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Date: 04 July 1991
AP
The police in New York State will be prohibited from disclosing the names of sex crime victims, under a bill signed into law today by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. The Legislature passed the bill after some news organizations, including The New York Times, set off controversy this spring by printing the name of a woman who said she was raped at the Kennedy compound in Florida.
Date: 05 July 1991
Romania once had a flourishing community of 750,000 Jews. Only 18,000 remain. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered during World War II; others fled Communist rule afterward. For nearly 50 years, Communist governments concealed the horrifying facts about Romanian complicity in Nazi massacres. Yet even now, as the truth struggles to the surface, those who speak it are vilified and Romania's ex-Communist leaders seem immobilized, even as a gutter press spews new hatred against all minorities -- Jews, ethnic Hungarians and gypsies. In what should have been a redemptive gesture, Romania dedicated a memorial in Bucharest this week to the 400,000 Jews who fell victim to "German, Romanian and Hungarian Fascists." Sadly, this was followed by the ugly taunting of Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate who survived the pogroms in Transylvania. And it was preceded by the Romanian Parliament's rehabilitation of Ion Antonescu, ally of the Nazis, who initiated the mass killings.
Date: 04 July 1991
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
"Bob Simon: Back to Baghdad" is an understatement. Tonight at 10 on CBS, the correspondent, who spent the weeks of the Persian Gulf war in an Iraqi prison, also returns to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel. He begins his determinedly unsentimental journey by asking whether there is in fact a new order in the Middle East. What he finds are mainly old and depressing orders. In Kuwait, he is struck mainly by the "lethargy, aimlessness and incompetence" of rulers who, back in their palaces after a brief and comfortable exile, seem unable to deal with such basic chores as cleaning up the rubble of war or collecting the garbage. The sharp schisms in Kuwaiti society, between Palestinians and Kuwaitis and between the rich who fled and those who stayed and endured the Iraqi occupation, remind him of Lebanon. "All of Kuwait," he says, "is in intensive care now." Mr. Simon, who has a way with a phrase, describes the burning oil wells as "the bonfire of the insanities."
Date: 04 July 1991
By Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson
Vera Sautter, a volunteer at a senior citizens' center in this parched prairie town, remembers when people bought war bonds and followed serials on the radio and when grown men took their hats off when the flag passed by in a parade. Those were the days before Vietnam and Watergate and assorted crises surrounding anything from oil to the hostages in Iran, the days when people were not embarrassed to say they were American and patriotism was right up there with Hula Hoops and apple pie.
Date: 05 July 1991
INTERNATIONAL A2-7 The Slovenes rejected an ultimatum from Yugoslavia's collective presidency and the military. The ultimatum, aimed at reasserting national control, demanded a cease-fire and the return of border posts. Page A1 The guns in Slovenia are now silent and the tanks are withdrawing, but the breakaway republic's red, white and blue flag still flies, for the time being, over its border crossings. A6
Date: 04 July 1991
INTERNATIONAL A3-7 The Soviet Communist Party is on the brink of destruction, President Gorbachev has warned. He accused hard-liners of destroying the party from within, according to remarks in the party newspaper. Page A1 The Yugoslav Army sent tanks and other armored vehicles toward Slovenia and Croatia. By midday the columns had halted, but it was unclear whether this was the fruit of diplomatic efforts or whether the military was simply regrouping. A1
Date: 04 July 1991
* ABB Canada, Montreal, a unit of ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd., said it had signed a $30 million contract to build nine autotransformers for Hydro-Quebec, the Canadian electrical utility. * British Airways P.L.C., Middlesex, England, said its double-mileage plan for members of the United Airlines Mileage Plus program had been extended through Aug. 31 on British Airways' London service.
Date: 04 July 1991
Reuters
The Federal Trade Commission says it has reached an agreement with the Canandaigua Wine Company to stop selling Cisco, a fortified wine, as a low-alcohol drink and to stop encouraging distributors to market it with low-alcohol wine coolers. The commission said Tuesday that Canandaigua's advertising, packaging and marketing of Cisco as a low-alcohol, single-serving drink had led to cases of severe alcohol poisoning.
Date: 04 July 1991
Reuters
The Boise Cascade Corporation said it had agreed to sell its 50 percent stake in Duropack Holding A.G., an operator of corrugated container plants in Austria and Germany, to its Austrian partner in the venture, Constantia Industrieholding A.G., for $50 million in cash. Boise, the big forest-products company, said it expected the sale would improve its results for the 1991 quarter in which the sale was completed, although the company did not say when it expected to complete the deal. In trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, Boise Cascade's shares fell 50 cents, closing at $25.375.
Date: 04 July 1991
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
The Federal Trade Commission said it had cleared the Procter & Gamble Company's acquisition of two Revlon Inc. subsidiaries. The commission said Procter & Gamble ended the required waiting period under Federal antitrust law on Tuesday. In April, Revlon signed an agreement to sell the units -- Max Factor & Company of the United States and Betrix G.m.b.H. of Germany -- to Procter & Gamble for $1.14 billion in cash.