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NEWS SUMMARY: EDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1986

Date: 29 January 1986

The Shuttle Explosion Space shuttle Challenger exploded a minute and a quarter after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla., apparently killing all seven astronauts on board. The space agency offered no immediate explanation for the accident, but suspended all future shuttle flights while it conducted an inquiry. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Debris from Challenger's explosion was scattered so widely over the Atlantic Ocean that investigators may never recover enough of it to pin down the explosion's cause. But suspicions quicky focused on the craft's huge external fuel tank that carried more than 385,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and more than 140,000 gallons of liquid oxygen at liftoff. [ A1:5. ]

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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1986

Date: 30 January 1986

The Shuttle Inquiry Officials began a broad inquiry in an effort to determine the cause of the explosion of the shuttle Challenger, history's worst space disaster. Ships, planes and helicopters searching a 50-by-100-mile rectangle of the Atlantic Ocean recovered hundreds of pounds of debris that might hold clues to the accident Tuesday that killed seven astronauts. [ Page A1, Columns 3-6. ] Searchers brought back 600 pounds of debris from the shuttle. A Coast Guard cutter's commanding officer, Lieut. (j.g.) John Philbin, described a calm, sunlit sea littered for miles with fragments of the shuttle and its rockets and fuel tanks. [ A15:1-2. ]

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NOMINEE AS FARM CHIEF

Date: 30 January 1986

By Keith Schneider, Special To the New York Times

Keith Schneider

President Reagan today nominated Richard E. Lyng, who served as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture from 1981 to 1985, to succeed John R. Block as the 22d Secretary of Agriculture. If he is confirmed by the Senate, as is expected, Mr. Lyng, who is 67 years old, would be the oldest person to be sworn in as Agriculture Secretary. He would also be the first from California. In naming Mr. Lyng at a brief ceremony at the White House this morning, Mr. Reagan said, ''I have every confidence the farmers of this nation are going to have a sound and solid friend in Secretary of Agriculture Dick Lyng.''

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FILM OF LAUNCHING SEIZED

Date: 30 January 1986

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has temporarily impounded film owned by news organizations that shows Tuesday's launching as part of an extensive effort to gather materials that may help determine why the space shuttle Challenger exploded, space agency officials said yesterday. The film was in about 100 still cameras that were operated by remote control. Sixty of them are owned by the news organizations. The cameras were placed, with NASA's approval, on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center near the launching site. The cameras were activated by remote devices sensitive to light, sound, or tremors in the ground.

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On Flight

Date: 29 January 1986

By Wayne King and Warren Weaver Jr

Wayne King

As the Fox Movietone News rolls, the screen shows a small boy carrying what is said to be the nation's first airmail letter to planeside and handing it to a leather-helmeted pilot. Sharp-eyed viewers with good memories may recognize the flyer, an unknown barnstormer of the 1920's, as Charles A. Lindbergh, later an international hero as conqueror of the Atlantic.

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Harry O'Donnell Memorial

Date: 29 January 1986

A memorial service for Harry J. O'Donnell, who was a press aide for three New York governors and Mayor John V. Lindsay, will be held at noon tomorrow in the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Gov. Malcolm Wilson and Mr. Lindsay are among those scheduled to speak. Mr. O'Donnell died Oct. 27 at the age of 71.

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Columbia Gets Funds For Journalism Chair

Date: 30 January 1986

Columbia University has received a gift of $2 million from George T. Delacorte, the publisher and philanthropist, to establish a professorship in journalism, Michael I. Sovern, the university president, announced yesterday. Osborn Elliott, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, will be the first to hold the professorship.

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Pentagon and the Press: The War Goes On

Date: 29 January 1986

By Richard Halloran, Special To the New York Times

Richard Halloran

When the Defense Department prevented the press from covering the first days of the invasion of Grenada in October 1983, editors erupted in anger, asserting that the people's right to know had been violated. Equally angry, military officers contended that the press could not be trusted to preserve security in the course of military operations. After the dust settled, journalists and officers began talking about improving relations. A special commission of military officers and former journalists recommended greater access by the military and greater restraint by journalists. Seminars have been held at the top military schools, giving each side a chance to present its views to the other, face to face.

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Hussein-Arafat Talks Go On

Date: 29 January 1986

Special to the New York Times

King Hussein of Jordan and Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, continued their talks here today. But there was no sign of any breakthrough in resolving fundamental differences on the future of the Middle East peace process.

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MARCOS ON THE AMERICANS

Date: 29 January 1986

Special to the New York Times

President Ferdinand E. Marcos has told an Italian newspaper that Americans preach to others like ''Protestant ministers'' and that Western journalists often behave as if they were Communists. The Philippine President, in remarks published today, also denied allegations of corruption and said he had invested all his money in a ''Marcos Scientific Research Foundation.'' ''In all honesty, being rich isn't something that interests me,'' Mr. Marcos said in an interview in the Rome daily Il Messaggero. ''Since becoming President, I have only bought a few houses for myself and my children.''

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