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THE STORM'S HAVOC: Television; New TV Outlet Wearily Takes A Starring Role

Date: 13 December 1992

By Clifford J. Levy

Clifford Levy

The storm that has pummeled the New York metropolitan region has given New York 1 News, the nascent 24-hour cable station, its first chance to play a role similar to that of CNN during the Persian Gulf War -- albeit on a local scale. In the station's chaotic newsroom at 460 West 42d Street in Manhattan, the mission was clear: churn the information. Give viewers updates about the weather, the traffic and the subways so they can slog their way through the city. Then update them again.

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Seared by Faces of Need, Americans Say, 'How Could We Not Do This?'

Date: 13 December 1992

By Peter Applebome

Peter Applebome

Huddled against the cold outside the Franklin County Agricultural Co-Op, his 18-wheeler loaded with pig innards, Todd Schuppert doesn't consider himself an expert on foreign affairs, but he knows exactly what he thinks about the decision to send American troops to Somalia. "I think it's a pretty doggone good idea," said Mr. Schuppert, a 31-year-old truck driver from Pekin, Ind. "You just have to turn on a television to see that those people need help, and no one else is going to help them but us."

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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Press Notes; Criticism Is Sharp, Ax Is Well Ground

Date: 14 December 1992

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

Photocopy machines are overheating in newsrooms across the country as reporters busily copy pirated galleys of the latest diatribe against the corporate influence over newspapers. "Read All About It! The Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers," to be published next month by the Times Books division of Random House, is by James D. Squires, editor of The Chicago Tribune until he was forced out in 1989. Mr. Squires was also Ross Perot's spokesman, and he has cast himself as a sort-of Ross Perot of journalism carrying a painful message. "The press as an institution," he writes, "appears ready to trade its tradition and public responsibility for whatever will make a buck."

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Cuban Rights Advocate Beaten and Detained

Date: 13 December 1992

By Tim Golden

Tim Golden

One of Cuba's most prominent human rights advocates was being held by the authorities today after being beaten by a mob of Government supporters, his friends and relatives said. The human rights advocate, Elizardo Sanchez, who is the leader of one of Cuba's tiny dissident human rights groups, was said to be recovering in a military hospital after having been dragged from a friend's apartment on Thursday afternoon and beaten nearly unconscious.

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Juggling Jobs and the Deficit: Executives Doubtful

Date: 13 December 1992

By Louis Uchitelle

Louis Uchitelle

Many of America's senior executives say job creation is the Government's most important immediate task and the budget deficit the nation's most important economic problem. But foreshadowing what is almost certain to be a major economic conflict of Bill Clinton's Presidency, the executives say that the President-elect will not be able to address those two concerns simultaneously. Those views, on the eve of Mr. Clinton's economic summit in Little Rock, Ark., this week, surfaced in a New York Times/CBS News poll of 499 senior executives in early December and in follow-up interviews with a dozen of them. Both the poll results and the interviews revealed some enthusiasm for the new President. While 53 percent of the executives voted for George Bush, a whopping 71 percent said the President had not displayed as much concern for the economy as Clinton had during the campaign. And 81 percent said the Clinton election has increased consumer confidence and spending.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 13 December 1992

International 3-29 U.S. DESTROYS 3 SOMALI VEHICLES

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 14 December 1992

International A3-11 DONORS FORCE RUSSIA TO WAIT Political uncertainty and a global recession have pushed large-scale aid to Russia off the international agenda -- even though experts agree that it is essential for the transformation of the country to a free-market economy. A1 Officials see hope in President Yeltsin's accord with lawmakers. A10

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For NBC, Hard Times and Miscues

Date: 13 December 1992

By Geraldine Fabrikant

Geraldine Fabrikant

YOU thought the Queen of England had it bad this year? Look at what happened to NBC, the king of television just three years ago. There was the embarrassing flop of the Olympic triplecast, the network's heavily promoted tie-in with cable TV.

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Frank C. Wright, 59, A Finance Executive

Date: 13 December 1992

Frank C. Wright Jr., a finance executive, died on Friday in Newport News, Va., where he was on business. He was 59 and lived in Manhattan and Mantoloking, N.J. He died of heart failure, his family said.

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Frank C. Wright, 59, A Finance Executive

Date: 14 December 1992

Frank C. Wright Jr., a finance executive, died on Friday in Newport News, Va., where he was on business. He was 59 and lived in Manhattan and Mantoloking, N.J. He died of heart failure, his family said.

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