Ponovno predvajanje torek, 12. maj 1992

Theater in Review

Date: 13 May 1992

By Mel Gussow

Mel Gussow

When the Wind Blows/News Update Dance Theater Workshop Bessie Schonberg Theater 219 West 19th Street Chelsea Through Sunday Two puppet theater pieces designed and directed by Janie Geiser. Presented by Dance Theater Workshop. WHEN THE WIND BLOWS, Conceived by Ms. Geiser; music composed by Chip Epsten; additional text from "The Ash King" by Daniel Zippi; lighting by Emily Stork. Puppeteers: Judith Anderson, Matthew Buckingham, Trudi Cohen, Ms. Geiser, Jenny Romaine and Mark Sussman. Musicians: Mr. Epsten, Konrad Kinard and Ms. Romaine. NEWS UPDATE, Audio by A. Leroy; developed in collaboration with the performers and Cathy Simmons. Puppeteers: Judith Anderson, Kyle de Camp and Ms. Geiser. In the theater of Janie Geiser, there is a Lilliputian world of unpredictable occurrences. Watching "When the Wind Blows/News Update," a brief double-header of puppet plays at Dance Theater Workshop, the perspective of the audience is altered. On a small box set, a tiny puppet figure is suddenly chased by a tall pair of scissors threatening to shear her in half. When a door is opened on a doll-size house, the walls swing apart and the building collapses.

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Efforts Intensify to End Newspaper Labor Dispute

Date: 13 May 1992

By Ralph Blumenthal

Ralph Blumenthal

As more incidents of violence and vandalism hampered deliveries of The New York Times, efforts intensified yesterday to chart a way out of the increasingly bitter weeklong confrontation pitting The Times and a news distributor against the delivery union. At an emotional meeting of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union of New York and Vicinity last night, a packed hotel ballroom of cheering union members unanimously appointed three "go-betweens" to try to find an accord with The Times, which the union views as the key to resolving the dispute.

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Judge Finds Driver Union In Contempt

Date: 12 May 1992

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

A Federal judge ruled last night that a newspaper truck-drivers' union was in contempt of court for disrupting circulation of The New York Times in a labor dispute involving the newspaper, the union and a wholesale delivery operation. He ordered the union to pay The Times $100,000 for every hour of further disruption of the newspaper's weekday and Saturday deliveries and $500,000 for every hour of disruption of the paper's Sunday delivery. The judge's ruling came on a day in which action on many fronts significantly intensified the union's six-day-old labor dispute with the wholesaler, Imperial Delivery Service, and The Times. Arthur E. Imperatore, who owns Imperial, said one of his employees had been kidnapped and threatened with death.

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To Our Readers

Date: 13 May 1992

Since Friday, distribution of The New York Times in parts of the New York region has been disrupted because of a labor dispute affecting a wholesale delivery company used by the paper. (Article, page B4.)

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Case of the Adaptable Spy: Agent for Soviets, and Russia, Too

Date: 12 May 1992

By Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

In a 27-year career as a journalist for a leading Belgian newspaper, Guido Kindt developed a reputation as an aerospace expert. So it did not surprise his colleagues when he recently developed a close friendship with Belgium's first astronaut, who was aboard the Atlantis shuttle that completed a 10-day flight on April 2. So close was the friendship with the astronaut, a physicist named Dirk Frimout, that Mr. Kindt was the only Belgian journalist invited to a party held for the Atlantis crew in Houston on April 5. Then, on April 7, Mr. Kindt returned from the United States to Brussels, and three days later he was arrested on charges of spying for the former Soviet Union and for Russia.

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Death of Journalist Who Assailed Klan Is Mystery

Date: 12 May 1992

Warren Duliere was enraged when the Ku Klux Klan came to town last year and set about wooing new members. So he slipped into a Klan rally with a hidden camera and a tape recorder, then published the pictures and the venomous speeches in his newspaper. It was not the first time the 60-year-old Mr. Duliere, owner and sole reporter of the monthly West Virginia Advocate, had plunged into a controversial story. The death threats in the months that followed a series of articles on the Klan were not new either.

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Storm Joining NBC

Date: 12 May 1992

HANNAH STORM has left CNN and agreed to a three-year contract with NBC worth approximately $600,000. Storm, 29, will be a co-host for late-night Olympic coverage from Barcelona, Spain, with JIM LAMPLEY after making her NBC debut on the network's telecasts this June from Wimbledon, where she also will be late-night host.

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A.T.&T. in Bulgaria

Date: 13 May 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

A.T.& T. has signed an agreement to distribute small-office phone equipment in Bulgaria. Bulgarian Posts and Telecommunication Ltd. will initially sell and service the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Partner and Partner Plus systems, which are already available in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Commonwealth of Independent States. A.T.& T. did not disclose its anticipated sales in Bulgaria.

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Connecticut Radio Deal

Date: 12 May 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Clear Channel Communications Inc. of San Antonio said today that it had completed the acquisition of WKCI-FM in New Haven from the Noble Broadcasting Company of San Diego for $14 million in cash.

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Robertson Mutual Fund

Date: 12 May 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Robertson, Stephens & Company, an investment banking company based in San Francisco, is starting up a mutual fund that will invest in small and medium-size companies. The Robertson Stephens Value Plus Fund will search for inexpensive stocks and invest primarily in companies whose shares trade at prices less than 20 times the previous year's earnings, said John Elerding, head of marketing. The fund has an advisory fee of 1.25 percent of investors' assets.

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