Reluare sâmbătă, 2 martie 1991

Account of Failure: Talks at The News

Date: 03 March 1991

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

While management of The Daily News and its striking unions share blame for the failure of their negotiations, that failure was from the beginning a likely, if not inevitable, outcome of the strategy of the paper's owner, the Tribune Company of Chicago. The fact that the Tribune Company could afford to let the talks fail, indeed could benefit overall as a company by letting The News go out of business after 71 years of publication, was its underlying strength in extended bargaining with the paper's nine unions.

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News Continues Talks With British Publisher

Date: 02 March 1991

Representatives of Robert Maxwell, the British publisher, and The Daily News continued negotiations yesterday over the possible sale of the newspaper, said James Hoge, publisher of The News. The talks are likely to continue through the weekend and into next week, Mr. Hoge said. The outcome of the sale negotiations is likely to determine the fate of The News, since efforts between the paper and its unions to reach a settlement of the four-month-old strike collapsed on Thursday night.

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Violence and the News Strike: Anger, Blame and Distrust

Date: 02 March 1991

By David Gonzalez With James C. McKinley Jr

David With

Saubhagya (Sam) Uchhana rooted through the charred magazines and the cracked and soot-covered refrigerator cases that are all that remains of his Club House Smoke Shop on Staten Island. All he wanted, he said the other day, was to make a few dollars while helping The Daily News rebuild its tattered distribution network. All this happened, he and the police said -- the firebomb flung into the night of Jan. 16, the destruction of his business -- because he ignored threats from striking union members not to sell The News.

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AFTER THE WAR: Captives; Baghdad releases CBS News Crew

Date: 03 March 1991

By Eric Pace

Eric Pace

The Iraqi Government freed the CBS News correspondent Bob Simon and his three-man crew yesterday in Baghdad after holding them captive for 40 days. "I thank God that the four of us are alive," Mr. Simon said in a broadcast by CBS from Baghdad after the four were freed at the Soviet Embassy. They later left by car for Amman, Jordan.

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U.S. Reporter Slain in Algiers

Date: 02 March 1991

Reuters

The Reuters correspondent in Algeria, Philip Shehadi, an American from Princeton, N.J., was found stabbed to death in his Algiers apartment today, officials at the United States Embassy said. Mr. Shehadi, 33 years old, had worked for Reuters in the Middle East since 1984 and had been based in Algiers since May 1989. The United States consul in Algiers said that Mr. Shehadi's apartment had been ransacked and that the Algerian police had no evidence that the killing was linked to Middle Eastern terrorism.

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The Military Vs. The Press

Date: 03 March 1991

By Malcolm W. Browne

Malcolm Browne

LIEUT. GEN. PRINCE KHALID BIN SULTAN, commander of the Joint Arab Forces, glanced around at the reporters and television cameras crowding in on him and beamed. The setting was perfect, and the general had good news. The full moon illuminated the wreckage in the street -- the spent cartridge cases, the masonry rubble, the congealed pools of aluminum from the melted hulls of still-burning Iraqi armored vehicles. Behind the general, a large-scale map of Khafji was propped against the shattered bow of an Iraqi BTR-60 personnel carrier, and to one side lay the body of one of its crew, his head twisted grotesquely under his shoulder. In the background the blazing trails of Iraqi artillery missiles streaked through the clear night sky, and the jarring rumble of carpet bombing signaled the presence of B-52's.

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If There's a War, He's There

Date: 03 March 1991

William Prochnau is working on a book for Random House about the small band of early Vietnam war correspondents

Last summer, in the Jerusalem office of his Cable News Network, Ted Turner delivered one of those fiery take-no-prisoners pep talks for which he has become renowned throughout his far-flung empire. CNN, Turner exhorted his minions, is on the cutting edge of a communications revolution. He wanted troops who would hold back nothing, who would take the final step. "I want people," Turner finally thundered, "who are prepared to die for CNN!" One young cameraman raised his hand sheepishly, a tentative volunteer. Peter Arnett just smiled at his boss's locker-room hype. At 56, Arnett had put his life on the line many times during a 30-year career that spanned 16 wars and insurrections. He did not raise his hand.

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AFTER THE WAR: The Overview; CHAOS IS REPORTED IN IRAQI CITY; U.S. SAID TO WIN NEW TANK FIGHT

Date: 03 March 1991

By R. W. Apple Jr., Special To the New York Times

R. Apple

Allied officials and refugees reported today that Basra, Iraq's second city, had been engulfed in chaos by the arrival of troops and vehicles driven from Kuwait in the last days of the Persian Gulf war, with sidewalks mobbed and streets impassable. Civil government has suffered "a total breakdown," an American official said, and other Americans suggested that foes of President Saddam Hussein were taking advantage of anarchic conditions to foment a popular revolt.

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Most Savings Banks Remain Healthy

Date: 03 March 1991

To the Editor: In response to "Bank Losses Worst in 50 Years, But No Danger to System Is Seen" (front page, Feb. 17), in your "Banks Under Stress" series: When we last looked, the 1,963 United States savings institutions that met or exceeded the Federal Government's 3 percent net worth requirement had assets of $660.1 billion. Their tangible capital was $38.7 billion, for an average capital-to-assets ratio of 5.86 percent.

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Viewers Are Also Readers

Date: 03 March 1991

To the Editor: Caryn James makes the same mistake as most media members and critics when she assesses the attitudes of TV news viewers [ "TV Gone Kaflooey: Reading Between the Censors," Feb. 10 ] . She assumes that viewers want to sit back and accept as indisputable truth whatever Dan or Tom or Peter may tell us. On the contrary, many of us have always been "active viewers" and this is not, never has been, an "uneasy role." In fact, we are quite comfortable watching various newscasts, reading numerous newspapers and magazines and fitting the pieces together ourselves, deciding what we will believe and what we reject as only someone else's idea of the truth. Ms. James presumes wrong when she cites the attitude of a woman she saw on "Donahue" as representing the way we "average" viewers think. We "average" viewers are much more intelligent and thoughtful than media people believe us to to be. There never were any "good old days" when we believed everything honest Uncle Walter Cronkite told us. The truly great joke is that that is yet another myth created by the media. REGINA F. MCCORMICK New York City

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