Pathe's Chief Gets 4-Year Jail Term
Date: 02 April 1990
 
LEAD: The president and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based Pathe Communications Corporation, has been sentenced in absentia in Italy to nearly four years in jail after being convicted on charges of fraudulent bankruptcy, an Italian news agency, ANSA, reported on Saturday.
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Capital Press And Officials Jab, but in Jest
Date: 02 April 1990
By David E. Rosenbaum, Special To the New York Times
David Rosenbaum
LEAD: President Bush was teased for detesting broccoli and taking a hoax call from someone purporting to be the President of Iran. Vice President Dan Quayle was ribbed for procuring an anatomically explicit gag doll in Chile. And the Democrats were twitted time and again for their seemingly endless political misfortunes.
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News Summary
Date: 02 April 1990
 
LEAD:    International    A3-11       The European Community's identity has been challenged by the transformation of Eastern Europe. But a consensus has now emerged to absorb East Germany and to try to form broad pacts with other Eastern bloc nations.    Page A1       Study proposes deeper U.S. troop cuts in Europe
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Israeli Infighting Pre-empts English TV News
Date: 01 April 1990
Special to The New York Times
 
LEAD: More than 100,000 native English speakers living here and thousands of tourists who visit regularly were delighted last spring when the Israel Broadcasting Authority announced plans to introduce an evening newscast in English.
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Strategist Quietly Gains Power Amid CBS Shifts
Date: 02 April 1990
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
LEAD: Only a few years after being brought into the exclusive circle entrusted with resuscitating CBS, Jay L. Kriegel, a lawyer and one-time political aide with no background and little interest in television, has quietly emerged as the key strategist of the network's effort to pull itself out of the broadcasting basement.
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INSIDE
Date: 01 April 1990
 
LEAD:    Mandela Pulls Out of Talks
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Style Makers;   Renate Burstein, Wedding Newsletter Publisher
Date: 01 April 1990
By Alison Leigh Cowan
Alison Cowan
LEAD: Renate Burstein is the publisher of some of the world's smallest-circulation newspapers. Ms. Burstein uses a desktop computer to produce two to eight pages of news about brides and grooms on their wedding day. The special-edition newspapers include articles about how they met, baby pictures, the menu, the guest list and a family tree.
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  National Pastime Hearing Footsteps
Date: 02 April 1990
By Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr
Robert Mcg
LEAD: IF you are one of those whose hearts jump when Michael Jordan leaps, and if you plan to be among the millions who will be glued to their television sets for the collegiate showdown between Duke and Nevada-Las Vegas tonight, you'll hardly be surprised that a recent poll has confirmed what you and television executives have known all along: basketball is booming.
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  3 Parties in Romania Joining To Oppose Governing Group
Date: 01 April 1990
Reuters
 
LEAD: Romania's three oldest parties said today that they were forming an alliance to fight the National Salvation Front in the country's first free elections in more than 50 years.
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