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Boston TV Station Cancels News Program

Date: 30 May 1991

By Susan Diesenhouse

Susan Diesenhouse

Traditions may die hard here, but one will end on Thursday evening with the last broadcast of the nightly news program on the local public-television station, WGBH. The demise of the program, "The 10 O'Clock News," has angered many viewers, who say that for 15 years it has offered an alternative report of daily events. A more competitive television market that includes the 24-hour cable-news channel CNN, tight finances and a desire to report trends rather than daily news has led WGBH to cancel the half-hour program, said the television station manager, David B. Liroff. But he vowed that the station's 36-year tradition of news coverage would resume with a new program to be announced in the summer.

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Judge Reopens a Closed Trial

Date: 30 May 1991

By Arnold H. Lubasch

Arnold Lubasch

A Federal judge who closed a civil trial on Tuesday said yesterday that he would reopen it but would reserve the right to close portions that involved testimony about secret airline security procedures. The judge, Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, originally closed the courtroom on the ground that disclosing security information could endanger passenger lives. The trial involves a lawsuit about a midair explosion on a Trans World Airlines jet near Athens five years ago.

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Suits Seek Settlement's Details

Date: 30 May 1991

AP

Two newspapers and the City of San Diego have gone to court seeking public disclosure of a secret $100,000 settlement between top city officials and a former city planner who had filed a sexual harassment complaint. City Manager Jack McGrory and other officials have refused to release the information, saying a confidentiality agreement with the former planner, Susan Bray, prohibits them from doing so. As part of the settlement, the deal was even concealed from the City Council, which has hired a special independent investigator.

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Reporter Faces Stiff Daily Fines Over an Article on Police Beating

Date: 31 May 1991

By Alex S. Jones

Alex Jones

A judge in Los Angeles imposed a $1,500-a-day fine yesterday on a reporter for The Los Angeles Times until he discloses how he obtained a confidential police report on the beating by police officers of Rodney G. King in March. The beating created a sensation at the time because it was recorded on videotape and televised around the nation. The judge, Bernard Kamins of Superior Court, had ordered the report kept secret, but it became the subject of an article by Richard A. Serrano in The Los Angeles Times on May 21. Mr. Serrano has refused to say who gave him the report.

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HIGH COURT EASES CAR SEARCH RULES

Date: 31 May 1991

By Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse

Overturning a 12-year-old precedent, the Supreme Court today broadened the power of police officers who have no court warrant to search bags, suitcases and other containers they find in automobiles. The Court ruled that as long as the police have probable cause to believe that drugs or other illegal items are in a bag, they can open and examine it without a warrant regardless of whether they have a reason to search the car.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 30 May 1991

INTERNATIONAL A3-19 A plan to ban nuclear weapons in the Middle East was unveiled by President Bush. The plan is a compromise measure between his pledge to curb the region's arms race and the political pressures frustrating American diplomacy in the area. Page A1 Argentina, acceding to U.S., ends missile program A9

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Date: 31 May 1991

International A3-10 An imprisoned Mexican drug baron surrendered, ending the prison takeover he said was staged to protect himself from corrupt police officers. Afterward, six police and prison officials were arrested. Page A3

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BRIEFS

Date: 31 May 1991

* Alco Standard Corp., Valley Forge, Pa., a paper products company, said its Paper Corp. of America unit acquired Monumental Paper Co., Baltimore, for undisclosed terms. * Clarcor Inc., Rockford, Ill., a maker of metal containers, will sell its Precision Products group to TCH Group, Grand Rapids, Mich., for $30 million.

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General Dynamics

Date: 30 May 1991

AP

The General Dynamics Corporation has put its 330,000-square-foot central office complex in Sterling Heights up for sale. The 2,200 employees and the complex's operations will remain in the Detroit area, the company, which is based in St. Louis, said. The move is being made to raise cash and cut costs.

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Fine for Marathon

Date: 30 May 1991

Reuters

The USX Corporation said its USX-Marathon Oil unit had agreed to pay a $900,000 fine and spend $3 million to improve a water treatment system at its Indianapolis refinery. The agreement, reached with the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, settled a case the Government brought against Marathon under the Federal Clean Water Act after a 1989 discharge of waste water into the Indianapolis sewer system.

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