Murdoch Looking for Ventures in Moscow
Date: 11 December 1989
By Jeremy Gerard
Jeremy Gerard
LEAD: Rupert Murdoch may be an ardent capitalist, but apparently that has not tempered his eagerness to use perestroika to extend the reach of his media properties.
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TV Tidbits Starve Democracy
Date: 10 December 1989
By Kiku Adatto
Kiku Adatto
LEAD: Modern-day political campaigns may be made for television but democracy is not. TV's tolerance for the languid pace of political discourse, never great, has all but vanished.
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TIANANMEN SQUARE REMEMBERED
Date: 10 December 1989
By Marie Gottschalk
Marie Gottschalk
LEAD: BEIJING SPRING Photographs by David and Peter Turnley. Text by Melinda Liu. 176 pp. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. Paper, $19.95. JUNE FOUR A Chronicle of the Chinese Democratic Uprising. By the Photographers and Reporters of Ming Pao News. Translated by Zi Jin and Qin Zhou.
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LOW TALES OF THE HIGHBORN
Date: 10 December 1989
LEAD: I am amazed at the low level of your reporting. Tom Driberg - Lord Bradwell, that is - was elevated to the peerage for his services to Britain, and was a distinguished member of his country's Government from the end of World War II until his death in 1976. JOAN LITTLEWOOD London
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LOW TALES OF THE HIGHBORN
Date: 10 December 1989
LEAD: I find it appalling that you saw fit to print a major story on the British gossips. To record anything beyond their demise is wasteful of paper and time.
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LOW TALES OF THE HIGHBORN
Date: 10 December 1989
LEAD: Michael Pye misses the real point, which is that the entire content of a newspaper is virtually gossip (''Low Tales of the Highborn,'' Nov. 12). Take, as an example, the articles about the youths accused in the attack on the Central Park jogger. Anything beyond the fact that an attack took place and that one should attend to one's safety is gossip.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 December 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-15 The first Czechoslovak government in 41 years without a Communist majority was sworn in by President Gustav Husak, the Communist hard-liner, who resigned immediately afterward. Page A1
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Vietnam Rice Crop Up
Date: 11 December 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Vietnam has produced 18.02 million tons of unmilled rice this year, 4 percent more than expected and 8.5 percent more than last year's crop, the official Vietnam News Agency said in a report made available Friday. The high output was attributed to three good harvests and to policy changes made in 1988 after riots forced the Government to abandon an unpopular drive toward group cooperation.
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Morton Frank, 77, Ex-Publisher And Chairman of Family Weekly
Date: 10 December 1989
By Marvine Howe
Marvine Howe
LEAD: Morton Frank, a retired publisher, died of complications Thursday following heart surgery at Bridgeport (Conn.) Hospital. He was 77 years old and a resident of Manhattan and Easton, Conn.
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