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8th of March 1992 News
Uutiset sellaisena kuin ne ilmestyivät New York Timesin etusivulle 8. maaliskuuta 1992
As Networks Stay Home, Two Agencies Roam the World
Date: 08 March 1992
By Teresa L. Waite
Teresa Waite
Israelis ambush the Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas Musawi in Lebanon. An attempted coup backfires in Venezuela. Another truce in Yugoslavia is shattered when shelling resumes.
All of these events made the evening television broadcasts in the United States, but because of sharp cutbacks in news operations in recent years, none of the American networks were there. The images came from two fiercely competitive London-based agencies, Visnews Ltd. and the Worldwide Television News Corporation.
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New Reuters Rates Upset British Clients
Date: 09 March 1992
By Suzanne Cassidy
Suzanne Cassidy
The Reuters news agency has angered some of its most important British clients by sharply increasing the rates it charges some publications at a time when they are struggling to get through a severe recession. Faced with rates that have more than doubled, The Daily Telegraph, the largest of the broadsheet British dailies, has dropped the Reuters World Report, which carries mostly foreign news. Instead, it will rely on Agence France-Presse and The Associated Press.
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Article Questions Sale Of Stock by Bush Son
Date: 09 March 1992
By Keith Bradsher
Keith Bradsher
President Bush's oldest son had access to detailed information on a Texas energy company's finances when he sold $848,560 worth of its stock a week before the company announced poor quarterly earnings, U.S. News & World Report has reported. In its issue published this weekend, the magazine said George W. Bush, the President's son, was a director of the Harken Energy Corporation and on a company committee reviewing ways to restructure the business when he sold the shares on June 22, 1990. Citing documents filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the magazine said membership on the committee gave Mr. Bush "detailed knowledge of the company's deteriorating financial condition."
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East-West Differences Still Foil German Papers
Date: 09 March 1992
By John Tagliabue
John Tagliabue
Under Communism it was said people read novels for the truth, since the newspapers printed fiction. So there was little surprise after the Berlin wall fell in late 1989 that West Germany's newspapers rushed into news-starved East Germany. Within days, Bildzeitung, Germany's largest tabloid, was selling more than a million copies a day in the east. Others, like the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, encouraged western Germans to give reduced-price gift subscriptions to friends in the east as a means of getting a foot in the door.
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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Media; Clinton-Tsongas Ads Provide a Little Drama in Florida Contest
Date: 09 March 1992
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert
For all their griping about the clogged airwaves, Floridians ought to be grateful for the commercials that Paul E. Tsongas and Bill Clinton have put on television here. What little drama there is to this state's fly-by Presidential campaign, they are providing. It is true that the commercials are not particularly sensational when compared with, say, ones about furloughed murderers. But for Floridians watching the campaign on television, they are pretty much all there is to see.
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Athens Journal; 75 Years of Seed Ads and Free Advice
Date: 08 March 1992
By Ronald Smothers
Ronald Smothers
For the farmers who come into Howard McCants's milling operation here, The Market Bulletin is a fixture in their lives -- the place to get a line on anything from a cow dog to seven-shank plows to bales of high-protein coastal Bermuda hay. For Linda Wish, an Atlanta lawyer, The Market Bulletin is the place to locate seeds for touch-me-nots and four-o'clocks and all manner of things she can use to adorn her suburban garden. And it is the place to correspond with other avid gardeners.
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The Gun Culture: Fun as Well as Life and Death
Date: 09 March 1992
By Peter T. Kilborn
Peter Kilborn
It is sunny and in the low 60's on a winter's Friday afternoon. Bruce W. Nelson, a leathersmith who specializes in gun belts and holsters, and his wife, Sandra S. Froman, a lawyer, have invited friends to their home in the cactus-studded foothills of the Catalina Mountains for some pistol shooting. Starting with .22 revolvers, moving on to .45-caliber and 9-millimeter semiautomatics, they shoot soda and beer cans, hitting them low so they pop into the branches of a paloverde tree.
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Exports Rise For U.S. Tools
Date: 09 March 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Exports of American machine tools posted a record year in 1991 despite the global recession, increasing 1.3 percent, to $1.08 billion from the previous high of $1.06 billion in 1990, the Association for Manufacturing Technology has reported. It was the eighth consecutive annual increase. Machine tool imports, reflecting the depth of the recession in the United States, declined 7.3 percent in 1991, to $2.14 billion, from $2.31 billion in 1990. It was the second consecutive annual decline after a record high in 1989.
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2 at Salomon Move to UBS
Date: 09 March 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Salomon Brothers lost two more managing directors Friday, as Gordon Burns and Victor Cohn joined UBS Securities Inc. as co-heads of the investment banking division Details of their new responsibilities were not immediately available. Pierre de Weck, chief executive of UBS's North American region, has been interim head of the investment banking group since last spring, when Tull Gearrald left the firm.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 08 March 1992
International 3-21 ONE SUPERPOWER, PLEASE
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