Media Talk; Leading Contender For Top Editor at The Miami Herald
Date: 27 September 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Robert Rivard, editor and senior vice president of San Antonio Express News, is leading contender to be next executive editor at Miami Herald; photo (M)
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Merger of Veba and Viag Expected Today
Date: 27 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Veba AG's supervisory board approves $14.7 billion merger with Viag AG, creating Europe's third-largest electricity company and third-largest chemicals company (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 September 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Fearful Chechens Flee Intense Russian Bombing Thousands of refugees, fleeing days of bombardment by Russian warplanes, clogged the roads out of the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Russia's Defense Minister suggested the fighting might intensify and hinted that Russian military might follow up its air strikes with a ground thrust against rebel sanctuaries within Chechnya. A1 Japan Action on Yen's Rise The head of the Bank of Japan strongly hinted that he was prepared to reverse course and act to halt a three-month rise in the value of the yen, before it chokes off Japan's fragile economic recovery and sets off further clashes with the United States. A1
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Date: 26 September 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-27 Anti-Military Protests Leave Jakarta for Sumatra Students took to the streets of Medan on Sumatra, another large Indonesian city, in protests over a proposed law that would grant sweeping new powers to the army. Calm returned to Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, after anti-military riots left at least six people dead last week. 16 The mood in Dili has shifted from one of terror to one of anxiety and the pain of personal traumas. 16
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The Winner Isn't Even The Big News
Date: 27 September 1999
By Tarik El-Bashir
Tarik El-Bashir
Mark Martin wins MBNA Gold 400 auto race, Dover, Del (S)
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29 Sickened by Fumes At a Retirement Party
Date: 26 September 1999
By Ap
Fumes from chemical solution used to seal floor in another section of Rochester, NY, building waft through building's ventilators, sickening at least 29 people and forcing evacuation of about 300 people attending retirement party (S)
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Kendra Darko and Joshua Parker
Date: 26 September 1999
Kendra Lee Darko, a daughter of Judy and Ken Darko of Kingsport, Tenn., is to be married today to Joshua Hayes Parker, a son of Lois Parker of Eastchester, N.Y., and George Parker of Mount Vernon, N.Y. James F. Reitz, a town justice of Carmel, N.Y., is to perform the ceremony at the Putnam Country Club in Mahopac, N.Y. The bride, 28, is an associate editor at American Demographics magazine in Stamford, Conn. She graduated from Berry College. Her father is a postal carrier in Grey, Tenn.
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Judith Barry, Kevin McCormack
Date: 26 September 1999
Judith Eileen Barry and Kevin John McCormack were married on Friday by the Rev. Mark Wenzinger at St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan. Ms. Barry, 38, is keeping her name. She is the vice president of advertising sales for Streetmail.com, a Manhattan-based Web site that provides local news items. She graduated from Barnard College and received an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University. She is a daughter of Ann Zani of Bal Harbor, Fla., and Dr. Patrick Barry of Miami.
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Protests Against Military Shift To Indonesia City on Sumatra
Date: 26 September 1999
By Philip Shenon
Philip Shenon
Students take to streets of Sumatra and hurl rocks and burning tires at soldiers and police in protest over proposed law that would grant sweeping new powers to Indonesian army; two relatively small, peaceful anti-government demonstrations are reorted in Jakarta; latest demonstrations suggest that Pres B J Habibie has not satisfied many of his critics when he announced that he would delay signing unpopular security law; military, which is widely seen by Indonesians as brutal and corrupt, has blackened its image most recently in East Timor; map (M)
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Commuters' Endurance Test Gets Tougher
Date: 26 September 1999
By James Barron
James Barron
Article on time-saving devices used more and more by Long Islanders; devices, unfortunately, do not make up for time wasted in traffic jams on Long Island Expressway; drawing (M)
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