NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 19 February 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-25
19. februar 1989 var en søndag under stjernetegnet for ♒. Det var 49 dag på året. Præsident for USA var George Bush.
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Date: 20 February 1989
AP
LEAD: The E. W. Scripps Company announced Friday that it had completed the sale of The Sun-Tattler, a newspaper in Hollywood, Fla., to DTH Media Inc., which owns The Dallas Times Herald. Terms were not disclosed.
Date: 20 February 1989
AP
LEAD: The British publisher Robert Maxwell canceled an important address Friday about the introduction of his English-language newspaper, The European, saying his editorial team was not yet ''pursuing shared goals and a unified concept.''
Date: 19 February 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: After more than a year of trying to assure travelers that the Holy Land is safe - that Arabs and Jews aren't fighting on every corner - tourism officials here admit that 1988 was a terrible year and agree that Israel's tourism woes will not be solved until its political problems are.
Date: 20 February 1989
By Albert Scardino
Albert Scardino
LEAD: AROUND the country, editors, reporters and commentators who produced exceptional material last year are agonizing as they await the announcement March 30 of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism.
Date: 20 February 1989
By Jeremy Gerard
Jeremy Gerard
LEAD: Diane Sawyer will reportedly earn $7.5 million under her new five-year contract with ABC, which hired her away from CBS with the offer of an anchor's chair. CBS is negotiating with Connie Chung of NBC for a job that will give her more visibility and most likely more than a million dollars a year. And in New York two weeks ago, the CBS flagship station hired away Ernie Anastos, an anchor at the A
Date: 19 February 1989
LEAD: THE director of the Central Intelligence Agency has always had broad authority to discharge any employee deemed a security risk, and that authority was acknowledged last year by the United States Supreme Court. But, the Court added, the power is not unrestrained.
Date: 19 February 1989
LEAD: FOR more than a decade, consumer groups have successfully fought attempts by manufacturers to add ground bone to hot dogs, sausages and other processed meats without telling buyers. The mixture of meat and bone results when machines are used to strip animal carcasses, and the Federal Department of
Date: 19 February 1989
LEAD: WHEN a house has at least 70 rooms, 30-foot-high ceilings, walls two feet thick and a dining room that can seat 200 guests, is it a chateau, a mansion, a castle, or perhaps a hotel? Realty people called the house, in Huntington, L.I., one of the largest private homes in the nation.