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How Not to Be Stumped

Date: 09 June 1991

By Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

Although the earth did not shake a few weeks ago when former Senator Paul E. Tsongas of Massachusetts announced his availability for the Democratic Presidential nomination, that mild event may be said to have begun the 1992 campaign season. Other hopefuls, the eager and the coy, will soon emerge; exchanges between Democrats and Republicans will grow more testy; Iowa and New Hampshire will be rediscovered. And remembrances of much criticized coverage of campaigns past must weigh on network news departments as they prepare for the new one. "Eighty-eight was an awful year," says William O. Wheatley, who was then executive producer of "The NBC Nightly News" and is now the network's director of political coverage. He echoes the common complaint that the chance to explore significant issues was wasted on personal attacks, photo opportunities and sound bites.

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Judge Upholds Ban on Videotaping of Executions at San Quentin

Date: 08 June 1991

By Katherine Bishop

Katherine Bishop

A Federal judge today upheld a ban on the videotaping of executions at San Quentin Prison but said that rules barring all reporters from witnessing executions there were "irrational and capricious." Noting that no prison has ever allowed photographs or filming of an execution, the judge, Robert H. Schnacke, said the request by KQED television here to tape an execution for later broadcast was outweighed by the views of prison experts that televising an inmate being put to death in the prison's gas chamber would present serious security issues for the prison staff.

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Reporter Was There

Date: 08 June 1991

To the Editor: We were participants in the media seminar on Vietnam at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., in November 1972. Lewis Lapham (letter, May 25) has disputed David Halberstam's recollection (letter, May 18) of Mr. Lapham's remarks and demeanor at the seminar and claimed Mr. Halberstam was not present.

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News Summary

Date: 08 June 1991

International 2-6 Obstacles to a nuclear arms treaty remain unresolved. Foreign Minister Bessmertnykh and Secretary of State Baker warned they might not be resolved in time for a June or July summit meeting. Page 1

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Marion Merrell

Date: 08 June 1991

Reuters

Marion Merrell Dow Inc. said an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration had recommended approval of an intravenous dosage form of Cardizem, which is used to treat a rapid, irregular heartbeat. The drug is now available in tablet form, which was approved in 1982, and in sustained-release capsules, approved in January 1989.

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Satellite Music Venture in Japan

Date: 08 June 1991

Reuters

The Nippon Television Network Corporation and companies of the Mitsubishi Group will begin a satellite-broadcast music service. The venture is owned by 52 Japanese companies. Nippon Television owns 8 percent, with the Mitsubishi Group companies, including the Mitsubishi Corporation and the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, taking a 10 percent stake. Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, which also owns 8.5 percent of Nippon Television, has a 7 percent stake in the music venture.

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America West In Lease Talks

Date: 08 June 1991

Reuters

The International Lease Finance Corporation said today that it was in talks with America West Airlines Inc. about the carrier's request to suspend lease payments on some of its planes. America West, the nation's ninth-largest carrier, has 110 planes, most of them jetliners made by the Boeing Company, serving 55 cities in the United States and western Canada. It said on Thursday that it wanted all its aircraft providers to agree to defer payments for three months, saving the carrier $75 million.

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Stanley Works Is Suing Newell

Date: 08 June 1991

Reuters

Stanley Works Inc. said it had sued the Newell Company under Federal antitrust laws to prevent it from buying 15 percent of the company. The suit, filed in Federal District Court in Connecticut, seeks to block Newell, which makes consumer hardware and housewares, from following through on its intention to buy the shares. Last month, Newell filed its intentions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act that it sought to buy 15 percent to 25 percent of the common shares of Stanley Works. Newell, based in Freeport, Ill. currently owns 1 percent of Stanley, which is based in New Britain. Stanley Works also said that employee stock ownership plans had bought about five million common shares at $37.125 each. Their stake in the company has risen to about 25 percent of Stanley's outstanding shares. The shares rose $3.375, on the New York Stock Exchange today, to $41.50.

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F.D.A. Committee Backs Pfizer Drug

Date: 08 June 1991

Reuters

An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration has recommended marketing approval for Pfizer Inc.'s Norvasc drug for treating high blood pressure and chest pain from heart disease. Pfizer is in final clinical trials of Norvasc to treat mild-to-moderate congestive heart failure. The views of the advisory committees, though not binding, often influence the decision makers at the agency. In trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, Pfizer's shares fell 25 cents, to $56.

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Tele-Communications In United Artists Deal

Date: 08 June 1991

AP

Tele-Communications Inc. and the United Artists Entertainment Company, two of the nation's largest cable television operators, announced a merger deal today giving Tele-Communications the 46 percent of United Artists that it does not already own. Under the $1 billion stock swap, 65 million shares of United Artists stock will be converted to Tele-Communications shares.

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