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...won’t be any fun for Chirac if his country breaks the European chain of ratification. Still, France can and must sink this treaty. If the unpleasant task were left to the perennially euro-skeptic British, the vote would be interpreted as a refusal to commit, but France can still demand something better to commit to, and should while there is still time...
...your child was missing," blared the full-page ad in last week's New York Times, "could you give police an accurate description?" Most parents probably could, but doubt was at the heart of the campaign by Lafayette/Circuit City, a consumer-electronics chain with headquarters in Richmond. As an identification aid against the terrible day when a youngster might disappear, the ad offered a free videotape of any child brought to a Lafayette store in the New York City area, urging parents to "bring your own videotape or [we] will sell you one at cost...
...zquez Raña and Houston Real Estate Developer Joseph E. Russo. The once rival bidders began striking up a partnership last Tuesday in the elevator of U.P.I.'s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Vázquez Raña, who is expected to control about 90% of the company, owns the largest chain of newspapers in Mexico. He told American reporters through an interpreter that he plans to restore U.P.I.'s financial stability and improve its performance. Said U.P.I. Vice President William J. Bowe: "It will be a recapitalized news organization and will be able to get back to being scrappy and competitive...
...Register, which is the flagship of the 32-paper Freedom Newspapers chain, owes its rebirth partly to its rival's success in Orange County. By the late 1970s, the Times had whittled the Register's lead from about 50,000 to 38,000 copies a day. Threshie, 54, who joined the company in 1962 after marrying a descendant of the chain's founder, battled the Times's incursion by plowing profits back into the paper at a rate never imagined by previous Register publishers. He quadrupled the newsroom budget, nearly tripled the news staff (to 260) and hiked salaries...
...ordinances would not do but never explained the impact they would have. A more serious charge is made by Harry Hoiles, 69, a son of the company's founder and a former co-publisher of the Register who is embroiled in a battle to wrest control of the Freedom chain from other family members. He says that Threshie once killed an editorial criticizing the Santa Ana city council lest it anger the city's planning authorities. Threshie denies any impropriety...