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Date: 19 February 1987
By Pauline Yoshihashi, Special To the New York Times
Pauline Yoshihashi
LEAD: Freedom Newspapers Inc., the nation's 14th-largest chain by circulation, was born of dissension. R. C. Hoiles, a scrappy newsman from Ohio, founded Freedom in the early 1930's, a few years after a quarrel with a brother led him to break up their small newspaper partnership and strike out on his own.
Date: 19 February 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-14, A18 Halting U.S. aid for the contras was backed, 11 to 9, by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. However, the bill will be vetoed by President Reagan if it eventually passes both houses of Congress. Page A1 Radical changes in the contras are sought by Arturo Cruz, the Nicaraguan rebel leader who is seeking to control the anti-Sandinista movement.
Date: 20 February 1987
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
LEAD: HOLLAND & CALLAWAY, an ad agency that has evolved into a media promotion specialty shop, has resigned The Daily News account to work on the promotion of New York Newsday. Jim Callaway, the president, said his new client should be billing as much as the old, and that was around $5 million.
Date: 20 February 1987
By John Kifner, Special To the New York Times
John Kifner
LEAD: The parrot by the bar imitated the whistle of incoming shellfire; Fat Tommy, the huge, surly cat, slept wedged between the Reuters and the Associated Press news tickers in the lobby, and the telephones and telexes usually worked.
Date: 20 February 1987
LEAD: The New York Public Library's periodicals collection has received a gift in excess of $1 million to endow the position of chief librarian for periodicals and journals. The endowment is also to provide for an annual award for ''excellence in journalism,'' with details to be announced.
Date: 20 February 1987
LEAD: Lawyers for Patricia Lara, the Colombian journalist detained and then expelled from the United States in October, filed suit in Federal District Court in Manhattan yesterday seeking to obtain Government documents pertaining to her case.
Date: 20 February 1987
By Geneva Overholser
Geneva Overholser
LEAD: Andrei Sakharov, Yelena Bonner, Natan Sharansky. Americans know these names: they are heroes fighting the evil Soviet system. Their Chinese counterparts, also courageously fighting repression, are nameless and unknown. That's partly because Americans pay so much attention to the Soviet Union. It's also because Americans think of the Chinese as the good-guy Communists.
Date: 20 February 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-12 White House aides sought to hide President Reagan's key role in the initiation of Iran arms sales, according to a source quoting Robert C. McFarlane, a former national security adviser. Page A1 A Danish tie in the Iran-contra affair is clearer because of a Copenhagen court case.
Date: 19 February 1987
By M. A. Farber
LEAD: On July 19, 1983, in Oakland, Calif., someone broke into the office of the Guatemala News and Information Bureau, a center for research on human rights and other issues in Guatemala. The burglar smashed a window to gain entry, rummaged through a filing cabinet and drawers and scattered papers. No valuables other than petty cash were taken.
Date: 19 February 1987
Reuters
LEAD: The Allegheny Beverage Corporation said it had canceled its plan to spin off the Service America Corporation to shareholders because of recent disappointing results. It said it would seek to improve the food-service operations and increase earnings.