Vatican View of Marriage
Date: 28 May 1996
Reuters
The Vatican issued a document today that urged priests to prepare couples better for a life together, contending that permissive laws and the news media had created a climate that favors the breakdown of marriages. A Vatican document on marriage said modern society was marked by "an increasing deterioration of the sense of the family and a corrosion of the values of marriage."
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Mexico Awards TV Concession
Date: 28 May 1996
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
A unit of Grupo Televisa S.A. said today that it had won a Government concession to provide direct-to-home television. The concession, offered by the Ministry of Communications and Transportation, allows Televisa and its partners, the News Corporation of Australia, Globo of Brazil and Tele-Communications Inc. of Englewood, Colo., to move ahead with plans to provide such service across Latin America. Direct-to-home television is transmitted to subscribers via a signal, which is received and decoded at users' homes for a fee.
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Independent Newspapers Protest in Algeria
Date: 27 May 1996
Reuters
Editors of Algeria's 16 independent newspapers refused to publish their papers today to protest the state monopoly on printing presses. The independent newspapers' editors said in an open letter to President Liamine Zeroual on Thursday that high prices and Government controls on printing presses could put them out of business.
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BUSINESS DIGEST
Date: 27 May 1996
Republican Tax Cutters Being Heard in Their Party After years when many in Washington focused on deficit reduction, Republican proponents of deep tax cuts are once again getting a serious hearing within their party.
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James Comstock, 85, West Virginia Publisher
Date: 27 May 1996
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
James F. Comstock, a homespun humorist who published the weekly West Virginia Hillbilly and compiled a definitive 51-volume encyclopedia of West Virginia history, died on Wednesday at St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington, W.Va. He was 85. Mr. Comstock lived in Richwood, 100 miles east of Charleston, W.Va.
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As Israelis Prepare to Vote, The World Watches Closely
Date: 28 May 1996
By Serge Schmemann
Serge Schmemann
As Israelis prepare to make one of the most important choices in their history, they are finding that a lot of the world is staring over their shoulder. People with long memories cannot remember when an Israeli race has been scrutinized from abroad as closely as Wednesday's is, or when the world has shown as keen an interest in the outcome.
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World News Briefs;Shaky Government Stays in Turkey for Now
Date: 27 May 1996
Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz of Turkey said today that his weak conservative Government would remain in power for now despite losing the support of his coalition partner. "We will continue to be the Government" until a new governing formula becomes clear, Anatolian news agency quoted Mr. Yilmaz as saying.
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