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...Philip Morris takeover of General Foods is part of the cigarette industry's diversification trend. Reason: U.S. cigarette sales have declined by about 4% during the past three years. In June, R.J. Reynolds, maker of Camel and Salem, bought Nabisco Brands for $4.9 billion. That development coincides with consolidation in the food industry. In addition to the Reynolds-Nabisco agreement, there were also mergers between Nestle and Carnation and Beatrice Foods and Esmark during the past 14 months...
...recent antiabortion documentary Silent Scream. But readers of the 835 newspapers in which Garry Trudeau's comic strip appears will never meet little Timmy. Last week Trudeau withdrew the six strips after discussions with his distributor, Universal Press Syndicate. "We thought the sequence was done well," said Lee Salem, editorial director of Universal. "But we finally decided that the whole question of abortion was so sensitive that it would cause too many problems for editors...
...portraits and mementos of more than two decades in the Foreign Service, but he did manage to salvage top-secret documents from the embassy. In 1978 the FBI investigated his handling of the files, but the Justice Department later decided not to prosecute. Martin, 72, has retired to Winston-Salem, N.C. He does not believe the war had to end in such a disastrous manner. "Had President Nixon served out his term," he says, "South Viet Nam would today be an independent, viable nation...
...take those ads for Salem Menthols. "Salem Spirit" has very little to do with smoking. In fact, in most ads it has nothing to do with smoking, because in several of those Salem ads no one has a cigarette in his hand at all. But Salem Spirit has a lot to do with sexy, happy Yuppies eating watermelon and plunging off tire swings into warm rivers...
...case, a discarded gun in a supermarket. Conservative Justice Sandra Day O'Connor dissented from that decision, saying that it "blurs the edges" of a clear rule. But this time it was O'Connor who was picking at the edges, in the case of an 18-year-old from Salem, Ore., accused of involvement in a $150,000 burglary...