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Connecticut Q&A;: Al Terzi; A Generation of Serving Up the News

Date: 02 April 1995

By James Lomuscio

James Lomuscio

WHEN Al Terzi is referred to as Connecticut's dean of broadcast journalism, he is more humbled than exuberant. "I've heard that, not widely, and I guess it's just because out of all the anchors I'm the one here who's been doing it the longest," said Mr. Terzi. Indeed, there are viewers who remember him from 1968, when he first became a radio and television announcer in Hartford. Many more remember him from a nearly 14-year tenure, until 1993, in the anchor seat at WTNH-TV, Channel 8, in New Haven. And now there are viewers who are just getting to know him, since he resumed anchoring the afternoon and evening news at WFSB-TV, Channel 3, in Hartford in December. (His Channel 8 contract had prohibited him from appearing on a competing news station for a time.)

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Body Bags at 11

Date: 02 April 1995

By Max Frankel

Max Frankel

SIRENS BLEAT, BODIES float, suspects cringe, victims weep. Celebrities preen and promote. Anchors chat and emote. It's local news time: normally 30 minutes of hell and blather, ads and promos, weather and sports, starting at 9, 10 or 11 -- local television's most profitable time of night and its most disheartening use of the air. There are exceptions, of course, here and there, one night or another. But in most of America, whatever channel you watch, the late news is obsessed with crime and disaster, encouraging fear or smug comfort, or both. It assails the mind but offers nothing much to think about -- not even about crime, war and disaster. No helpful assessments of the police or local hospital. Almost nothing about education except some school shooting. Nothing about housing except some landlord's venality. Nothing about traffic except some flaming collision. Much less anything reflective about politics, economics, foreign affairs.

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Kenya Acts to Curb Its Opponents and Press

Date: 03 April 1995

By Donatella Lorch

Donatella Lorch

Recent actions by Kenya's Government have been perceived by Western diplomats as the most serious crackdown on the opposition and the press since multiparty elections in 1992. In the last month, President Daniel arap Moi has ordered the arrest of anyone who insulted him and he declared that a guerrilla movement was poised to invade from neighboring Uganda. At the same time, the governing party's newspaper has published reports about the February 18th Movement, described as a Communist rebel group led by an exile named John Odongo. The Government has also accused the opposition of colluding with the rebels.

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First Union Settles With U.S. Over Loans

Date: 03 April 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The First Union Mortgage Corporation will pay the Justice Department $6.3 million to settle claims that its employees falsified information on borrowers' forms for mortgages guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. "Numerous" loans went into default, costing the V.A. "several million dollars" after First Union Mortgage employees provided false information about borrowers' income, debts and dependents, the Justice Department said.

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Compaq Computer Will Use Nexgen Chips

Date: 03 April 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

In an effort to cut its dependence on chips from the Intel Corporation, the Compaq Computer Corporation is planning to use processors from closely held Nexgen Inc. in future personal computers. Compaq, which holds an equity stake in Nexgen, based in Milpitas, Calif., said last week that it had reached an agreement to use the chip maker's high-performance Pentium-class processors in Compaq machines that would be available in the next year. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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Corrections

Date: 02 April 1995

Because of editing and production errors, an article last Sunday about a New York Times/CBS News poll on the ways Americans save for retirement misstated some findings. Fifty-three percent of those asked, not 40 percent, said they expect company pensions or Social Security to be the major source of their retirement income. Three-fourths of those with investments, not two-thirds, said they rarely buy or sell their stocks or shift money between mutual funds. Sixty percent said they found it hard to keep up with their bills, not that they were never out of debt. People earning $50,000 a year or more are most likely to have savings; they do not constitute a majority of those with savings.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 03 April 1995

International A2-9 DISCONTENT IN EGYPT President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt facing accusations of human rights abuses, governmental corruption and mismanagement that are driving away investors. A2 BOMB KILLS 8 IN GAZA At least eight people were killed when a bomb blew up in a Gaza City neighborhood that is reputed to be a stronghold of Hamas, the militant Palestinian group. A2 RWANDANS END FLIGHT Tens of thousands of Rwandans fleeing camps in Burundi halted their flight after their leaders became convinced that Tanzania would not open its borders. A3 In Kenya, a crackdown on opposition and the press. A3 FIRST LADY IN NEPAL For Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Nepal on her five-nation Asia tour, a media-pleasing elephant ride and a meeting with Sir Edmund Hillary, her namesake. A6 NEW STEP FOR THE U.N. The United Nations has been breaking tradition to help Asian governments' efforts to push tens of thousands of migrants back to Vietnam by the end of the year. A6 A SCHOOL AND A SCANDAL To its supporters, the School of the Americas teaches professionalism to Latin American soldiers; to its most severe critics, it is an academy of assassins. A8 FEARS IN HAITI Despite the new United Nations mission of establishing a "safe and stable environment" in Haiti, there is growing nervousness among the population about the future. A8 SHARING DATA WITH RUSSIA The Clinton Administration has offered American intelligence on Iran to Russian officials in hopes of persuading them to drop plans to build nuclear reactors in Iran. A9 In Dublin, a landmark on the road to peace in Northern Ireland. A7 Paris Journal: Notre Dame out of harmony with computer age. A4 National A12-17, B6-8 TAX-CUT QUANDARY The Republican majority in the House is expected to pass a deep tax-cut proposal this week despite misgivings about public opinion and the possibility of making the Federal the deficit expand. A1 GAYS IN THE MILITARY House Speaker Newt Gingrich promises to try to overturn the Government's new policy on homosexuals in the military although the Joint Chiefs of Staff are happy with the current rules. A1 LIFE AND DEATH: WHO DECIDES? The question of whether doctors or family members are to decide when brain-damaged patients should get continued medical treatment will be examined in a lawsuit against Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and its doctors. A1 SEAGRAM DEAL IS NEAR The Seagram Company is close to a deal to sell its 25 percent stake in Du Pont back to the company for nearly $10 billion in cash, people familiar with the negotiations said last night. A1 TRYING TO CURB LAWSUITS A Republican package of bills aiming at revamping the nation's civil court system easily passed the House, but its fate is far from certain in the Senate. B6 PREPARED FOR BATTLE -- OR NOT The Pentagon is spending less on new weapons and equipment than at any time in nearly 50 years, and some are afraid combat readiness is in jeopardy. B7 A STATE WITH ITS OWN MIND Rhode Island, bucking a national trend, seems likely to adopt a law that would increase the state's protection to homosexuals against bias in housing, employment, public accommodations and credit. A12 DIM HOPES FOR DEMOCRATS Many leading Democrats have all but given up hope of regaining control of the Senate in 1996 and are focusing on persuading wavering House members to run again. B6 A DOCTOR WITH A HEART In Bayou La Batre, a poor fishing village on the Gulf Coast in Alabama, the people have an angel: a country doctor who makes house calls and works on credit. A12 ROMANCE IN THE AIR Fiction came to life at a convention of readers of romance novels. The readers got a chance to meet the men who model for the pirates, firemen and others on the covers of the books they devour. A12 Strikes have halted most public transit in Philadelphia. A17 Metro Digest B1 Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C13-19 Finding a mission in Handel's operas. C13 Theater: Critic's Notebook C13 "The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me . . ." C16 "Watbanaland." C16 Music: Graham Parker. C16 The Schubertiade evolves. C18 Dance: An Ailey ensemble honors its leader. C13 Books: An intimate of F.D.R. C17 Sports C1-11 BASEBALL OWNERS QUIT FIGHT Major League Baseball owners yesterday accepted the players' offer to return to work, ending the longest work stoppage in professional sports history. A1 REPLACEMENTS NOW REPLACEABLE As baseball's real players edged closer to returning, the game's replacement players edged back toward anonymity. A1 A PERFECT UCONN SEASON The Connecticut women's basketball team completed its undefeated season by stopping Tennessee, 70-64, in the final of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. A1 Baseball: Fans not happy. C2 Yanks ahead of most teams. C4 Basketball: Knicks top Nets. C9 Columns: Anderson on baseball. C1 Berkow on UConn women. C1 Rhoden on N.C.A.A. C6 On Baseball. C3 Hockey: Rangers lose again. C8 N.C.A.A.: 2 paths to final. C1 Obituaries B10 Stanley A. Cain, a pioneering conservationist who helped develop ecological science. Dame Lucie Rie, a ceramicist. Oliver Rea, a theatrical producer. Editorials/Op-Ed A18-19 Editorials The baseball truce. Mischief on Mexico. Buffs. Tuberculosis resurgent. Letters William Safire: Newt's 100th. Anthony Lewis: Never again. Philip K. Howard: Put the judges back in justice. Chronicle B4 Bridge C18

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 02 April 1995

International 3-16 STATUS OF MEXICO BAILOUT More than two months after the White House committed $20 billion to save Mexico from bankruptcy, the effort is teetering between modest success and potential failure. 1 FEAR GROWS IN BURUNDI As ethnic violence and a sense of foreboding rise in Burundi, thousands of people have left the capital, Bujumbura, seeking refuge in the countryside or in Zaire. 1

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'Dateline NBC' Stands Tall in Ratings While Rival News Magazines Slump

Date: 03 April 1995

By Bill Carter

Bill Carter

NBC gave a party last week to celebrate the third anniversary of its news magazine, "Dateline NBC," partly to show off an elaborate new $1 million set, and partly just to revel in the fact that the program is still around. "Dateline," after all, is the program that almost brought down NBC News two years ago when it was forced to admit that it had faked explosions in a report on truck safety. That scandal led to an extraordinary on-air apology, the dismissal of the program's executive producer and two other producers, and the resignation of the president of the news division, Michael G. Gartner.

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Tale of a Two-Headed Trout, Fly-Fishing and Baseball

Date: 02 April 1995

By Peter Kaminsky

Peter Kaminsky

In the observation of a half-century tradition, New York fly-fisherfolk gathered Friday night near the Junction Pool of the Beaverkill for the annual Two-Headed Trout dinner. Begun in the 1940's by the former New York Timesman Red Smith, the original group of diners included fly-fishing pioneer Lee Wulff and A. J. McClane, who was perhaps the greatest American angling author of all time -- if you don't count Ernest Hemingway. Over the years the dinner party grew, taking over all of the tables in the Antrim Inn, a wonderful Catskills roadhouse that went out of business a few years ago. The party and the trout have since moved to the nearby Rockland House and yes, the trout does have two heads, but savvy anglers have long suspected a taxidermist's subterfuge.

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