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Date: 19 December 1994
By Andy Meisler
Andy Meisler
New York 1 News, the 24-hour local cable channel that has been in existence since September 1992, has not yet turned a profit. Neither has any similar enterprise in the United States. But a small and encouraging new source of revenue has materialized for the channel, which is owned by Time Warner Inc. and is available to 1.3 million cable subscribers in the five boroughs of New York City.
Date: 20 December 1994
A Federal judge gave the Cable News Network a choice today: pay a hefty fine for broadcasting jailhouse telephone conversations of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega or publicly apologize and be fined far less. The network began broadcasting its message of regret on its 6 o'clock news tonihgt. The text was shown on the screen as a news anchor read it off camera. After 22 hours, CNN will pay the Federal Government $85,000 to cover legal fees incurred as it was being convicted of criminal contempt of court for using the tape recordings in violation of a Federal judge's order.
Date: 20 December 1994
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
During the conflict in Croatia and Bosnia, at least 44 journalists have been killed and others beaten, robbed and harassed. Many of those incidents occurred, according to a committee of American journalists, as reporters traveled overland to get to besieged Sarajevo while United Nations aircraft flew overhead with many of their seats empty. Yesterday, Kofi A. Annan, the United Nations Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, said the United Nations has now changed its longstanding policy that barred reporters from those planes. Under the new policy, reporters will be permitted in United Nations Protection Force planes in Bosnia on a "space available" basis, making their passage into many war zones safer.
Date: 20 December 1994
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Wounded soldiers being interviewed in field hospitals. Bloody corpses being pulled from a shot-down helicopter. Russian officers refusing to advance. Baby-faced boys digging trenches in the snow. Women begging Russian soldiers not to kill their children or cursing the Russian President for trying to stamp out their independence. This is Russia's first opportunity to watch a real war as it happens on officially uncensored Russian television. Those are the images the public is seeing of the Russian offensive against separatists in Chechnya, and they are not making the Russian Government very happy.
Date: 20 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kaleida Labs Inc., owned by Apple Computer Inc. and the International Business Machines Corporation, began shipping its long-delayed ScriptX computer programming language yesterday. ScriptX lets video and computer graphics professionals merge video, sound, music and computer-based special effects into "multimedia" software. ScriptX has been delayed because Kaleida was juggling several other projects along with ScriptX. In May, displaying impatience with the delays, I.B.M. and Apple told Kaleida to cut 20 percent of its staff of 126 and focus on ScriptX.
Date: 20 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Chevron Corporation said early today that a joint venture it which it holds a 28.6 percent stake has made what it believes is a major natural gas discovery off the northwest coast of Australia, not far from the giant Gorgon gas field. The discovery well, called Chrysaor-1, is still being evaluated. Early indications suggest it could add significantly to nearby gas fields which feed into the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas project, Chevron said. Other members of the joint venture include Ampolex Ltd., the only Australian member of the group, with a 14.3 percent stake, and Texaco Inc. and Royal Dutch/Shell Group with 28.6 percent each.
Date: 20 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Moore Corporation said yesterday that it would sell most of its stake in a Japanese printing joint venture to its partner, the Toppan Printing Company, for $350 million. The move to cut its holding in the Toppan Moore Company is aimed at freeing funds for other ventures, the business forms manufacturer said. Moore, based in Toronto, said it would sell 35 percent of the equity in the Japanese venture, leaving it with a 10 percent stake and giving Toppan Printing 90 percent of the shares. Reto Braun, president and chief executive of Moore, said the company "will use the proceeds to implement a new strategy" that includes a new Hong Kong-based subsidiary and a recent joint venture in Shanghai.
Date: 20 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shareholders applauded the United States Shoe Corporation yesterday for moving toward a sale of its footwear division but continued pressing the company to split up its clothing and eye care units as well. Nine West Group Inc. said on Friday that it was talking with U.S. Shoe about buying its footwear division for $600 million in cash and warrants convertible into 1.85 million shares of its own stock. U.S. Shoe shares closed up $2.375 at $19 yesterday. Greenway Partners L.P., a leading U.S. Shoe shareholder, called the possible sale a "strong first step." It said U.S. Shoe should go further and separate its Lenscrafters eye-care chain from its troubled Casual Corner and Petite Sophisticate clothing stores.
Date: 20 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The General Motors Corporation's Oldsmobile division is cutting about 80 jobs, or 14 percent of its corporate staff, as it eliminates four of 16 zone offices around the country. The reorganization comes as the G.M. division seeks ways to cope with a sales base that has shrunk from more than one million vehicles a year in 1986 to only 415,000 for the first 11 months of this year. The four zone offices being cut are in Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Washington. Oldsmobile officials said the reorganization was not expected to result in layoffs.
Date: 20 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. fell sharply today after the company said it expected to report its first quarterly loss since going public in 1984. The loss is partly a result of consumers' shifting away from the company's superpremium ice cream in favor of competing brands that may contain less fat.