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Date: 16 April 1988
LEAD: International 3-5, 32 One hijacker of a Kuwaiti jet may be a Lebanese national wanted in the United States for a 1985 hijacking in which a Navy diver was murdered, according to Reagan Administration officials. Page 1 Two hostages delivered a plea for Kuwait to comply with their captors' main demand and release 17 convicted terrorists.
Date: 17 April 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL 3-21 At least 13 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the occupied territories over the assassination in Tunisia of the P.L.O military commander. Khalil al-Wazir had grown up in the Gaza Strip. Page 1 The P.L.O. accused Israel of assassinating its most senior military offical, Khalil al-Wazir, at his home in Tunisia, and of killing two bodyguards and a Tunisian driver.
Date: 16 April 1988
By Paul Lewis, Special To the New York Times
Paul Lewis
LEAD: A talent for waiting and a sense of humor have helped bring Diego Cordovez success in his six-year search for an Afghan settlement.
Date: 17 April 1988
By Douglas Edwards
Douglas Edwards
LEAD: AS I LEAVE CBS NEWS after almost 46 years before the microphones and cameras as a correspondent, broadcasting is at another turn in the road. Perhaps that's why I stayed in it all those years, because I liked the changes, the unexpectedness of each day. There was always some new twist and curve - and there always will be.
Date: 16 April 1988
By Linda Amster
Linda Amster
LEAD: Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 58.
Date: 17 April 1988
By Julie Johnson
Julie Johnson
LEAD: ONCE it was considered proper for Presidential aides to let their boss get first licks in the memoir department. But no fewer than five Reagan Administration officials have published books and two more are soon to follow, eight months before President Reagan can even begin to reread his diaries.
Date: 17 April 1988
LEAD: The White House, Pentagon, State Department and television networks are not the only places that the early-alert value of Cable News Network is appreciated. CNN is a constant background companion in our daily newsroom at The Detroit News.
Date: 17 April 1988
LEAD: It was disappointing to see Ernest Leiser dismiss a fifth of CNN's programming as ''a couple of half-hour business-news shows'' (''The Little Network That Could,'' March 20). But it is not surprising. Broadcast network producers rarely understand business news, so they usually don't consider it worth coverage.
Date: 16 April 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The General Motors Corporation eliminated its cash bonus plan in 1987, but still paid its chief executive, Roger B. Smith, more than $2 million for the year, the company's proxy statement disclosed today.