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Date: 09 October 1999
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
Deputy Police Comr Edward T Norris contends that negative news coverage has so intimidated police officers that they are reluctant to patrol aggressively and that their reluctance is why murders are increasing; is specifically critical of coverage in New York Times (M)
Date: 10 October 1999
By Elsa Brenner
Elsa Brenner
Newsday columnist and author Jimmy Breslin is named as latest recipient of Thomas Paine Journalism Award, which will be presented on October 21 at Iona College (S)
Date: 10 October 1999
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Group pressing for a more democratic and tolerant Iran, with its three earlier newspapers shut down by court orders, goes step further this week by opening fourth daily that immediately sells out on Teheran's streets; conservative Muslim clerics have identified free-wheeling newspapers as most subversive of all their opponents; journalism has been a perilous profession since 1997, when election of reformist President, Mohammad Khatami, made it possible for independent newspapers to start probing into some of darkest corners of Iran's 20-year-old Islamic revolution; using courts under clerics' control and vigilantes known as 'followers of the party of God,' defenders of revolutionary orthodoxy have closed down score of publications, ransacked their offices, imprisoned editors and reporters, and administered beatings that have sent some victims to hospitals; photo of Hamidreza Jalaeiopour, who has been financial backer, editor and columnist for three reformist newspapers that have been ordered closed in last 16 months (L)
Date: 09 October 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Reckson Service Industries , an investor in companies that provide services to building tenants, will pay as much as $216.2 million in cash and stock to increase its stakes in Vantas Inc. and Onsite Access Inc. Reckson, which holds 35 percent of Vantas, an owner of executive office suites, will increase its investment to a range of 77 to 95 percent. It will pay $82 million to $121 million in cash and two million to three million shares, depending on how many shareholders exercise rights to sell their shares. Reckson will pay about $34.4 million in stock to raise its stake in Onsite, of Melville, N.Y., to 42 percent. The company provides telecommunications and Internet services.
Date: 09 October 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The American Home Products Corporation, maker of the most prescribed United States drug, Premarin, has adopted a plan to ward off hostile takeovers after reaching a $3.75 billion settlement on diet pills once used in the ''fen-phen'' combination. The plan, a so-called poison pill, would ''provide protection against coercive or unfair takeover tactics,'' the company said after the close of trading on Thursday. The plan is intended to protect shareholders' interests if an effort is made to acquire American Home at a price that does not reflect its true value, the company said. Analysts said they believed that American Home wanted to merge with a competitor but not at its current share price. The shares rose $1.8125 each yesterday, to $50.50.
Date: 09 October 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of 24/7 Media Inc. rose 17 percent amid speculation that the Internet advertising company was in talks to be acquired by a larger rival, Doubleclick Inc. The New York-based company's shares rose $6.875, to $47.375. Doubleclick rose $4.75 a share, to $136.625. In July, Doubleclick's chairman, Kevin J. O'Connor, said the company was seeking to buy more Internet advertising companies to expand ad sales that were now on more than 1,300 Web sites. 24/7 would be a good fit because it would add 150 Web sites to broaden Doubleclick's customer base and fend off rivals. Doubleclick is in talks to buy 24/7 Media for about $1.5 billion, the Silicon Alley Reporter Web site said.
Date: 09 October 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Finland's state energy company, Fortum, agrees to sell its chemical unit, Neste Chemicals, to Scandinavian private equity firm Industri Kapital for $540 million (US) including debt (S)
Date: 10 October 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-19 Yeltsin Hospitalized, Reported to Be Ill With Flu President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia was taken to a Moscow hospital suffering from what his press secretary described as the flu accompanied by a high fever. He added that the President would stay in the hospital for at least two days. 12 Iran Reformers Go to Press A group seeking a more democratic and tolerant Iran went a step further last week by starting a fourth daily newspaper that immediately sold out on Teheran's streets. 3 U.S. in East Timor The United States military has arrived in East Timor, though the bulk of the American troops participating in the international peacekeeping mission will remain aboard a warship in the waters off Dili. 13 Clinton Appeal to Canada Canadians on both sides of that nation's deep linguistic divide say they were stunned by President Clinton's unexpectedly passionate appeal in Quebec on Friday night for national unity and federalism. 4 Policing Nuclear Test Treaty Since scientists failed to detect India's underground nuclear test last year, questions have been raised about the ability to police a global ban on nuclear blasts. The questions have a strong bearing on the bruising battle in Washington over whether the Senate should bless Washington's participation in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which more than 150 nations have signed. 10 Mexican Flood Toll In Teziutlan, 110 miles east of Mexico City, soldiers attacking the earth with shovels and sledgehammers pulled 88 bodies from mounds of mud and crushed homes. Almost 300 have been confirmed dead in flooding and mudslides. (AP) NATIONAL 20-40 In Wisconsin, Doubts Grow As Welfare Benefits Expire In Wisconsin, the state that pioneered time limits for welfare, a handful of families have hit the deadline. Some experts are expressing doubts about a policy that cuts off benefits to people simply for staying in the program too long. 1 The Bible vs. the 'Big Bang' Scientific lessons about the origins of life have long been challenged in public schools, but some Bible literalists are now adding the reigning theory about the origin of the universe -- the 'Big Bang' hypothesis -- to their list of targets. 1 Gore Challenges Bradley Standing before 3,000 Iowa Democrats and his rival for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Vice President Al Gore challenged former Senator Bill Bradley to an immediate series of debates. 30 South Puts Gambling to Test Upcoming votes on proposals to ban video poker in South Carolina and approve a state lottery in Alabama will test the limits of gambling's growth in the South. 20 Ford Agreement With U.A.W. After negotiations lasting nearly 30 hours, the United Automobile Workers union reached a tentative agreement with the Ford Motor Company on a new contract for its 101,000 unionized workers. 33 Summer Homes, Fall Burglaries Burglars have been clearing out vacation homes in the woods of Wisconsin with the efficiency of a moving company, in what the police describe as an epidemic of thefts. 24 New Fiddlers in the Hollow The art of old-time Appalachian fiddling, long withering under the pressures of youthful emigration and homogenized broadcast entertainment, is hanging on by a few well-bowed strings. 20 NEW YORK/REGION 43-51 Teen-Agers Worship Basketball Where Baseball Once Ruled Despite Mets and Yankees pennant fever, interviews with young African-Americans in New York City are evidence of a certain disconcerting truth about baseball: Among American blacks, it is a sport in decline. The decline is reflected in the shrinking number of blacks in the major leagues and in the primacy of basketball as the sport of choice among black youngsters in the city. 43 Trustees as Defenders of Art The board of trustees of the Brooklyn Museum of Art has long been a placid enclave for the rich and powerful of New York City. That changed two weeks ago when the trustees were summoned to the museum for a climactic meeting with the city's corporation counsel about whether to proceed with a a controversial exhibition of contemporary art. Suddenly these staid corporate leaders was transformed into angry champions for artistic freedom. 43 New Schedule Gains Ground In their quest to remake schools in recent years, education reformers in New York, Virginia, Colorado and other states have repeatedly turned to a schedule in which core courses like English, math, science, social studies and foreign language now meet in 80-minute marathons, every other day, with no course meeting two days in a row. Advocates of the schedule believe it gives teachers more time to probe topics in depth and gives adolescents fewer opportunities to get in trouble. 43 OBITUARIES 52-53 Walter Bergman An indefatigable civil rights advocate who was savagely beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1961 as one of the first Freedom Riders and won compensation for the attack from the F.B.I. more than two decades later, he was 100. 53 Robert G. L. Waite A historian who brought the psychoanalytic approach to books about Hitler, he was 80. 52 Chess 51 Weather 51 Cong.Vote 48
Date: 09 October 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Clinton Refuses to Concede To Senate on Test Treaty President Clinton, acknowledging that he lacks the votes to ratify a treaty banning nuclear testing, pleaded with Senate leaders to delay action. But he refused to give in to a Republican demand that he withdraw the treaty and thus concede that it will not be enacted while he is in the White House. A1 The President in Canada President Clinton inaugurated the new American Embassy in Ottawa, the first time an American President traveled to a foreign capital for such a ceremony. But Mr. Clinton chagrined his audience when, appearing to stray beyond his text, he likened the opposing sides in Northern Ireland's on-again, off-again peace process to ''a couple of drunks'' who cannot quite leave a bar. A6
Date: 09 October 1999
By Bridge News
Bridge News
The Phelps Dodge Corporation said yesterday that it would not raise its bid to acquire the New York-based copper producer Asarco Inc. in response to a rival bid from Grupo Mexico S.A. that was submitted on Thursday. Grupo Mexico said it would pay $29.50 in cash for Asarco, up from its previous offer of $26 a share and topping a $28.21 cash-and-stock bid by Phelps Dodge that Asarco accepted on Wednesday. The Grupo Mexico bid is worth about $1.174 billion, compared with $1.12 billion for the Phelps Dodge offer. Asarco said yesterday that its board would consider the Grupo Mexico offer.