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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1986

Date: 23 October 1986

The World Moscow ousted 5 more U.S. envoys. The Kremlin also withdrew all 260 Soviet employees of United States missions in the Soviet Union and imposed restrictions on American officials on temporary duty there. Page A1 The U.S. sought to depict Moscow and Washington as in accord on seeking arms control, and ignored Mikhail S. Gorbachev's sharp criticisms of Washington's actions since the Iceland meeting. A13 Gorbachev: U.S twisting results A1 Excerpts from Soviet speech A12 Arms offers and Geneva A13 Drug crops are thriving in Mexico. The State Department reported that Mexican acreage planted in opium poppy grew by one-third in the last year while marijuana production rose by 25 percent.

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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1986

Date: 22 October 1986

The World The U.S. is ousting 55 Soviet envoys by Nov. 1 in a record expulsion order. The Reagan Administration's unexpected action was in retaliation for Moscow's ouster of five American diplomats. Page A1 Summit ideas might harm NATO. According to West European officials, the West's defenses and deterrence doctrine might be imperiled. A senior Bonn official said, ''Reykjavik was broken off at the right time.''

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NEWS MEDIA GAIN IN TWO COURT DECISIONS IN JERSEY

Date: 22 October 1986

By Joseph F. Sullivan, Special To the New York Times

Joseph Sullivan

In two opinions issued today, the New Jersey Supreme Court expanded the ability of news organizations to defend themselves against defamation suits. In one case, the court ruled, 6 to 0, with an abstention, that a private citizen must establish ''actual malice'' on the part of a newspaper to collect damages, a requirement that previously applied only to public figures. In the other, the court, also 6 to 0 with an abstention, extended the doctrine of ''fair comment'' to cover published facts as well as opinions.

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Shultz Names Redman As Policy Spokesman

Date: 22 October 1986

Special to the New York Times

Secretary of State George P. Shultz named Charles E. Redman today as the chief State Department spokesman.

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NO DESIRE TO MISLEAD, NEW STATE DEPT. VOICE SAYS

Date: 23 October 1986

Special to the New York Times

The new chief spokesman for the State Department said today that he was confident the Reagan Administration had no intention of deliberately misleading American news organizations. The chief spokesman, Charles E. Redman, was named on Tuesday to replace Bernard Kalb. Mr. Kalb resigned two weeks ago over reports that the Reagan Administration had conducted a program to sow ''disinformation'' in the press to cause problems for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya. Mr. Kalb, a former reporter, said: ''Faith in the word of America is the pulsebeat of our democracy. Anything that hurts America's credibility hurts America.''

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Now, a Boasting Blitz

Date: 22 October 1986

By Irvin Molotsky and Warren Weaver Jr

Irvin Molotsky

The White House has gone beyond explaining with pride that Reagan aides successfully orchestrated American public opinion after the President's meeting with Michail S. Gorbachev in Iceland. The President's men are now documenting this operation with the number of ''media events'' they scheduled so the voters would not regard the Reykjavik conference as a failure.

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COMPANY NEWS;

Date: 23 October 1986

By Calvin Sims

Calvin Sims

Wang Laboratories Inc., citing sagging sales in its most expensive lines of computer systems, yesterday reported a loss of $30 million in its most recent quarter, in contrast to a profit of $7 million, or 5 cents a share, in the comparable 1985 period. Wang, which makes minicomputer-based office automation systems, said its revenues for the quarter increased 6.6 percent, to $597.9 million, from $560.9 million in the 1985 period.

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Harnischfeger

Date: 22 October 1986

Special to the New York Times

A group of investors, led by the Miami-based Columbia Ventures Inc., said it had purchased a 7.7 percent stake in the Harnischfeger Corporation. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the group said it ''may seek to influence management or may even seek control'' of the Milwaukee-based concern.

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Energy Prices Decline On News of OPEC Deal

Date: 23 October 1986

By Kenneth N. Gilpin

Kenneth Gilpin

Prices of crude oil and refined petroleum products slumped in heavy volume on the futures markets yesterday as traders who had bid up prices in advance of the breakup of yesterday's OPEC meeting reacted to news of the agreement by liquidating positions. On the face of it, yesterday's selloff would tend to suggest that traders were expecting big things from the meeting, which produced an extension of the current production agreement. But traders uniformly agreed that the decline would be short-lived, and that prices were likely to remain in a relatively narrow range for some time.

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Kroger Drugstores

Date: 23 October 1986

The Kroger Company said that it was negotiating to sell its drugstore operations to an investor group led by Philip E. Beekman, former president of the Seagram Company, and several executives of the drugstore division. Mr. Beekman has been a Kroger director since 1978.

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