News stories from Saturday August 7, 1982

Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:

The most serious Republican revolt faces President Reagan since he took office. Administration officials said he was warning his allies in Congress that failure to pass tax increases this year would be "devastating" to the economy and to Republican prospects in the November elections. [New York Times] An all-movie pay television network is expected to add three of Hollywood's major movie producers as partners. The three studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers and MCA Inc., will become partners in "The Movie Channel," a 24-hour cable network that now has two million subscribers. The partnership is expected to provide stiff competition with Home Box Office, the dominant pay network. [New York Times] High technology's success as a new industry in Massachusetts and California might be difficult to emulate in other states, which are looking to it to save their economy, taking the place of the steel and automobile industries. A study of the two regions where high technology has had its most spectacular expansion, the arc of Route 128 around Boston and the 25-mile-long valley south of San Francisco that got its nickname from the silicon chips manufactured there, suggests that there were special conditions to nurture the new industry that do not exist in most other places. [New York Times] Judge David Bazelon resigned in anger from the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections, which is responsible for inspecting and accrediting state and federal correctional institutions. Judge Bazelon, the senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, sharply criticized the agency's methods, motives and integrity. [New York Times] Syria and Egypt indicated to Philip Habib, the United States special envoy, that they would take in some of the P.L.O. guerrillas in west Beirut, Lebanese officials said. Their confirmation that they were willing to do so, coupled with the expressed willingness of Jordan and Iraq to admit other guerillas, removed a major obstacle in Mr. Habib's effort to arrange a peaceful withdrawal of the P.L.O. from Lebanon. [New York Times] The Reagan administration has concluded that the United States has "very profound" differences with Israel that could affect military and economic ties following a "comprehensive assessment" of its relations with the Middle East. Officials said the United States was also seeking "fundamental changes" from such nations as Jordan and Saudia Arabia in terms of their refusal to support the Camp David accords. They said the potential departure of the P.L.O. from Lebanon offered "opportunities for a breakthrough" in terms of Palestinian self-rule negotiations. [New York Times] Ankara's airport was attacked by a group of Armenians who opened fire with submachine guns. At least six persons, including an American, were reported killed in the two-hour shootout that followed. Seventy-two people were wounded, officials said. The State Department said in Washington that two of the victims were Americans and reported that one had died. Their identities were not immediately released. The gunmen said the attack was a protest against "the Turkish fascist occupation of our land," and warned of attacks in other countries unless 8.5 Armenian prisoners held in those countries were freed. [New York Times] Italy's coalition government fell 13 months after it was formed with Giovanni Spadolini as Prime Minister. It collapsed after the withdrawal of the small but crucial Socialist Party because of the scuttling in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Parliament, of plans to cut billions from a towering budget deficit. [New York Times]