Reluare duminică, 12 februarie 1995

World News Briefs; Hard-Line Islamic Paper Is Banned by Iran

Date: 13 February 1995

The Iranian Government has banned a hard-line Islamic newspaper owned by the brother of Iran's religious leader for violating laws that prohibit publishing articles deemed offensive to Islam, the official press reported today. The editors of Jahan Islam, which is owned by Hojatolislam Hadi Khamenei, brother of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the paper's license was revoked on Thursday by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

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Gazans Get Own TV, Filtered By Arafat

Date: 12 February 1995

By Joel Greenberg

Joel Greenberg

Most nights now at 8:30, Bakir Radwan and his family sit in their bare cinder-block house in the Shati refugee camp watching a novelty that has begun to reach many living rooms here: Palestinian television news. The Radwans, who installed a new antenna several weeks ago, watch with mixed emotions. They are proud to see Palestinian television, originating from Gaza, after decades of only Israeli and Arab state broadcasts. But they also know that their news is filtered by the Palestinian Authority, which controls programming.

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The Road Not Taken

Date: 13 February 1995

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

Who knows what makes a newspaper a success? An editor's vision? A publisher's plan? Luck? Some newspaper people were reflecting on such questions last week when the country's oldest business newspaper, The Journal of Commerce, was sold by Knight-Ridder Inc. The publisher of The Economist magazine paid $115 million for the daily paper, which has been publishing since 1827.

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Rights Group Issues Criticism Of Arafat Rule

Date: 13 February 1995

By Clyde Haberman

Clyde Haberman

Human rights are in a "perilous state" under Palestinian self-rule, threatening the prospects for regional peace, the United States-based Human Rights Watch/Middle East said today. In a 50-page report, the monitoring group accused Yasir Arafat's police force in the Gaza Strip of arbitrarily rounding up political opponents and mistreating some of them. Press freedoms have also been violated, it said, and the Palestinian Authority, which administers self-rule, has failed in its first nine months to show "a commitment to installing a rule of law."

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Unesco Chief Builds Links To Americans

Date: 12 February 1995

By Barbara Crossette

Barbara Crossette

The Director General of Unesco, which the Clinton Administration has decided not to rejoin, is building unofficial bridges to Americans as a way to insure their involvement in the organization. "The United States cannot be absent from Unesco, and in fact it is not," said Federico Mayor, who has run the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris since 1987.

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THE NATION: The Greatest O.J. Show on Earth; Searching for Thrills, the Cheaper the Better

Date: 12 February 1995

By David Margolick

David Margolick

IT is a caravan of wooden trailers and satellite trucks, of gawkers and gewgaw merchants, and it moves like a circus from one high-profile, high Neilsen-rating tragedy to another. It specializes in criminal trials and has already been through William Kennedy Smith, the Menendez Brothers and the Bobbitts. Its latest stop is downtown Los Angeles, for what has become, quite literally, the Greatest Show on Earth. Opinion polls show that the public is sick of People v. Orenthal James Simpson. But in the electronic village that has popped up outside the Hall of Justice, opposite the courthouse in which Mr. Simpson sits, and extending to the Hollywood Freeway, one can make a different diagnosis: the sicknesses at work here are an insatiable hunger for titillation and a terminal case of voyeurism.

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Liquor Venture in China

Date: 13 February 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Allied Domecq P.L.C. said Friday that it had set up a second joint venture to make spirits in China to secure a stronger foothold in the growing liquor market there.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 12 February 1995

International 3-17 MEXICO ON THE ATTACK The new President of Mexico has been concerned about the rebellion in the south since he took office, and officials said they were on their way to dismantling the movement. 1 BRITAIN REVIEWS GUN POLICY Scotland Yard and other police across Britain are reassessing policies of policing without guns in light of growing violence and a changing criminal culture. 12

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Date: 13 February 1995

International A3-11 MUSLIM WITNESS IS FLOWN TO U.S. A South African Muslim whose tip led to the arrest of the suspected mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing was flown with his wife and child to the U.S., a Pakistani official said. A1

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Wall Street; At CBS, the Shows Are Bad but the Stock Is Good

Date: 12 February 1995

By Susan Antilla

Susan Antilla

The ratings stink, earnings are off, and a key executive is reportedly shopping for a new job. So what's with shares of CBS Inc., which have popped up 10.38 percent -- from $57.875 on Jan. 30 to $63.875 at Friday's close? CBS said on Wednesday that fourth-quarter revenues were down 18 percent on a year-over-year basis. That day, in a market in which even companies reporting good news suffered stock declines, CBS shares actually rose slightly, up 12.5 cents to $62.875. Just the day before, the company had endured the rotten news that it ranked third of the three major networks in the ratings. For this, investors salivate?

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