Videotaped messages from Commissioner Brown are being shown at station houses, and soon advertisements directed at police officers will begin appearing there.

City officials will also lobby the three tobacco companies in which city pension funds hold almost $300 million worth of stock to study advertisements directed at blacks and young people.

The Toubon law, from the name of the conservative culture minister who promoted it, makes it mandatory to use French in advertisements directed to the general public.

These rules vary from country to country, with all advertisements directed to children banned in some countries.

Morozoff is also well known in Japan as the company that introduced and popularized Valentines Day in 1936, when it ran an advertisement directed at foreigners.

But Mr. Bush's advisers said they hoped this latest in a continuing crush of advertisements directed at Mr. Kerry would prevent him from surmounting that hurdle.

Most recently, a Republican advertisement directed against a Congressional candidate in Iowa was rejected by three stations on Friday night.

SI 1992 No 813 contains a similar exemption dealing with 'advertisements directed at informing or influencing persons of a particular kind'.

She places an advertisement in national newspapers, directed to her husband, saying that Jimmy is dead and he must come home.