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Date: 09 August 1992
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
"We interrupt 'Family Feud' to bring you special coverage," a sober-voiced announcer alerted viewers of WKBT-TV, the CBS affiliate in western Wisconsin. Was it a war? Was it a tornado? A major address from the Oval Office?
Date: 10 August 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Aldus Corporation, one of many software makers plagued by falling revenue, is restructuring its United States operations and laying off 11 percent, or about 100, of its temporary and permanent staff. The restructuring follows "economic and competitive pressures that continue to have a negative impact on our business," said Paul Brainerd, president. Last month, the company posted a second-quarter loss of $900,000 on revenue of $38.9 million.
Date: 10 August 1992
International A2-9 ISRAEL CHANGES STANCE ON P.L.O. The new Israeli Government said it would press for changes in the law prohibiting Israelis from having any contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization. One senior official called the law "stupid." A1 Jewish settlers acted in defiance of the Israeli Government. A7 A SECOND SARAJEVO? In the northwestern corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian forces are cutting food deliveries and escape routes for 300,000 people. Some relief workers fear that Bihac, the largest city in the Muslim enclave, will be consumed by violence. A1 WHAT PRICE PEACE? News Analysis: Not one Western leader has yet determined what price should be paid, in Western lives and money, to halt the barbarity in what used to be Yugoslavia. A8 ALLIES MAP BALKAN PLAN After talks among with France and Britain, United States officials said an agreement was near on a Security Council resolution to authorize "all necessary means" to deliver food and medicine to Bosnia. A8 CLINTON ON THE CAMPS The Democratic Presidential nominee said the United States should consider using military force to open Serbian detention camps and should also weigh lifting arms embargos against Bosnia and Croatia. A8 BIRTH PANGS IN SLOVAKIA As the union of Czechs and Slovaks heads toward its end, opposition politicians in Slovakia fear the nationalist leader is showing signs of authoritarianism. A3 LEFT OUT AFTER INDEPENDENCE Many people who helped in the struggle for Estonia's independence have been left without a state: They are non-Estonians, members of other ethnic groups who cannot vote or own property. A9 Thousands flee Afghanistan's capital as fighting continues. A5 Discord at the top has the World Health Organization in turmoil. A3 U.N. inspects a site in Iraq. A3 From Nigeria, a call for reparations for the slave trade. A2 Karachi Journal: The ordeal of a poet and social campaigner. A4 National A10-14 CONTROLLING THE CONVENTION Republicans have plotted for weeks for their convention in Houston. But beneath all the plans for images and theatrics, is a single serious goal: to prevent the event from becoming a review of President Bush's campaign problems. A1 BUSH REUSES FEAR TACTICS Struggling to revive his campaign, President Bush is returning to his strategy of 1988, portraying himself as the less scary candidate. A14 REPUBLICANS CALL FOR TAX CUTS Seven leading Republican conservatives urged President Bush's campaign to adopt a platform that would include tax cuts and limits on growth of entitlement spending. A14 A PREDATOR'S RETURN The Rocky Mountain gray wolf is again roaming western Montana, and its return under Federal protection offers a test of how far society is prepared to go to accept a feared predator. A1 HILLARY CLINTON ADDRESSES A.B.A. At the annual meeting of the American Bar Association, Hillary Clinton celebrated the recent advances of women in the legal profession. A10 RACIAL TURMOIL IN A TEXAS CITY Blacks and whites in Tyler, Tex. have lived together quietly for years. But now several cases of perceived injustice by the police and the courts has broken the quiet. A10 NEW WRINKLE IN AIDS DISPUTE A disagreement between French and British researchers over who should get credit for early research on AIDS may have implications for the French Government's effort to renegotiate a patent royalty agreement with the United States. A11 QE2 STEAMS TOWARD BOSTON The Queen Elizabeth 2, a 74-foot gash in its hull, began steaming toward Boston as American and British investigators prepared for a hearing into why the ship hit an underwater obstacle. A12 A CALLING IN CONGRESS Washington at Work: Senator John Kerry, who played an active role in the antiwar movement 20 years ago, knew he could not walk away the issue of missing Americans in Vietnam. A13 Southwestern Bell and Bell South reached pacts with unions. A15 Metro Digest B1 CAR THEFT AS CHILD'S PLAY Car theft in Newark and neighboring cities has reached epidemic proportions. Even the most youthful thieves -- some are as young as 9 years old -- can penetrate any barrier and be behind the wheel in a matter of seconds. A1 Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C13-18 A challenge for Marisa Tomei. C13 Music: "Der Rosenkavalier" at Santa Fe. C13 Critic's Notebook: Tanglewood makes room for rock. C13 Jazz meets tap. C13 The Duke Ellington sound. C18 Dance: In Review C14 Word and Image: "Crazy in Love." C16 "Young Men and Fire." C18 Sports C1-12 THE OLYMPICS IN RETROSPECT The Olympic Games presented a host of themes -- fading amateurism, rampant commercialism, political reordering, questionable sportsmanship and an occasional triumph of the human spirit. But nothing will be more identifiable with the Barcelona Games than the super-celebrities of the Dream Team. A1 Baseball: Yankee rookie masterful in debut. C9 Cubs topple Mets. C9 Tigers romp over Blue Jays. C9 Glavine, Braves keep rolling. C9 Columns: Anderson on Cuban sports. C2 Vecsey on Barcelona. C4 Features: Sidelines C2 Football: Giants win exhibition opener. C11 Jets' rusher making comeback. C11 Golf: Daly rests on one laurel. C12 Olympics: South Korean wins marathon. C3 Ben Johnson is ejected. C3 Coach a mystery but Cuban boxers aren't. C1 Bird and Johnson ponder their futures. C3 Obituaries B6 Ayatollah Khoei, leading scholar of Shiite Islam. Thomas J. McIntyre, former Democratic Senator of New Hampshire. Reinout P. Kroon, engineer who developed American jet engine. Editorials/Op-Ed A16-17 Editorials A new opening for Times Square. America isn't Asia's cop. David Shipley: Herbert Hoover. Letters Anthony Lewis: Record of contempt. Michael Crichton: Time for tough talk in the land of the rising sun. David R. Carlin Jr.: The tyranny of the pro-choice snobs. Steve H. Hanke: The Fed is a failure, so let's get rid of it.
Date: 10 August 1992
As the West weighs action in the Balkans, no leader has determined what price should be paid in lives and money. News analysis, page A8.
Date: 09 August 1992
By Floyd Norris
Floyd Norris
Anemia is defined in the dictionary as "lack of vigor or vitality; lifelessness." That is not a bad definition of the current economic picture. And so it was admirably honest when George Bush told a news conference Friday that the economy "has been anemically growing."
Date: 10 August 1992
Only one hurdle remained for GAIL DEVERS in her quest for a second gold medal. Her earlier victory in the 100 -- and the stories of how she overcame the effects of Graves' disease -- had made her a hero here. But she tripped on that last hurdle and fell. Still, her achievements led yesterday to Maxwell House Coffee presenting her with the United States Olympic Committee Olympic Spirit Award. She had a 3-1 margin in the voting by the news media over the swimmer PABLO MORALES, who won a gold at age 27.
Date: 09 August 1992
By Matthew L. Wald
Matthew Wald
To the list of environmental villains, add the lowly lawn mower. Spewing hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide, the mower can do as much mischief to the air as its bigger neighbor in the family garage, the car, even if the car is 30 times more powerful. The Environmental Protection Agency is moving toward emissions regulations for mowers and their sidekicks, including weed eaters, chain saws and leaf blowers. On Friday William Reilly, the E. P. A. Administrator, appeared on a postage-stamp sized lawn in Washington, in front of the office of the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association, and demonstrated a cleaner alternative: an electric mower.
Date: 09 August 1992
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Binder of Scarsdale, N.Y., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Jacalyn Michel Binder, to Ira Bernard Polikoff, a son of Gerald Polikoff of Woodmere, L.I., and the late Joan Polikoff. A November wedding is planned. Ms. Binder, 27 years old, is an account executive for Omega Fashions, a belt manufacturer in New York. She graduated from Syracuse University. Her father is the president of Binder Industries Inc., a textile company in New York. Her mother, Carol Binder, teaches English at the Berlitz Language Center in White Plains.
Date: 10 August 1992
By Kirk Johnson
Kirk Johnson
Across America, political candidates are trotting out their heroes: John F. Kennedy as the young leader for a new era, Harry S. Truman as ordinary man summoned to greatness, Horace Greeley as crusading newspaper editor running for President to change the world. Horace Greeley?