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...designed to preserve the editorial voice of a dying newspaper by allowing it to combine its business operations with a healthy competitor. They thus joined forces in applying to the Justice Department for approval of a "joint operating arrangement." Testifying at a hearing last August, Knight-Ridder Chairman Alvah Chapman backed up the proposal with a harsh ultimatum: unless the Justice Department approved the J.O.A., he would recommend that Knight-Ridder "close down the Free Press and dispose of its assets...
...millions of dollars in the Free Press and had never before folded any of its papers. Thus, Needelman concluded, "I have assigned little weight to this threat." But last week, less than a month after Needelman issued his report to Attorney General Edwin Meese recommending against the controversial J.O.A., Chapman pursued his threat further. Emerging from a Detroit meeting of the 17-member Knight-Ridder board, he solemnly announced that the 157-year-old Free Press will stop publishing unless the Attorney General approves the plan...
...Attorney General, Knight-Ridder is gambling that Meese will have no choice but to save the paper. To up the odds, the company has launched an all-out public relations blitz designed to win over local opponents and to sway Meese. After last week's board meeting, Chapman scheduled private meetings with leaders of the paper's unions and Mayor Coleman Young, who has already hinted that he may abandon his opposition to the plan. Free Press Publisher David Lawrence triggered a ground swell of support with a front-page editorial asking readers to write in what they would miss...
...while Chapman is pleading near bankruptcy, one of his own memos (to Gannett Chairman Al Neuharth) included in Needelman's report makes a strong case that the Free Press should receive an equal share of the J.O.A.'s future earnings. "The Detroit Free Press is a well managed newspaper with a loyal readership base and a proven and continuing capacity to expand its reach," Chapman wrote, before listing several favorable statistics not usually associated with failing newspapers...
...sisters, indentured in foster homes and raped by adolescents of both sexes. But Hilary, with eyes like green ice or emerald fire, is a survivor who goes on to make it as a TV executive. And Steel, too maternal to leave a heroine unfulfilled and unmarried, sends her John Chapman, a man with "perfect teeth, and gentle eyes." It seems worth noting that John Chapman is the real name of Folk Hero Johnny Appleseed: fertility again...