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

DATE: MONDAY, May 7, 1990                   TAG: 9005070062
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

BRESLIN APOLOGIZES FOR RACISM

Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin has apologized for his racist, expletive-filled newsroom tirade against a reporter of Korean descent who criticized his column, the newspaper said Sunday.

But Breslin's apology, sent to Newsday staffers on Friday as an internal computer message, failed to quell the brouhaha over his remarks.

On Sunday, Asian-American groups called for his resignation for the outburst against staff reporter Ji-Yeon Mary Yuh, 25, who had sent him an internal computer message calling his May 3 column sexist.

In an obscenity-laced newsroom tirade, Breslin called Yuh "slant-eyed."

"She's a yellow cur. Let's make it racial," Breslin said.

His remarks, made outside the presence of Yuh, were reported by the Daily News and in a letter of complaint to Newsday managers from members of the paper's staff.

- Associated Press

by CNB