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'Smokeless cigarette is snuffed out
Firm says experiment didn't hook consumers
The Associated Press
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Consumers didn't like them, so R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is withdrawing its Premier brand "smokeless" cigarettes after five months of market testing.
The company said in a statement yesterday that "while smokers are very interested in the concept, the company has adequately consumer acceptance."
R. J. Reynolds had test-marketed Premier in Arizona and eastern Missouri.
"They're terrible. They're nasty. They're beyond nasty." Mark Padgett, an employee at a 71 store in Chicago, said the cigarette hit the market in October.
Premier was advertised as "the cleaner smoke" because, the company said, it substantially reduces certain compounds found in the smoke of tobacco-burning cigarettes and eliminated cigarette ashes and smoke.
Several health organizations, including the American Medical Association, asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban sale of the cigarette. The AMA said Premier Drug-delivery device, not a cigarette
The cigarette works by heating instead of burning tobacco. Smokers light a carbon heat source at the cigarette's tip.
Reynolds said yesterday that it had no plans to re-introduce Premier or a similar product "unless we have made sure issues raised in the test markets."
Reynolds' major cigarette brands are Winston, Salem, Camel, Vantage, Doral, Century, More, NOW and Ritz.
Chicago mayor defeated in primary
CHICAGO — Richard M. Daley, son of the legendary boss of Chicago politics, defeated Mayor Eugene Scalia in a democratic prelude and took over office at the City Hall office his father held for 21 years.
The Associated Press
Daley built a commanding lead with overpowering support from predominantly white wards. Although Sawyer, the city's second black mayor, ran up impressive margins in his strongholds, he was hampered by a lower turnout among blacks than whites.
With 67 percent of the city's 2,911 precincts
and 85 percent of the city's 45 percent of
$9.99 per day, 200,345 votes.
If Daley wins the April 4 general election and claims leadership of the nation's third-largest city, it would mark the first time a white has been the most mayor in one of the country's largest cities.
After a campaign that many observers found tame by Chicago's raucous standards, turnout in the primary election was lower than expected, and black turnout was running about 10 percentage points behind white turnout, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners
That allowed Daley to build overwhelming margins on the predominantly white Southwest and Northeast sides. Sawyer was unable to
At the same time, the elections board said the number of Republican ballots cast totaled about 25,000 — some 50 percent more than in the previous election.
overcome them with weakened support on the predominantly black South and West sides.
Usually, a victory in a Chicago Democratic primary is enough to ensure victory in the primaries.
But this year could be different. The GOP primary took on unusual interest in the past week when former Democratic Alderman Edward Vrdolyak announced a last-minute write-in campaign against endorsed GOP candidate Herbert Sohn.
In early voting, Vrdolyk was running strong outside the 10th Ward, the gritter, South Side enclave that sent him to the City Council for a new city council when he converted to the Republican Party.
With 61 percent of the precincts reporting, Dryolak had k 672, votes or, 42 percent, to Sohn's 7,342 votes, or 45 percent, but some did not immediately report the write-in votes.
Sawyer needed heavy black turnout in order to duplicate the victories of the late Harold McCormack, a black mayor in 1883 and four years later, since the first elder Dale to win re-election.
Venezuela suspends constitution as riots continue
Police say up to 50 are dead, 500 injured in worst violence in 30 years
The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela — Rioting about price increases拉玛载Caracas for a second day yesterday as looting spread, and the government said it was suspending constitutional guarantees to restore order.
Police estimated up to 50 people were killed and 500 injured in the worst violence in 30 years of democracy. The authorities, that have been arrested, authorities said.
Civilians exchanged gunfire with police, and shop owners took up arms to protect their property in the wake of the riots, which began Monday in Caracas and spread to seven other cities.
The month-old government of President Carlos Andres Perez
Residents sacked and burned one of the city's largest shopping centers in the wealthy neighborhood of San Bernardino in a scene one TV reporter described as "collective madness."
butcher shop and hauled off the scales before police arrived.
Looting also was reported yesterday in the cities of Valencia, Barquimeiso, Carora, Puerto la Cruz, San Cristobal and Maracau.
Gun battles between police and residents continued into yesterday morning in San Agustin, a shantytown in west Caracas.
"Some people brought cars and station wagons to carry things away," a reporter for Radio Caracas Television.
Army and national guard units patrolled the streets but could not ston the lawlessness.
Police failed to prevent mobs from sacking stores in the neighborhood, and one witness how lorkers carried 50 cow carcasses from a
"It is much worse than yesterday," said Omar Bolivar, metropolitan police inspector. "Now we have seven officers, and they didn't miss the missioner died when she by rosters."
announced it had decided to suspend constitutional guarantees to re-establish order, and it authorized the army to impose a curfew, although no hours were established. The Education Ministry ordered school and university classes suspended nationwide.
Rioting over price
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second day yesterday
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spread to other cities
Caracas appeared empty yesterday, with police units stationed on the main corners to control the few pedestrians who dared to cross the road. Gunmen and trucks were filled with those arrested for rioting and looting.
Caracas riots
Policemen fired shotguns and tear gas to disperse crowds trying to gather in nearby grocery stores. The officers, who had been sacked in Caracas, according to
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Army and national guard units patrolled the streets but could not stop the loudness.
HAZARDYO WASTE BANNED! South Carolina will ban 32 states and Puerto Rico from disposing hazardous waste within its borders beginning today, state health officials said.
The ban, which affects such heavy landfill users as Florida and North Carolina, resulted from Gov. Carroll Campbell's executive order saying that the state would
democracy is impossible until the party permits open dissent in its ranks.
The article, by widely known sociologist Igor Lykamkin, also hints at the central role of Goa in political change and in political change not noting that Soviet "titration" is taking place in a system where
COMMUNIST CRITICISM: A prominent
The ban affects a massive landfill on the shore of Lake Marion, about 60 miles east of Columbia. The site annually accepts 135,000 tons of hazardous waste. About 70 percent of the waste comes from out of state. A prominent
The unprecedented attack in the literary monthly Novy Mir also questioned the rationale of the 20 million-member party's legal monopoly on power and says genuine
state-run magazine has criticized the Communist Party, accusing it of spreading "political lies" that have deceived the Soviet people for generations.
prohibit the disposal of waste from any state that refused to dispose of it itself.
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