NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 18 December 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-29
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18th of December 1988 News
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 19 December 1988
LEAD: International A3-13 Poor nations are losing wealth to richer ones in amounts that will reach record levels this year, 50 percent above 1987, a World Bank report said. Page A1
Bush Is Said to Be Upset by News Leaks
Date: 18 December 1988
By Gerald M. Boyd, Special To the New York Times
Gerald
LEAD: President-elect Bush, hoping to set a tone for his administration, is determined to use public expressions of outrage and private threats of reprisals to battle leaks to journalists, senior aides said today.
'Breezy, Not Sleazy' Tabloid Folds in Britain
Date: 19 December 1988
By Steve Lohr, Special To the New York Times
Steve Lohr
LEAD: Eddie Shah, the entrepreneur who helped revolutionize Fleet Street, is abandoning the British newspaper industry, announcing that Saturday's issue of his five-week-old tabloid, The Post, was its last.
Editor Deported By Lesotho
Date: 18 December 1988
AP
LEAD: The authorities today deported an editor who was detained for six weeks after his weekly newspaper began publishing articles on Government corruption in this mountain kingdom surrounded by South Africa. The security police took South African-born Johnny Maseko, the 29-year-old editor of The Mirror, from a cell to a flight for Nairobi, Kenya.
Reporter's Notebook; In the Earthquake's Aftermath in Armenia, Soviet Press Barriers Tumble
Date: 19 December 1988
By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times
Bill Keller
LEAD: Last Tuesday night three reporters from Moscow - an American, a Spaniard and an Englishman - arrived at the airport here and cadged a ride with a truck driver delivering volunteers from a Ukrainian mountain-climbing club to help rescue survivors in the earthquake zone.
The Great War Of the Raisins
Date: 18 December 1988
LEAD: IN a parallel to the old my-wash-is-whiter-than-your-wash TV commercials, the General Foods Corporation advertised its Post raisin bran cereal and suggested, in effect: ''Our raisins are better than their raisins.''
A House No One Wanted to Touch
Date: 18 December 1988
LEAD: FOR 14 years, the Selph family lived in peace in their two-bedroom house in Jasper, Fla. In August, two days after workers put in a new heating and air-conditioning system, the nightmare began.
A Franchise Fight And Civil Rights
Date: 18 December 1988
LEAD: WHY did the Best Western motel chain cancel its franchise contract with the Red Bull Motor Inn in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.?