A Movement To Muffle News Choppers
Date: 28 November 1999
By David Kirby
David Kirby
State Sen Thomas Duane, prompted by constitutents' complaints, writes letters to New York City television stations seeking to restrict noisy news helicopters; photo (M)
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Broadcast of Man's Death Rekindles a Debate in Los Angeles
Date: 28 November 1999
Five Southern California television stations show car chase on Nov 26 that ends with unidentified driver being shot to death by police officers; man led police and state highway patrol officers on 200-mile, three-hour chase from San Bernardino County to San Diego, where he was shot after emerging from his car with handgun aimed at officers; police say chase began after sheriff's deputy tried to stop car with expired registration tags (M)
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The Way We Live Now: 11-28-99; Safety in Numbers
Date: 28 November 1999
By Robert H. Frank
Robert Frank
Robert H Frank article says one result of wild stock market is that America has become nation of stock pickers; says natural outgrowth of that phenomenon is that stock pickers are rapidly turning into nation of economic forecasters; says mainstream media's coverage of hard economic data, which used to be perfunctory, has grown bewilderingly detailed and complex; questions what individual investors could possibly learn from endless torrent of information; says he and most economists agree that investors can almost never make financial headway by trading on basis of numbers they hear about through media; says information overload serves only as palliative to ease public's anxiety about eventual downturn in market; photo (M)
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Court Silences Iran Reformist With Jail Term
Date: 28 November 1999
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Iranian court imposes five-year jail term and five-year banishment from political activity on Abdullah Nouri, Muslim cleric who is ally of Pres Mohammad Khatami and has won wide popular support with demands for end to authoritarian rule by religious hierarchy; orders closing of Nouri's newspaper, Khordad, which has been one of most effective voices of country's increasingly impatient democratic movement, and imposes fine of 15 million rials, equivalent to $5,000; photo (M)
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Applauding the Life of the Party
Date: 28 November 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Committee to Protect Journalists holds annual dinner at Waldorf-Astoria at which it raises more than $1 million and gives out awards to five who had been beaten, jailed or threatened (S)
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Learning at the Feet Of a Journalism Master
Date: 28 November 1999
By Patricia Burstein
Patricia Burstein
Profile of Bob Greene, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper investigative reporter who is teaching his craft at Hofstra University; photo (M)
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Jerusalem Memo; Israeli Press Serves Scandal du Jour, in Hefty Dollops
Date: 28 November 1999
By Deborah Sontag
Deborah Sontag
There are so many scandals in Israel that one newspaper on Nov 26 ran full-page scandal guide with boxes for every major affair, its suspects, its allegations and status of investigation (M)
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Hanson Seeks to Buy Australian Concern
Date: 29 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hanson, British building-materials producer, says it offered to buy Pioneer International, world's third-largest concrete maker, for $2.50 billion; Pioneer says it will recommend that shareholders accept offer (S)
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Shareholders Want Change at RMS Titanic
Date: 29 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Investment group that includes officials from SFX Entertainment pool their stakes to obtain 51 percent stake in RMS Titanic Inc, company that holds salvage rights to Titanic, which lies two miles underwater in North Atlantic; they will use their majority control to remove George Tulloch, company's president, Allan Carlin, general counsel, and two other directors; shareholder group says ship's remains are worth far more than RMS Titanic's current market value of $51 million (M)
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