Reluare joi, 20 februarie 1992

Gorbachev to Write For Times Co. Unit

Date: 21 February 1992

Mikhail S. Gorbachev is to write a monthly newspaper column for a unit of The New York Times Company, with distribution starting on Monday, John C. Brewer, president of The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation, said yesterday. The first four of the former Soviet President's 1,000-word columns will address the future of Communism, the Persian Gulf war, relations between the Kremlin and the Pope and Mr. Gorbachev's relationship with Boris N. Yeltsin, the President of Russia. Columns by Mr. Gorbachev have already appeared in La Stampa, a newspaper in Turin, Italy.

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Poll of Republicans Was Off the Mark

Date: 20 February 1992

A poll of primary voters leaving voting stations across New Hampshire on Tuesday accurately mirrored the final vote for the Democratic candidates, but was off the mark for the Republicans. Voter Research and Surveys, a joint effort of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News, set up the poll.

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Press in Russia Is Hurt By the Reforms It Backs

Date: 20 February 1992

By Francis X. Clines

Francis Clines

Leading news publications, including some that helped bring down the Soviet dictatorship, are being forced to curtail operations because of skyrocketing printing costs under free-market reforms now being championed philosophically in newspapers. Muscovites today could not find their daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, which went to alternate-day publication this week because of newsprint costs that have jumped from 300 rubles per ton of paper to 13,000 rubles in the last year. With more than 20 million readers, the newspaper is one of the world's largest.

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Key Lawmaker Wants to Keep Bell Companies Out of Information Business

Date: 20 February 1992

By Edmund L. Andrews

Edmund Andrews

Newspaper publishers received support today from an important lawmaker in their campaign to keep the regional Bell telephone companies from being allowed to own electronic services offering information like news, stock quotations and sports scores. At a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommitte on Economic and Commercial Law, Representative Jack Brooks, Democrat of Texas and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, made it clear that he favored continuing restrictions on the Bell companies. His committee has jurisdiction over antitrust issues.

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On My Mind; Buchanan's Free Ride

Date: 21 February 1992

By A. M. Rosenthal

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They did not create Patrick Buchanan's victory in New Hampshire -- the recession and the Administration's long lost-weekend case of economic staggers did that. But suddenly stricken with pusillanimous paralysis the press, politicians and President gave Mr. Buchanan a nice, comfortable, free ride on his way. Wait, stay with this, even if you loathe the man. I have good news toward the end about fighting him.

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Reporter's Notebook; By Trip's End, Moscow Looks Good

Date: 20 February 1992

By Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas Friedman

It began as a low whisper among aides to Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d. But as the plane taking them to Moscow at the close of Mr. Baker's grueling tour of former Soviet republics took off, the whispers grew into a vigorous chant: "Penta, Penta, Penta, Penta." The Penta is the deluxe German-run hotel in Moscow where Mr. Baker always stays. After a week of sleeping often two or three to a room in seedy, run-down former Communist Party guest houses in the wilds of Ashkhabad and Dushanbe, Mr. Baker's aides were desperate for the down comforters, hot water and efficiency of the Penta. It was the first time any of them could recall longing to get to Moscow.

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Essay; The 1996 Campaign

Date: 20 February 1992

By William Safire

William Safire

My early prognostication still holds. Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, chooses Kerrey for V.P., and they run a respectable race; the economy turns up briskly and the Bush-Quayle ticket wins. To check this out on the morning after New Hampshire, I called a former boss and observed how this was a great day for Old Nixon Hands.

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New York Starts Inquiry On End of Racing Times

Date: 21 February 1992

By Dennis Hevesi

Dennis Hevesi

The New York State Attorney General's Office is investigating possible antitrust violations in connection with the closing of The Racing Times, a newspaper for horse-racing fans, and the purchase of some of the paper's assets by its chief rival, The Daily Racing Form. Edward Barbini, a spokesman for Attorney General Robert Abrams, said yesterday that the inquiry was in its early stages. "We issued subpoenas last week to corporations and individuals affiliated with The Racing Times and The Racing Form," he said. "We are examining possible anti-competitive aspects regarding the closing of The Racing Times."

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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Campaign Journal; Setback for the Media Manipulators

Date: 20 February 1992

By John Tierney

John Tierney

The most overused slogan in the Presidential campaign here probably was "take back." Orators differed on what precisely needed to be taken back -- the election, the system, the Government, the country -- but they agreed on what had taken it away: money and media. Politics was being corrupted by slick television images, quick sound bites, sleazy attacks and generally superficial media manipulation. Well, the votes are in here, and it's not looking good for the media manipulators. The Democratic primary was won by a homely candidate with a small advertising budget who was initially written off by the press and did not run any negative or even very interesting commercials. The candidate with the most dramatic spot advertising -- and the meanest attack advertisements -- finished fourth, just two percentage points ahead of a candidate who barely did any spot advertising at all.

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Textron-Cessna

Date: 20 February 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Federal Trade Commission cleared Textron Inc.'s acquisition of the Cessna Aircraft Company from the General Dynamics Corporation. The regulator granted an early clearance for the required waiting period under antitrust laws. The $600 million deal should be completed by the end of March, said Tom Burgess, a spokesman for General Dynamics, based in St. Louis. Cessna, based in Wichita, Kan., had sales of about $820 million in 1991. Textron, based in Providence, R.I., will employ about 5,400 Cessna employees after the sale, he said.

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