Atkārtoti atskaņo pirmdiena, 1981. gada 27. jūlijs

Isn't a Primary News?

Date: 28 July 1981

By Sydney H. Schanberg

Sydney Schanberg

If the major league baseball season had not been postponed due to greed and intransigence, maybe no one would have noticed. The absence of a city primary campaign, that is. A good pennant race might have obscured the snowballing void that is our mayoral primary contest. Normally in the summer doldrums, reporters would be using their inventive gifts in search of something to occupy the empty spaces. Not so with this election.

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News Analysis

Date: 27 July 1981

By David K. Shipler, Special To the New York Times

David Shipler

Israel is now engaged in some sober arithmetic, adding up the pluses and minuses of its intensive bombing of Lebanon, including Beirut, and of the cease-fire that halted the fighting on Friday. The ledger shows significant gains for Israeli interests, militarily and politically. But the losses, from the Israeli perspective, are equally dramatic, including the diplomatic damage to Israel's reputation and the enhanced status of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The military gains include losses inflicted on the new, heavy artillery and multiple-rocket-launchers that had recently been acquired by Palestinian guerrilla units in Lebanon and moved south to within range of Israeli border towns.

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News Analysis

Date: 27 July 1981

By Michael Goodwin

Michael Goodwin

When Mayor Koch announced that he would no longer let Harlem residents have any advantages over outsiders in buying city-owned property in their community, he not only stunned and angered some Harlem leaders, but he also took some of his own top aides by surprise. The remark came just as housing officials had agreed to, and the Board of Estimate was about to approve, a plan to give Harlem residents a three-to-one advantage in the lottery sale of 13 abandoned brownstones in the area. The Mayor said he would not upset the weighted sale of the 13 buildings, but his remark about future sales complicated an already difficult matter for housing officials and community leaders. They had been negotiating for months about the sale and, although neither side was completely happy with the terms, both had hoped that it would provide some guidance and examples about future sales of the thousands of Harlem properties the city owns.

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News Summary; TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1981

Date: 28 July 1981

International Legislation to aid British youths in obtaining jobs was announced by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in response to the recent outbreak of rioting. The emergency bills, estimated to cost up to $1 billion next year, face almost certain approval in Parliament. (Page A1, Column 2.) With Britain's royal wedding just 36 hours away, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer rehearsed their vows in St. Paul's Cathedral. The 300-year old church was sealed off by the police, and security specialists locked the doors and checked every nook and crevice of the vast edifice. (A6:1-2.)

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News Summary; MONDAY, JULY 27, 1981

Date: 27 July 1981

International Palestinian guerrilla leaders censured a radical guerrilla faction that has refused to honor the shaky cease-fire along the Israeli border in southern Lebanon. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command was described in a broadcast statement by the Voice of Palestine radio as ''irresponsible'' and ''heedless of Lebanese and Palestinian blood.'' Except for three brief incidents of firing by the defiant faction, the cease-fire has not been violated. (Page A1, Column 6.) Philip C. Habib arrived in Washington and was expected to discuss with President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. the cease-fire he helped negotiate as the United States special envoy to the Middle East. Meanwhile, Senator Henry M. Jackson, senior Democratic member of the Armed Services Committee, said there was no question that the United States would resume delivery of the F-16 planes to Israel. (A6:3-6.)

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Grumman Bus Cost May Be $50 Million

Date: 28 July 1981

AP

The Grumman Corporation said today that losses resulting from a national recall of 2,650 of its Flxible buses may amount to more than $50 million this year. Grumman already wrote off $7 million in last year's fourth quarter to cover a portion of the more than $15 million cost of reinforcing structural members that cracked in service. As a result, Grumman said today, its 1981 corporate earnings probably will not exceed last year's $30.7 million, or $2.27 per share.

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French Rivalry Adds Spice After 1-2 International Finish

Date: 27 July 1981

By James Tuite, Special To the New York Times

James Tuite

Eugene Lefevre did the can-can early this morning, but not very well. He sipped champagne and basked in the momentary glory of his victory behind Ideal du Gazeau in the 23d Roosevelt International a few hours earlier. When the party was over, reality arrived with daybreak and the Frenchman came to grips with a good-news, bad-news situation. The good news was that, after a half-hour of patchwork, Lefevre and his groom were able to put together the victory blanket that Ideal du Gazeau had nearly ripped in half walking off the Roosevelt Raceway track to the cheers of the fans.

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Oil Policy Talks Held

Date: 28 July 1981

Oil ministers from Libya, Nigeria, Algeria and Gabon met on Sunday to discuss forming a ''common front of resistance'' to worldwide pressure to cut their oil prices, the Libyan news service Jana reported yesterday. The news service gave no other information on the talks, which were not announced in advance.

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POLISH MINISTER AND UNION REACH COMPROMISE ON MEAT RATION CUT

Date: 28 July 1981

By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times

James

The Polish radio said tonight that the independent labor union had reached a compromise accord with the Government over proposed reductions in meat rations. The report said the union had agreed to cut the monthly ration by 20 percent next month as long as the allowance was made up later. Earlier today, with popular anger mounting over shortages of basic foodstuffs, a motorcade of buses and cars, bedecked with placards, drove slowly through the center of Lodz, the second largest city, beeping their horns in protest. The 15 buses that participated in the demonstration carried banners saying, ''Hunger.''

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SENATOR JACKSON SEES DELIVERIES OF F-16'S SOON

Date: 27 July 1981

By Charles Mohr, Special To the New York Times

Charles Mohr

Philip C. Habib, President Reagan's special envoy, returned to Washington today as officials here considered how best to exploit a cease-fire in the Middle East that Mr. Habib had helped negotiate. State Department and White House spokesmen said this afternoon that no meetings between Mr. Habib and Mr. Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. had been formally scheduled yet. But the spokesmen said it was virtually certain that Mr. Habib would see Mr. Haig tomorrow and highly likely that he would see the President as well. Meanwhile, Senator Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of Washington and the ranking minority member on the Armed Services Committee, said there was no question that the United States would resume deliveries of F-16 fighter-bombers to Israel. The deliveries were held up after the Israelis destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor June 7 and after they bombed Beirut buildings housing offices of Palestine Liberation Organization factions July 17.

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