Topics of The Times; Justice Mocked in Iraq
Date: 14 March 1990
LEAD: Iraq is eager to attract Western investors and to be taken more seriously as a regional diplomatic voice. But President Saddam Hussein's violent tyranny has a lot to live down, notably its lawless use of chemical weapons in the Persian Gulf war and its persistent abuse of human rights. And now the Baghdad regime has ordered the execution of a British-based journalist who traveled to Iraq at the
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Chronicle
Date: 14 March 1990
By Susan Heller Anderson
Susan Anderson
LEAD: SIMON JENKINS, a columnist who was Britain's Journalist of the Year last year, was named editor of The Times of London yesterday.
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Review/Television; Sad Stories, Happy Endings In New Jane Pauley Venture
Date: 13 March 1990
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
LEAD: Anybody whose breath has been bated over what Jane Pauley has been doing since her departure from the ''Today'' show can unbate. She returns to NBC at 10 this evening as host of a special called ''Changes: Conversations With Jane Pauley.''
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 14 March 1990
LEAD: International A3-19
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BRIEFS
Date: 14 March 1990
LEAD: * Allied Security Inc., Pittsburgh, a security guard service, said shareholders had approved taking the company private for $62 a share, or about $30.2 million.
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Escort Price Raised
Date: 13 March 1990
AP
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company said the average price of its 1991 Ford Escort car with popular options would be about 2.5 percent more than comparably equipped 1990 models. Base prices for two-door, four-door and station wagon models will range from $7,565 to $11,063. The new Escort, made at Ford's assembly plant in Wayne, Mich., will go on sale April 26.
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Critic's Notebook; TV News in the Schools: Which Channel, if Any?
Date: 14 March 1990
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
LEAD: If more of America's schoolchildren knew the difference between Dan Quayle and Yasir Arafat, the competition between ''Channel One'' and ''CNN Newsroom'' would be moot. Unfortunately, tests of teen-agers keep revealing prodigious ignorance of much of what is going on around them. So the question becomes whether television can do anything to improve a painful condition; and, if so, whether either of the two daily news programs now being offered to schools may help in that job, and whether one is preferable to the other.
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Excerpts From President's News Session on Foreign and Domestic Issues
Date: 14 March 1990
LEAD: Following are excerpts from President Bush's news conference in Washington yesterday, as transcribed by The New York Times: OPENING STATEMENT
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