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Date: 19 May 1996
Reuters
Thun Bunly, publisher of The Khmer Ideal, a newspaper, was shot dead today, officials and opposition members said. The publisher had been fighting a 1995 conviction for insulting Cambodia's dual Prime Ministers. Sam Rainsy, an opposition leader, said the slaying was "a very clear sign of intimidation."
Date: 19 May 1996
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
SINCE RETIRING from administrative duty, I have taken to preaching policies that as editor I failed to pursue. First and foremost: a Required Reading Day for mental laborers. People whose work it is to think need time off to think new thoughts. Just as athletes have to relax to stretch their muscles, deskbound drones must escape from stress to broaden their minds. They should be ordered to stay away at least 1 day in 20 -- not to visit the dentist or to shop for shoes but to sit, honorbound, reading at random in their piled-up books and magazines, jotting down ideas and resolutions that spring to mind.
Date: 20 May 1996
Encouraging a freer flow of information in Fidel Castro's Cuba has never been easy, but recent developments in Havana and Washington will make it even harder. In Havana earlier this month, the hammer fell on Rafael Solano, a journalist whose realistic dispatches were said to be attempts at subversion. Given a choice between jail and exile, and having already served six weeks in a Cuban prison, he chose exile in Spain, which meant leaving a vulnerable family behind. Mr. Solano belongs to a courageous group of risk-taking independent Cuban journalists. He is the founder of Havana Press, one of three unofficial news agencies that may herald a return to press freedom in post-Castro Cuba. Each is staffed by journalists whose unwillingness to regurgitate official pap lost them jobs at governmental news agencies. Though they cannot print or broadcast reports within Cuba, the unofficial agencies have been able to provide uncensored accounts via fax to newspapers and radio stations elsewhere. When one agency reported last year on Cuba's nuclear power safety hazards, its reporter was detained and the agency founder, Yndamiro Restano, was jailed and then forced into exile.
Date: 20 May 1996
By Gianna Jacobson
Gianna Jacobson
When Addie Butt enrolled in the journalism school at the University of Missouri here two years ago, her goal was to become a newspaper sportswriter. But one of the school's newest courses -- new media, an intensive study of on-line publications -- changed her plans. Within days of graduation, Ms. Butt will report for a $500-a-week job at Fastball, an on-line publication about major league baseball owned by Cox Communications in Atlanta, a unit of Cox Enterprises.
Date: 19 May 1996
To the Editor: Walter Goodman made some important points in his criticism of the plan to give Presidential candidates free time on network television ["Prime Time, Politics and the Public's Right to Tune Out," May 5].
Date: 19 May 1996
By Judith H. Dobrzynski
Judith Dobrzynski
Robert A. Mead, an award-winning network news producer who also served as an adviser to former President Gerald R. Ford, died on Tuesday at his home in Orange, Va. He was 61. Mr. Mead, who was the producer of NBC's "Weekend Nightly News" based in Washington, when he left the network in 1993, suffered a heart attack, according to his daughter, Robyn Anne Mead.
Date: 19 May 1996
AP
President Boris N. Yeltsin said today that he had offered to put Grigory A. Yavlinsky, an economist who is Mr. Yeltsin's main liberal challenger, in charge of Russia's market reforms if he would agree to drop out of the presidential race. Mr. Yeltsin said that he had proposed the post of Deputy Prime Minister to Mr. Yavlinsky but that Mr. Yavlinsky had wanted more.