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FORM 4
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[ ] Check this box if no longer WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
subject to Section 16. Form
4 or Form 5 obligations may STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
continue. See Instruction 1(b).
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
(Print or Type Responses)
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1.Name and Address of Reporting Person*| 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol |6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s)
| | to Issuer (Check all applicable)
Strader Jerry J. | Hollinger International Inc. - HLR | Director 10% Owner
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(Last) (First) (Middle) | 3. IRS Identification | 4. Statement for | X Officer (give title below)
| Number of Reporting | Month/Year | -----
| Person, if an entity | | Other (specify below)
c/o Hollinger International Inc. | (Voluntary) | April 1999 | -----
401 North Wabash, Suite 740 | | | President of APC Division
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(Street) | | 5. If Amendment, |7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
| | Date of Original | (Check Applicable Line)
| | (Month/Year) | X Form filed by One Reporting Person
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| | | -- Form filed by More than One
| | | Reporting Person
Chicago Illinois 60611 | | |
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(City) (State) (Zip) | Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
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1. Title of Security | 2. Transaction| 3. Transaction| 4. Securities Acquired(A)| 5. Amount of|6. Owner |7. Nature
(Instr. 3) | Date | Code | or Disposed of (D) | Securities | -ship | of
| | (Instr. 8) | (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | Beneficially| Form: | Indirect
| | | | Owned at End| Direct | Bene-
| |---------------|--------------------------| of Month | (D) or | ficial
| | | | | (A) | | (Instr. 3 | Indirect| Owner-
|(Month/Day/ | | | | or | | and 4) | (I) | ship
| Year) | Code | V | Amount | (D) | Price | |(Instr.4)|(Instr.4)
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
*If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
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FORM 4 (CONTINUED) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(e.g., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative | 2. Conver- |3. Trans- |4. Trans- |5. Number of |6. Date Exer- |7. Title and Amount |8. Price
Security | sion or | action | action | Derivative | cisable and | of Underlying | of
(Instr. 3) | Exercise | Date | Code | Securities Ac- | Expiration | Securities | Deriv-
| Price of | | (Instr. 8)| quired (A) or | Date | (Instr. 3 and 4) | ative
| Deriv- | (Month/| | Disposed of (D)| (Month/Day/ | | Secur-
| ative | Day/ | | (Instr. 3, 4, | Year) | | ity
| Security | Year) | | and 5) | | | (Instr. 5)
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| | | | |Date |Expira- | | Amount or |
| | |-------------------------------|Exer- |tion | Title | Number of |
| | | Code |V | (A) |(D) |cisable|Date | | Shares |
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Employee Stock | $11.64 | 4/14/99 | S | V | | (1) | (4) | 4/1/06 |Class A | (1) | $15.75
option under | | | | | | | | |Common | |
1997 Plan | | | | | | | | |Stock | |
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| $10.06 | 4/14/99 | S | V | | (2) | (4) | 5/1/07 |Class A | (2) | $15.75
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| $ 9.71 | 4/14/99 | S | V | | (3) | (4) | 8/1/06 |Class A | (3) | $15.75
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Under 1994 Plan | | | | | | | | | | |
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9. Number of | 10. Ownership | 11. Nature of
Derivative | Form of | Indirect
Securities | Derivative | Beneficial
Beneficially | Security: | Ownership
Owned at End | Direct (D) | (Instr. 4)
of Month | or Indirect (I) |
(Instr. 4) | (Instr. 4) |
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115,250 | D |
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52,000 | D |
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Explanation of Responses:
(1) 2,250
(2) 5,000
(3) 10,000
(4) These options were granted to the reporting person under the Company's 1997 Stock Incentive Plan on their respective Grant
Dates. 25% of the options become exercisable on each of the first, second, third and fourth anniversaries of their respective Grant
Dates (which is ten years prior to the Grant Date).
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. By: /s/ Jerry J. Strader May 7, 1999
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). -------------------------- -----------
**Signature of Reporting Person Date
Jerry J. Strader
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this
form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number.
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