Strikers Agree With The News On a Mediator
Date: 12 February 1991
By Alan Finder
Alan Finder
The Daily News and leaders of its striking unions agreed yesterday to have William J. Usery, a former United States Secretary of Labor, try to mediate the strike, which is now in its fourth month. Mr. Usery, a private labor mediator, has been a vital figure in settling a number of bitter labor disputes, including the 10-month strike at the Pittston Coal Company in West Virginia last year, as well as disputes involving Chicago public school teachers, professional football players, and the United Automobile Workers and General Motors and Toyota.
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Networks' Anger With CNN Deepens
Date: 12 February 1991
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Friction between the broadcast networks and the Cable News Network escalated yesterday when two network news executives accused CNN of making concessions to the Iraqis in exchange for CNN's special access to news from Baghdad in the first three weeks of the war in the Persian Gulf. A CNN executive called the charges "desperate."
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CNN Sees Its Concept Paying Off
Date: 11 February 1991
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
The enormous success enjoyed by the Cable News Network in the first weeks of the Persian Gulf war has been largely a triumph of a concept: providing news as it happens from all over the world virtually around the clock. "It's as though we were in training all this time for just this story," said Ed Turner, the executive vice president of CNN.
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Extortion Charges Dismissed Against 2 Paper Distributors
Date: 12 February 1991
A Federal judge in Brooklyn yesterday dismissed charges that two employees of a wholesale newspaper distributor had extorted payoffs from a home delivery service. Prosecutors said that the two employees, Leo D'Angelo and James McCreay, extorted $30,000 from a company known as Mitchell's, the World's Finest Delivery Service, to assure that their company, the Metropolitan News Company, would provide prompt shipments of The New York Times. Neither Metropolitan News, a distributor based in Long Island City, Queens, which is one of the city's largest, nor The Times was accused of any wrongdoing. In the metropolitan area, most copies of the newspaper reach dealers through independent wholesalers. Yesterday, after the prosecution finished presenting its case in the one-week trial, Judge John R. Bartels of Federal District Court granted a motion by defense lawyers to dismiss the charges on the ground there was not enough evidence to warrant giving the case to the jury. The prosecution's principal witness was the owner of Mitchell's, Roy Newman, who testified about the payments he said he made under duress.
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Correspondents Protest Pool System
Date: 12 February 1991
By R. W. Apple Jr., Special To the New York Times
R. Apple
The imposition of a rigid press pool system in the Persian Gulf war, with fewer than 100 reporters authorized to talk to half a million American servicemen and women, has led to the detention of correspondents and angry protests to military authorities. More than two dozen reporters and photographers have been held for up to eight hours by the United States or the Saudi military for trying to cover the war on their own, without military escorts. Dozens of others have managed, often with the help of rented four-wheel-drive vehicles, to cut across the desert or otherwise to avoid detection by military policemen.
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The Senator, the Press And Crossed Swords
Date: 12 February 1991
By Robin Toner, Special To the New York Times
Robin Toner
The lan guage of modern politics has be come as bland and as standardized as fast food, the tiniest variations on a very limited set of themes. In that setting, Senator Alan K. Simpson, Republican of Wyoming, stands out, railing against "boobs" and "bug-eyed zealots" and Democrats with "burning bosoms" for the Presidency. Some of his political opponents said there was more arrogance than charm to his broadsides, but Mr. Simpson acquired a reputation in Washington as a quotable, witty man. Still, Mr. Simpson's most recent attack, against the CNN reporter Peter Arnett, has prompted a flurry of columns, editorials and angry statements that this time the Wyoming Republican went too far.
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Far From Gulf, British Royalty Is Under Fire
Date: 12 February 1991
By William E. Schmidt, Special To the New York Times
William Schmidt
Amid the distant rumbles of war in the Persian Gulf, a second front has opened in Britain. London newspapers are exchanging shots with Buckingham Palace following reports that some younger members of the royal family are cavorting while the rest of Britain goes to war. Editorial writers and pundits in papers ranging from the street-corner tabloids to the staider Sunday Times have implored the Queen and her aides in recent days to make the more impetuous of the royal brood behave with agreater sense of decorum and restraint. "This country is at war," The Sunday Times said in its main editorial, "though you would never believe it from the shenanigans of some members of Her Majesty's clan." The newspaper cited public accounts in recent weeks of the Duchess of York skiing, the Prince of Wales pheasant hunting, the Duke of York golfing and Lord Linley, the Queen's nephew, at a nightclub on a Caribbean island, wearing red lipstick and standing alongside other men dressed in drag. In a rare counterattack, Buckingham Palace answered the volley late on Sunday. "Queen Fires a Patriot,"The Sun, a tabloid, said in a banner headline this morning, describing the palace's quick riposte. "All members of the royal family are behind British forces every inch of the way," said a statement attributed to the Queen, which included a long inventory of the visits and events attended in recent weeks by members of the royal family that were intended to lend support to service personnel and their families. Moreover, there was a raft of announcements on the press wires today describing the visits of various members of the royal family to military installations. The Prince and Princess ofWales traveled to the Royal Navy base in Plymouth, Devon, the home port of many ships in the gulf; Princess Anne flew to Germany to meet the families of servicemen, and the Duchess of York is preparing to go to the Royal Naval Air station at Portland on Tuesday. Andrew Morton, a historian and author of several books on the royal family, said the criticism by The Sunday Times "has obviously touched a raw nerve." He said the royal family had a strong military tradition. "Prince Philip served in the Second World War, George VI, the future King, fought at the Battle of Jutland, and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, fought in Falklands," he said. "As you remember, he flew a helicopter as a decoy for Exocet missiles, so I don't think there shouldbe any question about his willingness to serve." Prince Andrew is now a naval flight commander, but the ship on which he serves has not been sent to the gulf. On the BBC television news tonight, in a discussion about the controversy, Lord St. John of Fawsley, a former Conservative minister, called the newspaper attacks "garbage." Among other things, he noted that the picture of Lord Linley wearing lipstick was taken several months before the war broke out. But Howard Brooks-Baker, an expert on the royalty and the publishing director of Burke's Peerage, said the war in the gulf had only served to crystallize what he described as building public resentment over the behavior of some members of the royal family. "The Queen and Prince Charles remain immensely popular and beloved," Mr. Brooks-Baker said. "But for several years now, there has been a growing perception that some younger members of the royal family have become a spectacle." In Today, a tabloid, the banner headline this morning read, "Queen in Crisis." "British men and women are facing death in the service of their country," the paper wrote. "Yet the nearest a royal has got to front line action is grouse shooting." Appearing on a television program this week, Andrew Neil, the editor of The Sunday Times, said he wanted to apologize for an earlier remark in which he compared the royal family to a soap opera. He said he was sorry because the comparison was unfair to soap operas.
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Censors Screen Pooled Reports
Date: 12 February 1991
The American-led military command in Saudi Arabia has put into effect press restrictions under which journalists are assembled in groups and given access to military sources. The pool reporters obtain information while under military escort, and their accounts are subject to scrutiny by military censors before being distributed. Some of the information appearing today on American military operations was obtained under such circumstances.
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Censors Screen Pooled Reports
Date: 11 February 1991
The American-led military command in Saudi Arabia has put into effect press restrictions under which journalists are assembled in groups and given access to military sources. The pool reporters obtain information while under military escort, and their accounts are subject to scrutiny by military censors before being distributed. Some of the information appearing today on American military operations was obtained under such circumstances.
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Salvador Editor Says Attack Won't Keep Paper Shuttered
Date: 11 February 1991
AP
The director of an independent newspaper whose presses were destroyed in a fire that officials described as arson said today that the paper would continue to publish. "It is not by bombs or by attacks that they are going to quiet Diario Latino," the director, Francisco Valencia, said. Mr. Valencia blamed the armed forces and El Salvador's rightist Government for the blaze on Saturday that destroyed presses, computers and office equipment at the 101-year-old publication.
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