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...been imprisoned in the East for espionage. Usually such prisoners are traded in secret, often in the foggy predawn hours. Last week, however, the western end of the 128-meter Glienicker Bridge was teeming with reporters and camera crews. They were eagerly staked out for what the West German tabloid Bild Zeitung melodramatically heralded as "the biggest human swap ever...
...Street that the owners of Britain's newspapers may come and go but it is the unions that run the show. And a costly show it is. Fleet Street has been plagued for years by strikes, late press runs and overstaffing. Except for the Sun, a screeching Rupert Murdoch tabloid, most London papers are either losing money or making minuscule profits...
...threatening to shut down his papers, Maxwell announced that the unions had agreed to lay off one-third of his newspaper group's 6,000 staffers. All eyes now are on Eddie Shah, a feisty publisher of newspapers in northern England who plans to launch a national, computer-printed tabloid this spring. By signing a no-strike contract with the electricians' union and skirting other unions, Shah boasts that his expenses will be a small fraction of Fleet Street's. If Shah's paper, Today, is a success, his fellow proprietors are likely to applaud him as much as they...
...news prompted tabloid headlines proclaiming CANCER BREAKTHROUGH and led desperate patients around the country to deluge the NCI with requests for the new "cure." Such a reaction is clearly premature, warned Rosenberg (who was a spokesman for the team that treated President Reagan's colon cancer). "I am really anxious that this be kept in perspective," he said. "This is a promising first step in a new approach to use the body's own immune system against cancer. It is certainly not a cancer cure...
...following: stuffy, bossy, too familiar or gay. For generations, many of the palace staff have been known as confirmed bachelors, a euphemism for homosexual men. "She just doesn't want them around her family," says James Whitaker of the Mirror, who has long been Diana's fawning tabloid Boswell...