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TELEVISION; ABC News's Fractious All-Star Team: Make Room for Barbara

Date: 13 March 1994

By Marc Gunther

Marc Gunther

The story of Roone Arledge shows how a forceful individual can alter the most bureaucratic institutions. In "The House That Roone Built: The Inside Story of ABC News," Marc Gunther recounts how Mr. Arledge took a news organization from last place to first in the ratings. This excerpt from the book, published this month by Little, Brown & Company, finds Mr. Arledge at a moment of glory. ONE MORNING IN JUNE 1989, seven of television's biggest stars gathered for a picture-taking session in TV One, an ABC News studio on West 66th Street. Inside ABC, they were called the Magnificent Seven -- Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and Hugh Downs -- and they were about to become part of the most lavish campaign ever created to promote network news. Soon a striking group portrait of these stars would be seen on bus shelters in New York, billboards in Los Angeles, and in newspapers everywhere -- a picture postcard to the nation from the house that Roone built.

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Press Notes

Date: 14 March 1994

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

WHAT is black and white and technicolor and digital and read all over? The Atlanta Journal and Constitution hopes the answer will be the electronic newspaper that it began offering yesterday. Called "Access Atlanta," the service is one of the most sophisticated electronic newspapers yet. Backed by a news and production staff of 25 people, it is also one of the most ambitious. Access Atlanta is available over the Prodigy Services Company's computer service for $6.95 a month, with additional charges for services like electronic mail.

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'The Paper' Replates 'The Front Page' for the 90's

Date: 13 March 1994

By Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

FIRST, A DISCLAIMER. It would not be proper to write about Ron Howard's new movie, "The Paper," a romp through 24 hours in the manic life of a New York tabloid, without noting up front that the film takes an extremely dim view of The New York Times.

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For Those Who Died Covering the News

Date: 13 March 1994

To the Editor: As the mother of Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old Reuters photographer who was stoned to death in Mogadishu, Somalia, last July 12, I was deeply moved by "Slaughtering the Messengers" (editorial, Feb. 25). Dan and three colleagues, Hansi Krauss (Associated Press) and Anthony Macharia and Hos Maina (Reuters), were covering the aftermath of a United Nations bombing of a meeting place of Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid's followers. More than 50 people died, and scores were injured in a scene Mohammed Shaffi, a Reuters television cameraman, called the worst carnage he had ever seen.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 14 March 1994

International A2-10 ISRAEL BANS RADICAL GROUPS The Israeli Government outlawed two organizations of radical settlers, branding them terrorists on a par with Islamic militants. A1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 13 March 1994

International 3-19 CHINA REBUFFS U.S. China flatly refused to improve its human rights policies, as the United States has been demanding, and warned that revoking its trade privileges could backfire. 1 China cordoned off dissidents' houses during the U.S. visit. 8

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For a Recycling Company, Good News and Bad

Date: 13 March 1994

By Bruce Lambert

Bruce Lambert

Atlas Paper Stock's horse-drawn wagons started collecting scrap paper in Manhattan's downtown printing district shortly after World War I. Since then, times have changed radically for the salvage business. Recycling is not only socially responsible; a local law makes it mandatory. On April 13, the city will start enforcing requirements that businesses separate paper, cans and plastics for recycling, with fines of $25 to $500. Expecting that the crackdown will produce a ready-made stream of discarded paper, Atlas plans to expand its operations tenfold, to handle 400 tons a day. The company, though, faces opposition from some community members, who contend that the West Village is no place for such an operation.

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He's No. 1

Date: 13 March 1994

By Ken Bode

Ken Bode

THE HOUSE THAT ROONE BUILT The Inside Story of ABC News. By Marc Gunther. Illustrated. 381 pp. Boston: Little, Brown & Company.

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Mrs. Clinton Concedes Mistakes Were Made

Date: 13 March 1994

Hillary Rodham Clinton said in interviews with two news magazines today that she and President Clinton had made mistakes in handling what has become known as the Whitewater affair. Her interviews, with Time and Newsweek, are part of an effort by the Clinton Administration to counter criticism of their real estate investment in Arkansas and their response to questions about the dealings. At first, the Clintons considered appearing on television programs next week, but ultimately decided to grant interviews to the news magazines.

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Clinton Partner Denies One Allegation

Date: 14 March 1994

By David E. Rosenbaum

David Rosenbaum

As Democrats and Republicans continued bickering on television this morning over whether Congressional hearings should be held on the Whitewater case, Bill and Hillary Clinton's business partner in the Arkansas land venture that gave the case its name said that one main instance of supposed wrongdoing never occurred. The former partner, James B. McDougal said on the ABC News program "This Week" that "in no way, shape, form or fashion" did any money from a savings and loan he headed go "into a Clinton campaign."

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