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Date: 23 October 1991

By Nadine Brozan

Nadine Brozan

WALTER CRONKITE and Burton Benjamin were close friends and colleagues for years, so it is only fitting that Mr. Cronkite receive the first Burton Benjamin Memorial Award, named for the executive producer of "The CBS Evening News." It is to be presented at a dinner of the Committee to Protect Journalists this evening at the Hotel Pierre. "Bud was one of the real leaders of the profession, a superb journalist and a man of enormous integrity," Mr. Cronkite said yesterday. "He had just accepted the executive directorship of this committee and had just attended his first meeting when he was stricken. It is meaningful but undeserved that I receive an award that carries his name." Mr. Benjamin died of a brain tumor in 1988. TOM BROKAW, PETER JENNINGS, DAN RATHER and BERNARD SHAW will present awards to seven journalists who have been imprisoned or threatened by governments seeking to silence them. Among them will be WANG JUNTAO and CHEN ZIMING, the editor and publisher, respectively, of Economics Weekly in China. They are serving 13-year prison sentences for their roles in the 1989 student movement in China. Both are said to be in solitary confinement and on hunger strikes to protest their treatment. "I don't think the public has the slightest concept of the dangers that journalists face," Mr. Cronkite said. "And I don't know why they should. We are the poorest of all professions at tooting our own horn and don't make much of the fact that journalists, especially in foreign situations, are in a life-threatening profession."

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Foreign Affairs; Throw the Bums Out

Date: 23 October 1991

By Leslie H. Gelb

Leslie Gelb

Hey, senators and representatives, you want to know what Americans think of you? Not very much, if you read the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. What that poll suggests is that the people, their incalculable lack of information and passivity notwithstanding, are going to throw a lot of you -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- back into the free-market economy where you will find slightly unfamiliar standards for kiting checks, paying restaurant bills and sexual harassment. You, too, President Bush, may find the survey unsettling. It could be that the voters might like to anoint you as Secretary of State and choose someone else to be President.

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Britain Urged to Investigate Spy Allegations

Date: 23 October 1991

By Steven Prokesch

Steven Prokesch

Two Members of Parliament called today for investigations into accusations made in a new book that the foreign editor of one of Britain's leading tabloid newspapers has been a spy for Israel. In his new book, "The Samson Option," the reporter Seymour M. Hersh asserts that Nicholas Davies, the 52-year-old foreign editor of the Daily Mirror, worked as an Israeli agent.

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Court in Trenton Reviews Access To Phone Bills

Date: 23 October 1991

By Joseph F. Sullivan

Joseph Sullivan

Since the public pays for the telephone bills run up by their elected and appointed officials, are they entitled to learn specific details about their calls?? The New Jersey Supreme Court took up that question today with attorneys for the Passaic County Board of Freeholders and a newspaper chain that wants to examine the telephone records of the seven members of the board.

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COMPANY NEWS;

Date: 24 October 1991

By Thomas C. Hayes

Thomas Hayes

The Compaq Computer Corporation, besieged by price-cutting rivals and under pressure from lagging sales, said yesterday that it would slash its work force by 1,400, or 12 percent, and reported its first quarterly loss ever, $70.3 million for the third quarter. Separately, the Control Data Corporation said it lost $7.5 million in the quarter, Following are the details of the companies' results: Compaq Compaq's loss contrasted to a profit of $123.6 million, or $1.38 a share, in the corresponding period last year. Revenues in the third quarter fell 17.8 percent, to $709.4 million from $863 million.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 24 October 1991

INTERNATIONAL A3-17 A peace treaty for Cambodia, brokered by the U.S., China and the Soviet Union, was signed. A cease-fire in the civil war that began in 1978 went into immediate effect, and several other steps are to be taken by mid-1993. Page A1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 23 October 1991

International A3-13 The Ukraine will create its own army. But the Parliament there has not yet decided whether the proposed 400,000-member army will be created from parts of the Soviet Army contingents already stationed in the country's second-most-powerful republic. Page A1

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In Health Name Change

Date: 23 October 1991

The magazine In Health announced yesterday that it would change its name to Health, effective with the February-March issue. Two months ago, In Health, which is published by Time Publishing Ventures, a unit of Time Warner Inc., bought the assets of Health from Family Media Publications, which ceased doing business.

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United Picks Indianapolis

Date: 24 October 1991

United Airlines has chosen Indianapolis International Airport for a $1 billion maintenance base, which is expected to employ 7,000 people. The decision was a victory for the city and for Indiana, which competed against Denver, Oklahoma City and Louisville, Ky. Gov. Evan Bayh of Indiana and Mayor William H. Hudnut 3d of Indianapolis yesterday did not disclose the amount of incentives offered to United, but they were thought to be worth several hundred million dollars. Other states offered large incentive packages to attract United, including one of up to $341 million. Stephen M. Wolf, United's chairman and president, said the "competition was extremely close." The base, which is scheduled to open in late 1994, will be used to maintain United's fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft, which will eventually total about 400, or half United's fleet.

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A Record Profit At McDonald's

Date: 23 October 1991

Continued weak sales in the United States and in some foreign markets caused the McDonald's Corporation's revenues to drop 2 percent in the third quarter, although the company yesterday reported a record profit for the quarter. Profits increased nearly 7 percent, to a record $258.7 million, compared with $242.2 million in the quarter a year earlier. Earnings per share increased 6 percent, to 71 cents, from 67 cents a year earlier.

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