NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 01 September 1988
LEAD: International A3-17
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Date: 01 September 1988
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
LEAD: * Premiere, a movie magazine that is owned by Hatchette S.A. of France and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, will raise both its rate base and circulation 50 percent as of January. Circulation will rise to 375,000, from 250,000.
Date: 01 September 1988
By Albert Scardino
Albert Scardino
LEAD: The Arkansas Democrat of Little Rock will today join the battle over the proposed merger of The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, taking the side of readers and advertisers who oppose the combination.
Date: 01 September 1988
LEAD: The New York Times announced yesterday that it had reached a tentative contract agreement with unionized deliverers.
Date: 31 August 1988
By E. R. Shipp
E. Shipp
LEAD: For blacks in journalism, passages from the Kerner Commission's report of 1968 have become as familiar as the words of Frederick Douglass or W. E. B. DuBois.
Date: 01 September 1988
By Susan Chira, Special To the New York Times
Susan Chira
LEAD: South Korea's powerful army intelligence service, long free from scrutiny and accountability, is facing unusual public criticism after senior intelligence officials ordered the knifing of a journalist who had criticized the military.
Date: 01 September 1988
AP
LEAD: Geo. A. Hormel & Company has informed nearly half of the workers at its plant in Fremont, Neb., that they will be laid off in a year. The notices, given 52 weeks before the expected layoffs, are required by the collective bargaining agreement between the meatpacker and Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
Date: 31 August 1988
Reuters
LEAD: Hambros P.L.C., the international banking and financial services group, said it had bought Harry Roman & Company, a privately owned mergers and acquisitions group based in Los Angeles, for an undisclosed sum. Harry Roman should increase Hambros's offerings to its United States clients, the London-based banking group said in a statement.
Date: 31 August 1988
Reuters
LEAD: Northeast Utilities said it had arranged with a group of New England utilities to provide three months of additional short-term financing for the portion of the Seabrook nuclear project subject to default. The Seabrook project is a 1,150-megawatt nuclear plant on the New Hampshire shoreline, awaiting licensing from the Federal Government.