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Setting the Standards For War Pictures

Date: 05 June 1994

By Vicki Goldberg

Vicki Goldberg

AT FIRST GLANCE, "REPORTING the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II" at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington looks like the kind of show that only a World War II buff could love. Lots for them to love here: documents, reading matter, fine photographs like W. Eugene Smith's from Saipan -- though most of the photographs are not shown to great advantage. A few, like Margaret Bourke-White's spectacular view of an air raid on Moscow, are impressively enlarged, then cropped to fit into archways. As for the visual material about reporters, it is by and large less interesting than their words, appropriately enough. And memorabilia like the helmet of the writer Richard Tregaskis or Edward R. Murrow's microphone, though they may quicken many a pulse, will induce narcolepsy in some viewers.

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China Tries to Blot Out Memories of 1989

Date: 05 June 1994

By Patrick E. Tyler

Patrick Tyler

China deployed security forces against its dissidents today and interrupted international news broadcasts to prevent commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the 1989 military attack on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement. In anticipation of the anniversary, security agencies had put scores of dissidents under house arrest or close surveillance, a tactic most recently used during Secretary of State Warren Christopher's visit in March.

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Catholics Question Article of Faith

Date: 05 June 1994

By Peter Steinfels

Peter Steinfels

For years large majorities of American Roman Catholics have disagreed with their church's official teachings on subjects like contraception, remarriage after divorce and ordaining women to the priesthood. But a New York Times/CBS poll taken in April turned up a more startling result. Since ancient times the church has taught that the bread and wine offered at mass during the sacrament of holy communion are mysteriously changed into the actual body and blood of Christ, in keeping with Jesus's words at the Last Supper. In contrast, some Protestant views treat the bread and wine as symbols or reminders.

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Japanese Stocks Fall

Date: 06 June 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Stocks traded lower here today. The Nikkei index of 225 issues lost 227.54 points, or 1.09 percent, to end at 20,726.65. On Friday, the index fell 54.81 points.

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New Bell Canada-Jones Deal

Date: 06 June 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Bell Canada International Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to spend a total of $261 million for 30 percent of Jones Intercable Inc. of Englewood, Colo. Bell Canada, based here, said that it would also pay $52 million for an eight-year option to buy control of the company, a cable television operator, and invest another $35 million in other Jones assets.

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Corrections

Date: 05 June 1994

A chart last Sunday showing the corporate holdings of Rupert Murdoch's company, News Corporation Ltd., referred incorrectly to five units. Barnes & Noble Inc. was never owned by Mr. Murdoch or any of his companies. The San Antonio Express-News was sold by News Corporation in 1992. Fox Television Stations has 184 affiliates, not 140. The Herald & Weekly Times Ltd. is in Victoria, Australia, not London. Ansett Transport Industries Ltd. is an airline, not an air cargo carrier.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 05 June 1994

International 3-23 REMOTE RAIN FOREST THREATENED In Papua New Guinea, what is described by conservationists as the last rain forest is threatened by an influx of foreign loggers seeking new sources of tropical timber. 1 D-DAY EVENTS HAUNT GERMANY Germany is anguished about its lack of a role in the 50th anniversary commemoration of D-Day and conflicted about how to view the way the war was concluded. 1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 06 June 1994

International A3-11 RISING TIDE OF TRADE Trade between Mexico and the United States reached record levels in the three months after a new trade agreement took effect on Jan. 1. A1

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The News Was of Liberation but Also of America

Date: 06 June 1994

By Elie Wiesel, International Herald Tribune

Elie Wiesel

D-Day came late for me, meaning that I heard about it some time after it happened. News didn't reach the place where I was as fast as most places. We were on the far side of an abyss separating life and death; we were the living dead. For us, news was ne

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All the News That's Fit to Mulch

Date: 05 June 1994

By Maxine Kumin

Maxine Kumin

FOR just shy of 20 years now I have been gardening in the same spot abutting the forest out of which emerge such outlaws as raccoons and woodchucks, skunk, deer and black bear. The earth dries out slowly there, backed by our pond. But it stands open to full sun and yields 800 pounds of produce in a decent season. Substantial credit for this prodigious yield goes to The New York Times, which arrives Monday through Saturday in the mailbox at the foot of the hill, courtesy of the R.F.D. mail carrier and her Jeep. On Mondays or Tuesdays the Times Book Review comes via the same route. I don't subscribe to The Times on Sunday, partly because it is too heavy to carry half a mile north, and partly because it would usurp every Monday to work my way through it.

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