News Summary
Date: 13 July 1988
LEAD: International A2-11 News analysis: Nicaragua reacted to a rapidly deteriorating political and economic situation when it expelled the U.S. Ambassador, closed the Roman Catholic radio station and suspended La Prensa. Page A1 Washington expelled 8 Nicaraguans in retaliation for the expulsion of the U.S.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 12 July 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-13 The United States will compensate the families of the 290 people killed when an Iranian airliner was shot down by a Navy warship, the White House announced. The amount has not been decided. Page A1
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News to Fill Empty Networks
Date: 13 July 1988
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: The television networks, faced with a possible shortage of fresh entertainment shows because of a writers' strike, are looking to their news divisions to help fill the programming void. And one network, CBS, is even considering expanding its ''Evening News'' program into an hourlong prime-time broadcast.
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Israel Denies Security Agents Impersonated TV News Crew
Date: 12 July 1988
AP
LEAD: An aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir today denied charges by the ABC Television Network that Israeli security agents impersonated one of its news crews to arrest a Palestinian.
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Timing Is Everything
Date: 12 July 1988
By Clyde H. Farnsworth and Charlotte Evans
Clyde Farnsworth
LEAD: So you want to hold a news conference, and you want a big turnout. What should you do? Well, assuming that timing is everything, schedule it for a Wednesday. That's what most people do. And make it at 10 A.M. By that time, the reasoning goes, most reporters are awake, but not yet hankering for lunch.
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Washington Post Staff In Protest
Date: 13 July 1988
By Eleanor Blau
Eleanor Blau
LEAD: Most staff members of The Washington Post withheld their bylines and credits from the newspaper yesterday and planned to do the same today in a protest marking the second anniversary of the expiration of their union's contract with the newspaper.
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NICARAGUA ORDERS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LEAVE COUNTRY
Date: 12 July 1988
By Stephen Kinzer, Special To the New York Times
Stephen Kinzer
LEAD: The United States Ambassador and seven other American diplomats were ordered today to leave Nicaragua within 72 hours.
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Poll Finds Public Is Wary Of Both Bush and Dukakis
Date: 12 July 1988
By E. J. Dionne Jr
E. Dionne
LEAD: With four months to go until the Presidential election, the public is taking a harder look at both Vice President Bush and Michael S. Dukakis, and is not enchanted with either man, a New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.
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U.S. Retaliates, Ousting 8 Nicaraguans
Date: 13 July 1988
By Robert Pear, Special To the New York Times
Robert Pear
LEAD: PresidentReagan said today that he was expelling Nicaragua's Ambassador and seven other Nicaraguan diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of eight American diplomats from Managua.
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Voters on the Candidates
Date: 12 July 1988
LEAD: $ Bush Undecided Dukakis TOTAL supporters supporters TOTAL 39% 11% 47% 100% Opinion of Bush Favorable 55
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