BUSINESS PEOPLE;
FNN News Executive Is Given a Promotion
Date: 03 August 1989
By Michael Lev
Michael Lev
LEAD: Michael Wheeler, the executive in charge of business news and information programming at Financial News Network Inc., has been named president.
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Abortion: A Wide Range of Views
Date: 03 August 1989
LEAD: Those who Those who prefer say abortion abortion is murder and legal as never the best All it is now course, even in adults a bad situation *3*Supreme Court Decision 14% Approve of decision 8% 28% 23 Disapprove 38 11 59
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An F.B.I. Bloch Party
Date: 02 August 1989
LEAD: Here are the undisputed facts in the case of Felix Bloch, the American diplomat. The F.B.I. suspects him of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. On June 22 he was placed on leave and stripped of his State Department building pass. On July 21 ABC News disclosed that he was under investigation. On July 27 he appeared at his daughter's house on Hamilton Road in Chappaqua, N.Y.
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No August Doldrums
Date: 03 August 1989
By William Safire
William Safire
LEAD: In the past, I have provided readers with a list of suggested knee-jerk reactions to carry through the August news doldrums. Not this year; as I slouch toward vacation, the march of events is quickening. 1. Confrontation With the Terrorist Murderers. Israel's painful but gutsy decision to capture the Hezbollah's field commander and his aides, after the failure of all other means of handling hostage-taking over a decade, is being criticized as provocative.
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Ex-Editor Is Chosen To Be New Curator Of Nieman Program
Date: 02 August 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: Bill Kovach, the former editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has been named curator of the Nieman Foundation, a program for journalists at Harvard University.
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Soviet Journals Snipe at Gorbachev
Date: 03 August 1989
By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times
Bill Keller
LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is steadily losing popularity at home because he is trying to be reformer and party boss at the same time, according to an unusually frank and gloomy commentary published this week in a prestigious journal.
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Poll Finds Ambivalence on Abortion Persists in U.S.
Date: 03 August 1989
By E. J. Dionne Jr
E. Dionne
LEAD: Most Americans favor some new legal restrictions on abortion but remain generally wary of government interference with a woman's decision on the matter and regard advocates on one side or the other as ''extremists,'' the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll has found.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 03 August 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Before a ban on chemical weapons is agreed to, the Soviet Union has accepted an American demand that inspections be carried out, which may ease the treaty. Page A1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 02 August 1989
LEAD: International A2-11
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