Less Style, More TV News, Please
Date: 04 January 1988
By Ernest Leiser
Ernest Leiser
LEAD: Three household names make the major difference in the evening news broadcasts of the Big Three television networks: Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. But there are three other people whose services have been enlisted to add a touch of class, or at least a distinctive sound, to the broadcasts, and it is unlikely that most viewers have ever heard of John Williams (the successor to Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops), Bob Israel and John Trivers.
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NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1988
Date: 04 January 1988
LEAD: International A2-11
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Washington Talk: The Pentagon and the Press; Gathering News in the Persian Gulf: Suntans and Simmering Frustration
Date: 04 January 1988
By John H. Cushman Jr
John Cushman
LEAD: The six American journalists, members of a Pentagon-sponsored news pool covering military operations by the Navy in the Persian Gulf, were fed up. They had languished in the sun at their harborside hotel for nearly a week without setting foot aboard a ship.
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TENACIOUS EDUCATOR AND ROLE MODEL: Richard Reginald Green
Date: 03 January 1988
By William E. Schmidt
William Schmidt
LEAD: Dr. Richard R. Green was walking downtown not long ago with the head of the city school board when he suddenly veered off to confront a young man loitering near a street corner.
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Washington Talk: Briefing; A Press Corps Index
Date: 04 January 1988
LEAD: The Black Book, proclaimed by its sponsors to be the most comprehensive and useful index to the Washington press corps ever produced, is scheduled to appear this month.
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A CHANGING OF THE GUARD, AND A RECKONING IN INSIDER CASE
Date: 04 January 1988
LEAD: The flow of economic and financial news in 1987 - which seemed dominated by insider trading investigations, questions about international economic cooperation and the stock market plunge - thrust many people into the spotlight.
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1973 Georgia Murders Back in Courts
Date: 04 January 1988
By Jerry Schwartz, Special To the New York Times
Jerry Schwartz
LEAD: Fourteen years after six members of a south Georgia family were murdered, the case, which has caused many Georgians to debate the justice of the legal system, is before the courts again.
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General Is Ordered Tried in Brazilian Killing
Date: 03 January 1988
By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times
Alan Riding
LEAD: A Brazilian judge has ordered that a retired four-star general be tried for the 1982 murder of a journalist in what could become the first prosecution of a senior army officer since civilian rule returned here almost three years ago.
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Cutting Back
Date: 03 January 1988
LEAD: Rupert Murdoch, who appears to believe he cannot own too many communications companies, has been told that he does. Under temporary waivers from the Federal Communications Commission, the Australian-born publishing magnate has been allowed since 1986 to own The New York Post and The Boston Herald while simultaneously operating television stations in those cities.
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