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Date: 16 April 1981
The Associated Press, Dow Jones & Company and Quotron Systems jointly announced an agreement in principle yesterday for the international marketing of Quotron's financial information service.The service will be marketed through A.P.-Dow Jones, a business and economic news and information group jointly operated by the two news organizations.
Date: 16 April 1981
By Tony Schwartz
Tony Schwartz
Next week, while National Public Radio is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its first transmission - coverage of a Senate hearing on the War Powers Act - it will provide member stations with a special 90-minute documentary titled ''Father Cares: The Last Days of Jonestown.'' The Jonestown program, based on previously unreleased tapes recorded by the Rev. Jim Jones during the 18 months leading up to the mass suicide of his 900 followers in Guyana two years ago, epitomizes many of the things that make NPR distinctive. In the New York metropolitan area, WNYC, WBGO and WBAI carry some NPR programming. Only NPR broadcasts in-depth news documentaries on radio. Even those commercial stations devoted to 24 hours of news are essentially headline services. The Jonestown documentary, produced by James Reston Jr., also reflects NPR's capacity to react to events much more quickly than its public television counterparts generally do. Mr. Reston's project was approved on the same day it was suggested and produced in less than six months.
Date: 16 April 1981
By Paul Lewis, Special To the New York Times
Paul Lewis
France has paid the American space shuttle a handsome compliment. It was not the message of congratulations that President Valery Giscard d'Estaing sent President Reagan this morning, saying that all humanity should be proud of the ''remarkable contribution American scientists, technicians and astronauts have made to the conquest of space and the mastery of space flight.'' Neither was it the equally effusive message sent by his principal rival in this month's Presidential elections, Francois Mitterrand, the Socialist leader, who praised the ''human and technical daring of the American space shuttle.'' The compliment came, rather, from French public opinion, which for the first time forced the Government-controlled television service to postpone two scheduled party political broadcasts in the middle of the election campaign so that viewers could watch the shuttle's successful return to earth yesterday.
Date: 16 April 1981
By Robert Reinhold, Special To the New York Times
Robert Reinhold
The Washington Post said today that an article it printed about the life of an 8-year-old heroin addict in the slums of Washington, for which the author won a Pulitzer Prize this week, was a fabrication. The newspaper said that it was relinquishing the award and that Janet Cooke, the 26-year-old reporter who wrote the story, had resigned. The paper said that after questioning by Post editors, she confessed at 1:45 this morning that her eyewitness account of ''Jimmy,'' a precocious child with ''needle marks freckling the babysmooth skin of his thin brown arms,'' was false. It was the first time in the 64-year history of the coveted prizes that an award had been declined for such a reason, according to officials of the Pulitzer Committee at Columbia University in New York. Three years ago, a photograph was inadvertently credited to the wrong photographer and the award was changed.
Date: 15 April 1981
By Richard J. Meislin, Special To the New York Times
Richard Meislin
The Republicans' deep resistance to Governor Carey's plan to take over local Medicaid costs is rooted less in substantive objections to the program than in fears that its guarantee of future aid for New York City would drastically undercut Republican bargaining power in budget negotiations for years to come. Republicans cite that concern, and the fear that the program's large future costs to help New York City could jeopardize other traditional upstate Republican interests such as school aid, as major reasons behind Senator Warren M. Anderson's determined effort to block the program from this year's state budget. The budget has been deadlocked and the state has been unable to pay its bills for two weeks as Governor Carey and Senator Anderson, the majority leader, engage in a verbal shoving match over the Medicaid program. Because of the unusually high stakes involved, neither side expects a quick resolution to the problem.
Date: 15 April 1981
By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times
Hedrick Smith
To the millions of citizens who watched the space shuttle Columbia glide to its flawless landing today, the newest space exploit was sweet vindication of American know-how. The automobile industry may be beset by Japanese competition and the military establishment may feel that Moscow has gained the advantage of momentum in the strategic arms race, but the nifty twowheeled touchdown in the Mojave Desert provided a quick, jubilant lift for a nation that has been suffering from technological selfdoubt. After the shuttle's many frustrating delays, the successful flight was something to cheer about. President Reagan caught that mood when he told the two Columbia astronauts, ''Through you, we all feel like giants again.''
Date: 15 April 1981
By Warren Weaver Jr., Special To the New York Times
Warren Weaver
The practical dilemma that Congress faces in rescuing the Social Security System is simply stated: Almost every move that would give the financially shaky retirement program more stability involves a high political risk for those who support it. Conversely, most of the changes in the system that are most vigorously sought by its members, both working and retired, would cost billions of dollars and tend to bring the fund closer to bankruptcy more rapidly than the perilous course now being followed. Compounding the political problem is the fact that Social Security has one of the largest political constituencies of any cause in the nation. About 36 million people receive some kind of benefits - retirement, disability or survivors' - and 116 million others contribute to the program with the expectation of drawing benefits in the future.
Date: 16 April 1981
By Bernard Gwertzman, Special To the New York Times
Bernard Gwertzman
The Reagan Administration's plans for obtaining a long-term presence in Saudi Arabia through the stationing of Awacs surveillance planes have run into such criticism in Israel and on Capitol Hill that consideration is now being given to postponing the projected multibillion-dollar sale. High-ranking Administration officials said today that the political problems are looming so large, not only here, but in Israel and Saudi Arabia as well, that President Reagan will probably have to decide personally whether to go ahead with the Awacs sale this month or to delay it, perhaps until after the Israeli elections on June 30. What is particularly frustrating to some Administration officials is that one reason for supplying the advanced military technology to Saudi Arabia is to open the way to a permanent American force in the region, something which Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr.contends would accrue to Israel's benefit as well as Saudi Arabia's. The Awacs dispute has become the first test of Mr. Haig's premise that despite local animosities between Arabs and Jews, a ''strategic consensus'' can be forged against the Soviet Union in which these differences can be put aside.
Date: 16 April 1981
By Iver Peterson, Special To the New York Times
Iver Peterson
Martha Hayes and Donna Lee wore their Texas T-shirts to work at the Little Professor bookstore on Michigan Avenue here today. ''They're our Wednesday 'uniform,' '' Miss Hayes explained. Wednesday is the day the previous Sunday's issues of The Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News and The San Antonio Light come in, bulging with job offerings for a crowd of jobless and near-jobless men and women. For them the Lone Star State shines as the latest El Dorado for job seekers. Robert Wahrenbock, a 29-year-old quality control manager for a company that makes water quality monitors in suburban Novi, left the store with a copy of The Morning News, for which he paid $1.50. ''I've got an aunt and an uncle in Dallas,'' he said, ''and all they can say is, 'Git your body on down here, man,' because Texas is where the future is.''
Date: 15 April 1981
The Return of Columbia A major space advance was achieved as the United States successfully demonstrated the first re-usable winged spaceship. The space shuttle Columbia rocketed out of orbit and glided to a safe wheeled landing on California's Mojave Desert. John W. Young and Capt. Robert L. Crippen of the Navy brought the powerless vehicle to a smooth touchdown at a speed of 215 miles an hour, about twice the velocity of a jetliner landing. One hour earlier, the craft was orbiting at 17,500 miles an hour. (Page A1, Column 6.) At least 250,000 people had gone to Edwards Air Force Base to watch the space shuttle glide to a landing. The spectators cheered as the Columbia touched down perhaps only 60 seconds after it was first spotted high over the horizon. (A1:1-2.)