18th of February 1986 News
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Gannett Acquires Evening News
Date: 19 February 1986
AP
The Gannett Company completed its purchase of the Evening News Association, a $717 million transaction that gave Gannett ownership of The Detroit News and other media properties. The transaction ended 112 years of ownership of The Detroit News by the Scripps family and increased Gannett's holdings to 91 daily newspapers, including the national newspaper USA Today. With the latest purchase, Gannett owns eight television stations, 42 weekly newspapers, 15 radio stations and a Sunday supplement, USA Weekend, formerly Family Weekly.
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NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1986
Date: 18 February 1986
International Philip C. Habib met in Manila with President Ferdinand E. Marcos and Corazon C. Aquino. Mr. Habib, President Reagan's special envoy, also met with the Archbishop of Manila, Jaime Cardinal Sin, and with Jose Concepcion Jr., the director of Namfrel, a citizens' poll-watching group that has disputed Mr. Marcos's assertion that he won the Feb. 7 election. [ Page A1, Column 1. ] Special Philippine investigators were sent to look into the slayings of a dozen opposition figures in the Quirino region of northern Luzon Province. The team's forensic pathologist and a colonel from Manila were playing tennis. An opposition political leader asked when they would begin investigating the dozen killings. After the tennis game, the colonel replied. [ A6:2-6. ]
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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1986
Date: 19 February 1986
International Covert aid to Angolan rebels is set, the Reagan Administration formally told Congress. It said it would supply insurgents opposing the Communist-backed Government with antiaircraft and antitank missiles costing about $15 million through C.I.A. funds. The aid does not require Congressional approval. [ Page A1, Column 1. ] Hundreds of Israeli troops carried out a second day of ground, naval and air operations to rescue two soldiers captured by guerrillas in southern Lebanon. But the armed search, which began soon after the two soldiers were ambushed Monday, again turned up nothing. [ A1:2. ]
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BACK ON TOP IN PORTUGAL
Date: 18 February 1986
By Edward Schumacher, Special To the New York Times
Edward Schumacher
Mario Soares had finally escaped the crush of well-wishers early this morning and had secluded himself with his family and a few others in a back room of the mansion that served as his campaign headquarters here. Mr. Soares had just been elected Portugal's first civilian President in 60 years, and the chants of thousands of supporters whom he had addressed earlier from a balcony could still be heard on the street outside. The political career of Mr. Soares, a center-left Socialist, had been largely written off four months ago, when the Government he had headed as Prime Minister was voted out in a landslide defeat. For Mr. Soares, a paunchy 61-year-old whom the right-wing opposition ridiculed as ''chubby cheeks,'' this was a moment to savor.
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Deliberations Hit Snag In Racketeering Case
Date: 18 February 1986
AP
Three jurors in the trial of five people accused of racketeering found news articles about the case between boxes of evidence today, the first day of deliberations by the panel, which was sequestered. Federal District Judge David S. Nelson, who is presiding over the trial of Gennaro J. Angiulo, three of his brothers and another man, halted deliberations for three hours as he questioned jurors privately, said Anthony Cardinale, Mr. Angiulo's attorney.
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HARSH RESTRICTIONS AND HOSTILE PROTESTERS HAMPER THE PRESS
Date: 19 February 1986
Special to the New York Times
By official accounts, the death toll was 19. At the same time, there were unsubstantiated reports that it was as high as 80. But for a variety of reasons, no outsiders could seek to find the reality that lay, possibly, somewhere between the two. Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, came to this black township today whre he negotiated between the police and black demonstrators. But, with the exception of a black American reporter, unnoticed by the police because of his skin color, no other foreign reporters were able to hear the bishop's words.
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COSTS OF NAVY BASE ON S.I. QUESTIONED IN AUDIT BY G.A.O.
Date: 19 February 1986
By Ben A. Franklin, Special To the New York Times
Ben Franklin
A Congressional audit has concluded that the new construction required to base the battleship Iowa and a six-ship support group at Staten Island would cost up to $362 million more than assigning them to existing piers at the naval base in Norfolk, Va. The General Accounting Office, the auditing office of Congress, also said the Navy had failed to make a persuasive case for its argument that dispersal of new combat ships to new ports on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts was worth the cost because it would improve the fleet's deployment and survival prospects under attack. The redeployment plan has both military and political implications. When plans for the Staten Island base were announced by the Navy in July 1983, the revival of combat-ship berthing in New York was described as promising an estimated 9,000 jobs and $500 million a year to the city's economy.
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Dept. of Hundred-Dollar Toilet Seats
Date: 18 February 1986
Special to the New York Times
Disclosures about the Defense Department paying hundreds of dollars for a hammer and hundreds more for a toilet seat have infuriated President Reagan, who has called the reports a ''constant drumbeat of propaganda'' and not typical of the way the Government operates. But that ''propaganda,'' the President apparently forgot or did not know, originated with a commission on governmental efficiency for which he has been full of praise, the Grace Commission. Gregg N. Lightbody, a spokesman for the commission, officially known as the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, said the group's educational arm, Citizens Against Government Waste, would continue to use the example of the costly hammer in its messages identifying faults in Government spending and procurement, even though the example might be ''an isolated instance.''
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BRILL'S LEGAL NEWSPAPERS
Date: 18 February 1986
By Tamar Lewin
Tamar Lewin
LAWYERS, take note: Steven Brill is on the move again. Seven years ago, when Mr. Brill started The American Lawyer, many law firms were appalled to find that their internal affairs - which firms are on the skids, which partners bring in the business and, worst of all, how much money they make - were being aired in public. And although many prominent lawyers complained that The American Lawyer was just a scandal sheet, the monthly magazine has found an enviable niche with partners at the nation's most elite law firms. Now Mr. Brill is expanding into the legal newspaper field nationwide. In the last few months he has acquired eight legal or financial newspapers: The New Jersey Law Journal, Connecticut Law Tribune, an Atlanta paper, one in Charlotte, N.C., and four in southern Florida. He says he is about to close deals for two more papers and plans to start a Washington paper as well.
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RIGHTS TO A MYTHICAL TEXAN DISPUTED IN A LAWSUIT
Date: 18 February 1986
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
For The Dallas Times Herald, a mythical Texan named Joe Bob Briggs with every possible bias is proving to be a source of enduring trouble, which is probably just the way Joe Bob would want it. John Bloom, a former Times Herald columnist who created the persona of Joe Bob and gave him voice in the popular newspaper column ''Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In,'' filed a suit last Monday seeking $900,000 in damages against The Times Herald and The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, which once distributed the column to other newspapers. In his lawsuit, Mr. Bloom charged that his former employers wrongfully claimed rights to the name Joe Bob Briggs and to Mr. Bloom's columns in The Times Herald about Joe Bob, stalling publication of two books by Mr. Bloom related to Joe Bob. At stake, according to Allah B. Conant Jr., Mr. Bloom's attorney, are such serious journalistic issues as prior restraint and freedom of speech.
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