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Date: 24 February 1997
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson assesses failure of strike by unionized workers at Detroit Free Press and Detroit News; traces strike to management's change of heart about the labor-friendly contract terms that it had agreed to in late 1950's and early 60's, when times were flush and newspapers were still owned by wealthy, public-minded families as a kind of community trust (M)
Date: 24 February 1997
By Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert Op-Ed article praises documentary film, Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press; notes that Seldes began his journalistic career in 1909 and did not stop writing, editing and publishing until 1995, when he died at age of 104; says Seldes was compulsive stalker of the truth and much of his writing was ahead of his time (M)
Date: 24 February 1997
By Youssef M. Ibrahim
Youssef
Man in the News Column profiles career of Dr Ian Wilmut following disclosure that he has cloned a sheep (M)
Date: 24 February 1997
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
John D Johnson is out as executive editor of Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss, state's biggest and only statewide newspaper, reportedly because paper's aggressive coverage of Gov Kirk Fordice's mysterious automobile crash displeased Duane K McAllister, publisher, who had directed Johnson to pay more attention to 'the positive aspects of the Republican revolution'; newspaper is owned by Gannett Co; Hodding Carter 3d, whose family owns the crusading, liberal Democrat-Times of Greenville, sees a shift back to traditional conservatism in newspapers across the South; photo (M)
Date: 23 February 1997
By Philip Weiss
Philip Weiss
Philip Weiss article about fanatical 'Clinton crazies' who spend their lives hating the President; crazies include Arkansans like Larry Nichols and Gary Parks, who have developed monstrous view of Clinton as Satan's nephew and see themselves as martyrs; others are conservative and/or conspiratorial reporters like Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of London Sunday Telegraph, who portray Clinton as figurehead for corrupt political organization; others are freelance obsessives, for whom Internet was invented, who see high moral drama in Clinton scandals; prominent here are Hugh H Sprunt and Chris Ruddy, who devote themselves to conspiracy theorists' favorite case, suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster; influential haters number perhaps 100, but their suspicions percolate to far larger audience; Pat Matrisciana, producer of Christian-right videos, has about 300,000 copies of his Clinton Chronicles video in circulation; photos; diagram on theories about Foster death; fixations seem to reveal less about Clinton than about strain of paranoia abroad in land, and deep distrust of Government and newspapers; Little Rock columnist Gene Lyons notes that, no matter what one thinks about Whitewater case, Clinton does not merit such hatred, except as symbol of what some people fear (L)
Date: 24 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stocks trade lower in Japan, the Nikkei index closing down 137.55, at 18,896.99 (S)
Date: 24 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Raytheon Co weighs sale of its appliance operations (S)
Date: 24 February 1997
Karma Zurkhang letter scores American news coverage of death of Deng Xiaoping for not mentioning that he, along with Mao Zedong, devoured and wrecked Tibet (S)
Date: 23 February 1997
Court TV's annual Integrity Day noted (Sunday column) (S)
Date: 23 February 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-15 First Cloning of Mammal Reported By Researchers Researchers in Britain announced that they had successfully cloned an adult mammal for the first time, creating a lamb using the DNA of an adult sheep. In theory, researchers said, the same technique could be used to take a cell from an adult human to create a genetically identical human. That prospect raises thorny ethical and philosophical questions. 1 Mexican Governors' Drug Links The Governor of the Mexican state that borders Arizona is working with a powerful drug trafficker, creating a haven for smugglers who send vast quantities of narcotics into the United States, according to American officials and intelligence. And the name of another Mexican Governor is on a United States list of prominent Mexicans suspected of corruption linked to drugs. 1