Toward a Campaign of Substance in '92
Date: 26 March 1990
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
LEAD: Although the start of the 1992 Presidential primary season is two years off, memories of television's coverage of the 1988 campaign are only too fresh. So proposals for dealing with the media manipulators the next time out are welcome. Among the problems most deserving of attention: How to turn the Presidential debates into substantive exchanges rather than packaged preenings?
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Lenin Is Alive and Well and Reporting From Lithuania
Date: 25 March 1990
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
LEAD: AMID the feast of information and candor set forth by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, it is worth pointing out that the spectral figure of agitprop - the weary old Bolshevik specialist in manipulating information - still holds a high place at the table of glasnost. In the war of nerves between the Kremlin and the breakaway republic of Lithuania, Soviet Government dominance of most information channels has been on display with a pervasiveness that Lenin first dreamed of.
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A Name, a Face and a Rape: Iowa Victim Tells Her Story
Date: 25 March 1990
By David Margolick, Special To the New York Times
David Margolick
LEAD: Nine months after she had been raped, with her trauma still fresh and the case against her assailant languishing in court, Nancy Ziegenmeyer was sitting in the Grinnell College library, studying the law of sexual assault. During a break in her work, she came across a column in The Des Moines Register.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 26 March 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-9 A Ukrainian independence drive is posing a growing challenge to Soviet unity. In one city, two political candidates who advocate full independence recently had a strong election-day showing. Page A1
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Meg MacDonald, News Anchor, Becomes a Bride
Date: 25 March 1990
LEAD: Margaret A. W. MacDonald, a news anchor at WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., and M. Duncan Grant, a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, were married yesterday at the First Unitarian Church of Wilmington, Del. The Rev. Robert Doss performed the ceremony.
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Lithuanian to the Core: Vytautas Landsbergis
Date: 26 March 1990
By Esther B. Fein, Special To the New York Times
Esther
LEAD: Vytautas Landsbergis, who presides over Lithuania in its battle for sovereignty, seems an unlikely man to be thrust into a confrontation with a superpower.
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Japan Easing On Satellites Is Reported
Date: 26 March 1990
Reuters
LEAD: Japan will open its market for all non-experimental satellites to foreign competition in another concession to United States demands, the Kyodo News Service reported today.
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