NEWS SUMMARY: TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1987
Date: 03 March 1987
LEAD: WHITE HOUSE OVERHAUL A10-11 Robert M. Gates withdrew as the nominee to be Director of Central Intelligence, sparing the Administration a potentially protracted confirmation struggle in the Senate and a reminder of the Iran-contra affair.
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NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1987
Date: 02 March 1987
LEAD: THE WHITE HOUSE CRISIS A10-12
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POLISH POLICE BREAK UP DISSIDENT NEWS PARLEY
Date: 03 March 1987
By Michael T. Kaufman, Special To the New York Times
Michael Kaufman
LEAD: Three policemen today entered the home of Jacek Kuron, a Solidarity adviser, just as he was telling Western reporters at a news conference that pressures against dissidents had been abating.
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FIERY TESTIMONY HEARD IN DAILY NEWS BIAS TRIAL
Date: 02 March 1987
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: In the three weeks since a Federal trial began in a suit charging racially based job bias against The Daily News, the four black employees who brought suit have given their accounts of the racial epithets and repeated discrimination they say they faced at the newspaper.
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COMPUTER BOOKS MERGE
Date: 02 March 1987
Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
LEAD: Lebhar-Friedman, a trade press publisher, has acquired a majority interest in Micro Marketworld, a weekly tabloid, from CW Communications, and has merged it into its own weekly Computer+Software News tabloid. That will make the publication, with more than 50,000 circulation, the largest in its field and second to Computer Reseller News in advertising pages.
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POLL SHOWS REAGAN APPROVAL RATING AT 4-YEAR LOW
Date: 03 March 1987
By E. J. Dionne Jr
E. Dionne
LEAD: President Reagan's approval rating has plunged to its lowest level in more than four years, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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STUDENTS AS JOURNALISTS
Date: 03 March 1987
By Fred M. Hechinger
Fred
LEAD: HOW free are high school newspapers, and how free should they be? Many principals and school boards view a free student press as a threat to their authority and to the peace of school and community. Civil libertarians, supported by some educators, see a free or nearly free student press as an important way of learning about the larger issue of press freedom.
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B.F. GOODRICH
Date: 03 March 1987
AP
LEAD: The B.F. Goodrich Company said it will stop making aircraft tires, missile and marine products, and molded rubber products here by the end of the year. About 790 salaried and hourly workers will be laid off as a result, Goodrich said.
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GOLDEN NUGGET
Date: 03 March 1987
AP
LEAD: The Bally Manufacturing Corporation said it had completed the previously announced purchase of the Golden Nugget Casino Hotel in Atlantic City from Golden Nugget Inc. of Los Vegas, Nev., for $440 million. Bally said the acquisition would make it the leading gaming company, with two casino hotels in Atlantic City and two in Nevada.
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FRUIT OF THE LOOM PUBLIC OFFERING
Date: 03 March 1987
LEAD: Farley Industries said that it planned to hold an initial public offering of its Fruit of the Loom underwear subsidiary for about $243 million, about half the price the industrial conglomerate had originally hoped to receive last year.
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