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Meet the Press: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Date: 09 February 1992

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

In a broadcast that may have set a new standard for tastelessness, the syndicated tabloid television program "A Current Affair" interviewed Gennifer Flowers last week about the affair she says she had with Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas. In the interview Ms. Flowers was asked to rate the Presidential candidate as a lover on a scale of one to ten, which she earnestly did. Then, to close the show, Ms. Flowers, a sometime nightclub singer, warbled "Stand By Your Man," the Tammy Wynette song Mr. Clinton's wife, Hillary, slighted when she defended her husband on "60 Minutes."

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Weeklies See Profits Without A Charge

Date: 10 February 1992

By Clifford J. Levy

Clifford Levy

Although numerous publications have been battered by the recession, Michael Schenkler remains convinced he can make money by expanding in the free-distribution newspaper business in the New York area. Mr. Schenkler, president of News Communications Inc., says his small company's four free newspapers -- The Manhattan Spirit, Our Town and The Queens Tribune in New York City and Dan's Papers on eastern Long Island -- are profitable, with a total circulation of about 425,000 copies a week. And he is so certain that he has found the formula for success that he is aggressively seeking to buy other, similar publications.

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Venezuela, Wary After Coup Attempt, Censors Press

Date: 10 February 1992

By James Brooke

James Brooke

Wary that plotters of an unsuccessful coup may be depicted as heroes, the Government has stationed censors in newsrooms and confiscated stacks of magazines in some of the strictest press controls imposed since the advent of civilian rule in 1958. President Carlos Andres Perez contends that the restrictions, adopted after the failed military putsch last Tuesday, are a temporary step to calm the public.

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The Photo Op: Making Icons or Playing Politics?

Date: 09 February 1992

By Charles Hagen

Charles Hagen

The scene comes out of the best tradition of American barnstorming politics, as practiced in the media age. Patrick J. Buchanan, the conservative television commentator and maverick candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 18, is in the middle of a daylong campaign blitz along the western edge of the state. By late morning the candidate has made his way to Butson's supermarket in Woodsville. Trailed by a ramshackle army of campaign aides and media people, microphone booms raised like halberds, he enters the store in search of votes. Halfway down the first aisle he accepts a slice of pizza from a young woman handing out samples. As he begins to munch, photographers and television crews jostle for position in front of him, TV lights blazing and photographic strobes flashing. After a moment, Mr. Buchanan heads down another aisle and buys a ticket for the New Hampshire lottery. Again, photographers and television crews cluster eagerly, as he holds up the ticket and half-eaten slice of pizza.

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Mirror Group Bid Possible

Date: 10 February 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Conrad Black, the Canadian publisher of The Daily Telegraph in London, has offered to buy some assets of Mirror Group Newspapers P.L.C., British newspapers reported over the weekend. Robert Maxwell Holdings, one of the private companies in the collapsed media empire of the late Robert Maxwell, owns 51 percent of Mirror Group. Mirror Group newspapers include The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, The People, Sporting Life and two Scottish papers, The Daily Record and The Sunday Mail.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 09 February 1992

International 3-21 COVERT ACTION IN IRAQ DETAILED President Bush told Congress in the fall that covert action would be increased to try to incite the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, officials say. 1

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News Summary

Date: 10 February 1992

International A2-10 HAITIANS TELL OF TERROR Dozens of refugees forcibly returned to Haiti by the United States have fled a second time. The reason, they told United Nations officials, is that they faced beatings, imprisonment and death threats. A1 Haiti's exiled President also tells of the refugees' travails. A8 OPEC SEEKS HIGHER PRICES

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LONG ISLAND JOURNAL

Date: 09 February 1992

By Diane Ketcham

Diane Ketcham

ON RONKONKOMA RANGE WESTERN movies made Jean La Pierre Covone tingle. Not the ones with John Wayne, but the ones with buffaloes. "I have always loved buffaloes," Ms. Covone said. "And I always wanted to own one."

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Review/Music; A Bill McClelland Melange

Date: 09 February 1992

By Stephen Holden

Stephen Holden

Is it possible to translate gory local news events into semi-classical music that doesn't seem pallid beside its subject? That was the challenge posed by "The Ballad of Don and Dan," the most interesting piece to be presented in a showcase of music by a New Jersey-based composer, Bill McClelland, on Monday evening at Dance Theater Workshop. With a text adapted by Ian Frazier from news items describing a bizarre murder in Montana in the mid-1980's, "The Ballad of Don and Dan" is scored for a rock quartet and chorus and structured around the repeated lines "It was an idea, a man had an idea." That dry commentary, especially the word "idea," seemed to catch in the throats of the 16-member Vassar College Madrigal Singers, led by William Appling, which delivered an otherwise smooth performance of the piece.

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Ms. Fleck Wed In Philadelphia

Date: 10 February 1992

Carole Lynn Fleck, a daughter of Seymour and Thelma Fleck of Philadelphia, was married yesterday to Joseph Paul Scicchitano, the son of the late Joseph and Charlotte Scicchitano. Rabbi Israel Wolmark performed the ceremony at the Warwick hotel in Philadelphia. Mrs. Scicchitano, 31 years old, is the news director of the national broadcast wire for United Press International in Washington. She graduated from Temple University, as did her husband. Her father, who is retired, was a postal worker.

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