BOOKS OF THE TIMES;Press Coverage as Performance Art
Date: 22 January 1996
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
BREAKING THE NEWS How the Media Undermine American Democracy By James Fallows
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FIRST PERSON;Life in the War Zone: Bordom and Terror, Bullets and Hepatitis
Date: 21 January 1996
By Donatella Lorch
Donatella Lorch
JUST hours before he was killed, Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old American photographer for Reuters, crouched on the roof of the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu and watched American helicopter gunships swoop down on a nearby Somali house and blow it to bits. He joked with some other journalists about skipping the bombing and going to breakfast, but they headed directly for the site. The house was littered with scores of bodies, and the frenzied crowd surrounding it turned on Dan and three colleagues, beating and stoning them to death.
News About the Magazine
Date: 21 January 1996
Lives, a new weekly column of personal stories about topical subjects, will begin in next Sunday's Magazine. It will succeed the Hers and About Men columns, which have alternated in the Magazine since 1988, and which conclude with today's Hers column by Karen Stabiner about her friend Harry. The change reflects the evolution of an era. From the first Hers column, by the novelist Lois Gould, in the Home Section in March 1977, readers and writers have responded with passion and by the thousands. Hers offered a forum where women, and not a few men, could share the shocks and nuances of change set loose by the modern feminist tide: The bracing chill of autonomy brought by divorce or death. . . . Whether a bride should keep her maiden name. . . . What kind of toys to press on boys. . . . The unease felt by a lesbian couple registering together for a motel room. . . . Resentment toward mothers, or fathers, for failing to encourage girls. . . . Exploration of electric feelings about a father's incestuous touch or a savage rape.
WORLD NEWS BRIEFS;Ulster Commission Says Breakthrough Is Unlikely
Date: 21 January 1996
By The New York Times
Former Senator George J. Mitchell, the chairman of the commission created to deal with the difficult issue of disarmament of the Irish Republican Army and other paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, has indicated that the commission is unlikely to produce a breakthrough when it issues its recommendations on Wednesday. The commission, created in mid-December, has been talking to officials on all sides of the Northern Ireland peace effort, the Irish and British Governments, Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., and Protestant and Roman Catholic political leaders in the predominantly Protestant British province.
World News Briefs;Highest Muslim Leader Of Tajikistan Is Slain
Date: 22 January 1996
Reuters
The Muslim spiritual leader of Tajikistan was killed along with four other people on Sunday night, just before the planned resumption of peace talks intended to settle three years of civil war in the mountainous central Asian state. A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said by telephone today from the capital, Dushanbe, that Mufti Fatkhulla Sharipov, 53, his wife, son and two others were killed by unknown assailants at his home to the west of the city. Mufti Sharipov supported the Moscow-backed Government in a civil war that began in 1992, in which Islamists and democrats briefly held the capital before being driven into exile in 1993. Tens of thousands of people were killed and 600,000 were displaced. He was rewarded for his loyalty by being appointed Mufti -- the highest religious position in the country -- in early 1993. His killing came on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
WORLD NEWS BRIEFS;North Korea to End Effort To Recover War Remains
Date: 21 January 1996
Reuters
North Korea announced today that it was disbanding a team that recovers the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said the team was being disbanded because the United States had paid no "compensation" for remains found so far, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a report monitored in Tokyo.
WORLD NEWS BRIEFS;Germans Reject Demand To Alter Nuclear Plant
Date: 21 January 1996
By The New York Times
At a little-publicized meeting in Bavaria this week, German scientists and officials flatly rejected American demands that a controversial nuclear research reactor designed to use weapons-grade fuel be remodeled to use low-enriched uranium, German officials said today. The meeting was the latest twist in a United States effort, begun in 1978, to curb the potential spread of nuclear weapons by limiting civilian use of the high-enriched uranium needed to build bombs.
WORLD NEWS BRIEFS;French Court Bans Book On Mitterrand's Health
Date: 21 January 1996
By The New York Times
A book about the late ex-President Francois Mitterrand's health by his former doctor was banned this week by a French court, but not until after a first printing of 40,000 copies had already sold out. The court ruled on Thursday in favor of a complaint by Mr. Mitterrand's widow, their two sons, and his daughter. They contended that the revelations in the book, "The Great Secret" by Dr. Claude Gubler, constituted "a particularly serious intrusion into intimate details of President Francois Mitterrand's private family life, and that of his wife and children."