'GOOD NEWS' AND A BULLY PULPIT
Date: 18 January 1987
By Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
LEAD: Good News Starring Peter Lawford, June Allyson. Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Directed by Charles Walters. 1947. MGM Home Video. 90 minutes. $29.95.
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UNSINKABLE SOUTH AFRICA
Date: 18 January 1987
LEAD: It's not hard to figure why South Africa's white rulers are excluding foreign journalists, like reporters for The Times, and stifling what was once the freest press in Africa. President P. W. Botha wants fewer television pictures and better newspaper headlines. He wants his National Party to overwhelm all opponents in the election looming this spring.
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MURDOCH HOLDINGS ISSUE IN AUSTRALIA
Date: 18 January 1987
By Jane Perlez, Special To the New York Times
Jane Perlez
LEAD: The overnight transformation of Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper holdings into a national chain with two-thirds of the country's circulation has raised concerns here about the concentration of so many newspapers in the control of one individual.
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COLOMBIA'S PRESS UNITED TO FIGHT DRUGS
Date: 18 January 1987
By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times
Alan Riding
LEAD: Colombia's newspapers and radio and television stations, reacting in concert to a surge of drug-related violence, are warning that this country is in danger of falling under the ''total domination'' of narcotics traffickers.
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Learning On the Job
Date: 18 January 1987
LEAD: As a new high-school teacher in New York City, I do what I can to awaken, in each successive brood, love of the principles Mr. Rosenthal articulated in his article. I am going to use his essay to teach my students about the opportunities that I believe are available to them, just as they were available to him.
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Learning On the Job
Date: 18 January 1987
LEAD: Cheers to A. M. Rosenthal. Nobody has ever made a better case for how much a free press means to a free people. And he did it in prose as spare and lean as a good police reporter's account of a murder. If eternal vigilance really is the price of liberty, then America has been lucky these last 40 years to have had a bowman like old Four Eyes on the battlements.
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Learning On the Job
Date: 18 January 1987
LEAD: Having worked as a newspaper reporter, wire-service foreign correspondent, magazine editor and publisher for more than 50 years, I found myself in complete agreement with A. M. Rosenthal's articulate defense of the First Amendment (''Learning on the Job,'' Dec. 14). It would be a better world if the freedom to write and the freedom to think were universal.
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FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS;
Date: 18 January 1987
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
LEAD: A JURY award of more than $400,000 in damages to two police sergeants who had been demoted in Allentown, Pa., raised a pertinent question last June: Who will pay?
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