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Date: 07 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Newport News Shipbuilding receives revised buyout offer from rival military contractor, Northrop Grumman, that would lock purchase price at $2.6 billion; under proposal, new stock-price range would be set to determine how much of payment of $67.50 a share would come in stock, with balance paid in cash (S)
Date: 08 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
News Corp reports profit from operations in fiscal first quarter fell $83 million, or 44 percent, from $149 million in year-earlier quarter; sales rose 5 percent, to $3.4 billion (M)
Date: 07 November 2001
By Jim Rutenberg and Bill Carter
Jim Rutenberg
Television network news coverage of war on terrorism is increasingly under attack by conservatives who complain it is not patriotic and is overly negative toward government; networks say criticism is not affecting coverage; face issues of whether patriotism can coexist with objectivity and of how to question policies of administration that is getting overwhelming popular support; much of criticism comes from group of conservative media voices and outlets; Media Research Center provides data for their critiques; ABC News has emerged as leading conservative target; photo (M)
Date: 08 November 2001
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Television networks are in quandary over whether to use videotape purportedly showing Osama bin Laden's young sons, and how; executives balance desire to show arresting images with fear of being accused by viewers of abetting enemy, as they were when they broadcast videotape of bin Laden on Oct 7, day bombing of Afghanistan began; Al Jazeera, Arab language network that has become Taliban's favorite forum, broadcasts latest videotape, in which four children said to be sons of bin Laden brandish weapons and speak defiantly of Afghans' support for Taliban and their determination to continue fighting; CNN, which has contract with Al Jazeera, shows edited footage with reminder from reporter that network could not independently confirm that children are bin Laden's; Fox News declines to show any of tape; CBS Evening News shows some of footage but questions identity of children, and MSNBC broadcasts footage, weaving it into context of Taliban media campaign; photo (M)
Date: 07 November 2001
Editors' Note: news of Sept 11 attacks and aftermath continues to appear in Section B
Date: 08 November 2001
By Jane Fritsch
Jane Fritsch
Nixon B Saldanha is indicted by federal grand jury in New York on charges of making false statements in connection with anthrax hoax; he allegedly approached National Guardsman with two envelopes, addressed to NBC and New York Post, which he claimed to have found; Saldanha apparently did not have plane fare to get back to Bombay and hoped to get himself deported; he now faces up to ten years in prison (S)
Date: 07 November 2001
By Celia W. Dugger (NYT)
Celia Dugger
Pres Chandrika Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka accuses her former parlimentary affairs minister, S B Dissanayake, of having offered to kill two critical journalists (S)
Date: 07 November 2001
By The New York Times
Here is a list of organizations and individuals with suspected terrorist ties that were designated by the Bush administration today to have their assets frozen. Spellings of names may vary.
Date: 07 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
RailAmerica agrees to buy ParkSierra Corp for $48 million to expand in Western US (S)
Date: 07 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ford Motor Co will reduce payments to contract workers by 7 percent as it cuts costs to stem losses; uses about 6,000 contract workers (S)