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...rather by his absence. The investigation had already yielded three imprisoned suspects, a cache of bomb-making chemicals, and the beginnings of a money trail. But it had not produced a ringleader; someone not quite "the John Gotti of this group," as a New York sleuth told New York Newsday, but the "guy ((who)) runs the crew...
...would just as soon have watched Salameh for a while in the hope that he would lead them to other suspects. But news was starting to leak; by Wednesday night the FBI knew that New York Newsday was about to report that a rented van stolen in New Jersey was involved in the blast. James Fox, head of / the New York City FBI office, who coordinated much of the investigation, says his office considered asking Newsday to hold the story but decided not to because other papers and radio and TV stations had pieces of the story and the agency...
...been crippled by a strike and a hemorrhaging of advertising revenues wrought largely by the recession. Zuckerman could not hope to go head to head against the steady New York Times, but he had to be concerned about two other dailies. One was the genteel, struggling New York Newsday, once described by a News editor as "a tabloid in a tutu." The other, to be sure, was the staggering, vulnerable Post. It was the first target...
...rest of the News staff may not feel so charitable. They are still smarting from the wholesale firings and worried about their own futures -- as well they might be, in the face of rumors that Zuckerman has been talking to a couple of Newsday staffers. Many News reporters also resent McAlary for his turnabout and take even less kindly to the appearance in the newsroom of the key editors from the competition...
MITCH GELMAN WAS AS GREEN AS CENtral Park when he became a police reporter for New York Newsday, an aggressive urban tabloid. In CRIME SCENE (Times Books; $21), he is honest enough to recall the highs he got from interviewing the perpetrators and victims of shoot-outs, rapes and drug deals. And he is frank enough to describe the many times his stomach seemed "gnarled in knots of guilt." At the age of 30 he was a burned-out case, and moved on to cover health and urban affairs for the same paper. New York City has yet to find...