Репродукција недеља, 25. новембар 1984.

Measuring Pilots

Date: 25 November 1984

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

New Navy flight training standards were reported in May. They required pilots to have slightly shorter torsos and legs but longer arms.

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Star War Shootists

Date: 26 November 1984

By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr

James Clarity

Critics of President Reagan's plan to build an intercontinental defense system in space will wheel out their heavy artillery today.

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Fund Adds an Award For Reporting on City

Date: 26 November 1984

The Fund for the City of New York has announced the winners of its annual public service awards and the establishment of the Peter Kihss Award for outstanding reporting on the New York City government. The first recipient of the $5,000 annual reporting prize is Mr. Kihss, who, in a reporting career that spanned 50 years, worked for The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The New York World-Telegram and The Sun, The New York Herald Tribune and, for 30 years until his retirement in 1982, The New York Times. The new prize joins six public service awards given annually by the fund to exceptional city government workers.

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U.S. CALLED READY TO BE 'FLEXIBLE' AT TALKS ON ARMS

Date: 26 November 1984

By James F. Clarity, Special To the New York Times

James Clarity

President Reagan's national security adviser, Robert C. McFarlane, said today that the United States was prepared to be ''flexible and constructive'' in arms- control talks with the Soviet Union. Mr. McFarlane said the United States would be seeking grounds for possible compromise with Moscow in preliminary talks between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, to be held in Geneva on Jan. 7 and 8. Although the tone of some his remarks on the talks was positive, Mr. McFarlane cautioned that he expected no quick, dramatic, general agreements on arms control to result from the renewed talks. He was interviewed in Washington on the CBS News program ''Face the Nation.''

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C.I.A. IS LESS THAN TOP-NOTCH IN AFGHANISTAN

Date: 26 November 1984

To the Editor: Your Oct. 25 editorial ''Bad Manual, Bad War'' said that no serious controversy exists in Congress over the C.I.A.-directed covert-aid program to the Afghan resistance. You are correct in asserting that there is no controversy over the prudence of conducting a military-aid operation to the Afghan guerrillas. However, two contradictory versions of the quality of the covert aid have led not only to controversy but to Congressional action as well. The first version is generated behind a smokescreen, primarily in Washington, by high-ranking C.I.A. bureaucrats and other executive-branch officials. Classified and off-the-record briefings and high-level situation reports present American elected officials and decision makers a glowing picture of a superb, cost-effective C.I.A. operation. Executive-branch leaks to Time magazine and U.S. News & World Report last June described the C.I.A. operation as ''topnotch'' and ''daring.''

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NEWS SUMMARY;

Date: 26 November 1984

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1984 International Ground for compromise with Moscow will be sought by the United States in preliminary arms-control talks between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Secretary Andrei A. Gromyko in Geneva on Jan. 7-8. Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan's national security adviser, said the United States was prepared to ''flexible and constructive'' in the negotiations. (Page A1, Column 6.) A Philippines Communist insurgency is growing rapidly, largely because people have begun to accept its presence, Filipino officials say. The insurgency is strongest on the big southern island of Mindanao. A gun-toting Wild West atmosphere prevails there. Law and order is often lacking and, according to human rights groups, abuses by the Philippine military are frequent. (A1:5.)

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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS;

Date: 25 November 1984

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

In nearly nine years on the job in Wyandotte, Mich., Ben Citchen said, he encountered unrelenting racial discrimination: slurs from workers and supervisors, sometimes dead animals in his locker, on two occasions nooses hung near where he worked. In May the Michigan Civil Rights Commission found that the black welder had been egregiously harassed when he worked for the former Firestone Steel Products auto parts plant.

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; International

Date: 25 November 1984

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1984 More than 100 more Polish tourists on a cruise to West Germany have abandoned a ferryboat with the apparent intention of seeking political asylum, the West German border police said. The episode brings to 428 the number of Polish travelers who have jumped ship in West German ports in the last two weeks seeking to emigrate to the the West. (Page 1, Column 3.) U.S. and North Korean officers blamed each other for the exchange of gunfire at the Panmunjom truce area between North and South Korea Friday that left four soldiers dead and as many as six wounded. (3:3.)

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Boston Mystery

Date: 25 November 1984

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

Returning to the Harvard Graduate School of Design after spending Thanksgiving at her home in Glen Ridge, N.J., Joan Webster got off the air shuttle at Logan International Airport in Boston, picked up her luggage and disappeared. That was three years ago this week, and the case is still unsolved.

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A 'Matter of Law'

Date: 25 November 1984

By Richard Haitch

Richard Haitch

When Bernice Lane was sentenced in 1977 after being convicted of selling 2.9 ounces of heroin, the judge said he would have imposed a ''substantially lesser'' term if possible. But under New York State's drug laws, the sentence for her first conviction was mandatory: 15 years to life in prison.

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