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In News Business, U.P.I. Plans To Thrive in 350 Words or Less

Date: 31 March 1997

By Iver Peterson

Iver Peterson

United Press International seeks to satisfy country's appetite for bite-sized bits of news by developing kind of niche journalism; hopes to sell fragments of news to customers ranging from service that puts headlines on pager screens to enterprise that wants to flash headlines in screaming lights installed in bars to religious broadcasters who have begun adding news broadcasts; Howard Dicus, UPI's general manager for news, says aim now is to provide public with information in any form they can use it; UPI's current owner is Middle East Broadcasting Center Ltd; photo; chart outlining company's financial travails (M)

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'Dear Abby' Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Date: 30 March 1997

By William Grimes

William Grimes

New breed of personal advice columnists has emerged in alternative weeklies, mass-market magazines and on Internet, often offering more attitude than advice; practice quirky literary craft, blending epistolary novel, personal essay and improvisational theater; excerpts from columns; photos (L)

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Caricature in the Age of Political Correctness

Date: 30 March 1997

By Francis X. Clines

Francis Clines

Restraints on news cartoonists in age of political correctness discussed; Roman Genn's lampoon of Pres and Mrs Clinton as toothy narrow-eyed Asians and Vice Pres Gore as alms-taker is defended by Gann, National Review editor John O'Sullvan and veteran cartoonist Pat Oliphant; photos (S)

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Hollinger Makes Bid For Disney's Newspapers

Date: 31 March 1997

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Walt Disney Co has reportdly received several bids for newspaper chain it acquired with ABC television network in 1995; Hollinger Inc, owner of The Chicago Sun-Times, is among bidders; Disney said to be seeking as much as $2 billion for newspapers, which include The Kansas City Star and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (S)

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 31 March 1997

INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Gingrich Issues Warning To Chinese Over Taiwan Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House, said he had warned China's top leaders that the United States would intervene militarily if Taiwan were attacked. The issue is so sensitive that diplomats have tiptoed around it for years, but at the end of a three-day trip to China, Mr. Gingrich said he had bluntly stated how the United States would respond. Chinese leaders offered no public comment, and a Clinton Administration official said Mr. Gingrich ''was speaking for himself.'' A1 Grenade Attack in Cambodia A grenade attack killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 200 at an opposition political rally in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. The apparent target, the opposition leader Sam Rainsy, escaped with only minor injuries. He immediately blamed one of the country's two feuding co-Prime Ministers, Hun Sen, who has frequently threatened opponents. It was the worst political violence since a democratic Government was established in 1993. A1

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Date: 30 March 1997

INTERNATIONAL 3-11 Colombia Now Dominates Parts of Market for Heroin Though Colombia produces only 1.5 percent of the world's heroin, it has come to dominate the market in parts of the United States, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The agency says heroin is being aggressively pushed at lower prices and higher quality, which allows the drug to be smoked or sniffed, rather than injected. 3 Far Right Gathers in France Some 2,200 delegates of France's far-right National Front began a convention in Strasbourg, where tens of thousands of the party's opponents also converged. The Front has steadily increased its support by appealing to ethnic prejudice and fear of crime. With elections only a year away, what to do about the Front has become an obsession of French political life. 10

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New Tools for Public Relations Firms

Date: 31 March 1997

By Sreenath Sreenivasan

Sreenath Sreenivasan

Public relations business has leapt to embrace World Wide Web; Web enables public relations operatives to take their messages directly to people in increasingly popular public space; thousands of companies are already putting out press releases and corporate profiles on line; one challenge is that critics of a particular company can just as easily put out derogatory information on Web, thus creating public relations nightmare; many sites on Web take aim at specific companies (M)

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Whether Olson Likes It or Not: No Title, No Respect

Date: 31 March 1997

By William C. Rhoden

William Rhoden

William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column discusses career of Arizona basketball coach Lute Olson (M)

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Homeira Ghiacy, Matthew Walter

Date: 30 March 1997

Homeira Ghiacy, a daughter of Fatima and Raouf Ghiacy of Alexandria, Va., was married yesterday to Matthew Martin Walter, the son of Barbara and Ronald Walter of Shrewsbury, N.J. The Rev. Henry Fehrin performed the Roman Catholic ceremony at the Water's Edge Beach Club in Sea Bright, N.J. Mrs. Walter, 27, is a saleswoman of television programming and news wire services at Bloomberg Financial Markets in New York. She graduated from Sussex University in Brighton, England.

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Old View of Internet: Nerds. New View: Nuts.

Date: 30 March 1997

By George Johnson

George Johnson

Concerns that Internet is anarchic, menacing labyrinth where perverts and paranoids hide discussed in aftermath of mass suicide by Heaven's Gate cultists; photos of sinister Web pages; rumors about UFO hiding behind comet Hale-Bopp have festered on Web for months, and Heaven's Gate added to group hallucination, spreading ideology that combined Christianity and gnosticism with scenarios that could have come from watching too many X-Files reruns while reading Weekly World News; public worries about pornography and child abuse promoted through Internet also discussed (M)

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