The News From Home
Date: 24 August 1987
LEAD: It's August in New York. And visitors from abroad -foreign residents, too - are hungry for hometown news, especially the sports scores. The political stuff can wait. Any morning after 9:30, when foreign papers arrive at news outlets, especially the Rizzoli bookstore on West 57th Street near Fifth Avenue, Europeans begin their day catching up with yesterday at home.
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NEWS SUMMARY: SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1987
Date: 23 August 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL 3-17 2,,q>The decision to protect oil tankers of Kuwait in the Persian Gulf did not seem momentous to policy makers and few alternatives were considered, a reconstruction of the decision based on interviews shows. Page 1 A power struggle in Vietnam has been going on for more than a decade.
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Nicaraguan Hope Rises For Independent Press
Date: 24 August 1987
By Stephen Kinzer, Special To the New York Times
Stephen Kinzer
LEAD: Mechanics are oiling idle presses at La Prensa, the opposition newspaper, reflecting hopes that press freedom will soon be restored here under terms of a new Central American peace accord.
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LINCOLN MEETS THE PRESS
Date: 23 August 1987
By William Safire
William Safire
LEAD: PICTURE THE EAST Room of the White House set up for a news conference, with the reporters of today's media - thrust back in time to the early 1860's - eager to fire newsmaking and potentially embarrassing questions at the President.
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The Rewritten Rules of Sports Journalism
Date: 23 August 1987
By Staci D. Kramer
Staci
LEAD: THE story goes like this: Two sportswriters are sitting in a dining car when a naked Babe Ruth streaks past followed by a woman wielding a butcher knife. One sportswriter turns to the other and says: ''I didn't see anything. Did you?''
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CORRECTION
Date: 23 August 1987
LEAD: Because of an editing error, a report in the Press Notes column last Sunday misidentified the producer of the game show ''Wheel of Fortune.''
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Hunting a Symbol InMilwaukee
Date: 23 August 1987
LEAD: PARIS has its Eiffel Tower, London its Big Ben, St. Louis its Gateway Arch. Milwaukee?
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When a Sapphire is Not a Gem
Date: 23 August 1987
LEAD: THE world loves a Cinderella story, and Roy Whetstine, a gem dealer in Longview, Tex., had no trouble getting wide publicity for his.
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Curbing Tobacco For Teen-Agers
Date: 23 August 1987
LEAD: WHEN West Hartford, Conn., banned the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco to people under 18 years of age, many youths scoffed.
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