
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 29, 1993                   TAG: 9303290073
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY . . .

Drug-trafficking convictions accounted for one-fifth of all felony convictions in 1990, up from 13 percent four years earlier, the Justice Department reported Sunday.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch signed an agreement Sunday to take over the beleaguered New York Post newspaper.

by CNB