Reluare luni, 23 decembrie 1991

MAXWELL RESIGNS AS NEWS PUBLISHER

Date: 24 December 1991

By Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

Kevin Maxwell resigned yesterday as publisher and chairman of The Daily News, apparently bowing to the pressures created by the evidence of his role in the collapse of his family's media empire. His resignation, effective Jan. 1, signals the end of the Maxwell family's nine-month involvement in The Daily News. This began with great fanfare last March when the late Robert Maxwell was hailed as a savior after a five-month strike, but ended amid the scandal left by the failure of the Maxwell businesses under $4.4 billion in debt.

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Ads on Holocaust 'Hoax' Inspire Campus Debates

Date: 23 December 1991

By Katherine Bishop

Katherine Bishop

From his cluttered, jerry-built desk in a dining room stuffed nearly to the ceiling with obscure political tracts and self-published musings, Bradley R. Smith is waging a crusade for the minds of America's university students. Operating out of a modest rented house he shares with his wife, mother and two daughters in this farming community 220 miles southeast of San Francisco, Mr. Smith has placed a full-page advertisement in a handful of college newspapers asserting that the Nazis had no policy of exterminating Jews in World War II.

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Repsol of Spain

Date: 24 December 1991

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The European Commission today approved the restructuring of the assets of the Spanish oil company Campsa Grupo, a commission statement said. Under the plan, Campsa's 1,600 service stations, which are majority owned by the Spanish oil company Repsol, would be owned outright by refiners. At present, the five major Spanish oil refining companies have stakes in the service stations. The commission said the operation would result in increased competition on the Spanish petroleum retailing market and would not infringe European Community competition rules.

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Bankruptcy Plan for Morse

Date: 24 December 1991

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Morse Shoe Inc., which operates nearly a thousand footwear outlets including the Fayva chain, said its bankruptcy plan had been approved in Unites States Bankruptcy Court in Boston. The company expects the plan to become effective by mid-January.

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France Lifts Key Rate

Date: 24 December 1991

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Bank of France said it raised its key intervention rate to 9.6 percent from 9.25 percent today. In a statement announcing the rate increase, the French Finance Minister, Pierre Beregovoy, said the Government was determined to maintain the stability of the franc "at the heart of the European monetary system."

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Fort Wayne Chairman

Date: 23 December 1991

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Fort Wayne National Corporation said Friday that Jackson R. Lehman would replace Paul E. Shaffer as chairman and chief executive, effective Jan. 1. Mr. Shaffer will serve as vice chairman and a director of both the bank holding company, based in Fort Wayne, and the bank. M. James Johnson was named president and chief administrative officer, succeeding Mr. Lehman.

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East Timor Update

Date: 24 December 1991

To the Editor: To update Anthony Lewis's Dec. 6 column on military suppression in East Timor by Indonesia: The reporters who broke the massacre story, Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn, have been formally censured and banned by the Indonesian Foreign Office.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 23 December 1991

INTERNATIONAL A3-11 VIOLENT STANDOFF IN YUGOSLAVIA The six-month civil war in Yugoslavia has killed thousands, wrecked the economy, created half a million refugees and deepened old hatreds. With no decisive military result so far, it is likely to drag on. Page A1 YELTSIN IS REASSURINGLY PROSAIC News Analysis: Unlike President Gorbachev, President Yeltsin is a strategist rooted in the provincial earth. The meeting pronouncing the Soviet Union dead was merciful for its dearth of grand promises. A1 American universities have job offers for President Gorbachev. A11 FIGHTING IN REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA At least seven people were reported killed in fighting between opposition and government troops in the republic of Georgia. A10 The United States delivered 75 tons of food to the Moscow region. A11 NORTH KOREANS ARE UNFAZED North Korea is the land that the 1990's forgot. Seemingly immune to the historic forces toppling or weakening other Communist systems, officials there speak of "mistakes" they can avoid. A1 CURFEW IN CAMBODIAN CAPITAL Cambodia's Government imposed a nighttime curfew in the capital to prevent a repetition of violent street protests. A5 POLITICAL SHIFT IN SOUTH AFRICA News Analysis: South Africa has undergone a political shift from a preoccupation with apartheid to a more complex concern over how blacks and whites can survive in a shared system. A7 BODY MAY BE U.S. HOSTAGE'S Lebanese officials said a body left beside a Beirut street might be that of Lieut. Col. William R. Higgins, a slain American hostage. A3 WAITE DENIES KNOWING OF DEALS Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's former special envoy who was recently freed from captivity in Lebanon, said he had known nothing about Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North's arms deals with Iran. A3 Israel has agreed to resume talks in Washington, an official said. A6 Quiche Journal: Protestantism is growing in Guatemala. A4 NATIONAL A12-15 RETHINKING THE OSWALD THEORY With its grand, encompassing conspiracy theory of a President's assassination, the movie "J.F.K." clearly hit a mark with an audience too young to remember where it was on Nov. 22, 1963. A1 DID G.M. GO FAR ENOUGH? In announcing widespread layoffs and 21 plant closings last week, General Motors dramatically reduced its costs. But many experts wondered whether a smaller headcount alone would end the company's huge losses. A1 POLICY SHIFT AT THE S.E.C. Richard C. Breeden, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, changed courses on several fronts recently, and some fellow commissioners said his motives were political. D1 SEEKING THE REAL JESUS Exactly who was Jesus? In two new books, scholars re-examine the "historical Jesus" and come to radically different conclusions. A1 Two biblical scholars profiled. A13 A BLENDING OF INTERESTS Donations from corporations increasingly play a major role in the budgets of environmental groups, to the consternation of many environmentalists as well as their usual opponents. A12 CRUSADE ON THE HOLOCAUST Talking of his efforts to place newspaper ads asserting that Nazis had no policy of exterminating Jews, Bradley Smith called it a crusade for American students' minds. Many others called it a renewal of anti-Semitism in a particularly dangerous form. A12 POLICY FOR MINORITIES FOUNDERS After being nurtured for a decade by state and local governments, thousands of minority-owned companies have closed or are foundering in the wake of the recession and of court rulings that setting aside a portion of contracts for minority businesses is unconstitutional. A1 THE HAND ON U.S. STRATEGY Paul Wolfowitz, a pragmatic conservative who is chief foreign policy adviser to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, has become the architect of the Pentagon's -- and President Bush's -- Soviet strategy. Washington at Work. A14 Up to 13 Texans died in flooding and rain-related accidents. A12 Sixty-three names on New Hampshire Presidential ballot. A15 METROPOLITAN Digest, B1 BUSINESS DIGEST D1 Arts/Entertainment C11-16 Psychoanalyzing the movies. C11 Israeli Wagner concert on hold. C11 For Ailey troupe, translating ideas into dance. C11 Theater: "Raft of the Medusa." C15 "The Don Juan and the Non Don Juan." C16 "Cinderella." C16 Music: Israel (Cachao) Lopez. C13 Dance: Dance in Review C12 Word and Image: "Memoirs of a Caddy." C14 "La Pastorela," with Ronstadt. C11 Editorials/Op-Ed A16-17 Editorials A16 A tax cap, to cap costs. Get the crooked bankers. Wow! Zap! Ugh!. Canada's Eskimos. Letters Anthony Lewis: "Stop the world." A17 Stephen Sestanovich: The revolution -- a case for optimism. A17 Richard P. Nathan: Welfare thinking turns tough. A17 Obituaries B12 Dorothy V. Bush, Democrat who called roll at conventions Saul B. Newton, unorthodox psychotherapist Ben Davidson, founder of Liberal Party in New York Sports C1-8 Auto Racing: Indy-car merger still possible. C7 Basketball: Knicks are happy these days. C2 Saturday night surprises in college basketball. C2 Silence is the issue for Auburn. C2 Column: Anderson on Allegre. C4 Outdoors: Goose hunting. C7 Features: Sidelines C2 Football: Jets make playoffs in overtime. C1 If Hostetler is answer, Simms is question mark. C2 An old back, a new season. C5 Bills' streak ends in overtime. C6 Golf: Fast start and big payoff for Couples. C3 Hockey: Smith keeps close watch on Rangers C2

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 24 December 1991

International A3-9 BUSH TO RECOGNIZE RUSSIA SOON President Yeltsin asked President Bush to recognize the Russian republic, and Administration officials said recognition would happen by Thursday, after the expected resignation of President Gorbachev. Page A1 GORBACHEV AND YELTSIN MEET President Gorbachev held a transition meeting with President Yeltsin and said afterward that as the Soviet Union was being closed out, nuclear arms were under strict control. A8 Russia will take over the Soviet seat on the U.N. Security Council. A8 Fighting continued in the capital of the republic of Georgia. A8 IMMIGRANTS' CHALLENGE TO ISRAEL With thousands arriving each month from the moribund Soviet Union, Israel has begun to wrestle with the social, religious and political implications of the immigrants' distance from Jewish traditions.A1 Israel's Supreme Court heard an appeal from John Demjanjuk. A6 BOMB ATTACK ON JEWISH EMIGRES A powerful bomb exploded in the path of a bus carrying Soviet Jewish emigrants to the Budapest airport for their flight to Israel. Six people were injured. A9 GERMANY RECOGNIZES CROATIA Germany flexed its new diplomatic muscle by recognizing the independence of two breakaway Yugoslav republics, Slovenia and Croatia. A3 SLAIN HOSTAGE'S BODY IDENTIFIED The body of a slain American hostage, Lieut. Col. William R. Higgins, was handed over to the United States Embassy in Beirut after identification by pathologists. A6 ALGERIAN OPPOSITION RALLIES Algeria's opposition Islamic Salvation Front made a strong show of force on the final day of campaigning in the country's first free multiparty parliamentary elections. A3 CHINA IS GOOD AT DAY CARE Shanghai Journal: In China, a married couple sometimes need only walk a few blocks to find good day care, run by the Government. A4 Polish crisis ends as assembly accepts cabinet. A6 National A10-15 CONFLICT OVER COUNCIL At the same time that environmental and consumer groups say the White House Council on Competitiveness is too anti-regulatory, some conservatives say the council has done too little to stem the flood of Federal regulations on business. A1 DIVISION AMONG BUSH TEAM In what is an early test for the management skills of the new White House chief of staff, President Bush's budget advisers and campaign aides are split over how Mr. Bush should handle the economic issue in the coming weeks. A1 A MAN ON THE MOVE Samuel Skinner, the President's new chief of staff, has long been known as a man who aggressively puts himself forward, choosing to make his own breaks rather than simply hoping to get noticed. A13 President Bush spiced his Christmas message with politics. A12 AMERICANS REIN IN SPENDING The big holiday trend this year is frugality, as some Americans, staggered by recession, forgo gift-giving altogether. A1 NEW ASSAULT ON DRINKING Successful lawsuits by two women may represent the leading edge of a trend toward holding companies legally liable when drinking and doing business are mixed. A10 BLACK BOYCOTT SPREADS Black-led boycotts have forced the closing of two Korean-owned shops in the Los Angeles area, and a third boycott is under way. A10 A SCANDALOUS CHAPTER CLOSES Years after the Stringfellow Acid Pits produced a Reagan Administration scandal about the dumping of hazardous chemicals, a judge approved dump-related settlements of more than $34 million. A11 A WET, NOT WHITE, CHRISTMAS Each spring for the past two years, the Trinity River flooded the Rochester Park neighborhood of Dallas; this year the flood came in late December and took much of Christmas with it. A11 Metropolitan Digest, B1 MAXWELL RESIGNS AT NEWS Kevin Maxwell resigned yesterday as publisher and chairman of The Daily News, apparently bowing to pressure created by the evidence of his role in the collapse of his family's media empire. James Willse, the paper's editor, was named as publisher. A1. JAIL SYSTEM HEAD LEAVING The head of New York City's jail system, Allyn R. Sielaff, resigned last night, hours after City Hall rebuked him for the handling of a $1.9 million contract awarded to a firm that had been represented by a close friend of Mayor David N. Dinkins. A1. QUEENS ICON STOLEN Robbers yesterday burst into a church in Queens and stole an icon that had become the center of a pilgrimage there. A1. Business Digest D1 Science Times C1-8 Darwinian approach to medicine: how microbes and the body evolved. C1 Are United States students really so far behind in math and science? C1 Hope is a major factor in success, scientists are finding. C1 The Doctor's World: Dispute over two views of ear infection drug. C3 What does el Nino mean for the short-term weather outlook? C4 Personal Computers C2 Arts/Entertainment C9-18 Warner Brothers and "J. F. K." C9 On hearing "Messiah." C9 Tintin in America. C9 P. D. Q. Bach is returning, to say goodbye again. C9 Theater: "Dearly Departed." C11 Music: Johnny Winter. C11 Word and Image: "Tchaikovsky," a biography of the man, not his music. C17 Fashion Page B7 Sports B8-B13 Basketball: Knicks defeat Timberwolves. B9 Nets set back Hawks. B12 Columns: Anderson on the Jets. B9 Football: Gratifying victory for Coslet. B11 Giants will make changes. B11 Hockey: Rangers blank Devils. B9 Penguins beat Islanders. B13 Obituaries B6 James Fletcher, NASA chief who urged shuttle program. Ernst Krenek, composer. Hsin-Nung Yao, writer. Minna Citron, artist. Editorials/Op-Ed A18-19 Editorials A18 Still stiffing the U.N. A strong vote for One China. Cost of not treating crack. Topics: Diet police, foiled. Letters A18 A. M. Rosenthal: Heroes in Moscow. A19 Simon Schama: Whose tree is it anyway? A19

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Cray Loses Only Order For Product

Date: 24 December 1991

By Lawrence M. Fisher

Lawrence

The Cray Computer Corporation suffered a potentially crippling blow today as the initial customer for its first supercomputer system abruptly canceled its order. Cray had said last week that it was behind schedule on the new machine. Cray Computer, which is the company spun off from Cray Research Inc. by the concern's founder and chief scientist, Seymour Cray, said that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had advised the company that it would cancel the contract for a Cray-3, and instead buy a supercomputer from Cray Research.

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