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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 9, 1990                   TAG: 9005090740
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

COLUMNIST SUSPENDED FOR INSULTING REPORTER

Newsday suspended columnist Jimmy Breslin after he obscenely insulted an Asian-American reporter and phoned a radio personality to joke about it on the air.

The 61-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist was suspended for two weeks without pay, Don Forst, editor of New York Newsday, said early today.

Breslin launched into a tirade in the newsroom Friday after reporter Ji-Yeon Mary Yuh, 25, criticized his May 3 column as sexist in an internal computer message.

- Associated Press 


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