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Date: 24 May 1990
By Ellen Hume
Ellen Hume
LEAD: Every taxpayer deserves an answer to this question: Why did the well-paid, well-educated and constitutionally protected press corps miss the savings and loan scandal, which is the most expensive public finance debacle in U.S. history?
Date: 24 May 1990
By Kathleen Teltsch
Kathleen Teltsch
LEAD: Eight months ago, homeless men and women began hawking a new tabloid newspaper on the streets and subways of New York. The premise of Street News was the promise of self-reliance: Instead of begging for handouts, the paper's vendors would sell something of substance and perhaps save enough money to get back on their feet.
Date: 24 May 1990
By A. M. Rosenthal
A.
LEAD: Here we are right in the spot where the trouble that is bruising the soul of a city is taking place, getting headlines around the country, right in the middle of it all.
Date: 24 May 1990
By Robin Toner, Special To the New York Times
Robin Toner
LEAD: America is a country of rich diversity, but almost everywhere you go there are McDonald's, the Holiday Inn and the same small corps of political consultants.
Date: 23 May 1990
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: A former editor at The Wall Street Journal filed suit yesterday against Dow Jones & Company, the paper's owner, seeking $12.6 million in damages on the ground that his reputation has been severely injured because the paper wrongfully dismissed him on May 2.
Date: 23 May 1990
By Susan Heller Anderson
Susan Anderson
LEAD: JIMMY BRESLIN returns in print tomorrow in Newsday. But he will be minus at least one newspaper that carries his syndicated column. The Oregonian in Portland has dropped the column because of the racial slurs Mr. Breslin aimed at a Korean-American woman, a Newsday reporter, who criticized one of his columns as sexist.
Date: 23 May 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Soviet food prices would be doubled as part of a gradual, five-year transition to a regulated market economy under a plan approved by President Gorbachev and his Cabinet. Page A1
Date: 24 May 1990
LEAD: International A3-15 Moscow will hold a countrywide vote this year on a new package of economic changes, giving Soviet citizens their first direct say on a matter of national policy. Page A1 Secretary of State James Baker defended his handling of arms control negotiations with Moscow, saying that those who have accused him of giving too much to the Soviets were never interested in arms reduction agreements in the first place.
Date: 23 May 1990
AP
LEAD: The Pinnacle West Capital Corporation rejected a $1.82 billion offer from Pacificorp, saying the bid was too low. It was the fourth time Pinnacle rejected a Pacificorp bid for the holding company or for its Arizona Public Service Company subsidiary. Pacificorp, a utility company based in Portland, Ore., said it might make an offer to Pinnacle West's shareholders.
Date: 23 May 1990
AP
LEAD: The Xerox Corporation introduced a line of facsimile machines that use plain paper and double as copiers. John P. Lafferty of the company's information products division said many users prefer receiving facsimiles on plain paper. The machines are all made in Japan by the Fuji Xerox Corporation, although they were developed by Xerox engineers in the United States.