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Date: 16 August 1989
LEAD: Pamela Hill, an executive at ABC News whose documentaries have won several broadcast journalism awards, said yesterday that she would leave ABC to head a new documentary unit for the Cable News Network. At CNN, she will be a vice president and executive producer, titles she has held at ABC since 1979.
Date: 17 August 1989
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: The National Association of Black Journalists began its annual convention at the New York Hilton yesterday in an atmosphere of collective self-confidence and optimism, despite continuing frustration over the level of minority representation in news organizations.
Date: 16 August 1989
AP
LEAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether USA Today's financial columnist, Dan Dorfman, was used, wittingly or unwittingly, by people who gave him information in order to manipulate stock prices, U.S. News & World Report said in its Aug. 21 issue published today.
Date: 16 August 1989
AP
LEAD: The Gannett Company today announced several management changes in its newspaper division, including the appointment of Craig A. Moon as president and publisher of The Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock.
Date: 17 August 1989
By Steven R. Weisman, Special To the New York Times
Steven Weisman
LEAD: When a former mistress of the Prime Minister of Japan decided to disclose her story to the public a few months ago, she went first to two of the nation's establishment newspapers. Thank you very much, she was told. But they did not publish it.
Date: 17 August 1989
By Maureen Dowd, Special To the New York Times
Maureen Dowd
LEAD: President Bush has agreed to a suggestion by his director of drug policy, William J. Bennett, to deliver his first nationally televised address on the subject of drugs.
Date: 17 August 1989
LEAD: Solidarity and two small parties that traditionally supported Poland's ruling Communist Party agreed Wednesday to propose that Lech Walesa, the union's founder, be allowed to form a government. Page A1 Lebanon's warring factions fought more artillery and rocket duels despite urgent calls for an end to the bloodshed from the U.N.
Date: 16 August 1989
LEAD: International A3-11 Syria and Iran called for the defeat of the Christian Lebanese army. It was Iran's most conspicuous show of support for the Syrian side in the Lebanese conflict. Page A1 The Pope called the shelling of Beirut an attempt at ''genocide,'' and he directly accused Syria of seeking Lebanon's destruction.
Date: 16 August 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: Following are excerpts from President Bush's news conference here today, as recorded by The New York Times: OPENING STATEMENT
Date: 16 August 1989
AP
LEAD: Glenn McCutchen, managing editor of The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution since 1985, has been promoted to executive editor of the newspapers, they announced over the weekend.