stephen Kinzer
Costa Rica has agreed to work with Nicaragua to establish ''a permanent force of inspection and vigilance'' charged with keeping peace along their border.
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