Reluare duminică, 31 octombrie 1993

Daily News Is Turning a Gamble Into a Rebirth

Date: 01 November 1993

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

The Daily News, bankrupt and battered when Mortimer B. Zuckerman bought it last January, is now a profitable business, its publishers say, reversing multimillion-dollar losses and defying predictions of doom that plagued the New York newspaper for a decade. About a hundred newly hired writers and editors are settling in. Advertising revenues are climbing, the publishers say. And the newspaper's pages are beginning to show some of their old zip. In effect, the owners are betting millions of dollars that the cheeky but rigorous style of tabloid journalism that The News virtually invented can thrive again in America's biggest city.

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In an Endorsement, a Search for Signals

Date: 01 November 1993

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

A newspaper's editorial stance is often central to its identity with readers. So it was with special interest that news professionals took note of The Daily News's endorsement of Rudolph W. Giuliani for mayor last week. With racial politics so much the subtext in the election, some of them said, it was revealing that The News under Mortimer B. Zuckerman chose to urge the ouster of David N. Dinkins, the city's first black mayor, because of his "unfulfilled promise."

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Possessed? You Might Give Maury Povich a Call

Date: 31 October 1993

By James Barron

James Barron

THE last couple of months have been busy ones for real-life ghostbusters, devil-defiers, hooligan-haters -- and talk-show hosts and tabloid-television news shows. First, an Arizona psychologist performed an exorcism on a 10-year-old and billed the state $180 for the two-hour procedure. Then "The Maury Povich Show" devoted a whole hour to exorcism, and on Friday Joan Rivers questioned a man who claimed he had chased vampires in Dracula's castle. Then the Amazing Kreskin, who calls himself a "mentalist," went haunted house-hunting with a television crew. (They didn't find the ghost of Aaron Burr's wife, as promised, but a dollar bill did sail mysteriously across the carpet.)

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New Jersey Q & A: John J. O'Brien; Staying on Top of Newspaper Trends

Date: 31 October 1993

By Arthur Z. Kamin

Arthur Kamin

JOHN J. O'BRIEN, the executive director of the New Jersey Press Association, has come a long way since his days of sweeping the floors in the press room at the weekly Hunterdon County Democrat in Flemington 28 years ago. Though it seems odd now, he thought he had "reached the pinnacle" of his career when the paper quickly promoted him to Linotype operator in the composing room, setting news articles and advertisements in hot metal.

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Nuclear Era Is Departing By Same Door It Entered

Date: 31 October 1993

By Matthew L. Wald

Matthew Wald

Nuclear disarmament begins at a conference table in Moscow, Geneva or Washington. But it is carried out in places like a circular concrete cell buried in the dusty soil of the Texas Panhandle, where spheres of high explosives are pried from their cores of plutonium, rendering a bomb of almost unimaginable power into a collection of merely hazardous ingredients. Dismantling nuclear warheads may be infinitely better than detonating them, but the job is tricky. In addition to being radioactive, plutonium is highly toxic and can burn on contact with air, and most of the explosives are old and prone to detonate with heat or shock.

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Bank of Boston Realigns Top

Date: 01 November 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Bank of Boston Corporation said Friday that it was establishing a four-member office of the chairman and eliminating three top management posts. The chairman's office will include the chairman, Ira Stepanian, and the president, Charles K. Gifford. The current chief financial officer, William J. Shea, was named a vice chairman and will join the office, as will the current New England group executive, Edward A. O'Neal.

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I.B.M. Device To Be Shown

Date: 01 November 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The BellSouth Corporation plans to test a prototype personal digital assistant developed by the IBM Personal Computer Company. The I.B.M.-designed product, a nine-ounce PC that also has a cellular phone, will be sold throughout BellSouth's territory, the company said Friday. It will show off the unit at the Wireless World show here Tuesday.

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DEATH BENEFITS

Date: 31 October 1993

I have enjoyed the company of journalists at lonely places, and argued the essential truth of their profession at isolated outposts and in the backs of trucks. That truth is, they are not, as Malcolm W. Browne would have us believe (Endpaper/Life and Times: "Death Benefits," Oct. 3), in a state of grace; rather, they are in limbo, condemned to watch from afar the passions and pain of humanity. It is this that forces them back to their hotel rooms, showers and bars, leaving those who may never return to continue their Sisyphean tasks.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 31 October 1993

International 3-17 DREAMS VS. REALITY IN NIGERIA The thwarted dreams of Nigeria seems to be best represented in its new capital, which is being built at a reported cost of $10 billion at a time of economic devastation. 3 IN SARAJEVO, MUSLIM ATROCITIES The people of Sarajevo were shaken by news of horrors committed by Muslim gangsters against other Bosnian Muslims. 10 IT'S COMMUNICATION, TEAM The more public role for the national security adviser in recent weeks appears to be an admission that the White House needs to improve how it communicates foreign policy. 8 U.S. troops destroyed the homes of 50 Somalis for a secure road. 8 Olivetti chief faces new corruption charges in Italy. 7 Gunmen killed seven in an attack in a Northern Ireland bar. 7 CELEBRATIONS IN HAITI CAPITAL Haiti's capital echoed with gunfire as opponents of the ousted President celebrated their successful defiance of international diplomacy. 12 Legislative supporters of Haiti's ousted President are criticized. 12 The U.N. Security Council condemned the Haitian military. 12 Russia links sanctions on Libya to an interest-free loan. 11 The archdiocese of Medellin is confronting drug-related violence. 14 The separatist party of Quebec plans to focus on the economy. 15 National 18-36 NUTS AND BOLTS OF DISARMAMENT In a circular concrete cell buried in the Texas panhandle, the dangerous work of nuclear disarmament is being carried out. Here, a first look at a long-secret world. 1 TRACING TAINTED JUICE The clandestine production and sale of fruit juice containing sugar and preservatives is a widespread and highly profitable practice, a review of court cases shows. 1 THE TOWN THE FLOOD KILLED After the Mississippi swallowed Valmeyer, Ill., and left it dust-caked and barren, the townspeople said they got the message. They are moving a mile and a half inland, to higher ground. 1 FAGIN WOULD BE IMPRESSED "Cas" and "C-Dog" were modern day high-tech Fagins, training young boys to invade banks with automatic weapons and flee. Tomorrow they get their comeuppance. 18 SPARED BY THE DEADLY WINDS Hot winds that fed deadly wildfires around Southern California died overnight, and a hunt intensified for arsonists. 18 WINNING SUPPORT FOR UNICEF For 20 years the American public's support for Unicef has declined. Regaining that support is a major challenge facing Gwendolyn Baker, president of the United States Committee for Unicef. 34 TOPSY-TURVY VIRGINIA RACE Mary Sue Terry, who once had a seemingly insurmountable lead in her campaign to become Virginia's first female governor, is now far behind in the polls. 20 With a new definition, AIDS is the top killer of young American men. 19 2 Metro 37-50 ELECTION HOMESTRETCH In rainswept rallies and radio interviews, the New York City mayoral candidates swung into the homestretch, with Mayor Dinkins showcasing city programs and Rudolph W. Giuliani broadcasting a new television commercial asking for "something positive." 1 DEADLINE FOR UNDECIDEDS A thin but crucial sliver of the New York City electorate, the undecided voters, are the X factor in a mayor's race that many polls say is extremely close. Across the city, polls say, about 1 in 10 of registered voters are still agonizing over which candidate to support. 1 NEW ARENA FOR NEW CLOTHES The New York fashion industry begins its week of runway shows today in a brand new showcase, big white tents in Bryant Park. The centralized approach, standard in Paris and Milan, has been a longtime objective of Seventh Avenue. 1 NEW CITY WORKER BENEFITS Mayor Dinkins, who has aggressively sought the support of gay and lesbian voters, announced that the city would provide health benefits to the domestic partners of homosexual city workers. The partners of unmarried heterosexuals will also be entitled to the benefits. 40 A LOOK AT UNDERCOVER LIFE Conversations from conspiracy tapes offer a rare glimpse into the relationship of an undercover operative and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Attention to details like parking tickets and car expenses alternates with torment over whether the World Trade Center bombing could have been prevented. 37 Obituaries 48 Peter C. Quennell, English author, historian and editor.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 01 November 1993

International A3-12 C.I.A. PAID HAITI'S MILITARY Members of the military in Haiti were paid by the C.I.A. for information from the mid-1980's at least until the coup that toppled its President in 1991, American officials say. A1 Rightists groups in Haiti threatened to install a new president.A8

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