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...Angeles Herald-Examiner, the Times's major competitor, has helped boost the paper's daily circulation to a record high. But like every newspaper in these recessionary times, the Times sees clouds forming on its economic horizon. For more than two decades, it has waged a costly battle for suburban and San Diego readers, wooing them with regional editions of the Times, each tailored to local audiences by an on-site staff. While publisher Laventhol says he has no intention of ceding these outposts to entrenched regional and local newspapers, the Times has shelved ambitious plans to extend its reach...
...Rourke is your typical white-bread, middle-class suburban kid from Toledo. His father, a car salesman, died when O'Rourke was nine and left his mother, who later went to work as a school secretary, with very little. She remarried, and O'Rourke detested her new husband. "I was a fairly unhappy kid with a very active fantasy life," he remembers. He left home in high school, then returned for a short time before studying English at Miami University in Ohio. He recently married 26-year-old Amy Lumet, daughter of film director Sidney Lumet and also Lena Horne...
...connected with Anees Masoor Wadi, an Iraqi middleman who resided in a $3.5 million Beverly Hills home -- where his neighbors included actor Gene Hackman and director John Landis -- and who was allegedly part of Saddam's global network for procuring arms and military technology. Wadi reportedly helped acquire a suburban Cleveland machine-tool firm called Matrix-Churchill, which made versatile computer-operated jig grinders that could be used to produce precision parts for everything from consumer products to aerospace and nuclear equipment. According to Kroll, the Ohio-based company also submitted inflated bills to Iraq that enabled Saddam to skim...
This combination of controversy and unmeasurable circulation (down from 1.1 million before the strike) drove away advertisers, most of whom increased their exposure in the competing tabloids, the scandal-minded Post and the more pious New York Newsday, a city-oriented version of the dominant paper on suburban Long Island. While many plan to return, now that the News has union blessing, some advertisers have cut budgets in a slumping economy, and others are concerned about when, or if, the News can rebound to pre-strike levels. Its rivals, which raided columnists and the syndicated supplement Parade, have upped their...
...doubts that Mickey Mouse and his clan will claim their new home on the Continent, probably close to the April 1992 target date. Disney executives predict 11 million visits a year to the theme park, which is being built on former beet and sunflower fields in the suburban development of Marne-La-Vallee, 20 miles east of the capital. Last year 50 million tourists visited France, spending more than $21 billion; many of those tourists are likely to stop by the new Disneyland...