Without Fear or Favor
Date: 19 August 1996
Text of declaration of principles set forth in New York Times on August 19, 1896, by Adolph S Ochs, the newspaper's new publisher (M),
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USA Today, the Fast Food Of Dailies, Is Expanding Menu
Date: 19 August 1996
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
USA Today, famous for boiling even important news down to quick bites, is changing its approach in effort to win day-to-day loyalty of regular readers; millions read it each week, but they are not the same millions from week to week, and advertisers cannot be sure who is seeing their messages at any given time, or where the readers live; to change this, USA Today has published string of long investigative articles that gained national attention; they also caused confusion at the hundreds of newspapers around country that imitated USA Today's former style of souped up color graphics, huge weather maps and near synopses of news stories; photo (M)
'Earnest' Goals: First Times Under Ochs
Date: 19 August 1996
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
New York Times celebrates centennial of acquisition by Adolph S Ochs and the publication of his editorial credo to give the news concisely, clearly, promptly and impartially; content of first edition described; photo (M)
Billion-Dollar Enigma
Date: 19 August 1996
By Steven A. Holmes
Steven Holmes
Man In The News portrait of Ross Perot, Reform Party Presidential nominee; photos (L)
Stocks Higher in Japan
Date: 19 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stocks trade sharply higher in Tokyo on Aug 19; Nikkei index of 225 issues was up 270.50 points, or 1.30 percent, to stand at 21,104.50 (S)
Disney Names New Chairman of Movie Group
Date: 19 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Walt Disney Co promotes Richard W Cook, its domestic distribution and worldwide marketing chief, to chairman of its motion picture group (M)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 19 August 1996
International A2-7 KHMER ROUGE TALKS WITH OLD FOES A bitter split in the Khmer Rouge is pitting its founders against each other and putting many veteran fighters in the unhappy position of making deals with their longtime enemies. A1 COSTLY CALLS FROM THE FRONT With the peril from the former warring factions mercifully low so far, many G.I.'s see only one threat they have trouble defending themselves against: the high cost, and constant temptation, of calling home. A3 ISRAEL'S NEW WORKING POOR After curbing the number of Palestinian workers allowed into their country, Israelis are waking up to the consequences of the alternative -- hundreds of thousands of laborers from around the world. A7 INDIA'S FOOD-POISONING MYSTERY India's worst food poisoning case in years has killed 52 people and left investigators wondering whether they are dealing with a case of mass murder or an accident. A3 COCAINE CASE CHURNS ST. KITTS A scandal brought on by a large shipment of cocaine to St. Kitts and Nevis two years ago helped bring down one government and now threatens another. A5 Partitioning Cyprus has only increased old ethnic tensions. A2 Protests over rising bread prices spread to Jordan's capital. A7 Dawson City Journal: A family's good fortune in the Yukon. A4 National A10-11, 14, B7-10 PEROT LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN With a denunciation of the two-party system, Ross Perot accepted the Presidential nomination of the Reform Party at its convention in Valley Forge, Pa. A1 YEARS OF FIGHTING AND SCRAPPING Man in the News: In the years since H. Ross Perot burst onto the national scene, he has always seemed to be in the fight, pushing, scrapping, exhorting, arguing. A1 The Reform meeting seemed to be dominated by the over-50 set. B8 EXPLAINING FEWER MURDERS Murders committed by adults have dropped almost in half over the last 15 years, and homicide detectives have their own theories for the long-term decline. A1 CLINTON CELEBRATES 50TH President Clinton celebrated his 50th birthday at a political extravaganza with a show business flair. There was a party in a hotel ballroom and a Radio City fund-raiser in Manhattan. A1 KEMP GOES AFTER CLINTON Ending a cross-country sweep with Bob Dole, Jack Kemp arrived in Buffalo and attacked President Clinton's opposition to the ban on late-term abortion. B7 BISON'S CULINARY REVIVAL Pushed a century ago to the edge of extinction to make room for cattle, North America's plains bison is undergoing a comeback. A10 MILITARY PLANE CRASHES A military cargo plane carrying gear for President Clinton slammed into a mountain in Wyoming, killing nine aboard. A10 GAPS IN POWER GRID A lack of coordination between big utility companies in two recent failures has emerged as a warning about the vulnerabilities of a huge regional grid in the West. A14 Public college tuition rose nearly three times as fast as income. A10 Metro Report B1-6 WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR One hundred years ago, The New-York Times carried a one-paragraph announcement that Adolph S. Ochs of Chattanooga, Tenn., had become its publisher and general manager. The modest notice sat atop an editorial expressing Ochs's ''earnest aim'' to give the news concisely, clearly, promptly and impartially, without fear or favor. A1 Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C9-14 After 28 years, a Rolling Stones film emerges. C9 The Edinburgh Festival. C9 Music: Enit Festival. C10 The Horde tour. C10 Sonny Rollins. C11 Dance: Jazzdance at Jacob's Pillow. C9 Books: ''The Secret War for the Union.'' C14 Television: Sid Caesar. C12 Sports C1-7 Baseball: Yankees lose in extra innings to Mariners. C1 Mets shut out by Padres. C7 McGwire swings for the record books. C5 Column: Rhoden on the Giants and the Jets. C3 Football: Signs indicate Giants will cut Maddox. C1 Jets offense is regrouping. C3 Golf: Woods poised to turn pro. C1 Obituaries B12 Editorials/Op-Ed A12-13 Editorials Massachusetts miracle. Election-year posturing on drugs. Season of the grasshopper. Without fear or favor. Letters Bob Herbert: Colin's dream. William Safire: San Diego speech scorecard. Rick Bass: The yaak's last stand. J. D. Foster: Tax man blues. Chronicle B2 Bridge C14 Crossword C12
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 18 August 1996
International 3-21 SEEDS OF A RUSSIAN DEFEAT Chechen separatists have once again managed to defeat the Russian Army, which is the biggest in Europe but suffers from corruption, poor training, bad equipment and low morale. 1 FEAR AND HATRED IN CYPRUS Two Greek Cypriots were killed by Turkish Cypriot security forces during a week of violence that has stunned Cypriots on both sides of the divided island and brought old hatreds to the surface. 3 GLASGOW'S ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS Glasgow is battling a drug epidemic with a controversial program called ''harm reduction,'' whose goal is to prevent AIDS and reduce mugging, shoplifting and other crimes caused by drug addiction. 14 UNEASY PEACE IN GUATEMALA For the first time in 35 years, Guatemala is not ravaged by civil war. But a peace agreement between the armed forces and leftist guerrillas has yet to be concluded, leaving the country uneasy and impatient. 20 LIBERIANS BURY THEIR DEAD Dr. Isaac Moses of Monrovia leads 50 volunteers who spend their days digging up the hundreds of hastily buried victims of Liberia's latest round of civil strife and taking them to cemeteries for proper burial. 21 In the wake of war, Dubrovnik is rethinking its tourism. 4 Clinton's efforts to oust the U.N. Secretary General are stalling. 9 Thanks to prohibition, Indian women say life has improved. 10 National 24-34 PEROT WINS NOMINATION Ross Perot won the nomination of the Reform Party, officials announced last night, setting the stage for another unpredictable candidacy by the Dallas billionaire. Mr. Perot easily beat his only challenger, Richard D. Lamm, the former Governor of Colorado. 1 PRE-CONVENTION STRATEGY Democrats have set two goals for their national convention: raise doubts about the tax-cut plan and moderate image the Republicans touted, and then use the President's aura of incumbency to reach out to voters. 1 POST-CONVENTION STRATEGY Republicans say the White House is within Bob Dole's grasp if he succeeds in a two-pronged strategy of convincing voters that his economic prescriptions would be a boon to taxpayers and that President Clinton is so tainted by ethical questions that he should not be re-elected. 28 Chicago is sprucing itself up for the Democratic convention. 30 KEMP'S MEDICAL EXEMPTION Jack Kemp, the Republican candidate for Vice President, received a medical exemption in 1961 that allowed him to avoid active duty in the Army while he played professional football. 27 SIZING UP DOLE AND COMPANY Now that the Republican National Convention has ended, Republican, Democratic and independent voters nationwide are talking about what it meant to them. 26 President Clinton attacked Bob Dole's tax plan as unrealistic. 31 FAMILIES HIT BY WAGE FLUXES More and more Americans who were accustomed to jobs with fixed wages and predictable raises are finding that all or part of their pay can fluctuate steeply, in ways often beyond their control. 1 New Mexico's Indian gaming industry is prosperous. And illegal. 24 Metro 43-48 SEEKING CLUES THROUGH VICTIMS With the underwater inquiry into the explosion of T.W.A. Flight 800 failing to yield answers about the cause of the crash, investigators say their best hope for a break in the case may lie above ground in the hunt for human suspects. 1 CLERGY JOIN FORCES WITH UNIONS Religious leaders are making common cause with trade unions, lending their moral authority to denounce sweatshops, back a higher minimum wage and help organize workers. 1 CRITICAL MASS IN THE HAMPTONS Yes, it gets more crowded every year. No, it isn't the way it used to be. Even in this summer of disgruntling weather and too-close-for-comfort tragedy, the complaint is ongoing in the Hamptons: People keep coming here! 43 QUESTIONS RAISED ON I.N.S. OFFICE The Immigration and Naturalization Service's office in Newark recovered 60 fraudulently issued green cards and other work papers recently, then discovered its own office had issued some of them. 43 Obituaries 51 Leo McLaughlin, former president of Fordham University.
J. F. Fleming, 81; Helped Launch 'Today' Program
Date: 18 August 1996
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
James F Fleming, pioneer in television news who helped start 'Today' show on NBC, dies at age of 81 (S)ï
Beyond-the-Beltway Bandits
Date: 18 August 1996
Television-news producers complain contractors for Democratic National Convention Committee have greatly inflated prices for converting Chicago convention center skyboxes into anchor booths and work spaces (S)