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...missiles within Syria itself. It was unclear exactly what the Syrians were up to. Were they steeling themselves for the anticipated U.S. retaliatory strike, or were they in on the planning of further attacks? According to intelligence officials, the Syrian threats were what prompted the U.S. to dispatch additional aircraft carrier groups to the area and to increase the number of reconnaissance flights. Denying that it was motivated by fears of direct Syrian attacks, the U.S. described the deployment of ships in the eastern Mediterranean as routine...
...loss of the Globe-Democrat will leave metropolitan St. Louis (pop. 1 8 mil lion) with only one regional newspaper, the 105-year-old Post-Dispatch. It will also shrink to 50 the number of U.S. cities with independency owned, editorially competitive dailies. The failure defied several newspaper-industry rules of thumb: the morning Globe-Democrat (daily circ 255,000) is bigger than the afternoon Post-Dispatch (daily circ. 230,000); it is published at what is considered a more advantageous time of day; and it is, at least in terms of local coverage, the better paper Nonetheless, the economic...
...conservative Globe-Democrat owned by the giant (27 dailies) Newhouse chain and the liberal Post-Dispatch flagship of the Pulitzer group, are editorially separate. But they share advertising, circulation and business staffs under one of 24 newspaper joint operating agreements (JOA) approved by the U.S. Department of Justice. The papers also pool their profits except that there have been no profits for four of the past five years. Moreover Newhouse executives saw little prospect of improvement, and even less that the community-minded Pulitzer family would close the Post-Dispatch...
Samuel I. Newhouse bought the Globe-Democrat in 1955 from Edward Lansing Ray, a third-generation owner who hoped that his successor would preserve the paper's combative Republicanism and independence. Although Newhouse bargained away the building and passes to the Post-Dispatch in 1959 and began to pool profits with his ri val two years later, he and his heirs have endorsed local editorial control, and the paper's strident voice has been retained: cartoons depict Communist leaders with hands dripping blood; editorials have termed U.S. District Judge William Hungate, who ordered citywide school desegregation, "Attila...
Despite its ferocity, the Globe-Democrat has won grudging general respect. Said Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr., whose paper was a frequent target: "The Globe-Democrat has teen a vigorous news source and a spirited defender of its values...