NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1987
Date: 24 September 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Iranian sailors have provided data allowing the United States to recover at least three mines the captured Iranians had placed in the Persian Gulf, according to Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. Page A1
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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1987
Date: 23 September 1987
LEAD: International A3-15
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Newspapers' Merger Is Opposed
Date: 24 September 1987
By Kenneth B. Noble, Special To the New York Times
Kenneth
LEAD: The Justice Department's antitrust division said today that it would oppose a proposal by the rival Detroit News and Detroit Free Press to merge their advertising, production and circulation departments.
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No. 2 Soviet Official Puts in a Bad Word On Glasnost Policy
Date: 24 September 1987
By Philip Taubman, Special To the New York Times
Philip Taubman
LEAD: The No. 2 Communist Party leader last week rebuked two publications that have been leading practitioners of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of greater openness, Russians who heard his remarks said today.
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Poll Finds Arms Pact Support
Date: 24 September 1987
LEAD: Two-thirds of Americans favor a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on intermediate range missiles, even though almost as many believe the Soviet Union will cheat on such an agreement, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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Telling Haig's Fortune
Date: 23 September 1987
LEAD: To the conventional techniques Presidential candidates use to get their messages across - television, radio, newspaper advertising, billboards, bumper stickers - add the Chinese fortune cookie. Alexander M. Haig Jr., the former Secretary of State and now a Republican Presidential hopeful, presented the
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U.S. Terms Managua Moves 'Cosmetic'
Date: 24 September 1987
By Neil A. Lewis, Special To the New York Times
Neil Lewis
LEAD: The Reagan Administration today dismissed the Nicaraguan Government's announcements that it would allow the reopening of opposition newspapers and radio stations, calling them ''cosmetic gestures of compliance'' with a Central American peace plan.
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Poll Finds Public Opposition to Bork Is Growing
Date: 24 September 1987
By Philip Shenon, Special To the New York Times
Philip Shenon
LEAD: A growing number of Americans are expressing an unfavorable opinion of Judge Robert H. Bork after his weeklong testimony at Senate hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court, a New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.
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Majority Favors Raid, Survey Says
Date: 24 September 1987
By Richard J. Meislin
Richard Meislin
LEAD: More than three-quarters of Americans approve of the United States military attack that resulted in the seizure of an Iranian ship that was laying mines in the Persian Gulf, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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Philip Morris, Not Rail Union, Paid for Ads on Smoking Ban
Date: 23 September 1987
By Richard Levine
Richard Levine
LEAD: Full-page newspaper advertisements yesterday that opposed a proposed smoking ban on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North were signed by a transit union president, but secretly paid for by Philip Morris.
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