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Date: 15 May 1991
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Time Warner will create a new cable television channel devoted exclusively to news about New York City, the company announced yesterday. The channel, which will begin operation in early 1992, will offer news about the 5 boroughs of New York 24 hours a day. It will be available in the homes now reached by cable systems in the city owned by Time Warner.
Date: 14 May 1991
By Alan Finder
Alan Finder
Eight weeks after the British publisher Robert Maxwell took over The Daily News and ended a bitter five-month strike, the New York newspaper has overcome initial difficulties in production and distribution and has begun to rebuild its circulation. But whether The News will approach the daily circulation of almost 1.1 million that it had before the strike began last October, when it was the nation's largest daily tabloid, is still in doubt. Newspaper investment analysts and newspaper executives say it will be months before the long-term prospects of The News become more clear.
Date: 14 May 1991
AP
Charles Lewis Whipple, a former editor of the editorial page of The Boston Globe and the newspaper's first ombudsman, died of complications after surgery on Sunday at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass. He was 77 years old. Mr. Whipple retired as ombudsman in 1979 after 43 years at The Globe. From 1979 to 1982 he was an editor of China Daily, an English-language newspaper, in Beijing. He also worked for Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.
Date: 15 May 1991
Ellis Henican, who writes the column "In the Subways" for New York Newsday, has won the 1991 Meyer Berger Award for reporting on New York City, Joan Conner, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, announced yesterday. The $1,000 prize is named for the late Meyer Berger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who wrote the "About New York" column in The New York Times for many years before his death in 1958.
Date: 14 May 1991
By Barbara Crossette
Barbara Crossette
A crowd of about 5,000 had been waiting six hours when V. P. Singh rolled into this agricultural town in the early hours of the day on his nonstop election campaign. Buoyed by the welcome after nearly 12 hours on bumpy roads in intense heat, Mr. Singh, a former Prime Minister fighting hard to return to power, apologized for his late arrival, and then turned his attack not on his political opponents but on the press.
Date: 14 May 1991
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 A Middle East arms control proposal, drafted by Washington, would ban nuclear and chemical weapons in the region. President Bush said the United States was "foreswearing" the use of chemical weapons. Page A1 Secretary of State Baker pressed the Soviet Union to accept a United Nations force in northern Iraq. The Soviet Foreign Minister said he would consider Mr. Baker's request but did not signal an answer. A10
Date: 15 May 1991
International A3-17 Winnie Mandela was sentenced to six years in prison for her involvement in the kidnapping and assault of four young men in late 1988. Page A1
Date: 15 May 1991
* Acclaim Entertainment Inc., Oyster Bay, L.I., a distributor of home entertainment software, acquired the right from Nintendo Co. to release five additional Nintendo Entertainment System titles a year in Europe. Terms were not disclosed. * Boeing Co., Seattle, said its Defense and Space Group would close its office in Brussels on July 1 and that it would consolidate northern European, NATO and British operations at its London office.
Date: 14 May 1991
* ABB Henschel Waggon Union G.m.b.H., a unit of ABB Asea Brown Boveri, has received an $80 million order for railway cars from Deutsche Bundesbahn, Frankfurt. * Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif., a computer services company, will acquire Butler Cox P.L.C., London, an information technology consulting firm, for about $22 million.
Date: 15 May 1991
AP
The building products manufacturer Nortek Inc. said it would default on $31 million in bonds. The 8.92 percent notes mature on Wednesday, but Nortek said it could not repay the debt while meeting its other obligations.