Репродукција недеља, 11. април 1993.

Man in the News: Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr.; Seasoned by Civil Rights Struggle

Date: 11 April 1993

By Neil A. Lewis

Neil Lewis

ATLANTA, April 10 The Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. organized his first civil rights demonstration when he was 13 years old, although he did not know the significance at the time. As a boy, Mr. Chavis walked past a whites-only library in Oxford, N.C., each day on his way home from school, a friend recalled today. - The friend, Lawrence Wallace, said he remembers it being big news among blacks of the region when a 13-year-old boy walked into the Oxford Library to ask for a book and was told to leave, but questioned that demand. "He asked why," recalled Mr. Wallace, now a Washington lawyer. "A lot of us when we were told to go away we would just do so, but Ben would always challenge, always ask why." The librarians called his parents and the issue escalated from there. "After it was all over, they opened that library," Mr. Wallace said. 'I Just Wanted a Book'

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Bonilla Goal: Stop the Press

Date: 12 April 1993

The continuing Mets saga that General Manager Al Harazin calls "soap opera baseball" paused for a literary moment yesterday. Bobby Bonilla, saying he was concerned with "the integrity of the sport," explained why he threatened a Daily News reporter in the locker room after Saturday's game.

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The Fighting Words of Homer Bigart: A War Correspondent Is Never a Cheerleader

Date: 11 April 1993

By Malcolm W. Browne

Malcolm Browne

GENERALLY speaking, a book patched together from old news clippings is a poor candidate for success. The contents of newsroom morgues may be immensely interesting to scholars, but a reader browsing through the average file of some deceased reporter is apt to encounter prose that seems as yellow and decayed as the paper on which it was printed. But "Forward Positions: The War Correspondence of Homer Bigart" (University of Arkansas Press, $24.95) is a stunning exception. The 51 battlefield dispatches collected here by Betsy Wade, Ho mer Bigart's colleague at The New York Times, ring with genuine drama shorn of facile cliches, propaganda and self-congratulation. Assembled in book form, they afford a rare overview of a great journalist's career.

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Satellites Bring Information Revolution to China

Date: 11 April 1993

By Nicholas D. Kristof

Nicholas

Four years after China's leaders crushed a movement by millions of prodemocracy protesters, they are facing a new challenge -- one that is quieter and less confrontational but eventually perhaps more serious. The challenge is most visible in the form of hundreds of thousands of satellite dishes that are sprouting, as the Chinese say, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

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Press Freedom Cited by Pole in U.S. Court

Date: 12 April 1993

By Joseph P. Fried

Joseph Fried

As a journalist in Poland in the 1980's, Andrzej Krajewski recalls, he evaded demands by the Communist regime's secret police to reveal the sources of the American and Japanese correspondents he worked with. Now, he says, he is waging another battle for journalistic integrity -- in the United States. Mr. Krajewski, a Polish citizen, is now a United States correspondent for the television network run by the post-Communist Polish Government. He is resisting a Federal subpoena for tape recordings of interviews he conducted in New York City with an American defendant in an arms-smuggling case in Brooklyn in which five Polish citizens face trial.

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CHILEANS BAFFLED BY BRITON'S DEATH

Date: 11 April 1993

By Nathaniel C. Nash

Nathaniel Nash

Three years ago, in the stately Hotel Carrera in downtown Santiago, a maid entered Room 1406 to tidy up. She opened the closet door and found the body of a British journalist hanging by his neck, a pillowcase over his head. She screamed and ran out. At first, the police ruled the March 31, 1990, death of the journalist, Jonathan Moyle, 28, a suicide, and closed the case. Then some British officials suggested that it was accidental, that Mr. Moyle had been engaged in a dangerous form of sexual stimulation. Some family members say there was a deliberate attempt to discredit him by members of the British intelligence service in London.

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Price Rise at Enquirer

Date: 12 April 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

It will soon cost more for inquiring minds to read about Elvis's amazing alien diet plan. Enquirer/Star Group Inc. is increasing the prices of two of its sensationalistic publications -- The National Enquirer and Star -- to $1.25 from 99 cents. The price increase will take effect with the May 25 issues. The company will undertake a $20 million television advertising campaign to support the price increases.

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Ex-Cascade Officer Missing

Date: 12 April 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Court-appointed investigators of Cascade International Inc. say they have been trying for months to locate Case Van Oeveren, the former chief financial officer of the defunct women's apparel retailer. Mr. Van Oeveren is considered a key figure in the fraud investigation of the company, based in Boca Raton, Fla., because of his knowledge of Cascade's financial transactions. The investigations are being conducted by a Federal grand jury and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 12 April 1993

International A3-13 U.N. FOOD DRYING UP IN BOSNIA United Nations officials are warning that there is virtually no food left in warehouses in and around Bosnia and that the entire food relief program there may collapse. A1 NATO pilots are told to fire only as a last resort over Bosnia. A8

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 11 April 1993

International 3-13 U.S. PANEL URGES INTERVENTION Clinton Administration experts assessing the fighting in Bosnia urged Washington to seriously consider military intervention, according to an executive summary of the group's draft report. 1 SERBS INTENSIFY BOSNIA FIGHTING

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