NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1987
Date: 13 May 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Aquino candidates were leading and appeared bound for victory in the Philippine elections. Some opposition leaders charged that irregularities took place, but most people called the election the calmest and most honest in years. Page A1 The President denied seeking money for the contras in meetings with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985.
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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1987
Date: 12 May 1987
LEAD: International A3-14
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Perle's Pen
Date: 13 May 1987
LEAD: Richard N. Perle, whose resignation as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International and Security Policy became official last week, will write a monthly column for U.S. News & World Report. His first effort, dealing with proposals to remove intermediate-range missiles from Europe, will appear in the news magazine next Monday, 10 days after his departure from the
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The Editorial Notebook; Dear Pravda
Date: 12 May 1987
By Geneva Overholser
Geneva Overholser
LEAD: In Russian, ''pravda'' means truth and ''izvestia'' means news, and the old joke about the Soviet press was that there's no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia. Now that truth and news are uncharacteristically cropping up in the Soviet media, the Russians are snatching up newspapers and magazines and eagerly watching television news that used to glaze their eyes.
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China Asserts Reporter Paid for Secret Report
Date: 13 May 1987
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: China accused a Japanese reporter today of paying for classified information, including a ''confidential document'' from the Communist Party Central Committee.
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Deliveryman Is Slain Outside L.I. Market
Date: 12 May 1987
LEAD: A newspaper deliveryman was shot and killed yesterday morning outside a supermarket, and the Nassau County police said the motive appeared to have been robbery.
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MEDIA EXECUTIVES HESITANT TO RUN EXPLICIT AIDS ADS
Date: 12 May 1987
By James Barron
James Barron
LEAD: The explicit advertisements on AIDS that Mayor Koch unveiled yesterday drew sharp criticism from religious leaders, and only one television station, WNYC-TV, which is owned by New York City, has so far agreed to carry all three commercials developed for the campaign.
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HAIG ASSERTS HE'S NOT AN ASTERISK IN REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Date: 13 May 1987
By Warren Weaver Jr., Special To the New York Times
Warren Weaver
LEAD: Alexander M. Haig Jr. said today that he had ''moved from an asterisk in January to a solid third position in this country'' in the 1988 Republican Presidential race.
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Good News About the Dollar
Date: 12 May 1987
By Shafiqul Islam
Shafiqul Islam
LEAD: Washington is hell-bent on fighting ''unfair trade practices'' overseas to close America's trade gap. President Reagan and the House have fired their first shots, with Japan as the key target; now it's the Senate's turn to ''get tough'' with unfair foreigners.
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