Ponovno predvajanje torek, 18. maj 1993

Chung to Join Rather As CBS News Anchor

Date: 18 May 1993

By Bill Carter

Bill Carter

In what network executives called an attempt to "change the dynamic" of the all-male network evening newscasts, CBS will divide the anchor duties on its evening news starting June 1, when Connie Chung will become the co-anchor of the broadcast with Dan Rather. It is the first time CBS has divided the anchor role of its evening newscast. Ms. Chung will be only the second woman ever to have one of the main anchor jobs on network news. Barbara Walters was a co-anchor of ABC's network's evening newscast for less than two years starting in 1976.

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A New Editor Is Appointed For The Observer of London

Date: 19 May 1993

By Suzanne Cassidy

Suzanne Cassidy

The deputy editor of The Guardian, Jonathan Fenby, has been named editor of The Observer, Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper. Mr. Fenby's appointment was announced late last week by the Guardian and Manchester Evening News P.L.C., which is buying The Observer and related publications from Lonrho P.L.C. for almost $41.5 million.

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Lebanon Suspends Opposition Papers; Crackdown Denied

Date: 18 May 1993

Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri met with leaders of Lebanese news organizations on Sunday and told them that he had no intention of cracking down on the press, even though the Government had temporarily suspended two opposition newspapers after accusing them of violating the country's press law. As Safir, a leading daily newspaper, was suspended for one week last Wednesday for publishing what it called the text of a proposal by Israel on withdrawing from its buffer zone in southern Lebanon.

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INSIDE

Date: 18 May 1993

700 Die in Battle Over Kabul Fighting between guerrilla factions has killed 700 people and wounded over 3,000 people in the Afghan capital during the last week. Page A5. Cutting Friendly-Fire Deaths The military hopes that new technology will reduce the toll of Americans accidentally killed or hurt by their own side. Science Times, page C1. 2 Chairs at the Anchor Desk CBS will divide anchor duties on its evening newscast for the first time, when Connie Chung joins Dan Rather on June 1. Page C18.

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Question of Censorship Shadows Catholic Paper

Date: 19 May 1993

By Ari L. Goldman

Ari Goldman

A small item in this week's issue of The Catholic Transcript, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Hartford, reports that Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin will soon move into a mansion owned by an order of Catholic priests and live there rent free. What the article doesn't say is that the move comes a year after a public outcry led the Archbishop to drop plans to buy a $430,000 home with six bedrooms and a swimming pool.

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Observer; Half-Baked

Date: 18 May 1993

By Russell Baker

Russell Baker

From last year's diary, a few ideas that meant to become columns but didn't know how: A book title: "Why Does 1940 Now Seem Like Only Yesterday While 1890 Seemed Like the Dark Ages in 1940?"

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Srinagar Journal; From the Editor's Chair, a Bleak View of Kashmir

Date: 19 May 1993

By Edward A. Gargan

Edward Gargan

These days, on his way to work, Khwaja Sana Ullah Bhat picks his way past a tangle of blackened beams, heaps of charred and cracked bricks, and a sandbag bunker where a soldier cradles an assault rifle, all before he can reach the unmarked heavy steel door that leads to his office. Then he worms his way through a maze of hallways, weaving by empty desks that jut into passages, past a heat-coil burner and, finally, into a dim chamber where he sinks into the creaky high-backed editor's chair of The Daily Aftab, or The Daily Sun.

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New York's Blacks Back Dinkins But Whites Don't, Poll Indicates

Date: 19 May 1993

By Todd S. Purdum

Todd Purdum

Six months before the mayoral election, black New Yorkers continue to express overwhelming approval of Mayor David N. Dinkins's stewardship of the city, while whites overwhelmingly disapprove, according to the latest New York Times/WCBS-TV poll. In the meantime, his support among Hispanic New Yorkers has faded so much that they are now evenly divided in their views of him and are shaping up as a crucial swing vote, according to the poll.

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CHATTEM STOCK JUMPS ON NEWS OF SPECIAL DIVIDEND PLAN

Date: 18 May 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Chattem Inc., the maker of Pamprin and other consumer products, said yesterday that it would pay a special dividend of $20 a share in a move that analysts said was an effort to increase investor confidence in the stock. The stock jumped $4.50, or 13.3 percent, to $29.75, in Nasdaq trading.

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A BILLION-PLUS OFFERING OF WOOLWORTHS AUSTRALIA

Date: 19 May 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Woolworths Ltd., Australia's second-largest retailer, will be sold in a public stock offering values as high as $1.7 billion, the parent Adelaide Steamship group said today. A total of one billion shares will be offered at an application price of $2.45 (Australian), equivalent to $1.70 in United States currency. The final price is to be determined by an institutional tender. The stock offering for the food and discount chain will be the largest in Australian business history. Adelaide Steamship, which is now controlled by its bankers, is selling Woolworths as part of a debt-reduction program. The company is not related to the Woolworth Corporation in the United States. A move to sell Woolworths stock last September was scuttled by market weakness, including a failed major rights issue for Westpac Bank.

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