Campaign Close-up seeks real Bill Clinton identity
Syracuse groups used legal action and persistent effort to push for better lending in poor neighborhoods. The piece examines whether Clinton is a healer of racial prejudice, a practical reformer who makes government work, or the controversial Slick Willie known for draft-era deceit.
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Slick Willie
Syracuse
Homework Hotline a big hit in local schools
Lisa DiLorenzo and hundreds of students use the Homework Hotline, a free NewsLine tool to help teachers reach pupils and parents. The service, launched last Sunday, is provided at no cost by Herald American, Herald-Journal, The Post-Standard, and P&C Foods, offering thousands of daily calls.
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NewsLine
Herald American
Herald-Journal
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Post- Standard
P&c Foods
Cable firms enter NY Tel turf in Syracuse push
Syracuse based New Channels Corp and Adelphia Communications Corp plan to build a 31 mile fiber optic network to connect banks and insurers directly to long distance services bypassing New York Telephone. The firms seek 15 to 20 percent lower rates, potentially saving large customers 40 000 to 60 000 yearly. Targeting about 75 local companies with at least 28 lines.
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Syracuse
New York Telephone
New Channels Corp
Adelphia Communications Corp
Onondaga County
New York Tel
Michael
Big City Holds Little Charm for the Mannsville Ward Family
Delbert Ward and his dairy farming kin visit New York to promote the film Brother's Keeper about Mun nsville’s support after Delbert’s second degree murder charge. They earned 2500 dollars and stand to profit further from the documentary's nationwide release and PBS airing.
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Big Apple
National Public Radio
Bill
Delbert Ward
Munnsville
Madison County
Delbert
New York City
Maury Povich
Bruce Sinofsky
New York State
Oneida
Frank Sinatra Detention Club at Riverside Brookfield High
In a suburban Chicago high school Bruce Janu introduces a Frank Sinatra Detention Club to curb misbehavior after school. He hopes the detention becomes less desirable as students endure singing along, though none participate yet.
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Chicago
Frank Sinatra
Bruce Janu
Riverside Brookfield High School
Chicago Sun-Times
Poll finds youths split on candidates in flirty survey
A 1190 student survey dubbed Get Serious shows anger toward politics. Bush leads Clinton in hot air perception 45 to 31 percent while 70 percent say Clinton would be a better lover versus 6 percent for Bush.
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So Magazine
Bush
Bill Clinton
Clinton
Mandela and de Klerk to resume unity government talks
Nelson Mandela and F W de Klerk announced they would resume formal talks aimed at dismantling white rule and creating a unity government. Despite the pledge, 10 people were killed in Gengeshe Natal as attackers struck a black township, underscoring ongoing violence.
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Mandela
Johannesburg
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
F.W. de Klerk
African National Congress
Gengeshe
Natal
South African Broadcasting Corp
Recession fuels dramatic shifts in central New York TV market
Four Syracuse stations including WSTM WIXT and WTVH face a 6 percent revenue drop from 1990 to 1991 as cable and video competition siphon viewers. By month end WSTM and WSYT will have seen five ownership changes in six years while WIXT changed hands five times in 30 years. A Detroit pension fund becomes major owner of WSTM through a pending sale.
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Syracuse
WSTM
WIXT
WTVH
WSYT
Channel 68
Federal Broadcasting Co
Michigan
Changing Channels Faces Debt Driven TV Station Collapse
The 1980s boom in television station prices collapsed by 1991 with debt ridden owners like Barry Ackerley refinancing loans and cutting staff. WIXT WTVH and WSTM faced layoffs and program changes as profits lagged and profits faltered. Ackerley refinanced debt and divested assets while the Seattle Supersonics remained a potential asset.
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