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All for a Cause

Date: 01 December 1996

Photos of benefit parties around New York City; photo of New York Times chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who got Committee to Protect Journalists award marking 25th anniversary of publishing of Pentagon Papers8

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HOLLINGER BUYS MAJORITY STAKE IN SOUTHAM OF CANADA

Date: 30 November 1996

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Hollinger International Inc completes acquisition of 8 million shares in Southam Inc for $160 million (Canadian), or $118 million (US), giving it majority stake in Canada's largest publisher of daily newspapers (S)

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ROCKWELL AND BOEING SET EXCHANGE RATIO FOR PURCHASE

Date: 30 November 1996

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Rockwell International Corp discloses exchange ratio for Boeing Co shares to be issued when Boeing buys Rockwell's aerospace and military business for $3.16 billion in stock and debt; shareholders are to receive 0.042 of a share of Boeing common stock for one Rockwell share (S)

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QUINTILES COMPLETES PURCHASE OF INNOVEX

Date: 30 November 1996

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Quintiles Transnational Corp completes its purchase of closely held Innovex Ltd for stock and debt worth about 23 percent less than when sale was disclosed; purchase price is $605 million, about $182.8 million less than price disclosed on Oct 7 (S)

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Dow Up 22.36 in Light Day; Month Is Best in Five Years

Date: 30 November 1996

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Dow Jones industrial average rises 22.36 points, to 6,521.70, in light trading, giving it a gain of 8.16 percent in November, most since 9.47 percent advance in December 1991; Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rises 2.02 points, to 757.02, bringing its gain for month to 7.33 percent, also best since December 1991; Nasdaq composite index rises 5.29 percent, to 1,292.61, and advances 5.82 percent for the month (L)

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Wheat and Corn Prices Tumble During Short Session in Chicago

Date: 30 November 1996

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Wheat and corn prices fall in shortened session on Chicago Board of Trade on signs of waning export demand (M)7

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Call for Weaker French Franc Helps Push the Dollar Higher

Date: 30 November 1996

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

US dollar rises against French franc and German mark after Jean-Pierre Gerard, council member of French central bank, calls for weaker franc (M)m

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On the T.W.A. Crash

Date: 01 December 1996

Letter from Mark E Abels, vice president, Trans World Airlines, prompted by Nov 24 article that said TWA had vested interest in perpetuating 'sabotage' theory when exploring cause for TWA crash; says it was news media, including New York Times, that perpetuated sabotage theory and continued to remark on it even as Federal agencies maintained that all theories remained under investigation (M)

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 01 December 1996

International 3-20 BEHIND THE SAUDI VEIL A special C.I.A. task force has concluded that Saudi Arabia remains politically stable, but that the United States needs to find new ways to gather intelligence in one of the world's most closed societies. 1 In Washington, Prince Bandar is the voice of Saudi Arabia. 20 The American Defense Secretary met with the Saudi King. 20 THE MYSTERY OF CLUE'S INVENTOR A British law clerk who invented a popular board game died in such obscurity two years ago, it was learned last week, that not even Colonel Mustard or Miss Scarlet had a clue. 1 BRITAIN'S PROMINENT NONCITIZEN Mohamed al-Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of Harrod's and Punch, can claim to have once saved the pound sterling from virtual collapse -- but Britain will still not have him as a citizen. 3 DOMINICAN SETS NEW COURSE The new President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez, has embarked on a potentially hazardous course, taking on Congress and a corrupt bureaucracy. 15 YUGOSLAVIA'S NEW POWER BROKER Zoran Djindjic, a telegenic 44-year-old opposition leader, may emerge as the new political power broker in Yugoslavia, but he is considered as calculating as the man he could replace. 18 JUSTICE ARRIVES IN BOSNIA The day after the war crimes tribunal in The Hague handed down its first sentence, there was a feeling in some parts of Bosnia that for some of those killed in the war justice may have at last begun. 18 National 8-16, 20 NEW CHANCES ON CLEAN AIR The Clinton Administration's new proposal to tighten national air quality standards may offer an opportunity for some regions of the country that have struggled for years to bring their cities into compliance with the existing clean-air goals. 1 STORMY SENATE SESSION LOOMS It is unclear whether Trent Lott will succeed as a leader of the Senate, for the 105th Congress poses special problems that may not be easily managed by someone with his experience. 1 CALIFORNIA FIGHT FAR FROM OVER Despite declarations of victory on Election Day by supporters of California's anti-affirmative initiative turned out to be premature, with a court fight over the measure's constitutionality just getting under way. 1 NEW PRICE GAUGE URGED A Congressionally appointed panel is expected to recommend that the Government create a new price gauge that would more accurately reflect inflation. 11 VICTIMS' FAMILIES PRESS FOR TAPES Some family members of Valujet crash victims are pressing to hear the cockpit voice recording, saying that for them, part of grieving is wanting to know every detail, even those that others might find unbearable. 8 PRESERVING BOSTON'S JEWISH PAST Efforts are under way to preserve a relic from the period of Jewish immigration to Boston, between 1880 and 1920, when thousands of families poured into the city's North and West Ends. 8 SPOTLIGHT ON MARIJUANA PROGRAM The passage of voter initiatives in California and Arizona allowing the medical use of marijuana has caused renewed interest in a little-known Government program that supplies marijuana for medicinal purposes to eight people across the country. 11 PROFESSOR TURNS SLEUTH Benjamin Austin is a sleuth on the trail of offenders who may well have committed no crime. It is the crime they deny or minimize that offends him: the Holocaust. 16 FRICTION OVER NEW ARRIVALS Like many other communities across the New York region and the nation, Mount Kisco, an affluent suburban village in Westchester County has been struggling to adapt to an influx of Hispanic immigrants, many of them ill-educated day laborers from impoverished villages in Central America. And now, crackdowns on overcrowded housing in Mount Kisco are being criticized by some as a form of official harassment of immigrants. 20 Metropolitan 47-56 MAYOR REBUFFS FEARS ON TRASH Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said New York City would have little trouble finding places to accept its garbage if it is able to shut the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island by 2001, brushing aside fears that some states might bar the waste in a bit of anti-New York fervor. 47 FRICTION OVER NEW ARRIVALS Like many other communities across the New York region and the nation, Mount Kisco, an affluent suburban village in Westchester County, has been struggling to adapt to an influx of Hispanic immigrants, many of them ill-educated day laborers from impoverished villages in Central America. And now, crackdowns on overcrowded housing in Mount Kisco are being criticized by some as a form of official harassment of immigrants. 47 THE NEED FOR GIVING GROWS As representatives of social service agencies in New York City say pleas for help far outstrip their resources, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund begins its 85th annual appeal. 47 Obituaries 58

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News Summary

Date: 30 November 1996

International FIRST VERDICT AT BOSNIA TRIBUNAL The international tribunal on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia handed down its first verdict, sentencing a former soldier of the Bosnian Serb army to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of Muslim civilians near Srebrenica. 1 AFGHAN MUSEUM IN RUINS War and looting have destroyed Afghanistan's National Museum, once the most comprehensive record anywhere of civilizations that thrived along the ancient Silk Road from Europe to China. 1 MORE REFUGEES EMERGE IN ZAIRE Telling tales of atrocities, about 7,500 Hutu refugees emerged from the mountains of eastern Zaire, the vanguard of about 40,000 refugees believed to be inching north along the Rwandan border. 3 APPROVAL FOR AFRICA MISSION Diplomats from more than a dozen countries met in Ottawa and gave the formal go-ahead to an international relief mission that could airlift food to refugees in eastern Zaire if it proves necessary. 3 DEAL ON CHINESE-INDIAN BORDER China and India agreed in principle on mutual troop withdrawals from disputed areas along their 2,500-mile frontier and pledged that ''neither side shall use its military capability against the other.'' 4 GERMAN ACQUITTED OF EXTORTION One of the most enigmatic figures of the cold war was acquitted on extortion charges by a Berlin court, in the latest chapter in a long-running legal battle over his shadowy role during the cold war. 6 FRENCH TRUCKERS ENDING STRIKE Striking French truck drivers began lifting barricades blocking major French highways after union and employer negotiators signed an agreement resolving most of the issues in dispute. 7 ALGERIAN CONSTITUTION APPROVED The Algerian Government announced that a new Constitution banning Islamic political parties was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum, but opposition parties dismissed the vote. 8 National REQUEST FOR PROSECUTOR DENIED The Justice Department rejected a request by senior Republican lawmakers to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate whether Democratic fund-raisers illegally raised millions of dollars for their party's treasury this year. 1 A VIEW OF WELFARE'S CHILDREN A portrait of the children who depend on welfare shows a varied group whose plight has worsened in the last few years even as the welfare debate has raged in Congress and in statehouses across the country. 1 KILLER KILLS HIMSELF John Salvi 3d, who shot two people to death and wounded five others at two Boston abortion clinics in 1994, ended his troubled life in a maximum security prison outside Boston, the prison authorities said. 9 FUR-FARMING BATTLES Tension fairly crackles in Sandy, Utah, where the battle lines have been sharply drawn between the nation's anti-fur forces and mink farmers across the United States. 9 TESTS FOR SLOVAK SOLDIERS The Government of Slovakia has announced that it will provide comprehensive medical examinations to Slovak soldiers who participated in chemical detection units in the Persian Gulf war of 1991. 12 TRYING TO SALVAGE SPACEWALK NASA engineers pored over documents and photographs to try to salvage plans for a spacewalk considered crucial practice for station construction. 14 KILLING AT HOMELESS SHELTER For reasons that nobody can fathom, a man walked into a Cincinnati homeless shelter recently and fatally shot the center's director. 15 ARMED GUARDS FOR D.C. SCHOOLS? The retired Army general hired to run the collapsing public school system in the nation's capital says he may send armed guards into the worst schools to end the violence in them. 28 Metro Report Business Digest 39-51 HOLIDAY SALES' BRISK START At the start of the holiday shopping season, there were signs that sales were moving more briskly than last year. Retailers are counting on things like high consumer confidence, easing debt levels and the surging stock market to lift their sales and profits this year. 1 QUIRKS IN MILK PRICING Consumers are paying record prices for milk, cheese and other dairy products. But the prices paid to dairy farmers have plunged in recent weeks because of quirks in the milk market. 1 Arts/Entertainment 17-23 A gay Camelot goes home to find it's true. C17 Arthur Miller is everywhere. 17 Music: Lighting up a tribute to Coltrane. 20 Television: Programs about AIDS. 25 Sports 34-38 Baseball: Yanks' Fielder and Hayes want to be traded. 35 Column: Rhoden on college football 35 Basketball: Indiana Wins N.I.T. 35 Florida meeting Florida State with much at stake. 35 Obituaries 16 Editorials/Op-Ed 26-27 Editorials Janet Reno fumbles. Unclog the plumbing system. A Bosnia tribunal conviction. Letters Frank Rich: The gold standard. Russell Baker: The X-mail files. Abraham Verghese: My hospital, dying a slow death. J. Robinson West: How to avert a new oil crisis. Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro: Tuition aid. Bridge 25 Crossword 18

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