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Date: 26 February 1987
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: A document strongly critical of operations at ABC News has caused a bitter dispute within that network's news division just as ABC executives are planning a major reconfiguration of the news-gathering process.
Date: 27 February 1987
LEAD: The White House Crisis A8-21
Date: 26 February 1987
LEAD: International A3-13, B7 Oliver L. North was the key figure in an operation that collected millions from conservatives that were diverted before they got to Nicaraguan rebels, according to a fund-raiser, Jane E. McLaughlin. Page A1 The special prosecutor in the Iran-contra inquiry has asked the Justice Department to stop providing critical documents to Congress, setting the stage for a major dispute, Administration officials said.
Date: 27 February 1987
By Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. AND Thomas Rogers
Robert Mcg
LEAD: Just how big a story to Dallas were the N.C.A.A. penalties imposed Wednesday on Southern Methodist University's football program? Yesterday's issue of The Morning News, one of the city's two dailies, devoted not only its leading article on page 1 to the Mustang scandal, but also five full sports pages.
Date: 26 February 1987
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d ordered a public hearing yesterday on whether The Detroit News and its rival, The Detroit Free Press, should be allowed to merge advertising, production and circulation under a joint operating arrangement.
Date: 26 February 1987
By Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. and Thomas Rogers
Robert Mcg
LEAD: For a man who has never been known as a friend of the sporting press, Bob Knight is taking on a peculiar job. The Indiana basketball coach will write a series of six syndicated articles of commentary on the coming N.C.A.A. tournament as a favor to Billy Reed, former sports editor of The Louisville Courier
Date: 26 February 1987
By James M. Markham, Special To the New York Times
James
LEAD: The morning news conference at the Tageszeitung takes place around a long kitchen table. Potatoes and oranges lie under a nearby aluminum stand where at lunchtime two cooks with iridescent red hair whip up a tolerable pasta and salad.
Date: 27 February 1987
LEAD: Following are excerpts from the news conference that followed release of the Tower Commission's study of the National Security Council yesterday in Washington, as recorded by The New York Times. OPENING STATEMENTS
Date: 26 February 1987
AP
LEAD: The USX Telecenters Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., said it would change its name after an out-of-court cash settlement with the giant USX Corporation, formerly known as the United States Steel Corporation. USX Telecenters, a telephone retailing franchiser that had trademark rights to its name, had filed suit against the giant steelmaker in July after learning it had switched its name to USX.
Date: 27 February 1987
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: Av Westin, the ABC News executive whose stinging assessment of the network's news operations caused a bitter dispute at ABC, was dismissed from his job last night, according to network executives.