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On Sunday; At Keyboard, A Prophet With Honor

Date: 14 August 1994

By Francis X. Clines

Francis Clines

SEVEN decades of deadlines have come and gone for David Horowitz and he is still filing three times a week as a reporter, hacking away from a paper-stacked slum of a desk, his typewriter a clacking relic, his wizened outlook worthy of "The Front Page" characters who bark cynically at life's endless stories and tiresome deadlines. But he is a far gentler soul who predates "The Front Page," however much we search for the goose-necked phone amid the desk trash, hoping he'll demand, Sweetheart, get him Rewrite, so he can confide he has Boutros Boutros-Ghali concealed in a rolltop desk for an exclusive interview.

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Connecticut Q & A: Richard Valeriani; The Word on Getting Out the Word

Date: 14 August 1994

By Dominic Mariani

Dominic Mariani

RICHARD VALERIANI spent more than 31 years as a correspondent for NBC News and The Associated Press, reporting from 90 countries and all 50 states. As a Washington correspondent for NBC for almost 20 years, Mr. Valeriani covered the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon and wrote "Travels With Henry" (Houghton, Mifflin, 1979), about the 500,000-plus miles he traveled covering Henry A. Kissinger, then Secretary of State.

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In Last-Minute Rites, Salinas Weds Democracy

Date: 15 August 1994

By Tim Golden

Tim Golden

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 14 As ever, he hurries around the country, snipping the ribbons on new highways, forgiving farm loans to peasants, preaching a gospel of Mexican change. But in the twilight of his power, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has a new religion. Having sought for most of his administration to hold back pressure for greater democracy in order to carry off sweeping economic changes without jeopardizing his party's 65-year hold on power, Mr. Salinas is now embracing the country's demands for political reform. - With the approach of elections next Sunday, he has called on Government officials to refrain from the sort of fraud that stained his own presidency, pressed for more impartiality from the television networks that have often been his propagandists, and made peace with some of his bitter critics. Perhaps most important, he has repeated again and again that he will observe a basic democratic mandate that has gone untested in Mexico since his Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, was formed in 1929: Mr. Salinas, who is barred from re-election under the Constitution, says he will turn over power to whoever wins a fair vote regardless of the party the victor represents. 'We Mean Business'

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Stocks Rise in Japan

Date: 15 August 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Japanese stocks were slightly lower here today. The benchmark Nikkei index of 225 issues closed down 37.50 points, or nearly two-tenths of 1 percent, at 20,626.33. On Friday, the Nikkei fell 157.53 points.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 14 August 1994

International 3-19 MASSACRES SAID TO BE SYSTEMATIC The mass killings that began in Rwanda in April were not random, but a systematic strategy to wipe out an ethnic group, say witnesses, many of whom were forced to join the killing, or pretend to, to spare their lives or others. 1 Burundi shaken but marching ahead after blast. 17

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 15 August 1994

International A2-7 A GESTURE FROM SEOUL After Washington and Pyongyang signed an agreement on nuclear issues, South Korea offered the North modern nuclear power plants if it will open its nuclear program to international inspection. A1

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Simpson Trial's Allure Puts State Politicians on the Spot

Date: 14 August 1994

By Michael Janofsky

Michael Janofsky

As if luring voters out of their growing political apathy and Election Day ennui is not hard enough in California, campaign strategists around the state are facing a new impediment: the trial of O. J. Simpson. With jury selection expected to start on Sept. 15, just seven weeks before voters choose a governor and senator, 52 members of the House and 100 state legislators, the trial seems certain to grip public attention for months. That prospect has left candidates in California scrambling to find new ways to get their faces seen and messages out, especially in Los Angeles, the state's largest market.

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THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Radio Advertisers Tune In to Russia's Evolving Middle Class

Date: 15 August 1994

By Douglas Herbert

Douglas Herbert

Scan any FM radio dial in Russia these days and you may detect a rumbling across the airwaves -- something like the sound of rubles on the run. Advertisers here are on the prowl, in quest of listeners in a new and evolving Russia. Russian democracy is not the only thing in flux in the post-perestroika 1990's; so, too, are demographics.

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Aide Is Seen As Successor To Altman

Date: 15 August 1994

By Keith Bradsher

Keith Bradsher

With Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger C. Altman clinging to his post, Administration officials said today that an early favorite to replace him was Frank N. Newman, the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen has not begun a formal search for a replacement for Mr. Altman, who damaged his credibility with his Congressional testimony on Whitewater, but Mr. Newman is the official most frequently mentioned in the White House and the Treasury Department, said the officials, who insisted on anonymity.

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Robyn M. Watts, Nicholas Platt Jr.

Date: 14 August 1994

Robyn Marie Watts, a daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Robert Watts, was married yesterday to Nicholas Platt Jr., a son of Ambassador and Mrs. Platt of New York. The Rev. Dr. Chalmers Coe, a United Church of Christ minister, officiated at the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. The bride, 28, is keeping her name. She graduated from the University of Michigan and is a law student at Fordham University. Her father was a dentist in Detroit.

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