MOOD OF AUSTERITY PROMPTING CHANGE IN TV NEWS
Date: 23 February 1987
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: The president of CBS News, Howard Stringer, plans to visit his Washington bureau today to discuss a subject that has the 1,222 employees of CBS News in a state of excitement and dread: CBS News has to be reinvented, and soon.
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NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1987
Date: 23 February 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-11 The nominee to head the C.I.A., Robert M. Gates, agreed to send the White House a 1985 memo that favored arms dealings with Iran though he knew it was at odds with conclusions reached by Central Intelligence Agency analysts, sources said. Page A1
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NEWS SUMMARY: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1987
Date: 22 February 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL Oliver North's secretary acknowledged, under a grant of immunity, destroying National Security Council documents in the hours before the Justice Department planned to review the colonel's files, her lawyer said. Page 1 Instructions to U.S. arms negotiators from President Reagan include not negotiating limits on defensive systems that would be more restrictive than the Administration's new interpretation of the treaty, officials said.
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SOVIET VIEWERS ARE SEEING MORE, INCLUDING NEWS OF THE U.S.
Date: 22 February 1987
Ellen Mickiewicz, professor of political science at Emory University, is writing a book, ''Split Signals: The Television Revolution in the Soviet Union.''
Ellen Mickiewicz
LEAD: The televising of ''Amerika,''
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ABC-TV Print Account Assigned to B.J.K.&E.
Date: 23 February 1987
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
LEAD: The ABC-TV Network news division has assigned its print advertising account to Bozell Jacobs Kenyon & Eckhardt. It had been at N. W. Ayer since 1982 and back then it was called a $2.5 million account.
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Rules of Engagement
Date: 23 February 1987
By William Safire
William Safire
LEAD: The best advice given Ronald Reagan in this space was not to run for a second term. Now all of us who are covering the crumbling of executive authority need fresh advice on how to cope with the torrent of revelations to come, so that we do not aid those dovish partisans seeking to reverse the election of 1984 or otherwise succor the blame
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7 Hurt in South Africa Unrest
Date: 22 February 1987
LEAD: JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 21 (AP) -
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An Opium Warlord's News Conference Spurs Burma and Thailand to Battle Him
Date: 22 February 1987
By Barbara Crossette, Special To the New York Times
Barbara Crossette
LEAD: An opium warlord whose narcotics trafficking supports an armed rebellion against Burma is reported to be under separate military attacks from Burmese and Thai forces.
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Love Story: Part II
Date: 22 February 1987
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
LEAD: HE was a lawyer who once ran for New York State Assemblyman. She was a friend who lived in the Bronx. He said he loved her, but she rejected him after learning he was married. He hired three thugs to throw lye in her face, so ''no one else will want you.''
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