NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1988
Date: 12 February 1988
LEAD: International A3-15
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Date: 11 February 1988
LEAD: International A3-15
Date: 11 February 1988
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: In a move that could dramatically change the way medical news is reported, Reuters will no longer feel bound to observe restrictions on when it can report material from The New England Journal of Medicine, according to the head of the British news agency's operation in this country.
Date: 12 February 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Gunmen kidnapped two Swedish journalists in Beirut's southern suburbs today but released them after realizing that they were not West Germans, the police said.
Date: 11 February 1988
By Craig Wolff
Craig Wolff
LEAD: Defending his selection of Peter S. Kalikow to buy The New York Post, Rupert Murdoch said yesterday that the proposals offered by at least five other bidders would have demanded even greater concessions than the one from Mr. Kalikow.
Date: 12 February 1988
By Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
LEAD: Amid all the attention devoted to the Federal Communications Commission's cross ownership rule, to the Kennedy-Hollings amendment barring a waiver of it and to the future of The New York Post, one key fact has been all but obscured.
Date: 12 February 1988
By Robert D. Hershey Jr., Special To the New York Times
Robert
LEAD: None have been handcuffed, none subjected to strip searches, none fingerprinted. But for reporters covering the United States Government's periodic releases of critical economic statistics, their compulsory incarceration for a half-hour or so before the magic moment of data release produces a sensation not all that different from being under arrest.
Date: 12 February 1988
By Alex S. Jones, Special To the New York Times
Alex Jones
LEAD: Lawyers for Rupert Murdoch argued before a Federal appeals court here today that Congress acted unconstitutionally when it passed a law before Christmas whose sole object, they said, was to damage Mr. Murdoch.
Date: 11 February 1988
By Joyce Purnick
Joyce Purnick
LEAD: Jerry Tallmer was searching, just as he does when he writes, for the right words. He was silent a moment, tried to recall the precise quote, went to look it up and then wrote it out on a slip of paper, complete with punctuation and citation:
Date: 11 February 1988
LEAD: To the Editor: