Ponovno predvajanje nedelja, 13. avgust 1995

TELEVISION; At NPR, All Things Reconsidered

Date: 13 August 1995

By Marc Gunther

Marc Gunther

THESE SHOULD BE GLORY DAYS FOR NATIONAL Public Radio. More listeners than ever tune into its much-praised news and cultural programs, and they are donating record amounts of money to the public radio stations around the country that carry those programs. NPR's flagship daily news magazine, "All Things Considered," has just been expanded from 90 minutes to two hours, with help from new corporate and foundation donors. But Delano Lewis, NPR's 56-year-old president and chief executive officer, furrows his brow when he ponders the future of public radio. He has just carried out a series of austerity measures, canceling the minority-oriented news program "Horizons," dropping 9 out of 20 cultural programs and, early this month, eliminating 20 jobs, which will result in the first companywide layoffs at NPR in more than a decade.

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POLITICS UNUSUAL: The Alien's Endorsement

Date: 13 August 1995

The 1996 Presidential primaries are approaching, and while the candidates worry about CNN and influential newspapers, a lot of "real" Americans are getting their news in the checkout line, where the "Space Alien" wields the real influence. In 1991, Weekly World News, a Florida-based supermarket tabloid, stuck the image of an alien into an existing photograph of President Bush. Since then, the alien, in one composite photograph after another, has been seen with many American statesmen. Selected headlines include: "Space Alien Meets With President Bush!" (1991), "Space Alien Meets With Ross Perot!" (1992), "Alien Backs Clinton!" (1992), "Alien Dumps Clinton and Goes Back to Perot!" (1993) and "Space Alien Meets With Newt Gingrich!" (1995).

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WNYC Fans Fear Programming Loss

Date: 13 August 1995

By Vivian S. Toy

Vivian Toy

Mariko Niesi regularly switches on WNYC-TV, Channel 31, for "World Network Supertime" -- two hours of news and features in Japanese with English subtitles -- because the show is a bridge to her native Japan. Mrs. Niesi, a Japanese-American homemaker from Tuckahoe in Westchester County, is worried, however, that the show and other Japanese programs may go off the air because of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's recent announcement that the city-owned station will be sold, to be recast into a 24-hour financial news and sports channel by its prospective buyers, the ITT Corporation and Dow Jones & Company. While the city says it will help the foreign-language programs find time on Crosswalks, its cable network, viewers like Mrs. Niesi fear the pledge will be forgotten once the station is sold.

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Rome Journal; Hot Off the Presses: Videos, Combs, Necklaces

Date: 14 August 1995

By Celestine Bohlen

Celestine Bohlen

Movie buffs pick up L'Unita on Saturdays, when the old Communist Party newspaper virtually gives away videos of Italian movie classics. Hypochondriacs prefer La Repubblica, which for months offered installments from an illustrated medical encyclopedia. Corriere della Sera, the Milan-based grand old lady of Italian journalism, scored a big hit this year with a world atlas that came wrapped inside the paper. This is what newspaper competition in Italy is all about these days -- gifts, games and gimmicks, anything to increase circulation in a country where newspaper readership, historically low compared with most of Europe, is on the wane.

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In Prosperous Singapore, Even the Elite Are Nervous About Speaking Out

Date: 13 August 1995

By Henry Kamm

Henry Kamm

Singapore's astonishing economic boom is reflected in a cityscape that has been totally transformed in three decades of independence. What was a typical Asian port city, with stately buildings of colonial rule set apart from warrens of squalid quarters for most people, has been turned into a downtown devoted entirely to banking and business, dominated by skyscrapers and surrounded by vast, tidy blocks of public housing set among well-tended parks, ringed by superhighways.

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Stocks Rise in Japan

Date: 14 August 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Japanese stocks were trading higher here today. Midway through the afternoon session, the Nikkei index of 225 issues was up 181.79 points, or 1.1 percent, to stand at 16,974.13. On Friday, the Nikkei rose 63.37 points.

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I.B.M.'s Share In China Grows

Date: 14 August 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

I.B.M. said that 30 percent of personal computers sold in China in the first half of 1995 were made by I.B.M., the China Daily reported today. That was up from a share of about 25 percent last year. The International Business Machines Corporation plans to step up the promotion of its products in department stores and to open specialty shops in Shanghai, the paper said.

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Comcast Reports Settling Complaints

Date: 14 August 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Comcast Cable Communications Inc. said last week that it had settled outstanding cable programming service-rate complaints with the Federal Communications Commission. The agreement relates to complaints filed through the middle of 1994 regarding 22 cable systems owned by Comcast, which is based in Philadelphia. Under the agreement, Comcast agreed to provide credits of $6.6 million, plus interest, to subscribers on related cable systems.

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Samuel Goldwyn Loss Widens Despite an Increase in Revenue

Date: 14 August 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Samuel Goldwyn Company, which is seeking a buyer for its television and film properties, said over the weekend that its fiscal first-quarter loss had widened from a year earlier. The independent film and television company said its loss for the quarter that ended on June 30 widened to $4.63 million, or 55 cents a share, from $2.1 million, or 25 cents, for the same period last year.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 13 August 1995

International 3-12 THE LESSONS OF CROATIA The Croatian attack on the Krajina Serbs illustrates how the calculus of American power has changed in the post-cold-war world. 1 CROATIAN REFUGEES TAKE REVENGE Some Croatian Serbian refugees who fled their territory last weekend have been evicting Croats and Muslims from their homes in Serbian-held Bosnia. 8 Bosnian and Croatian Government forces battled rebel Serbs. 8 DEFECTOR TARGETS IRAQI LEADER President Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, who defected to Jordan, vowed to work for the overthrow of the Iraqi Government. 3 SINGAPORE, CLEAN AND DULL Despite its expensive modernity, Singapore has much of the political and intellectual atmosphere of a dull Eastern European capital under Communism. 10 LIMITS OF DISSENT IN ISRAEL Demonstrations by Jewish settlers against expanded of Palestinian self-rule have sharpened a debate on the limits of dissent. 4 50 YEARS LATER, SUING JAPAN A growing number of Asians and Westerners are taking the Japanese Government to court for mistreatment during World War II.10 COLOMBIA IN CRISIS Allegations that President Ernesto Samper Pizano accepted campaign contributions from drug dealers are plunging Colombia into its gravest political crisis in decades. 12 Study finds New Zealand the least corrupt country for business. 6 Italy considers toughening its laws on rape. 9 National 14-30 DECLINE IN URBAN MURDER RATE Homicides have declined in many of the nation's biggest, most violent cities, and if current trends continue a number of urban areas will close out 1995 with the fewest killings in years. 1 ROBBERY MAY BE KEY TO BOMBING Federal prosecutors say the robbery of an Arkansas gun collector is inextricably linked to the April car-bombing in Oklahoma City. 1 Officials do not believe the bombing was a broad conspiracy. 24 DOLE ON DOLE Senator Bob Dole, the front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination, is operating on this philosophy: "I'm running against Bill Clinton. The rest of the Republicans may be running against me." 1 A GIFT, FROM THE HEART An elderly laundry woman used $150,000 she saved over several decades to finance scholarships for black students at the University of Southern Mississippi. 1 A WOMAN JOINS THE CORPS Under court order, The Citadel reluctantly accepted the arrival of its first female cadet at the 152-year-old Southern military college. 14 RALLY AGAINST DEATH PENALTY More than 1,500 people in Philadelphia protested the death penalty and demanded a new trial for a condemned former member of the Black Panther Party. 14 IN SEARCH OF CONSPIRACY Richard Mellon Scaife, or more precisely his money, is helping to sustain conspiracy theories about the death of a former White House deputy counsel. 19 LESS HEAT, AND PROMISES OF LIGHT The gathering of United We Stand, Ross Perot's political organization, has lacked the fire and friction that many people expected. 20 RUBY RIDGE, RECONSIDERED The aftermath of a deadly Federal standoff with a white separatist in Idaho has given the F.B.I.'s director his biggest challenge. 21 CHALLENGING CORRECTNESS A nonprofit conservative law firm is developing an unusual niche: challenging colleges on behalf of people who say they are victims of political correctness. 28 Metro 31-36 CITY AND COUNTRY A pioneering program, paid for by New York City but run almost entirely by farmers, is finding ways to cut the flow of pollution and parasites from pastures, milkhouses, and barns into the city's drinking water. 1 A SECOND LOOK AT THE M.T.A. Despite criticism that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is too big, bureaucratic and wasteful, independent measures indicate that the agency compares favorably with other transit systems. 31 SAVED BY CIGAR MANIA Three years ago, one of the nation's legendary tobacco-growing economies seemed near extinction because demand for its esoteric product was declining along with the popularity of cigars in America. Enter, miraculously, cigar mania. 31 QUIETLY AMID THE NOISE Into the Bronx's canyons of noise walks a soft-spoken man with a sense of mission, a ready fund of adjectives and a fledgling organization whose name evokes windmill-tilting: the Bronx Campaign for Peace and Quiet. 31 Fresh Air Fund 36 Obituaries 39 Harry Lipsig, lawyer.

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