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...decline, New York's Daily News (circ. 1.5 million) launched an evening edition, called Tonight, as part of a $20 million revitalization campaign. Once America's biggest daily, the News lost that title to the Wall Street Journal (circ. 1.9 million) in 1979. Tonight was supposed to halt the News's circulation losses (450,000 since 1975) by adding "up-scale" readers and advertisers to the morning tabloid's traditional blue-collar audience. A flotilla of special sections and dozens of new feature writers and columnists were deployed under Clay Felker, 52, the founder...
...contends that such motives have nothing to do with politics, that Haiti's once notorious government repression has subsided in the past decade and the immigrants will probably not be punished as they are returned. Indeed, the Haitian authorities are making no real effort to halt the exodus: the 400,000-member exile community in the U.S. sends perhaps $100 million back to their families on the island every year, and the escape route tempers unemployment and hopelessness...
...Camp David peace process despite Israel's "intolerable" act. Said Sadat: "We started [the peace movement] and we're not ready at all to give it up." The foreign ministers of the 21-member Arab League issued a tough but predictable resolution condemning the attack, calling for a halt to all U.S. assistance to Israel and demanding U.N. sanctions in retaliation for the assault. Arab League Secretary-General Chedli Klibi declared the session to be "one of the shortest and most successful Arab meetings to date...
...bank. Devaluation would aid tourism, boost exports and help close a large trade deficit. But the last time a Mexican government undertook a major devaluation, in 1976, billions of dollars fled the country, inflation surged to an annual rate of more than 50% and economic growth came to a halt. No Mexican government wants a repeat of the 1976 devaluation fiasco...
...howling machine down onto a bobbing runway barely 600 ft. long. At touchdown, if all goes well, a hook on the underside of the jet's tail grapples one of four cables strung a few inches over the flight deck, and the aircraft is yanked to a lurching halt. At 11:51 last Tuesday night, aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz, that difficult maneuver went terribly awry...