NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1987
Date: 04 December 1987
LEAD: International A3-17
Το 3 Δεκεμβρίου 1987 ήταν Πέμπτη κάτω από το σύμβολο του αστεριού του ♐. Ήταν η 336 ημέρα του χρόνου. Πρόεδρος των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών ήταν ο Ronald Reagan.
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Date: 03 December 1987
By James Barron, Special To the New York Times
James Barron
LEAD: Shortly before noon on the third day of the uprising at the Federal prison here, a dozen reporters signed a handwritten note. It was a request for a briefing on 25 hostages who had been taken captive the night before and five others who had been freed.
Date: 03 December 1987
LEAD: International A3-19 Washington charged Moscow with a new technical violation of the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty. The charge may increase Senate opposition to the treaty to eliminate medium- and shorter-range missiles.
Date: 03 December 1987
By Isabel Wilkerson, Special To the New York Times
Isabel Wilkerson
LEAD: In the tumult of Chicago politics, Eugene Sawyer has been considered the calm voice of reason that could appeal to the city's many opposing factions.
Date: 03 December 1987
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Philippine Government ordered the expulsion of an Australian reporter today, revoked the order, then reinstated it in a bureaucratic tug of war.
Date: 03 December 1987
By Seth Mydans, Special To the New York Times
Seth Mydans
LEAD: Under the Aquino Administration, the Philippine press has become one of the freest in Asia, but possibly the most licentious and least credible, according to the Philippine Press Institute.
Date: 04 December 1987
By R. W. Apple Jr., Special To the New York Times
R. Apple
LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev has impressed the American public, winning twice as many favorable opinions as negative ones, and has persuaded a solid majority that he is opening up the Soviet system.
Date: 04 December 1987
By Steven R. Weisman, Special To the New York Times
Steven Weisman
LEAD: Can it be mere coincidence? That is the question here.
Date: 03 December 1987
By Hilary Stout
Hilary Stout
LEAD: Pierre Jean Baptiste came to a small Brooklyn storefront Tuesday morning hoping for news about his mother and brother, who were chased from the polls in a Haitian town Sunday morning.
Date: 04 December 1987
Reuters
LEAD: The Eastman Kodak Company said it expected its strong earnings growth to continue next year, attributing the momentum to stringent cost-cutting measures that took effect last year. Kodak's chairman, Colby H. Chandler, told analysts in Chicago that the company had cut 13,000 employees, or 10 percent of its work force, while reducing expenses by 5 percent.