JAPANESE WOMEN SPEAK OUT ON NEW TV NEWS PROGRAMS
Date: 17 June 1985
AP
Two newscasts that are capturing the attention of Japanese viewers feature young women who freely air their own opinions. That's something uncommon among Japanese in general, let alone females, in this male-dominated society.
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KEY MAN IN MENGELE CASE: ROMEU TUMA
Date: 16 June 1985
By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times
Alan Riding
Sensitive to the dangers of bruising national pride, the Federal Police Chief here, Romeu Tuma, insisted from the start of the investigation that Brazilian authorities would determine whether a body exhumed June 6 was that of the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 16 June 1985
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1985 International
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Cliffhanger
Date: 16 June 1985
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
CRUMBLING bluffs along the Mississippi River were endangering homes in a historic area of Natchez, Miss., last fall, with one antebellum mansion, Weymouth Hall, perched eight feet from the edge of a 100-foot-high bluff.
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COMMENCEMENT THEMES HEW TO NEWS
Date: 17 June 1985
By Ronald Smothers
Ronald Smothers
This year's commencement speakers who attacked policies of the Reagan Administration ranging from trade to civil rights to disarmament were countered by others, often Administration officials, lauding a new patriotism and national pride.
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Overtime on Rails
Date: 16 June 1985
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
THE Metro-North Commuter Rail Division of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority had a slight problem last year: overtime for conductors, whose pay normally averaged $31,549 a year. By November, the highest paid conductor, with overtime, was earning close to the $105,000 salary of the line's president.
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Chemical Lawns
Date: 16 June 1985
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
THIS lawn chemically treated.
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Protecting Ferns
Date: 16 June 1985
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
FOR 15 years, Burlington County in New Jersey had planned a $5.5 million, 2.2-mile road to relieve traffic near the County College in Pemberton Township, but just when all problems seemed resolved, the Lygodium palmatum got in the way.
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House Bows On Nicaragua
Date: 16 June 1985
A renewal of official American help to Nicaraguan rebels fighting the Sandinista Government became certain last week. Enough Democratic Congressmen had a change of heart to reverse the House's opposition in April and pass a bill, 248 to 184, calling for $27 million in nonmilitary aid for the so-called contras. Although it was less generous and more restrictive than the package approved by the Senate the previous week, the House measure represented a striking victory for the Reagan Administration, which had worked for almost a year to restore support for those portrayed by the President as ''freedom fighters.''
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