Репродукција недеља, 19. јун 1994.

TV News Displays Air Power In Chase

Date: 20 June 1994

By Bernard Weinraub

Bernard Weinraub

As O. J. Simpson fled on the Southern California freeways on Friday, followed by a phalanx of police cars, the almost surreal chase took on a particularly Los Angeles stamp: seven helicopters leased by local television stations transmitted the pursuit live to viewers nationwide. Televised highway chases are rare elsewhere, but Los Angeles television crews -- and viewers here -- are accustomed to them. There was, for example, a 300-mile car chase in January 1992 that ended with a murder suspect shot dead on live television. Numerous other chases have perfected the skills of television crews.

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Man in the News; Rail Union's Hard Bargainer: Edward Yule Jr.

Date: 19 June 1994

By Peter Marks

Peter Marks

In a 40-year career with the Long Island Rail Road that has taken him from lowly ticket clerk to unchallenged leader of the largest union for the nation's busiest commuter rail line, Edward Yule Jr. has always known how to find the inside track. It was a talent his friend of three decades, Bill McAllister, discovered about him on the first day they met, in the railroad's medical office in Jamaica, Queens, where both wound up one day in 1962. Mr. McAllister, freshly hired for the freight department, and Mr. Yule, newly transferred to the unit, were among nine employees scheduled for physicals that day. But only Mr. Yule knew that seniority in the unit would be dictated by the order in which the physicals were given.

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Television, Meet Life. Life, Meet TV.

Date: 19 June 1994

By Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

WHAT made the episode so real was its departure from television's professionally crafted reality. Fans of the so-called reality-based shows are accustomed to having the facts laid out for them, with the help of close-ups, music, re-enactments, whatever it takes. If there's a police chase, you know what to expect. Whether it ends in a shootout or a crash or a surrender, you can count on being in on every moment of it, in the best seat in the house, kissing distance of the perpetrator or protagonist. For about two hours on Friday night, we were really there, yet always at a considerable remove. The competing realities of other network programming disappeared, leaving us with the dreamlike reality of a car chase in slow motion. Instead of a chase, there was a stately procession along Los Angeles freeways: the white Bronco containing, we were told, O.J. Simpson, American icon and accused murderer, holding a gun, perhaps, or maybe it was only a cellular telephone, was followed at a careful distance by half a dozen police cars we could see and who knows how many in that other, off-camera reality. They were not moving very fast or doing anything daring.

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POLL FINDS A LACK OF FAITH IN POLICE

Date: 19 June 1994

By Clifford Krauss

Clifford Krauss

New Yorkers express anxiety about the Police Department's ability to protect them, and many say there is widespread corruption in the force, according to a New York Times/WCBS-TV News Poll. The survey and follow-up interviews suggest a serious lack of confidence in the department because of a fear of crime and concern over revelations of corruption in several precincts.

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Beached

Date: 19 June 1994

By Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd

It was cold and rainy as the Normandy invasion started, and nothing was going as planned. As we hit the beaches, Helen Thomas was in the lead, charging off the aircraft carrier George Washington with toothbrush and tape recorder. Sam Donaldson provided air cover in a Chinook helicopter hovering over the English Channel. "General Hillary," as a British paper dubbed her, arrived on the field of battle with her hairdresser, Sylvan.

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From Apartment Window, A Drama of Man vs. Bee

Date: 19 June 1994

To The Editor: The plethora of public events that transpire daily in New York is taxing to the news media, I am sure, but it is with regret that I inform you that you have missed -- or possibly just ignored -- one of the more significant happenings in our particular neighborhood. It occurred on June 7 at the corner of Third Avenue and 84th Street, about 10 feet below my apartment window.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 19 June 1994

International 3-14 TWO KOREAS AGREE TO MEET The Presidents of North and South Korea agreed to meet for the first time since the peninsula was divided, under a proposal delivered by former President Jimmy Carter. 1 The division of the Korean peninsula was an American design. 12

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 20 June 1994

International A3-9 NEW OVERLORDS IN AFRICA Because of their weak economies, many African countries that finally succeeded in throwing off colonial powers are now subject to outside control by financial organizations to which they are indebted. A1

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NBC Angered Some Fans With Its Simpson Coverage

Date: 19 June 1994

By Richard Sandomir

Richard Sandomir

A caller yesterday to WFAN whimpered over NBC breaking away Friday night from the Knicks-Rockets game to show ongoing coverage of the O. J. Simpson story. Any interested viewer could have switched to comprehensive coverage on ABC, CBS or CNN, he moaned. Why leave a close finals game when most of the coverage consisted of police inconclusively chasing Simpson on a freeway? In fact, NBC interrupted the Knicks' 91-84 victory seven times for reports. The first six interruptions were for less than five minutes each, but the seventh lasted from 11:12 to 11:37 P.M., eating into the third and fourth quarter before returning with 6 minutes 49 seconds left in the game and the Knicks trying to take control. 'Substantial' Complaints NBC's news breaks offended viewers, who may have grasped the weight of an ongoing drama, starring an armed Simpson, versus the fleeting value of sports, but still wanted to watch the Knicks and Rockets go at it. A WNBC-TV/Channel 4 spokesman said the local station logged a "substantial" number of telephone complaints.

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Pamela Sortino, Myles Ridder

Date: 19 June 1994

Pamela Marie Sortino, the daughter of Cathleen Sortino of Wantaugh, L.I., was married yesterday to Myles Amend Ridder, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Victor L. Ridder Sr. The Rev. Paul Wierichs performed the Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Joseph's Church in Garden City, L.I. The bride, 26, was until recently a senior case manager in East Meadow, L.I., for the Travelers Companies, the insurance concern. She graduated cum laude from the State University College at Oswego, N.Y. Her mother is the director of nursing services at the Montclair Nursing Facility, a nursing home in Glen Cove, L.I.

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