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G.O.P. Starts Expanding TV Coverage

Date: 03 January 1995

By Katharine Q. Seelye

Katharine Seelye

Whatever happens in the new Congressional era of Republican control, citizens will be able to witness more of it. Striving for a new aura of openness, the Republicans have agreed to allow television cameras into most committee meetings and daily press briefings with the House Speaker and the Senate majority leader. Both houses are still weighing whether to allow C-Span to operate its own cameras in the chambers and to allow those cameras free rein. Currently, cameras are operated by Government employees, who focus only on the person speaking and feed those shots to C-Span.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 02 January 1995

International 2-7 RUSSIANS AND REBELS BATTLE ON The war between Russia and the separatist region of Chechnya turned into a vicious street brawl as Russian snipers entered the rebel capital of Grozny and battled Chechen soldiers. Casualties were said to be heavy. 1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 03 January 1995

International A2-8 REBELS BEAT BACK RUSSIANS Chechen separatists triumphantly claimed to have battled Russian troops back to the edge of the rebel region's capital, Grozny, in fierce fighting in the steets. A1

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THE NEW GOVERNOR: Man in the News; A Pragmatic Conservative: George Elmer Pataki

Date: 02 January 1995

By James Dao

James Dao

To the friends he met at Yale College 31 years ago, George E. Pataki was a garrulous, beer-loving freshman who knew precisely where he stood on the political spectrum (to the right), the name of the next President (Barry Goldwater) and what he would become when he grew up (governor of New York State). To the politicians he passed along the way to becoming the 53d governor of New York, Mr. Pataki was also a conservative, but often a pragmatic one. His central beliefs did not stop him from working with more moderate politicians or from moderating his own views on difficult issues to achieve his goals.

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Site-Seeing on the World Wide Web

Date: 03 January 1995

For anyone with a computer, modem and so-called browser software, the place to be in 1995 is the World Wide Web, a section of the Internet overflowing with sights and sounds. Each of the thousands of World Wide Web sites opens with a "home page" --which serves as both a table of contents and Alice's rabbit hole into a world that may be beautiful, bizarre or banal.

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OUTLOOK 1995: Global Economic Prospects Are Brighter for Most; Canada's Momentum Expected to Continue

Date: 03 January 1995

By Clyde H. Farnsworth

Clyde Farnsworth

Economic prospects around the world look better this year than last. The decision by several large countries to sell off Government-controlled industries is one big engine of growth. Yet deficits, inflation and joblessness keep hampering the pace of recovery in many countries. For many nations, 1994 was a turnaround year as they began pulling out of recession. Some of the hottest economies, and targets of foreign investment, emerged in once-overlooked markets of Southeast Asia and Latin America.

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Cigarettes: Both Ends of the Issue

Date: 03 January 1995

By Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman

Remember the lineup of tobacco company executives before a Congressional committee last year, chorusing their assurances that nicotine is not an addictive drug and that their companies do not manipulate the amount that goes into their cigarettes? If not, you can see that comical display of corporationally correct thinking tonight on "Frontline." "The Nicotine War" adds little to news accounts of the campaign by David A. Kessler, head of the Food and Drug Administration, to demonstrate that the cigarette is a means of transmitting nicotine into the body and hooking smokers and hence belongs under his agency's regulatory aegis. But the program does a tidy job of packaging a dispute that, as the narrator notes, involves science, politics, jobs and public health.

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Buffalo Fires Corey

Date: 03 January 1995

The Buffalo Bills fired their defensive coordinator, WALT COREY, yesterday after a lackluster season in which the defense improved statistically, but failed to produce big plays. After four Super Bowls, the Bills finished 7-9 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 1987, the year Corey joined them. In the team's next-to-last game, the Bills led the Patriots by 17-3 before the defense collapsed en route to a 41-17 loss.

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Russian Military Journalist Is Killed

Date: 03 January 1995

Vladimir Zhitarenko, 54, a correspondent for the military daily Krasnaya Zvezda, died Saturday night after being shot in the head as he covered the fighting in Chechnya, the Russian Defense Ministry announced today. He was the second journalist to die covering the Chechnya war. Cynthia Elbaum, 28, an American photographer, was killed during a bombing attack in Grozny on Dec. 22.

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A Woman With a Story to Tell Must Pay the Price

Date: 03 January 1995

By Evelyn Nieves

Evelyn Nieves

TRACY MEHM'S mistakes might not be the biggest in the world, but they could arm-wrestle Van Damme, no sweat. Her first biggie was joining an "escort" service to work her way through Buffalo State College. The second was telling her boss, once she had been arrested, that the police planned to visit.

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