Reluare duminică, 7 august 1994

SUNDAY, August 7, 1994; The Shock of the News

Date: 07 August 1994

When the writer of Ecclesiastes lamented that there was nothing new under the sun, he clearly hadn't been reading the papers. These days even hardened veterans -- perhaps especially hardened veterans -- continue to see things they've never seen before. On floods in Georgia (pictured below), that resulted in 17 deaths: "My family has lived here for six generations, and I've never seen or heard of anything like this." -- State Senator George Hooks, The New York Times, July 8.

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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Press; In Somalia, 20 days of terror and a lesson for journalists.

Date: 08 August 1994

By William Glaberson

William Glaberson

TINA SUSMAN, a reporter for The Associated Press, works with words. But words were failing her. She was trying, in a telephone interview from South Africa last week, to describe her feelings toward the Somali kidnappers who held her captive for 20 days this summer. They kept her in a series of hiding places in Mogadishu under 24-hour guard, and, sometimes, one of them threatened her with a pistol as they tried to get a ransom from The A.P.

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The Past Recaptured

Date: 07 August 1994

By Dave Smith

Dave Smith

The pull of the past is a form of sorcery. For Dennis Holt, the catch came in 1989, as he walked down Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn, looked up at the century-old Offerman building and saw the imbedded dates, " '91" and " '92." Squinting through time, he wondered: what was there before? He turned to an old book previously unearthed in a second-hand store in Portland, Ore. -- Lain's City Directory, a kind of White Pages. He found not only the answer -- houses -- but a vast open window on 1885. And he fell captive to the same whiff and sound of horseshoes and trolleys that has arrested E. L. Doctorow, Caleb Carr and Luc Sante.

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Profile; A Cool Commander for Murdoch's Assault on Cable

Date: 07 August 1994

By Kathleen Murray

Kathleen Murray

RUPERT MURDOCH'S newest mogul-in-training has thick bangs, an unassuming manner and an office that is occasionally cluttered with her children's toys. But don't underestimate Anne Sweeney, the executive behind one of Mr. Murdoch's biggest new businesses -- his foray into cable television. "She's got a very sweet exterior, but underneath there's a toughness," said Mr. Murdoch, chief executive of the News Corporation. "And that's really important in this business."

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Some Gazans Fearful Arafat Could Choke Off Democracy

Date: 07 August 1994

By Youssef M. Ibrahim

Youssef

Late one night last week, the publisher of a daily Palestinian newspaper in Jerusalem received a telephone call from a clerk at the office saying several masked men were outside with a message: Cease publication, or else. The order had come from Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which accused Osman Hallak, the publisher of the newspaper, An-Nahar, of being "pro-Jordanian" and of engaging in "anti-Arafat propaganda."

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Goldman Told To Pay Client

Date: 08 August 1994

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Goldman, Sachs & Company has been ordered to pay $150,000 to an investor who said the firm had encouraged him to buy stock in a struggling jewelry company without disclosing important information about it. A National Association of Securities Dealers arbitration panel ordered Goldman to partly reimburse the investor, Hilton Forcum, for his losses in preferred stock of Ratners Group P.L.C., the arbitrators' decision said.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 07 August 1994

International 3-21 SERBIAN EMBARGO HOLDING Serbia seemed to be enforcing its embargo on the Bosnian Serbs to pressure them to accept a peace proposal. The West has indicated it will ease its embargo on Serbia if it cuts ties to the Bosnian Serbs. 1 Serbs continued attacks in the area near Sarajevo. 9 CRITICISM OF ARAFAT Yasir Arafat has taken a series of actions to restrict freedoms, leading to growing disappointment among Palestinians since he took over the Gaza Strip and Jericho. 1 TALE OF SAUDI ARMS RACE A former Saudi diplomat seeking asylum in the United States says that Saudi Arabia tried for 20 years to acquire nuclear weapons and that it conducts nuclear research. 20 Warren Christopher began a trip to promote Mideast peace. 20 REFUGEES IN RWANDA STARVING Thousands of refugees in the French-established safe zone in southwestern Rwanda are desperately in need of aid, while the world's focus has been on those in Zaire. 3 FACING AIDS IN JAPAN Insular Japan has sheltered itself from the AIDS epidemic, but the international conference on AIDS there this week may bring the issue out in the open. 18 Nigeria's protesters want nothing short of a new Government. 4 Despite tough statements, Mexico's antidrug war is failing. 16 Colombia's President-Elect vowed to fight the drug cartels. 16 Warsaw businesses are demanding a crackdown on organized crime. 11 France's tradition of free expression counters a language law. 6 As Communism fades, a Vietnam hospital is struggling for aid. 19 The Haiti embargo makes the country's poor dependent on aid. 16 The United States warned Cuba not to allow a flood of refugees. 17 The Khmer Rouge promised to investigate an abduction. 18 An attack in Lebanon killed Israeli soldiers. 21 Spain is easing its military draft to encourage compliance. 12 National 22-34 MUTUAL FUND CONNECTIONS Some mutual fund managers are buying high-risk stocks of companies employing executives, advisers or underwriters with whom the managers have close connections. 1 HEALTH CARE'S FORGOTTEN AGENDA In the furor over universal coverage and employer mandates, the goal of controlling costs has receded from the political debate. 1 INQUIRY ON ETHICS AT AGRICULTURE Federal investigators have expanded their inquiries into possible ethical violations by Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and two of his aides. 1 A TIME-TESTED RESPONSE TO CRIME A California Assemblyman has introduced a bill allowing judges to punish young graffiti vandals by sentencing them to up to 10 whacks with a hardwood paddle. 22 A TRADITION REMAINS STRONG Long before television (and televangelists), the nation had evangelists who gathered people in fields and parks to hear an unvarnished Gospel and pleas for conversion. 22 IN THE WAKE OF THE HEARINGS In the pathology of scandal, Whitewater showed itself this week to be a fever; not fatal, but politically wasting and beyond a simple cure. 26 NEW PROSECUTOR SAYS LITTLE The newly appointed independent counsel on Whitewater promised to be fair and even-handed, but declined to discuss anything else about his plans for the investigation. 27 Metro 35-40, 52 SAFE STREETS, DIFFERENT ROUTE Four years after the Dinkins administration began a huge expansion of the police forces with the slogan, "The beat cop is back," the hiring goals have been largely fulfilled, but the community policing strategy has been altered. 35 DRAWN BLINDS ON LONG ISLAND Business has plummeted near the site of the third attack by a sniper or snipers in 12 days in Suffolk County. What residents say they fear most is the randomness of the attacks. 35 AN UNCONVENTIONAL CANDIDATE "I've got to get these people better prepared as human beings," says the candidate for New York State attorney general as her outstretched hand is ignored. It is classic Karen Burstein: brash, funny and unconventional. 35 A SUICIDE AND A GIRL'S CUSTODY A Belarussian girl who traveled with her father to New York, and was critically injured as he leaped to his death, was illegally taken from her mother's custody six years ago, her mother and grandparents said. 37 Obituaries 43 Benny Ong, the reputed Godfather of Chinatown crime for 20 years. Dr. L. Stanley James, a specialist in neonatal and perinatal medicine.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 08 August 1994

International A2-6 RENEWED BOSNIAN TENSION Life in the Bosnian capital had been improving, but after a week of renewed aggression by the Serbs, the city is sliding once again to a low point in its effort to recover. A1

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Robert E. Frye, Diane Love

Date: 07 August 1994

Diane Love, a painter, and Robert Emmett Frye, a television producer, were married yesterday at their house in Millerton, N.Y. Town Justice Sanford Kaplan of Millerton performed the ceremony. Ms. Love, who is keeping her name, formerly owned Diane Love Inc., a New York boutique known for its silk flowers. She graduated from Barnard College. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Stewart.

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In the Summer TV Doldrums, Two Sparks of Life

Date: 08 August 1994

By Bill Carter

Bill Carter

After several years of making big commitments to original summer programming, the broadcast networks have cut back this year on the number of new entertainment series that break the usual pattern of reruns in June, July and August. The reason, according to an executive at one production studio: Summer shows have generated no real returns for networks or producers for the last three years.

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