NEW YORKERS & CO.
Date: 14 January 1996
With Fewer Journalists to Hoist A Few, 2 Irish Pubs Are Threatened After The Daily News moved from the east side of midtown to the west in early May, business dropped off considerably for two Irish pubs, Ryan McFadden's and Maguire's Cafe, catty-corner from the newspaper's former headquarters at Second Avenue and 42d Street.
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Abroad at Home;Bricks Without Straw
Date: 15 January 1996
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
From the moment Bill Clinton took office as President, Republicans set out to destroy his legitimacy. Their method was to attack his honor, principally through charges about the long-ago land deal known as Whitewater. Three years and innumerable investigations later, Mr. Clinton has not been shown to have done anything wrong in Whitewater. One charge after another has evaporated.
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Keeping the Peace in Bosnia, and the Press
Date: 15 January 1996
By Raymond Bonner
Raymond Bonner
When a reporter approached some Army sergeants huddled around a kerosene stove for warmth recently, trying to engage them in conversation, the reception was as chilly as the weather they were trying to ward off. "Can we to talk to him, sir?" one sergeant asked when an officer came over. Sure, said the lieutenant, tell him whatever you want, and walked off.
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Press Faces Repression In Africa
Date: 14 January 1996
By Howard W. French
Howard French
When this country opened the way for an independent press at the turn of the decade, the blossoming of newspapers of nearly every political persuasion was widely hailed as a critical stepping stone toward true multiparty democracy. But here, as elsewhere in Africa, rather than marking a clean break with an authoritarian past, the era of multiparty politics has been a time of increased hardship and repression for journalists who dare criticize powerful incumbents.
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Word & Image;Let Lying Dogs Sleep?
Date: 14 January 1996
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
IT'S ELECTION YEAR AGAIN AND ALL OVER America, media generals are laying plans to win the last war. Sick and tired of complaints that they favor the negative over the positive, sex over substance and personality over program, media people are determined to avoid the errors of the past. We vow no more coverage of Gennifer Flowers or her look-alikes, unless of course state troopers vouchsafe the women's testimony.
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News Analysis;High-Stakes Strike
Date: 15 January 1996
By Steven Greenhouse
Steven Greenhouse
The 11-day strike by building janitors that has left office workers to clean their own toilets and empty their own trash in 1,000 Manhattan office towers is casting a shadow that reaches far beyond New York City. It presents the first big test for John J. Sweeney, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s new president -- and whether the strikers win or lose, union leaders and labor experts say, it could set a pattern for unions nationwide.
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WORLD NEWS BRIEFS;Socialist Wins Portugal's Presidency
Date: 15 January 1996
Reuters
The Socialist candidate, Jorge Sampaio, was elected today to succeed Mario Soares as President of Portugal. Final results showed Mr. Sampaio winning 53.8 percent of the vote, compared with 46.2 percent for his conservative rival, former Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva. The turnout was 66.4 percent of the nearly 9 million eligible voters.
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WORLD NEWS BRIEFS;South Korea Sends Reactor Gear to North
Date: 15 January 1996
Reuters
The first shipload of equipment for use in construction of two light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea left the South Korean port of Pusan today. The equipment is provided in a $4.5 billion agreement signed in Geneva in 1994 between an international consortium and North Korea under which it agreed to scrap graphite reactors capable of making bomb-grade nuclear material.
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