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Press

Date: 05 December 1994

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

PRESTIGIOUS news organizations hate to become the story. So it was a rare exercise in contrition when The Washington Post ran a front-page article describing its own "deep embarrassment" at the way it had been dragged into the GATT debate. The Post, as the Nov. 25 article explained in extraordinary detail, had been caught violating its own rules. In September, the newspaper editorialized in favor of a pending bill to expand the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade without disclosing to readers that The Washington Post Company had a multimillion-dollar interest in seeing that the bill passed.

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The Myth of 'Negative Stories'

Date: 04 December 1994

Michael and Arianna Huffington emerged last week to explain their $28 million defeat in the California Senate race. A turning point, Representative Huffington said, was the "week or two we suffered a lot of negative publicity" as a result of the press "ganging up" on the candidate and his wife. Mr. Huffington's critique bears closer examination. Over the past year, a kind of linguistic pollution has crept into the American political discourse. Candidates and their minders have twisted the language to define a category of "negative stories," the publication of which is inherently unfair. In fact, when candidates and political professionals talk about "negative stories," they are usually referring to journalism that gives readers information that the campaigns wish they did not have.

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China Names Names in Steroid Bans

Date: 05 December 1994

The state-run Xinhua News Agency in Beijing has released the names of the 11 Chinese competitors at the Asian Games in October who tested positive for steroids. The five women were the swimmers YANG AIHUA, LU BIN and ZHOU GUANBIN, the hurdler HAN QING and the cyclist WANG YAN. The six men were the swimmers XIONG GUOMING, HU BIN, ZHANG BIN and FU YONG and the canoeists ZHANG LEI and QIU SUOREN. The Olympic Council of Asia said on Saturday that the 11 had tested positive for illegal drugs. (AP)

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Lawyer Sees Travel Office Indictment

Date: 05 December 1994

By David Johnston

David Johnston

A lawyer for the former head of the White House travel office, Billy R. Dale, said today that he expected Federal prosecutors to seek an embezzlement indictment against Mr. Dale this week, charging him with stealing $69,000 in money paid by news organizations for Presidential trips. Steven C. Tabackman, Mr. Dale's lawyer, said his client would plead not guilty to the charges, which are likely to revive an embarrassing issue that created a furor when it erupted in May 1993, and left a powerful impression of White House bungling on ethical matters.

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Restrain Those Prior Restraints

Date: 05 December 1994

It has been 23 years since the courts, responding to the most urgent pleas of the Federal Government, temporarily enjoined publication of the Pentagon Papers, a Vietnam War history. That temporary prior restraint on publication was thought necessary to let the Supreme Court examine the Government's dire warnings of peril to national security -- which the Court dismissed after inspecting the documents. That experience should have taught judges to deny out of hand virtually any request to restrain publication, even temporarily. Yet over the years judges, almost casually and on flimsy one-sided pleadings, often issue those restraints. Judge Peter Leisure of New York's Federal court acted in that silly tradition the other day, ordering a halt to the distribution of Penthouse magazine's January issue.

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No Studio Venture for Gates

Date: 05 December 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

William H. Gates 3d, chairman of the Microsoft Corporation, will not invest in a new Hollywood studio headed by Steven Spielberg, a spokeswoman for Microsoft said on Friday. Mr. Gates and other Microsoft executives met studio officials to discuss "content," or forms of entertainment, the spokeswoman, Pam Edstrom, said.

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United Shuttle Expands

Date: 05 December 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

United Airlines has expanded its Shuttle by United service in the western United States to a 10th city, Phoenix. United's move raises the level of competition with Southwest Airlines and America West Airlines. As of Thursday, United is offering 18 flights a day between Los Angeles International Airport and Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.

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S.& L. Case Is Settled

Date: 05 December 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Two former officers of the Southmark Corporation have agreed to pay $20 million to settle charges that they contributed to the failure of a Southmark subsidiary, the San Jacinto Savings Association, in the 1980's. The settlements were announced on Friday by the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Resolution Trust Corporation.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 05 December 1994

International A3-13 GINGRICH URGES BOSNIA ACTION Newt Gingrich, the next Speaker of the House, urged arming Bosnia's Muslims and warning Serbs of an air attack, but Democrats said such a plan could involve thousands of American soldiers. A1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 04 December 1994

International 3-27 STORY OF A POLICY SHIFT The shift in American policy in Bosnia came about as American officials realized that the effort for further NATO air strikes was failing and recognized the need to turn more toward diplomacy. 1 BATTLE FOR A BOSNIAN TOWN Fighting continued in a town in northwest Bosnia as Serbs and their renegade Muslim allies pressed an attack and Bosnian Army troops put up fierce resistance. 22

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