Ponovno predvajanje ponedeljek, 28. januar 1991

Daily News Meets With Mailers' Union

Date: 29 January 1991

By James Barron

James Barron

Negotiators for The Daily News and one of its striking unions met yesterday for the first time since management gave notice that it would close the newspaper unless a sale or a settlement could be arranged. "I don't feel optimistic," George McDonald, the head of the union representing striking mailers, said after the two-hour session at the Doral Tuscany Hotel in Manhattan. Mr. McDonald, who is also the president of the Allied Printing Trades Council, the unions' umbrella organization, said the two sides would meet again.

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Woman In The News; Dynamic Advocate; Nadine Strossen

Date: 28 January 1991

By David Gonzalez

David Gonzalez

The founding principles of the American Civil Liberties Union come to life in the family history of Nadine Strossen, its newly elected president. She remembers her parents' stories of her maternal grandfather, a recent immigrant from Italy, who endured public ridicule by local officials for refusing to fight in World War I. The A.C.L.U. started about the same time, established in part to defend dissenters from government attacks on free expression.

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WAR IN THE GULF: The General; Man in the News; Tough but Politic Chief; H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Date: 28 January 1991

By Eric Schmitt, Special To the New York Times

Eric Schmitt

In his two tours of duty in the Vietnam War, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf learned that a military leader must have more than enough force on the battlefield and more than enough political backing at home. As commander of more than 500,000 American and allied forces in the Persian Gulf, General Schwarzkopf has spent the last six months trying to insure he has both.

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Tourism Shaken By 'CNN Effect'

Date: 28 January 1991

Some travel specialists say a fascination with television news about the Persian Gulf war is keeping people at home. "Restaurants, hotels and gaming establishments seem to be suffering from the CNN effect," said John J. Rohs, a lodging industry analyst at Wertheim Schroder & Company, a New York investment firm. "People are intensely interested in the first real-time war in history and they are just planting themselves in front of the TV." At Carnival Cruise Lines Inc. in Miami, Tim Gallagher, a spokesman, said, "People don't want to miss a single Scud." He said 10 to 20 passengers a day are canceling reservations for cruises. Since the gulf war began, many more people have been watching television news programs, especially those on the Cable News Network. Ratings for CNN have soared 5 to 10 times their prewar levels because of its extensive coverage of the war. ABC, CBS and NBC have also seen their news ratings jump sharply.

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War Reports May Provide A Springboard for Profits

Date: 28 January 1991

By Bill Carter

Bill Carter

EVEN with the costs of covering the Persian Gulf war piling up alarmingly for the network news divisions, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. The light reads: "On the Air." The gulf war is proving to be exceptionally good television programming. Despite the ongoing decline in network audiences, people are watching this war. If they continue to watch news programs after it ends, the war may turn out to be a springboard for some long-term profits for the network news divisions.

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SAUDIS CRITICIZED ON MISSING CBS MEN

Date: 29 January 1991

By Malcolm W. Browne, Special To the New York Times

Malcolm Browne

CBS News asserted today that restrictions imposed by the Saudi authorities were impeding an investigation of the disappearance of a news team near the Saudi-Kuwait border a week ago. Saudi officials in the border area have begun rounding up foreign correspondents who had been trying to cover the front without official permission. About 10 reporters were arrested Sunday and released after their press credentials were seized. They face possible expulsion from Saudi Arabia.

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CBS Presses Hunt for Crew

Date: 28 January 1991

CBS News stepped up its efforts yesterday to find the correspondent Bob Simon and his three-man crew, missing since last Monday in a front-line region of the Persian Gulf war. But no trace of the men was found, and a Cable News Network reporter in Baghdad quoted Iraqi officials as saying they had no word on the crew. Peter Arnett of CNN said Iraqi officials had told him that they were aware the CBS crew had vanished in the Saudi desert near the Kuwaiti border, but that they hadno information from intelligence or military sources in the region about the whereabouts of the men. CBS sent an executive, Don DeCesare, to talk to the Saudi military patrol that found the crew's abandoned car and to people who saw the crew in the nearby town of Ar Ruqi. CBS also asked for help from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union, and urged Iraq to let a CBS executive go to Baghdad to coordinate the search efforts.

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The Beat of War

Date: 29 January 1991

A woman bleary-eyed from hours of watching the Cable News Network's coverage of the conflict in the Persian Gulf thinks maybe she's getting bleary-eared too. CNN is accompanying its garish "War in the Gulf" logo with some curious choices of music. First there were the pounding timpani, which reminded the viewer of Richard Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and inspired "2001" images of technology run amok. Then the drums of war were replaced by a new theme, evoking Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Next came an eerie, atonal soundtrack, and now there's a return to drums -- this time mimicking a heartbeat -- followed by a clarion call. Is the music supposed to reflect how the war is going? Before CNN reaches back to the 60's again for another war-melody-of-the-moment, the network might consider searching through a different repertoire. "Les Miserables," for instance, offers "Bring Him Home" and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables." Better yet, CNN could conclude that this war needs no theme music -- only sounds of reflective silence.

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Haiti's Press Holds Its Critical Tongue

Date: 29 January 1991

By Howard W. French

Howard French

After facing down guns and decrees in helping rid their country of a series of dictators, Haiti's independent press is struggling to redefine its role under the country's first democratically elected Government. With the landslide election last December of the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a 37-year-old liberal priest, Haiti's news organizations are torn between cheering a politician who has captured the national imagination and exercising its right to criticize, for fear of encouraging violent opponents of the President-elect or offending his volatile supporters. Father Aristide is to take office on Feb. 7.

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Censors Screen Pooled Reports

Date: 29 January 1991

The American-led military command in Saudi Arabia has put into effect press restrictions under which journalists are assembled in small groups and given access to various military sources. These pool reporters obtain their information while under military escort, and their accounts are subject to scrutiny by military censors before they are distributed. Some of the information appearing today on American military operations was obtained under such circumstances.

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