NATO Peacekeepers Plan a System of Controls for the News Media in Kosovo
Date: 16 August 1999
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
US and NATO allies charged with peacekeeping in Kosovo, Serbia, weigh system to control news media in province that would establish code of conduct for journalists, monitor their compliance and set up enforcement mechanism to punish those who violate rules; Western official says rules are not intended to intimidate or censor local news media but to support and tutor them in ways of Western free press until they can operate on their own; draft plan of operation for Kosovo's Department of Media Affairs discussed (M)
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New Source for Initial Offerings
Date: 15 August 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Friedman Billings Ramsey Group of Arlington, Va, plans to make shares of initial offerings it manages available to Fidelity Investments' clients (S)
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ING Offers to Buy Rest of BHF-Bank of Germany
Date: 16 August 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Analysts and investors comment on ING Groep NV bid to buy 58 percent of BHF-Bank AG it does not already own for 2.25 billion euros ($2.5 billion) (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 15 August 1999
Correction: article in Aug 15 Times Magazine about Russia's troubles contains outdated references to Prime Min Sergei V Stepashin, who has been replaced with Vladimir V Putin
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 16 August 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Russian Generals See Victory, Despite Skeptics Russian commanders, trying to reassure an anxious nation that the military was not being drawn into a Chechnya-like quagmire, insisted that the Islamic militants who have dug into remote mountain redoubts in the republic of Dagestan are already on the verge of defeat. But some Russia military specialists are skeptical that a victory can be delivered within the two weeks the commanders have promised, if at all. A1 Barak Placates Religious Party Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel defused a crisis with a key Orthodox party that had threatened to leave his governing coalition because a huge turbine part was transported on the Sabbath, contravening religious law. At the same time, negotiators for Mr. Barak and the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, held another meeting. A3
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August 8-14; In Iraq, Good and Bad News On Child Mortality
Date: 15 August 1999
By Barbara Crossette
Barbara Crossette
The first large survey of the mortality rates of Iraqi children living under international sanctions since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 produced mixed findings from Unicef. In areas of the country where President Saddam Hussein controls the distribution of relief food and medicines, babies and children under 5 are dying at twice the rate they were in the late 1980's.
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Giuliani Says Rally Is a 'Hate March'
Date: 16 August 1999
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says that march and rally planned for Harlem next month is not a 'million youth' event but a 'hate march' that is likely to draw crowd of only several thousand; organizer of event, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, says that march will take place on Sept 4 with or without city permission (S)
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Editorial Observer; San Francisco's Memorable Newspaper Wars
Date: 15 August 1999
By Eleanor Randolph
Eleanor Randolph
Eleanor Randolph Editorial Observer column recalls newspaper wars between San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle in light of Hearst Corp's plan to buy the Chronicle and sell the Examiner, its onetime flagship paper
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The Index Stars Are Aligning in Asia
Date: 15 August 1999
By Mickey Meece
Mickey Meece
Weekly stock market roundup focuses on decision by Morgan Stanley Capital International to reinstate Kuala Lumpur stock market and double Taiwan's regional weighting; graphs (M)
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INSIDE
Date: 16 August 1999
Woods Wins the P.G.A. By one stroke, Tiger Woods won his second major tournament in an electrifying duel with Sergio Garcia. SPORTSMONDAY, PAGE D1 Ulster Recalls a Dark Hour Catholic and Protestant prayers and hymns marked the bombing a year ago that killed 29 people and wounded 400 in Omagh. PAGE A3
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