Prime Time's Growing Hit? That's News
Date: 06 April 1992
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
JUST how much news can television use? As the network news divisions add programs from early morning through the entire night and continue to seek the financial advantages of using news programs instead of increasingly costly entertainment shows, the limit to the air time available to these programs appears to be nowhere in sight.
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CRACKDOWN KEEPS HAITI RADIO SILENT
Date: 05 April 1992
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Moving through the streets to cut down opponents and scatter would-be demonstrators with random gunfire, soldiers who overthrew Haiti's first elected Government last September chose as one of their top priorities quickly stifling the capital's many radio stations. Dutifully applying lessons learned from other recent coups where control of the airwaves has often proven crucial, rampaging soldiers left behind bullet-riddled studios, smashed transmitters and once-upright antennas bent into grotesque forms.
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A Press Lord From Canada Is Building a Global Empire
Date: 06 April 1992
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
Over the last six years, Conrad M. Black, the chairman and controlling shareholder of Hollinger Inc., has used his talent for sharp deal-making to assemble a newspaper empire spanning four continents. His Canadian-based company's holdings include The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain's largest and most profitable papers, The Jerusalem Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Financial Post in Toronto and more than 200 very small -- but highly profitable -- dailies and weeklies in the United States, the largest being The Port Arthur News in Texas, with a circulation of 22,000.
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Pilgrims at the Luau
Date: 05 April 1992
By Bette Pesetsky
Bette Pesetsky
PARADISE NEWS By David Lodge. 294 pp. New York: Viking. $21.
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Now It Can Be Told, By Mets
Date: 05 April 1992
By Joe Sexton
Joe Sexton
The Mets players, saying they had reclaimed their clubhouse as their own, yesterday lifted their self-imposed ban on communicating with the news media. In minutes, with quotes and charges flying, there were bold claims of the boycott's value, insights into the political intrigue behind the decisions to impose and then end the silence, threats of repeating the boycott and a request that the commissioner's office formally investigate tactics employed by certain members of the news media in covering the Mets this spring.
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Phone Operator Throws Snag Into Brown Campaign Premise
Date: 05 April 1992
By Neil A. Lewis
Neil Lewis
Despite the pledge by Edmund G. Brown Jr. to limit his campaign contributions to $100, at least one of his telephone solicitors advised callers how to circumvent that limit, according to a news report. The charge was first broadcast late Thursday on Cable News Network, which reported that one of its reporters, posing as a potential donor, telephoned Mr. Brown's toll-free donation line and asked if there was a way to give more than $100. The reporter was told by the operator that, while she was not supposed to tell callers how to do it, the limit could be evaded by making additional donations of $100 in the name of friends or family members.
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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Media; Brown and Clinton's New Tactic: Attacking Each Other's Attacks
Date: 05 April 1992
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert
The day after Gov. Bill Clinton broadcast a set of commercials attacking Edmund G. Brown Jr. and then partly retreated from them, Mr. Brown responded by calling his rival "the prince of sleaze" while at the same time trying to distance himself from attack advertisements that his own campaign had produced. In several pointed exchanges yesterday, both Mr. Brown and Mr. Clinton denounced the other for broadcasting unfair commercials, all the while making sure that millions of New Yorkers would hear their new and increasingly biting criticisms of each other on the evening news.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 05 April 1992
International 3-17 ASSENT ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 06 April 1992
International A3-13 YELTSIN PLEDGES 'CORRECTIONS' On the eve of an important session of the Russian Parliament, President Yeltsin demanded strong executive authority and promised measures to soften the immediate effects of his economic reforms. A1 BIG VOTE FOR GERMAN RIGHTISTS Far-right parties scored surprising gains in local elections in two German states. Politicians from established parties said the results were shocking and dangerous. A1 IRAN BOMBS A REBEL BASE IN IRAQ Iranian jets bombed an Iranian rebel base in Iraq in the most serious attack by Iran since a truce ended their eight-year war in 1988. A3 FOES PILLAGE IRAN'S MISSIONS Opponents of Teheran's Islamic Government invaded Iranian missions in New York, Ottawa and eight Western European countries, seizing hostages and wrecking offices in retaliation for predawn Iranian air strikes on a rebel base in Iraq. A3 WEB OF GRAFT IN SOUTHERN CHINA A slaying case in Shenzhen offers a window onto the web of corruption in southern China, the most prosperous part of the country. A8 MORE FIGHTING IN YUGOSLAVIA Ethnic clashes intensified across breakaway Bosnia and Herzegovina, a day before the European Community is expected to recognize the republic's independence. A12 BRITAIN'S TORIES UNDER SIEGE Mired in the second severe recession in nearly 13 years of rule by the Conservatives, British voters seem to be in a mood to teach them a lesson on Thursday. A13 ISRAELI RESCINDS RESIGNATION Foreign Minister David Levy withdrew his resignation in exchange for promises of a larger slice of power if the Likud party leads the next Israeli Government. A9 THAIS ASK GENERAL TO LEAD The military commander who led a coup in Thailand last year was offered the post of Prime Minister. The civilian nominee was linked to drug trafficking by Washington. A8 NEW CONQUEROR IN THE ALPS From southern France to Slovenia, a debate is raging over how much further man can go in extracting pleasure and profit from the Alpine habitat before nature strikes back. A12 U.S. senators seek stronger pressure on the Burmese junta. A9 Okata Journal: The issue of protecting whales resurfaces in Japan. A4 National A14-17, A20, B8-9 LARGEST MARCH YET ON ABORTION Half a million people marched in Washington in support of abortion rights, hoping to sway lawmakers as the Supreme Court considers a Pennsylvania case that could sharply limit abortions. A1 Taking outrage and Zabar's bags to the march. B8 A 1989 decision revitalized the abortion rights movement. B8 CLINTON FACES NEW QUESTIONS Even as he assured New Yorkers he could defeat the President in November, Governor Clinton fended off fresh questions about his forthrightness regarding a draft induction letter during the Vietnam War. A1 BROWN PRESSES HIS CAMPAIGN Mr. Brown pressed his "take back America" message and confronted questions about his appointment of campaign supporters to judgeships in California 10 years ago. A1 WHAT DID DONATIONS REAP? As head of a California pharmaceutical empire, Milan Panic gave liberally to Democratic politicians. But his conflicts with regulatory agencies raised questions about the actions of one of those politicians: former Governor Brown. A17 Riding the rough, conflicted and unpredictable politics of 1992. A16 Listening to the passions, sighs and yearnings of New York. A15 The Wisconsin campaign has been civil but inconclusive. A17 Two telling numbers: Clinton, 186; Brown, 19. A16 DEADLINE FOR STRIKERS The nation's most bitter labor dispute -- between Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment, and the United Automobile Workers, one of the country's strongest unions -- is reaching a crossroads. D1 FINGERPRINTING THE NEEDY Los Angeles County has installed a fingerprint-identification system for ferreting out welfare cheats. The fingerprinting has saved the county $5 million, but raised a host of questions about individual rights and government intrusion. A14 REGULATING DOCTOR REFERRALS Florida's Governor is expected to sign a bill prohibiting doctors from referring patients to clinics in which the doctors have a financial interest. Doctors say the bill will cause upheaval in the industry. A20 A DIFFERENT KIND OF CROP: WATER In a trend that could hasten the rapid urbanization of California, farmers are loosening their historic grip on water in the West, transferring some of their supplies to cities and industries -- for a price. B9 WHEN BATONS CONDUCT VIOLENCE Reporter's notebook: The star of the Rodney King beating trial has been a two-foot-long black metal tube, which police officers used to strike Mr. King more than 50 times. A14 Metropolitan Digest, B1 Business Digest, D1 Sports C1-10 Baseball: David Cone's intensely scrutinized universe. C1 Baseball in New York is something different. C2 Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens today in Baltimore. C3 Mets open season against St. Louis tonight. C4 Basketball: New Duke hurdle. C1 Michigan's Fab Five in the spotlight. C1 Stanford wins N.C.A.A. women's title. C6 Columns: Anderson on Torborg and Showalter. C3 Vecsey on the Final Four C7 Arts/Entertainment C11-18 Brown, Clinton and the arts. C11 Theater: " 'Tis Pity She's a Whore," at the Public. C11 Music: "Billy Budd." C11 Word and Image: "Madness by Jonathan Miller." C18 Obituaries B10-11 WAL-MART FOUNDER DIES Sam Walton, the most successful merchant of his time, died at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital in Little Rock. He was 74 years old and had been ill with cancer for some time. A1 Rixi Marcus, first female grandmaster of bridge. B11 Gerald L. Klerman, expert on depression and schizophrenia. B10 Editorials/Op-Ed A18-19 Editorials A18 Killer asteroids. Democracy and hypocrisy. The voters aren't voting. Letters A18 Leslie H. Gelb: Clinton's promise. A19 William Safire: Protesting too much. A19 Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria: The Cuban baseball crisis. A19 Theodore J. Lowi: Mr. Perot, form a party. A19
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Bad News and Plenty of It
Date: 05 April 1992
By James D. Atwater
James
AMERICA: WHAT WENT WRONG?
By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele.
235 pp. Kansas City, Mo.:
Andrews & McMeel. Paper. $6.95.
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