Fate of Daily News Seen at Stake as Labor Talks Start
Date: 22 January 1990
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: After months of bitter verbal sparring, labor and management at the 70-year-old Daily News began the collective-bargaining process last week on negotiations that both sides say are apt to save the paper or sink it.
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China Imposes Tighter Curbs on Foreign Reporters
Date: 21 January 1990
By Nicholas D. Kristof, Special To the New York Times
Nicholas
LEAD: China imposed new restrictions on foreign journalists today and banned articles that in the view of the authorities ''distort facts'' or violate ''the public interest.''
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On-the-Air Diary of a Passage Toward Death
Date: 22 January 1990
By Jane Gross, Special To the New York Times
Jane Gross
LEAD: Once a week here on the evening news, television viewers are making the acquaintance of a man with AIDS, hearing firsthand about his fears and frailties and watching his jaunty passage toward death.
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Murdoch Buys Share of 2 Hungarian Tabloids
Date: 21 January 1990
By Celestine Bohlen, Special To the New York Times
Celestine Bohlen
LEAD: Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born entrepreneur, announced today that his company had bought 50 percent of two independent Hungarian newspapers, making him the first Westerner to make a significant investment in Eastern Europe's emerging free press.
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Topics of The Times; Banned in Beirut
Date: 22 January 1990
LEAD: One of the few glories of Beirut to survive 15 years of sectarian violence has been its lively press. Three papers published in the Christian East sector of the city and seven in the Muslim West have circulated on both sides of the dividing Green Line, offering an antidote to unfounded rumors and managed information.
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REPUBLICANS SHOW GAINS IN LOYALTY
Date: 21 January 1990
By Michael Oreskes
Michael Oreskes
LEAD: The Republican Party enjoyed virtual parity in 1989 with the Democrats in the loyalty of Americans for the first time since just after World War II ended.
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Managing; Media Manipulation 101
Date: 21 January 1990
By Claudia H. Deutsch
Claudia Deutsch
LEAD: The battle lines used to be clearly drawn: Reporters were the predators, executives were the prey, and public relations people ran interference between the two.
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A PAWN OF WAR
Date: 21 January 1990
By Jonathan Meyersohn: Jonathan Meyersohn Is A Producer For theCbs Evening News'' In New York City
LEAD: IT HAD ALREADY BEEN A BAD NIGHT. CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENT Juan Vasquez, editor John Mondello and I were covering the United States invasion of Panama as best we could from our edit room on the mezzanine of the Marriott Hotel. We were on an open phone line to the control room in New York, able to go on the air at any time.
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