NEWS SUMMARY;
Date: 11 December 1984
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1984 International A U.S.-Cuban accord has been reached in principle on the terms for repatriation to Cuba of about 2,500 criminals and mental patients, Reagan Administration officials said. In return, they said, Washington will resume the processing of regular emigration from Cuba to the United States. (Page A1, Column 6.) A 1982 inspection of the Indian plant of the Union Carbide Corporation revealed serious safety and equipment problems, but its Indian subsidiary rectified most of the problems by last June, according to the company. Among the problems remaining in June, the company said, was a question of the adequacy of a relief valve on a methyl isocyanate storage tank to relieve ''a runaway reaction.'' The highly toxic gas was released from the Bhopal plant last week, killing more than 2,000 people. (A1:3.)
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PEKING'S GOOD NEWS
Date: 11 December 1984
By Flora Lewis
Flora Lewis
WEST BERLIN China's official attack on Marxist orthodoxy as outdated and a hindrance to needed reform was such a surprise to Soviet-bloc Communists that it left them speechless. It is a historic watershed that can have far- reaching, dramatic consequences.
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WEINBERGER GIVES WHITE HOUSE A 'FIRM DEFENSE' OF HIS BUDGET PLAN
Date: 11 December 1984
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger today presented President Reagan and other Administration officials what was termed a ''firm defense'' of his 1986 budget request, which some Presidential advisers want trimmed by $8 billion.
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SHULTZ IN BRITAIN FOR DISCUSSIONS
Date: 12 December 1984
By Bernard Gwertzman
Bernard Gwertzman
Secretary of State George P. Shultz urged today that ''strong action'' be taken against terrorists like those who directed the recent hijacking in Teheran.
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Wooing the Scribes
Date: 12 December 1984
By William E. Farrell and Warren Weaver Jr
William Farrell
The competition for the post of
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WHEN IS A TERRORIST NOT NECESSARILY A TERRORIST?
Date: 12 December 1984
By Stuart Taylor Jr
Stuart Taylor
The antinuclear activist who drove up to the Washington Monument two years ago in a truck that he pretended was loaded with explosives was a ''terrorist,'' but those responsible for firebombing abortion clinics are not.
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SHULTZ-WEINBERGER DISCORD SEEN IN NEARLY ALL FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES
Date: 11 December 1984
By Hedrick Smith, Special To the New York Times
Hedrick Smith
As President Reagan prepares for a second term, his two top foreign policy advisers, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, are reported at odds on virtually all foreign policy issues, often to the frustration and concern of the White House.
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Greece Says It's Free To Ignore NATO Policy
Date: 12 December 1984
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Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou says Greece no longer follows NATO policies as a matter of course because that means ''continual subservience.''
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INDIAN JOURNALIST OFFERED WARNING
Date: 11 December 1984
By Sanjoy Hazarika
Sanjoy Hazarika
Before the gas leak at the Union Carbide insecticide plant here last week, an Indian journalist had asserted in several articles over the last two years that safety standards at the plant were inadequate and that a catastrophic leak could result.
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FIRST DEFENDANT TO TESTIFY
Date: 11 December 1984
George Crile, the first of the defendants to take the stand in Gen. William C. Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against CBS, is a 39-year-old film producer with a taste for politically controversial journalism.
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