Reluare duminică, 10 noiembrie 1991

Young Maxwell Expects To Make Profit on News

Date: 10 November 1991

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

The new publisher of The Daily News has no plans to shut it down if it does not produce a profit by March, when labor contracts expire, he said last week. But he has told officials at the paper that one of his father's principal motivations in acquiring it was to make money, and that he expects the paper's unions to contribute toward that goal in negotiations next spring. Once he is confident that a profit will be reached, he said, he is prepared to make a significant investment in The News.

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Press

Date: 11 November 1991

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

AS the late Robert Maxwell's son Kevin begins the daunting task of filling his father's huge shoes at The Daily News, there is wide disagreement about just how daunting a task he faces. Mr. Maxwell said in an interview Friday that The Daily News would be operating profitably by March. But the newspaper has not released any statistics on its operation.

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A Tragedy at Sea Brings A Dramatic Shift at the Top

Date: 10 November 1991

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

Robert Maxwell, who owned The Daily News for six months, may have been the lambasted and lampooned "Captain Bob" in Britain, but in New York City he was beloved, even a hero. True, he could be a bully, but in New York that came across as street savvy.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 10 November 1991

International 3-19 NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM Growing evidence about a mysterious nuclear complex is heightening concerns that North Korea may be closer to producing a crude nuclear weapon than anyone thought just a year ago. Page 1 Agreements against the spread of nuclear weapons show flaws. 10 BUSH ORDERS YUGOSLAV SANCTIONS Hoping to pressure Yugoslav republics to stop their civil war, President Bush said the United States would order economic sanctions against Belgrade and call on the United Nations to impose an oil embargo. 1 Some economists and diplomats doubt sanctions will work. 16 HEAD OF K.G.B. PLANS CUTBACKS The new chairman of the Soviet intelligence and security agency said the number of agents abroad should be cut at least by half. 3 VIOLENCE AT A SOUTH AFRICAN MINE New violence linked to a two-day national strike earlier in the week erupted at a gold mine in South Africa, leaving 22 mine workers dead and 51 others injured. 7 HONG KONG TO CONTINUE EXPULSIONS Hong Kong officials said they would continue repatriation flights like the one on which 59 boat people were forcibly returned to Vietnam. 11 FUNDING RESETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES The United Nations official charged with caring for the world's 17 million refugees hopes to persuade wealthy Persian Gulf states to help pay the costs of resettlement. 14 Food is plentiful in Iraq for those who can pay for it. 14 PRIVATIZATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA In a program to privatize the pillars of Czechoslovakia's economy, citizens are buying $30 books of coupons convertible into shares. 17 Nicaragua is seeking to mollify former contras who have rearmed. 9 A book by a Chinese emigre in New York is the talk of Beijing. 13 National 22-38 DUKE, THEN AND NOW David Duke, a white supremacist and anti-Semite for most of his adult life, stands a good chance of being elected governor of Louisiana next Saturday. 1 The elections of Tuesday exposed weaknesses for Bush. 26 A PROMISE AT RISK California, the state with the largest system of higher education, may no longer be able to afford a longtime implied promise: a high-quality and low-cost public college education for every resident who wants one. 1 Tuskegee University opened a huge fund drive. 36 FOR SALE: HUMAN EGGS Some medical centers have begun offering infertile couples a new but very expensive option: lists of healthy young women who, for a fee, will provide eggs that can be fertilized and then implanted in an infertile woman's womb. 1 A SMALL BUT FORMIDABLE FOE Many California farmers are besieged by the poinsettia variety of sweet potato whitefly, whose damaging appetite may soon be reflected in higher produce prices. 22 NO TO BARE-BONES POLICIES A major push by health insurers to provide affordable coverage for millions of uninsured workers is running into unexpected trouble: Employers are not buying. 22 TOUGH TIMES AT THE CAPITOL New analysis: It has been a tough few weeks for Congressional committees, and little wonder. Committees and their bills are treated with less deference on the floor than in the past. Junior lawmakers now act as if their votes and opinions count for as much as those of chairmen. 23 In private, Democrats expressed fears on bad-check inquiry. 24 Marijuana plot tied to Noriega. 29 Regional 39-53 ROHATYN REJECTS PLAN The chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, Felix Rohatyn bluntly urges Mayor Dinkins to abandon the long-term fiscal plan the Mayor unveiled last week. It would count on using $1 billion in M.A.C. funds to avoid property-tax increases. 1 CONFUSION OVER DINKINS TRIP There is more confusion than curiosity over the Mayor David N. Dinkins's visit to Johannesburg next week, concerning which few details have been released. 42 S.I. BANK FAILS The Community National Bank and Trust Company, one of Staten Island largest banks, has been declared insolvent. Most of its deposits were sold to Chemical Bank. At its main branch, customers expressed surprise and resignation. 47 Obituaries Yves Montand, actor 52 Eleanor Pollock Hughes, editor of magazines 53 Arts/Reviews 73 Uta Hagen self-revises. Campus Life 59-60 Life Style 61 Fashion 64-65 Pastimes 74-75 Weddings 69-72

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Date: 11 November 1991

INTERNATIONAL A3-7 KHMER ROUGE ARMED FOR PEACE Just weeks after a Cambodian peace agreement was signed, the Khmer Rouge is hiding troops and weapons in violation of the treaty, diplomats and relief workers say. Page A1 SHINING PATH'S WIDENING SHADOW Marxism is the message, bloodshed is the method, and the poor are listening as the Shining Path guerrillas gather support in Peru. A1 The U.S. strategy in fighting the drug war there is being thwarted by corruption. A6

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IN SHORT: NONFICTION

Date: 10 November 1991

By Alison Friesinger Hill

Alison Hill

THE MEDIA SHOW The Changing Face of the News, 1985-1990. By Edwin Diamond. MIT, $19.95.

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Publishers Go Undercover, So It's Harder to Judge a Book

Date: 10 November 1991

By Esther B. Fein

Esther

PSSST. There's this new book you've got to read. Can't say anything now. Just wait until it comes out. Buy it, you'll see. Increasingly, the way to sell a book these days is to keep it secret until the very last moment. The strategy is for the publisher to entice the reader by revealing tidbits in carefully chosen forums like some literary dance of the seven veils.

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A Wedding in May for Dina Siegel

Date: 10 November 1991

William and Priscilla Siegel of Wayne, N.J. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Dina Elaine Siegel, to Dr. Ziv J. Haskal , a son of Dr. Haim and Ruth Haskal of Brookline, Mass. A May wedding is planned. Ms. Siegel, 29 years old, graduated from Vassar College. She is a freelance television news producer and writer in San Francisco. Until recently, she was a producer and writer for CBS News in New York. Her father owns H & P Equipment Company, a process-machinery dealer in Montville, N.J. Her mother is an artist based in New York. Dr. Haskal, 30, graduated from Boston University, where he also received a medical degree. He is an interventional radiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. His mother is an adult nurse practioner at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Mass. His father, an electro-optical engineer, is a private consultant and research scientist in Brookline.

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No Sale

Date: 10 November 1991

Soviet officials angrily denied last week that they were remaindering the most sacred memento of Communism, the embalmed body of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin that reposes in the gigantic mausoleum on Red Square. They branded as "an impudent lie" a report in Forbes FYI, echoed by the Associated Press, ABC News, the PBS Nightly Business Report and USA Today, that Lenin's body would be auctioned off, with a minimum bid of $15 million. But even as the Soviet officials fumed, Christopher T. Buckley, editor of the Forbes magazine quarterly supplement, which focuses on tweedy lifestyles and incorporates a dollop of whimsey, happily confessed that the story was a fraud. "So many extraordinary things have happened in the Soviet Union that we thought it would be fun to test the limits of credulity," he said. Some of the news executives who flunked the test were not amused. "I thing the whole thing was in terrible bad taste," said Barry Nemcoff, a producer for PBS. And Peter Jennings, the network anchor who mentioned the story on ABC, said, "I'd be encouraged in the future if Forbes FYI knows the difference between April Fool's Day and Nov. 3."

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Anne L. Keith Wed in Virginia

Date: 10 November 1991

Anne Langhorne Keith, a daughter of Mrs. Robert N. Slawson of Annapolis, Md., and Martin L. Keith of Alexandria, Va., was married yesterday to William Tomphson Cocke 4th, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Cocke 3d of Sewanee, Tenn. The Rev. Geoffrey Michael St. John Hoare officiated at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria. Mrs. Cocke, 27 years old, is the deputy executive director of TCIA, a trucking trade association in Washington. She graduated from the University of Virginia. Her father is a partner in the law firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington. The bridegroom, 31, graduated from Washington and Lee University and received a master's degree in foreign affairs from Virginia. He is a communication editor in the news office at Washington and Lee. His father is an English professor at the University of the South.

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