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THE HERITAGE OF THE BLACK PRESS

Date: 05 May 1985

By Lawrence D. Hogan

Lawrence

BACK in the 1930's, a sizable portion of the American public used to stop everything to follow the radio antics of Amos 'n' Andy. With the coming of television in the late 40's, CBS decided to try to cash in on the show's popularity by producing a video version. To drum up publicity, it undertook a nationwide search to find black characters to play the roles that whites had taken on radio. The two white leads, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, traveled across the country looking for someone to play Kingfish, the boastful shyster. However, the search was a sham, since Tim Moore, the veteran black vaudevillian, already had been selected.

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METROMEDIA SELLS 1 STATION AND TALKS TO MURDOCH

Date: 05 May 1985

By Joseph Berger

Joseph Berger

Metromedia Inc. agreed in principle yesterday to sell its Boston television station to the Hearst Corporation and it suggested that a far larger deal might be made as early as tomorrow to sell its six other big-city stations to Rupert Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch, the Australian whose worldwide holdings in publishing, film and television are valued in excess of $1.5 billion, spent yesterday negotiating to buy the six stations at the apartment of John W. Kluge, Metromedia's chairman, in the Waldorf Towers. If that deal goes through, Mr. Murdoch would, under the rules of the Federal Communications Commission, be compelled to sell either the New York Metromedia station, WNEW-TV, Channel 5, or the New York Post, which is owned by another Murdoch company, News America Publishing Inc. F.C.C. rules forbid a newspaper publisher from owning more than 5 percent of a broadcast station in the same city as the newspaper. Mr. Murdoch told reporters yesterday that under F.C.C. procedures, he expects to have two years once he takes over Metromedia's television stations to make a choice between divesting himself of the Post or WNEW-TV.

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Journalists' Group Protests Treatment of Indian Reporter

Date: 04 May 1985

AP

The International Federation of Journalists cabled Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India today to protest what it called the continued harassment of a reporter for The Associated Press, Brahma Chellaney, and to ask for the free exercise of journalism in India. The Brussels-based organization, which has a membership of more than 105,000, also protested ''the refusal by Indian authorities to return his passport and renew his press card.''

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A Pronounced Difference

Date: 05 May 1985

By Russell Baker

Russell Baker

IF YOU'RE PLANNING to be a newspaper columnist, folks, don't ever have a hometown named Morrisonville or come from a state called Virginia, and I'll tell you why. Because one of these days you're going to wake up with a head so empty of ideas that you could use it to hang the laundry out to dry, and how are you going to conceal the vacuum when it's time to produce the day's column? You've already used up ''President Reagan won't do,'' and you've rewritten it as ''President Reagan still won't do,'' and then you've rewritten it again as ''President Reagan is never going to do, but the Democrats don't offer much either.'' You don't dare rehash the column about your kids - how cute they are! - one more time, because since you first wrote it 25 years ago the kids have grown into 200-pound brutes and they've warned you: One more column about their cuteness and they're going to break every knuckle in both your typing fingers.

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SOUTH AFRICAN PRESS HAS A TOUGH BEAT

Date: 05 May 1985

By Alan Cowell

Alan Cowell

In South Africa, more than 100 laws restrict the way the press reports the nation to itself. Sometimes, said Percy Qoboza, a black newspaper editor, he and his colleagues spend more time with their lawyers deciding what they may publish than they do at home with their spouses. Other journalists, though, say that while the statutes are restrictive some editors do not publish to the limits of what the law allows. Characteristically, too, for a splintered people, there are categories and divisions among black, English-speaking and Afrikaans-language newspapers, each with separate notions and self-images.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 05 May 1985

SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1985 International Relentless objections from France blocked a key aim of the economic meeting in Bonn - a starting date for talks that would eliminate free-trade barriers. Elimination of those barriers was their No. 1 trade issue, and must be negotiated soon, the majority of the world's leading industrial nations agreed as the meeting came to an end. The French position was explained by President Francois Mitterrand, who said: ''They asked me for discussions in 1986 when the ground isn't fully prepared. I said 'No.' '' [Page 1, Column 6.]

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 04 May 1985

International The U.S. won support on arms talks from the economic conference in Bonn. Leaders of the seven nations taking part in the meeting termed President Reagan's proposals to the Soviet Union ''positive,'' but Mr. Reagan ran into broad criticism of his trade embargo against Nicaragua. [Page 1, Column 6.] Compromise on a key U.S. trade goal continued to elude President Reagan and the leaders of the six other major industrial allies at the meeting in Bonn. An agreement would lead to a new round of global trade negotiations early next year. Negotiations for a compromise followed the refusal of President Francois Mitterrand of France to agree to set a firm date for the start of the trade talks, which the United States, Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan all want. Only Italy showed sympathy for the French position. [1:5.]

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Unforgettable Day

Date: 05 May 1985

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

IT was 48 years ago tomorrow that the dirigible Hindenburg, coming in majestically for a landing at Lakehurst, N.J., exploded and burned in 34 seconds, killing 36 of the 97 people on board. And it is around this time every year, Herbert Morrison says, that he receives calls from newspapers and radio and television stations.

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Manhattan Oasis

Date: 05 May 1985

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

IT was little more than a community dump in the section of Manhattan once called Hell's Kitchen. But volunteers in the neighborhood leased the vacant lot from the city for $1 a year and turned it into the Clinton Community Garden.

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Dioxin Holdouts

Date: 05 May 1985

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

TIMES BEACH, MO., moved a step closer to obliteration last month when the city's aldermen voted to disincorporate as a municipality. Under a $33 million plan approved in 1983, the Federal Government is buying up all property in the small city, 25 miles southwest of St. Louis, because health officials have said it is contaminated with deadly dioxin. The property is to be turned over to Missouri.

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