NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 15 January 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-15
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14th of January 1989 News
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 14 January 1989
LEAD: International 2-5 West German intelligence warned its government of possible involvement by German companies in a disputed Libyan chemical plant almost a month before President Reagan expressed similar concern. Page 1 Israelis have been using a new bullet against Palestinian protesters.
A Debate Heats Up: Is It News or Entertainment?
Date: 15 January 1989
By Albert Scardino
Albert Scardino
LEAD: After years of dancing around the edge of sensationalism, television leaped enthusiastically into the pit last year with the kind of journalism many newspapers have practiced for a hundred years or more. The half-dozen or so new shows and the old ones that remade themselves on a sex-and-mayhem model proved so successful that they have spawned a multibillion-dollar industry: reality-based television.
SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ
Date: 14 January 1989
By Linda Amster
Linda Amster
LEAD: Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 48.
Soviet Press Casts Doubt on Quake Survivor Story
Date: 14 January 1989
By Craig R. Whitney, Special To the New York Times
Craig Whitney
LEAD: Soviet press agencies and television cast doubt tonight on reports that six survivors were found Wednesday under the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed in the Armenian earthquake 35 days earlier. But the news organizations did not retract the reports.
The Camera Lens as Two-Edged Sword
Date: 15 January 1989
By Henry Hampton
Henry Hampton
LEAD: Except in rare and wonderful moments like Edward R. Murrow's 1960 documentary ''Harvest of Shame,'' television traditionally follows rather than leads when it comes to social movements. It is, of necessity and leaning, a cautious medium, licensed by the Government and influenced by the seesaw rhythms of public policy and piety.
Shot-Putter Wins Despite Incident
Date: 15 January 1989
AP
LEAD: Randy Barnes, a 1988 Olympic silver medalist, overcame the loss of sleep following an early morning confrontation with an Arkansas gunman and recorded the second-best American indoor shot-put today.
THE STEINBERG TRIAL: SCENES FROM A TRAGEDY
Date: 15 January 1989
By Patricia Volk
Patricia Volk
LEAD: AT 2 O'CLOCK, WE turn on Channel 2. There is a close-up of a crying woman. A man, off-camera, is saying: ''You did what?''
Bid for Tidewater
Date: 14 January 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Tidewater Inc. said it had received an unsolicited letter from a group led by Irwin L. Jacobs, the Minneapolis-based investor, offering $9.50 a share in cash to acquire the company. Tidewater, which operates vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry, has almost 22.5 million shares outstanding, giving the offer a prospective total value of about $213 million.
Allegheny Gets An Extension
Date: 14 January 1989
LEAD: The Federal Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh granted Allegheny International a three-week extension yesterday to file the plan of reorganization that its directors had approved unanimously on Wednesday. That plan, backed by the company's shareholders, involves selling Allegheny's Sunbeam and Oster appliance units to a rival, Black & Decker, for about $260 million.