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Date: 18 July 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-9 Refugees have flooded into Malawi from Mozambique. In the last 20 months, more than 600,000 Mozambicans fleeing civil war have crowded into Malawi, a poor nation that cannot feed its own people. Page A1
Date: 18 July 1988
By Charles E. Schumer
Charles Schumer
LEAD: Anyone who pays attention to the news saw a great deal of the following during the last year: the fate of the family farmer, the Robert Chambers murder case, the crackdown on Noriega, the plight of little Jessica McClure, who fell down a well in Texas.
Date: 18 July 1988
By Maureen Dowd, Special To the New York Times
Maureen Dowd
LEAD: If the Michael and Lloyd show is expected to be staid television fare, then the Walter and Dan show is considered, in the nervous phrase of a CBS News executive, ''a 40-ton bundle of dynamite.''
Date: 18 July 1988
By Albert Scardino
Albert Scardino
LEAD: EUGENE CERVI, a crusading weekly newspaper publisher from Denver, made himself very unpopular in publishing circles in the late 1960's by railing against the newspaper industry's efforts to win Federal exemption from antitrust laws. He did not care much for railroads, mining companies or big banks, either, but he held a special place in his spleen for big-city newspapers, including his two hometown competitors.
Date: 18 July 1988
By Stephen Kinzer, Special To the New York Times
Stephen Kinzer
LEAD: As of a week ago, the contra guerrilla movement appeared to be in disarray. Congress was not disposed to provide it with new aid, and the Administration was reduced to seeking diplomatic backing from Guatemala, Costa Rica and other Latin American countries that have made clear they will not provide it.
Date: 17 July 1988
By James G. Cobb
James Cobb
LEAD: Encouraging economic reports sent the dollar soaring. The U.S. trade deficit rose slightly in May, to $10.93 billion. Although higher than the revised $10.3 billion of April, it was the second-smallest imbalance in almost three years. Imports rose 3.4 percent, to $37.6 billion, while exports also increased 2.3 percent, to $26.6 billion.
Date: 18 July 1988
Reuters
LEAD: Mobil Producing (Nigeria) Ltd. plans to bring a large Nigerian condensate field into production, the company's managing director said.
Date: 18 July 1988
By Patrick Houston, Special To the New York Times
Patrick Houston
LEAD: When the commodities market took a sudden plunge on June 28, Charlie Notis described it as one of his most gratifying moments. No, Mr. Notis is not a speculator who beat the markets for a pocketful of trading profits.He is a meteorologist.
Date: 17 July 1988
LEAD: FOR 14 years Catherine N. Pollard of Milford, Conn., fought to become the first woman in the nation to be recognized officially as a Boy Scout scoutmaster, and last February victory was within grasp.