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The Capital Press and the President: Fair Coverage or Unreined Adversity?

Date: 17 June 1993

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

Though mutual distrust is routine in Washington, President Clinton's conflicts with reporters have raised, somewhat earlier than usual, the question that arises in every Administration: whether the nation's news organizations are being fair to the President. For months now, the press has had little good to say about President Clinton, and he has sometimes been unable to contain his obvious frustration with the press.

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CLINTON, DEFENDING HIS RECORD, INSISTS HE HASN'T WAVERED

Date: 16 June 1993

By Gwen Ifill

Gwen Ifill

President Clinton today presented his first six months in office as an aggressive and largely successful attempt to reinvigorate government, dismissing all assertions that he had been indecisive and portraying himself as a world leader penalized for making tough calls at home and abroad. "No President's budget has been taken seriously in this town for a dozen years," Mr. Clinton said. "Three-quarters of the Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against President Bush's last budget. I sent a budget up there that passed -- the budget resolution passed on time for the first time in 17 years. And we're out here fighting for these tough decisions. Shining Up His Image "This is the most decisive Presidency you've had in a very long time on all the big issues that matter," he continued. "And I might say, all the heat we're getting from people is because of the decisions that have been made, not because of those that haven't."

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INSIDE

Date: 17 June 1993

Plan From Serbs and Croats Serbian and Croatian leaders proposed scrapping the Bosnian peace plan and placing Muslims in two separate landlocked areas. Page A3. Easing German Citizenship Responding to pressure after fatal attacks on Turks in Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced steps to make citizenship easier. Page A6. Doubts in Pepsi Tampering Reports of syringes in cans of Pepsi-Cola mounted, but the nation's chief food and drug regulator expressed doubt about their validity. Page A16. Window on Immigrant Crime Because of its drug dealing, money laundering and prostitution, Jackson Heights, Queens, offers a glimpse into immigrant crime. Page B1. Bulls Close In on Title The Chicago Bulls got 55 points from Michael Jordan and beat the Phoenix Suns, 111-105, to move one victory away form the N.B.A. title. Page B13.

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Tale of a Screening That Might Not Have Been

Date: 17 June 1993

By Bernard Weinraub

Bernard Weinraub

Movie studios and journalists are often like a warring married couple enduring a love-hate relationship: divorce is rare because each side needs the other to survive. Yet Columbia Studios, a movie heavyweight in this town, has served notice on The Los Angeles Times, the town's newspaper heavyweight, that it is "out of business" starting on Monday unless The Times bars a reporter from covering the studio. Columbia executives are angry because of what one of them calls "an utterly irresponsible and untrue account" published in the paper about "Last Action Hero," the studio's big action-adventure summer movie opening on Friday.

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PENNSYLVANIA BANKS TO MERGE IN A STOCK SWAP

Date: 17 June 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Dauphin Deposit Corporation of Harrisburg, Pa., said it planned to buy the 14-branch Valley Bancorp Inc. of Chambersburg, Pa., in a stock swap valued at $68.8 million. Dauphin, with 102 branches in Pennsylvania and Maryland, said the acquisition would expand its presence in Pennsylvania's Franklin County, which borders Maryland. The agreement calls for each share of Valley common stock to be exchanged for between 2.1401 and 2.4193 shares of Dauphin Deposit stock.

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NISSAN IS RAISNG PRICES ON SOME 1993 MODELS

Date: 16 June 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A. increased prices on certain 1993 Nissan and Infiniti vehicles by an average of eight-tenths of a percent because of the strength of the yen against the dollar. The price increase for Nissan models averaged seven-tenths of a percent, or $112; prices on Infinitis were raised an average 1.1 percent, or $228.

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G.M. FILES CALIFORNIA APPLICATION FOR ELECTRIC CAR

Date: 16 June 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The General Motors Corporation has filed an application with the California Air Resources Board to certify its Impact electric car as a "zero emission" vehicle as mandated by California standards starting in 1998.

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FEDERAL EXPRESS PILOTS CLEARED TO JOIN UNION

Date: 16 June 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Federal Express Corporation's 2,300 pilots have been cleared by the National Mediation Board to join the Air Line Pilots Association union. The ruling overturns an objection filed in January by Federal Express, which has long opposed organized labor within its ranks. Federal Express, based in Memphis, employs about 78,000 people, only a few of whom are unionized.

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FORD MOTOR UNIT LAYS OFF 680 WORKERS IN MEXICO

Date: 17 June 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Ford Motor Company de Mexico has laid off 680 auto workers from its Cuautitlan plant on the outskirts of Mexico City, company officials said. The plant, which employs 5,200, makes Cougar, Thunderbird, Grand Marquis and Topaz models for the Mexican market.

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Clinton Trade Nominee

Date: 16 June 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

President Clinton today nominated Jeffrey E. Garten, a former investment banker for Lehman Brothers, Shearson Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group, to head the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration. Mr. Garten, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia University, worked for the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations.

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