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Daily News Is Rebuilding Circulation But Is Still Below Level Before Strike

Date: 14 May 1991

By Alan Finder

Alan Finder

Eight weeks after the British publisher Robert Maxwell took over The Daily News and ended a bitter five-month strike, the New York newspaper has overcome initial difficulties in production and distribution and has begun to rebuild its circulation. But whether The News will approach the daily circulation of almost 1.1 million that it had before the strike began last October, when it was the nation's largest daily tabloid, is still in doubt. Newspaper investment analysts and newspaper executives say it will be months before the long-term prospects of The News become more clear.

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Navy Heart Surgeon Imprisoned in 1986 Is Practicing Again

Date: 13 May 1991

AP

Dr. Donal M. Billig, the Navy surgeon court-martialed in 1986 on charges he bungled operations that led to three deaths, but whose conviction was later reversed, is practicing medicine once again, U.S. News & World Report said this weekend. Dr. Billig, 60 years old, was the leading heart surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital before his conviction. He was sentenced to the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and served 25 months of a 4-year sentence.

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Ex-Darling of India Press Finds Himself Ignored

Date: 14 May 1991

By Barbara Crossette

Barbara Crossette

A crowd of about 5,000 had been waiting six hours when V. P. Singh rolled into this agricultural town in the early hours of the day on his nonstop election campaign. Buoyed by the welcome after nearly 12 hours on bumpy roads in intense heat, Mr. Singh, a former Prime Minister fighting hard to return to power, apologized for his late arrival, and then turned his attack not on his political opponents but on the press.

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Charles L. Whipple; Journalist, 77

Date: 14 May 1991

AP

Charles Lewis Whipple, a former editor of the editorial page of The Boston Globe and the newspaper's first ombudsman, died of complications after surgery on Sunday at Cooley-Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass. He was 77 years old. Mr. Whipple retired as ombudsman in 1979 after 43 years at The Globe. From 1979 to 1982 he was an editor of China Daily, an English-language newspaper, in Beijing. He also worked for Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 14 May 1991

INTERNATIONAL A3-11 A Middle East arms control proposal, drafted by Washington, would ban nuclear and chemical weapons in the region. President Bush said the United States was "foreswearing" the use of chemical weapons. Page A1 Secretary of State Baker pressed the Soviet Union to accept a United Nations force in northern Iraq. The Soviet Foreign Minister said he would consider Mr. Baker's request but did not signal an answer. A10

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 13 May 1991

International A3-9 President Assad of Syria rejected Secretary of State Baker's compromise proposals for convening a peace conference, raising doubts that the United States will be able to organize Arab-Israeli talks. Page A1

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BRIEFS

Date: 14 May 1991

* ABB Henschel Waggon Union G.m.b.H., a unit of ABB Asea Brown Boveri, has received an $80 million order for railway cars from Deutsche Bundesbahn, Frankfurt. * Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif., a computer services company, will acquire Butler Cox P.L.C., London, an information technology consulting firm, for about $22 million.

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Hawaii Insurer

Date: 14 May 1991

AP

The Meiji Mutual Life Insurance Company, a Japanese insurer, said it was negotiating to buy the Hawaiian Life Insurance Company, an affiliate of the American General Corporation. A spokesman declined to divulge details, but said the aim was for talks to be completed by next month. Hawaiian Life Insurance, based in Honolulu, is ranked fifth in the state by size of insurance revenues, with total assets at around $117 million, the Meiji spokesman said.

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Matsushita Drives

Date: 14 May 1991

Reuters

The Matsushita Electric Industrial Company said it had developed a 3.5-inch hard disk drive that can store 210 megabytes of computer data, which it says is the highest storage capacity developed. Formerly, the highest-capacity 3.5-inch hard disk drives were made by the NEC Corporation and could store 176.5 megabytes, a company spokesman said. The new Matusushita disk drives, called the RD-210AA's, are likely to be used in work stations and high-end personal computers, the spokesman said. The company will start sample shipments by the end of this year and will start mass production in mid-1992, he said.

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Concord-Keystone

Date: 14 May 1991

AP

The Concord Camera Corporation said that the Federal Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey had approved its plan to buy the assets of Keystone Camera, the Clifton, N.J., company that calls itself the last domestic maker of 35-millimeter and 110 cartridge cameras. Concord struck the deal last month with Joseph DiPasquale, the trustee a Federal bankruptcy judge appointed to oversee Keystone's liquidation. Concord, based in Avenel, N.J., sells inexpensive 35-millimeter and 110 cartridge cameras manufactured and assembled in China. Concord said it intends to complete the buyout by the end of the month. Keystone said it was forced to file for protection under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code in January, even though more customers had shown a desire to "buy American."

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