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4th of November 1991 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 4 november 1991
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 05 November 1991
International A3-15 A PAUSE IN THE MIDEAST TALKS American officials said there would have to be a pause before the next round of direct Middle East peace talks to allow the negotiators time to consider their positions and for the United States to find a meeting place. Page A1 News analysis: A day after the talks recessed, Palestinian negotiators were far less euphoric than they first appeared and said they were facing an unyielding foe. A12 An ex-diplomat finds a sad irony in the Israeli-Palestinian talks. A12 NEW SETTLEMENT IN GOLAN HEIGHTS Driving home its claim to the territory and its insistence that Syria will not get it back, Israel inaugurated a new settlement for Soviet immigrants in the Golan Heights. A13 Despair and defiance in a southern Lebanese village. A13 U.N. aide hopes for talks in Iraq on aid and security forces A14 GORBACHEV WARNS OF 'ABYSS' Amid a report of a serious shortfall in the grain harvest, President Gorbachev warned that the Soviet Union was near an "abyss" and urged leaders of the republics to back an economic reform program. A1 NATIONWIDE STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA A strike paralyzed factories and businesses across South Africa and left people without the services provided by black employees. A3 Zambia's peaceful transition A14 MARCOS STIRS PHILIPPINE CONFLICTS On her first day back in the Philippines, Imelda Marcos played to well-organized crowds amid speculation that her presence would complicate next year's presidential vote. A5 Secretary of State Baker's planned visit to China was criticized. A11 ORDEAL OF SURVIVAL IN THE ARCTIC The crash of a Canadian military supply plane near the North Pole began an ordeal of survival in the frozen darkness of the Arctic. A8 EX-KING OF AFGHANISTAN STABBED The former King of Afghanistan was stabbed and wounded at his villa in northern Rome by an assailant posing as a journalist. A6 Marianske Lazne Journal: How will it be next year at Marienbad? A4 Yugoslav and Croatian forces battle fiercely across a long front. A3 Hooded gunmen killed 16 Peruvian Indians at a barbecue in Lima. A10 National A16-23 BANKING BILL REJECTED The House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected legislation that would have made it more difficult for banks to expand into the securities and insurance businesses than the Bush Administration wants. A1 DEBATE ON BREAST IMPLANTS A Federal advisory panel will decide next week on further regulation of the devices, a question that has divided women as well as doctors and manufacturers. A1 INSURANCE GATE OPENS State insurance commissioners said people reaching the age of 65 would now be able to buy private health insurance without the chance of being rejected because of illness, injury of prior medical problems. A1 A DAY FOR THE RECORD BOOK For the first time in history, five Presidents of the United States gathered for the dedication the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. A16 DEBATE ON C.I.A. CHOICE The Senate began debating the nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence. A vote is scheduled for this evening. A16 YOUTH AND ALCOHOL The Surgeon General said beer and wine makers were aiming their television commercials at children by including sports heroes, parties and other images that appeal to teen-agers. A16 ON RIGHTS AND RACE The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether criminal defendants can use their jury challenges in a racially discriminatory manner. A20 ZEROING IN ON GUNS Voters in Washington, D.C., are expected to approve an ordinance that makes assault-gun manufacturers liable for deaths and injuries whether they are negligent or not. A23 NO PUSH YET FOR ECONOMIC FIX President Bush's budget director said Republicans would delay any push that was designed to encourage economic growth because any such move attempted now would be counterproductive. A22 EXECUTIVES SPEAK OUT As the economy American continues to flounder, business leaders are becoming less reticent about expressing their opinions about what needs to be done. D1 The Pennsylvania Senate race goes down to the wire. A22 Justice Thomas's wife says she was sexually harassed at work. A20 Metropolitan Digest, B1 FIGHTING DESPAIR IN THE BRONX In Mott Haven in the South Bronx, where poverty cuts deeper than the lack of money, resources are strained as drugs, along with fear, plague the streets and homeless families are moved into shelters. But there are signs of hope. A1 LEGISLATIVE CONTROL AT STAKE New Jersey voters have control of both houses of the Legislature in their hands as they go to the polls in one of the state's most expensive midterm elections. And the vote's outcome is sure to change the way the state is governed. A1 Business Digest, D1 Science Times Demographers say some of the world's women are missing C1 Does a machine think? A key test approaches C1 A common aquarium fish as laboratory animal C1 Doctors meet with Centers for Disease Control on AIDS dangers C2 Science Q&A C9 Peripherals C8 Arts/Entertainment Playwright transcends past C13 Vienna museum electrifies C13 Theater: New Arthur Miller play divides London critics C13 Music: Second round for new music at Carnegie Hall C14 Dance: Japan meets Taos C13 Word and Image: A novel of rapture in a convent C17 Animating a prince's book C18 Ways to present a war C18 Fashion Page B7 The prettiness of springtime Patterns Sports B9-15 Baseball: Cubbage stays with Mets B15 Morris may file for free agency B15 Basketball: Riley plans to keep Knicks busy B11 Hockey: Rangers shut out Flames B19 Obituaries B8 William Olsten, pioneer in temporary-employment business Editorials/Op-Ed Editorials A24 It's no longer "the Arabs" A24 White House's sloppy ethics A24 Zambia retires its liberator A24 Election Day choices A24 Letters A24 A. M. Rosenthal: Saving Louisiana A25 Russell Baker: Polls and quacks A25 James Vorenberg: Dying gently, with dignity A25 Yale Kamisar: An unraveling of morality A25
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 04 November 1991
International A3-10 ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS In a day that finally brought Israel into separate, direct talks with its Arab neighbors, the Israelis and Palestinians announced they would soon discuss Palestinian self-rule for the occupied territories. Page A1 SILENCE REPLACED BY SCREAMING News Analysis: The Middle East peace conference started off with kicking and screaming, but it opened the first viable negotiating process since Camp David in 1978. A1 ISRAEL CURBS SHELLING IN LEBANON Israeli forces scaled back their shelling of guerrilla targets in southern Lebanon, and hundreds of families who had fled returned home. A8 U.S. SEEKING SOVIET SPACE BARGAINS The United States, once indifferent to Soviet efforts to market space goods and services, now shows the zeal of a bargain hunter. A1 BAKER VISIT TO CHINA ANNOUNCED Secretary of State Baker will soon become the highest American official to visit China since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. A5 THE RETURN OF IMELDA MARCOS Nearly six years after fleeing in disgrace with crates of gold and pesos, Imelda Marcos set foot on Philippine soil again to face court charges of graft and tax evasion, and perhaps to run for President. A3 RICE AND REBELLION IN JAPAN Ogata Journal: A rural village is the site of a rice rebellion, one that Tokyo is eager to put down before it spreads throughout Japan. A4 HAITIAN COUP LEADER'S RATIONALE Gen. Raoul Cedras, the leader of the army in last month's coup in Haiti, says he has no use for power but only seeks respect for the country's institutions. A7 An army camp in Zaire illustrates an economic and political crisis. A6 The Yugoslav Army attacked the Croatian town of Vukovar. A3 National A12-17 UNDERGROUND PHARMACIES More and more people with AIDS are getting together to buy drugs from abroad that are not otherwise available. Government has looked the other way but is beginning to scrutinize the operations. A1 THE BALLOONING DEFICIT A year after the five-year budget agreement was sealed, the deficit has swollen by $100 billion, to a record $360 billion. But the deal has proved advantageous in other, more political, ways. A1 CBS PAYS $8 MILLION FOR 'SCARLETT' CBS and a group of foreign investors agreed to buy the rights to the recently published sequel to "Gone With the Wind." The price is nearly four times the previous record for rights to a book. A1. SLAYER AND VICTIMS Who was Gang Lu, the student who killed five people at the University of Iowa? Where did he get his gun? Who were his victims? A12 THE C.I.A. REACHES OUT. . . . . .and gets its fingers slapped. The spy agency's new recruiting campaign woos blacks and others, but in ways that rub some the wrong way. A14 BIG CITY, BIG TROUBLES Philadelphia, a city with lots of problems, gets ready to choose a successor to Mayor Wilson Goode. A17 LAW, ORDER AND ANGER Hit by recession and taxes, a tiny Maine community may vote to end its one-man police force. The issue has split the townspeople. A12 FOLEY'S BIG STAKE The term-limit initiative in Washington State could end the career of Thomas S. Foley. The Speaker of the House is fighting mad, and fighting back. A16 Washington State voters will also vote on legal euthanasia. A16 Mayor Art Agnos faces a free-for-all in San Francisco. A16 BARBS IN LOUISIANA Former Governor Edwin Edwards and State Representative David Duke trade nasty remarks about each other's past in their race for Louisiana governor. A17 A RARE MISCALCULATION BY HONDA Known for its marketing savvy, the Japanese auto maker seems to have made its Accord station wagon too small and its price too high. D1. Metropolitan Digest, B1 SHELTERS BREED DEPENDENCY Some residents of New York City's huge, barrack-style shelters for adults are growing comfortable there, staying on for months and even years. The conditions are so grim that many homeless adults prefer to live on the streets. But for some residents, the shelters have become home. A1 Business Digest, D1 Sports C1-13 THEY TAKE NEW YORK On a perfect day for running 26.2 miles, Salvador Garcia of Mexico and Liz McColgan of Scotland were the winners in the New York City Marathon. C1 Disappointment for Ikangaa C6 Colorful scenes in the city C6 A mid-pack runner's day C7 Basketball: Knicks to test character C4 Column: Araton on the marathon C6 TV Sports C8 Anderson on the Jets C10 Features: Sidelines C2 Football: Auburn's Dye says he may have been lax in administration C2 Bowls may settle who is No. 1 C2 Redskins go to 9-0 C10 Bears defeat Lions C10 Jets beat Packers in overtime C11 Several Jets play key roles C11 Giants and Eagles hoping to survive C13 Falcons beat 49ers in wild finish C13 Golf: Stadler wins in playoff C3 Horse Racing: Rising stars and swan songs C4 Horse Show: Glossy finish buffeted by a new lease C4 Olympics: Eyeing political situation in Louisiana C3 Obituaries D9 Irwin Allen, producer of big-budget disaster movies Arts/Entertainment Macaulay Culkin flexes his muscle C15 The Detroit at Carnegie Hall C15 Theater: "A Piece of My Heart" C15 Music: 20 years of the Kitchen C14 "Rusalka," opera by Dvorak C16 Word and Image: TV shows reflect Thomas hearings C15 "The August Coup," by Gorbachev C18 Groucho Marx documentary C18 Editorials/Op-Ed A18-19 Editorials A18 The Soviet Disunion's missiles A18 Mr. Gates and the C.I.A. A18 Autumn Pizazz A18 Vote "Yes," three times A18 Letters A18 Anthony Lewis: Where is the outrage? A19 William Safire: Sununu Whitewash A19 Andrei Shoumikhin, Steven L. Spiegel: Don't give up hope yet A19 Eric Alterman: Democracy's lies A19
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BRIEFS
Date: 05 November 1991
* Aerodyne Products Corp., North Billerica, Mass., acquired the assets and name of Amdex Industrial Computers. Terms were not disclosed. * American Biodyne Inc., South San Francisco, Calif., signed a letter of intent to acquire Achievement and Guidance Centers of America Inc., Newtown, Pa., in an exchange of common stock.
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Fujitsu Drops Offer On Computer
Date: 05 November 1991
By John Markoff
John Markoff
Responding to opposition from Washington, Fujitsu Ltd. has withdrawn an offer to donate a supercomputer to a Colorado-based international consortium of electric utility organizations. Japanese entry into the United States supercomputer market has caused friction between the two countries in recent years. Until recently American companies, notably the Cray Research Corporation, have dominated the world's supercomputer market.
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Lockheed to Buy Back Up to 6.3% of Its Stock
Date: 05 November 1991
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
The Lockheed Corporation said today that it would repurchase as many as four million of its shares, or 6.3 percent of its outstanding common stock. At current prices, the buyback would cost Lockheed $180 million.
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Time's Blending Print With Video
Date: 04 November 1991
By Deirdre Carmody
Deirdre Carmody
Even as the formidable impact of television news is forcing Time magazine to redefine itself, the Time Inc. Magazine Company is vigorously developing new ways to use television to market its magazines. Some Time magazine correspondents now carry small eight-millimeter cameras when they go out on assignments in order to shoot footage for possible use on network and local television.
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New Today: The Metro Section
Date: 04 November 1991
Today The New York Times begins expanded coverage of the New York region and the five boroughs in an enlarged and redesigned section. More pages will be devoted to metropolitan news, gathered and organized by a larger staff of reporters, photographers, editors and graphic artists. In Today's Issue * Inside Cuomo's mind. * Reinventing Manhattan's economic role. * This week's traffic outlook. * Metro Digest, page B1.
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Workers Go on Strike At 2 Caterpillar Plants
Date: 04 November 1991
In an effort to get Caterpillar Inc. to make concessions at the bargaining table, the United Auto Workers announced a strike last night at two Caterpillar factories. The union's workers at Caterpillar's mining equipment factory in Decatur, Ill., and tractor assembly factory in East Peoria, Ill., did not report for work at midnight. The Decatur factory employs 2,000 U.A.W. members, and the East Peoria plant 400. There are 16,000 U.A.W. members at seven Caterpillar plants in the United States. Caterpillar has refused to accept the union's demand that it sign the same agreement accepted recently by Deere & Company, a manufacturer of farm equipment and other heavy equipment. At a news conference last night, Bill Casstevens, the union's secretary-treasurer, said the union wanted to persuade the company to "abandon attempts at takeaways" but to limit the impact of a broader strike. Caterpillar last night asked for a Federal mediator's help.
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Warning of 'Abyss,' Gorbachev Demands Republics Cooperate
Date: 05 November 1991
By Celestine Bohlen
Celestine Bohlen
Facing a serious shortfall in this year's grain harvest, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned today that the Soviet Union had reached the edge of an "abyss," and urged leaders of the republics to get behind a comprehensive program of economic reform or risk losing the last shred of popular trust earned with the defeat of the hard-line coup in August. "We have irresponsibly managed the capital we gained after the putsch," Mr. Gorbachev said at a meeting of the republic-dominated State Council, according to the independent news agency Interfax. "The people believed in us, but we have not yet justified their hopes."
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Public Relations Conference Is Devoted to Ethical Topics
Date: 04 November 1991
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
ASKED if it were not paradoxical for the annual meeting of the Public Relations Society of America to be devoted to ethics, the organization's president offered a response worthy of his profession. "Some people could be cynical about it; some people are cynical about the news media and reporters, too," said Joe S. Epley in a telephone interview last week from Phoenix as he prepared for his society's 44th national conference, which began yesterday.
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