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Date: 19 November 1989
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
LEAD: The bad news is that in some ways television news is getting worse. The reasons why are laid out on ''Illusions of News,'' this week's offering in the new Bill Moyers series, ''The Public Mind.'' Network correspondents, political operatives and critical observers describe how the imperatives of commercial television are overwhelming and undermining efforts at honest journalism.
Date: 18 November 1989
Reuters
LEAD: A British journalist, David Blundy, was killed today by a sniper's bullet while covering the military offensive here, colleagues said.
Date: 19 November 1989
By Steven Erlanger, Special To the New York Times
Steven Erlanger
LEAD: Although Thailand's ban on the import and sale of The Asian Wall Street Journal is likely to be temporary, it is certain to diminish the country's reputation for tolerance. The damage has increased as the Government considers a similar ban on the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review.
Date: 19 November 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/-28 East Germany was ready to shoot protesters in Leipzig when Egon Krenz, then security chief, canceled Erich Honecker's order, party officials say. Page 1
Date: 18 November 1989
LEAD: International 3-7 The killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador were the work of right-wing forces, said a senior American official. He said he felt instinctively about who committed the slayings. Page 1 Protection for any witnesses of the killings of the priests was offered by the United States Ambassador in El Salvador.
Date: 19 November 1989
LEAD: Two days after he was arrested on charges of drunken driving and resisting arrest, Roy Tarpley, the Dallas Mavericks' forward who was promptly suspended by the team for violating the terms of a drug rehabilitation program, got a glimmer of good news.
Date: 18 November 1989
LEAD: Marine Transport Lines, one of the nation's oldest owners and operators of ships transporting bulk commodities, was acquired yesterday for $128.8 million by two investors, including the Belzberg family of Canada. The shipping company, which is the nation's third-largest owner of such ships, was acquired by the Intrepid Acquisition Corporation, in which Richard T.
Date: 18 November 1989
AP
LEAD: The Martin Marietta Corporation has been awarded a $156.6 million contract by NASA to launch the first United States spacecraft to Mars since 1976. The contract, awarded Thursday to the company's Denver Astronautics Group, is seen as an important victory in the competitive commercial space market.
Date: 18 November 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: An investment group that holds a 5.6 percent stake in the Durham Corporation said it would meet with senior officials of the Raleigh, N.C., holding company that has interests in insurance and broadcasting. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the group, led by Financial Securities Fund, a Nashville investment partnership and Bailey Financial Group, a Rocky Mount, N.C., investment concern, said the purpose of the meeting ''will be to discuss strategies for maximizing shareholder value, including, among other things, a possible business combination.
Date: 18 November 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation said it had filed a motion with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require the Georgia-Pacific Corporation to obtain the commission's approval for the transfer of Nekoosa's hydroelectric projects and licenses in Maine and Wisconsin. In a related action, Nekoosa said it had filed a motion and complaint with the commission to intervene in Georgia-Pacific''s pending hydroelectric license proceedings for its Gilman, Vt., mill.