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12th of April 1988 News
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News Summary
Date: 13 April 1988
LEAD: International A3-15 Hijackers released 12 hostages from a Kuwaiti jet and flew to Algeria with 38 hostages. They said they would keep the plane until Kuwait releases 17 Moslem fundamentalists being held for terrorist acts. Page A1 An accused hijacker of a TWA plane, Mohammed Hamadei, was under 21 during the planning of the 1985 hijacking, a West German court ruled.
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Nicaragua Opposition Paper Gets Newsprint and Reopens
Date: 13 April 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The opposition newspaper La Prensa, which was shut down for five days after running out of newsprint, resumed publication this afternoon.
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Pulitzer Board Affirms Prize to Inquirer
Date: 12 April 1988
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: The executive committee of the Pulitzer Prize Board unanimously reaffirmed yesterday the Pulitzer awarded 10 days ago to The Philadelphia Inquirer after considering a challenge to the award by The National Journal.
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Libel Awards: Million-Dollar Barrier Is Breached
Date: 13 April 1988
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: Until April 4 the highest libel judgment ultimately confirmed by the courts was well below $1 million. But with the Supreme Court's affirmation of a libel award in which CBS must pay $3 million to the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, what lawyers referred to as the ''million-dollar barrier'' has been breached.
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Fitzwater Says Fake Quotation Angers Reagan
Date: 13 April 1988
By Julie Johnson, Special To the New York Times
Julie Johnson
LEAD: President Reagan's former spokesman has acknowledged that he manufactured quotation by the President on two occasions, and Mr. Reagan's current spokesman today angrily characterized the actions as a ''damn outrage.''
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Democrats Get Lift From Issue of Drugs
Date: 13 April 1988
By E. J. Dionne Jr
E. Dionne
LEAD: The drug issue is now giving the Democrats a major lift in the 1988 Presidential campaign, despite the Reagan Administration's heavy new spending on drug enforcement and the public emphasis it has placed on the international drug trade.
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NEW SUMMARY
Date: 12 April 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-16 Final terms for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan were reached by the United States and the Soviet Union. Washington said the accord, which lets both sides arm combatants, would be signed on Thursday in Geneva. Page A1 Military analysis: The Soviet Army enjoyed an impressive reputation before the war in Afghanistan.
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Corrections
Date: 12 April 1988
LEAD: A headline in some editions yesterday above a news analysis article about a Pulitzer Prize controversy misstated the subject of the dispute, between The Philadelphia Inquirer and The National Journal, a weekly magazine. The publications have differed about the originality of The Inquirer's winning reporting, not about a source.
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NBC News Still Has Money Worries
Date: 12 April 1988
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: Last week, NBC News, which is the least cost-effective of the three major broadcast news operations, received a jolting reminder of corporate expectations in this age of cost efficiency. At an NBC management seminar in Scottsdale, Ariz., it was suggested that one way to assure economic success for the company was to eliminate NBC
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Marietta Settles
Date: 13 April 1988
Reuters
LEAD: The Justice Department said it had recovered $272,000 from the Martin Marietta Corporation in connection with Government claims that the company submitted false vouchers for work on the space shuttle. John Bolton, the assistant Attorney General in charge of the civil division, said the out-of-court settlement, reached on Monday, fully satisfied the Government's claims.
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