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Many Palestinians are going back to the land. Nawal Rabi, 38, spends much of her day hacking out a garden behind her house in Jalazun. She is planting tomatoes, cucumbers and moloquia, an Arab green. With two brothers in jail and her father dead, Nawal struggles just to eat. In Sinjil, a West Bank village nearby, army roadblocks have cut off traffic for the past two months. Unable to drive to market, Hosneyah Khalil feeds her six children with the produce from her fields. She also has bought goats for milk. "We will show them we can live," she says...
...moment the Post remains awash in red ink, but Kalikow predicts it will break even within three years. He also expects circulation to rise from its current level of 555,000 to 700,000, still well behind the Daily News's 1.2 million. Amsterdam says the pressure on her is not to make the Post profitable but to make it better. Still, that may be difficult because of the attrition of recent years, including the loss of two of the paper's most talented headline writers...
After hiding for more than two months behind shuttered windows and CLOSED signs, Panama's bankers were ready for a stampede of cash-starved customers when the institutions reopened last week. With good reason: it was the first time since March 3, when the government controlled by General Manuel Antonio Noriega decreed a bank holiday, that depositors at most of the country's 120 banking institutions were allowed to make limited withdrawals. Yet the queues that curled around street corners last Monday were calm and orderly. Grunted one depositor, Roy Stone, as he waited to enter a Chase Manhattan branch...
Trench warfare in the executive suites. Longtime employees suddenly thrown into the street. An emotional battle for the very soul of an institution. The biggest headlines at CBS News over the past few years seem to have originated mostly behind the cameras. No company's inside gossip has been the subject of more outside scrutiny than that of CBS, and the result has been a small library of books on the network's inner workings. Few, however, have offered harsher indictments than two new releases that try to affix blame for the turmoil and shifting priorities at TV's most...
...motion a painful round of layoffs in 1985. Unsurprisingly, he views himself more sympathetically, as a beleaguered defender of traditional news values. His chief enemy, it seems, was Rather. The anchorman was unfailingly polite and supportive in person, Joyce writes, but campaigned for his ouster behind his back. When the antagonism became clear to Joyce's bosses, there was little doubt about which man was expendable. "There are lots of presidents," CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski told Joyce. "There's only one Dan Rather...