Spiller av søndag 8. mars 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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