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11th of January 1998 News
Știri așa cum au apărut pe prima pagină a New York Times la 11 ianuarie 1998
Looking for an 11 O'Clock Fix
Date: 11 January 1998
By Michael Winerip
Michael Winerip
Michael Winerip article on the atrocious state of local television news, which has forsaken thoughtful reporting on serious issues to satisfy the audience's seemingly endless appetite for crime, violence and fluff, in a word, entertainment; says ratings dictate coverage by determining advertising rates; focuses on uphill battle facing Bill Bauman, general manager at WESH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Orlando, Fla, who is trying to make issues like education, environmental and transportation the core of his news programs; photos (L)
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Order in the Court
Date: 12 January 1998
By Carolyn McCarthy
Carolyn McCarthy
Carolyn McCarthy Op-Ed article says trial of Theodore Kaczynski, alleged Unabomber, will be a circus only if the news media portray it as such and focus on bizarre behavior of defendant to the exclusions of testimony of victims; recalls that trial of Colin Ferguson, the gunman who killed her husband and five other people on Long Island Rail Road in 1993 and insisted on representing himself, was often referred to as a circus, but was actually a valuable exercise of criminal justice system; credits integrity of the district attorney, the judge, Ferguson's victims on the witness stand and the jury, who were all up to the task (M)
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Ideas & Trends: Black and White Is Back; Color 'Em Wrong
Date: 11 January 1998
By Rick Lyman
Rick Lyman
Growing use of black and white images in print media, television and advertising has given rise to sense that young people may not be as adverse to it as had been thought; influence of fashion and art photographers, who continue to do much of best work in black and white, cited; photo (M)
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Boston Properties to Buy Prudential Center
Date: 12 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boston Properties Inc and real estate fund of Goldman, Sachs & Co agree to buy landmark Prudential Center office complex in Boston for about $700 million from Prudential Insurance Co of America (S)
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Machine Tool Orders Down In November
Date: 12 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Orders from American companies for domestic- and foreign-produced machine tools fell 12.7 percent in November, to estimated $637 million, from revised gain of 11.3 percent, to $730 million, in October; estimated machine tool orders for first 11 months of 1997 totaled $7.51 billion, 18.8 percent ahead of corresponding period year earlier; figures are from Assn for Manufacturing Technology and American Machine Tool Distributors' Assn (S)
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Voice-Controlled Car CD Player to Be Sold
Date: 12 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Clarion Co hopes to bring computers to automobiles with its voice-controlled radio/compact disk player with eight-color liquid crystal display, bringing software from Microsoft Corp to dashboard; new product is announced soon after National Highway Traffic Safety Administration releases report showing that increasing number of traffic accidents result from drivers distracted by everything from their cellular phones to their coffee (M)
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On Foreign Policy, Congress Is in Touch
Date: 11 January 1998
Kenneth Weisbrode letter suggests that US foreign affairs would be more effectively managed if policy makers spent as much time listening to foreign partners as they do to Congress and CNN (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 January 1998
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Traffickers in Sex Victimizing Slavic Women Across the world, the selling of naive and desperate young women into sexual bondage has become one of the fastest-growing criminal enterprises. Since the fall of Communism, experts say, women from Russia and Ukraine are being particularly victimized. ''Can people really buy and sell women and get away with it?'' asked one dismayed young woman. 1 Pressure on Suharto Grows Indonesia's leading opposition figure, Megawati Sukarnoputri, called on President Suharto to step down when his term ends in March and said she was ready to succeed him. As the nation's economic problems reached crisis proportions, pressure grew from other quarters, too, for Mr. Suharto to end his 32-year rule. 8
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 12 January 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 U.S. Offers Support To Baltic Nations The United States and the three Baltic nations will sign a formal ''Charter of Partnership'' on Friday that, without promising NATO membership to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, explicitly supports their efforts to join the security alliance eventually, American officials said. A1 A Gandhi Steps Up in India In the southern Indian town where Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991, his widow, Sonia, said she would ''step forward'' into the political life of the ailing Congress Party. With elections due soon, many think she will seek the Prime Minister's job. A1
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Barriers to Pedestrians Will Stay, Giuliani Says
Date: 12 January 1998
Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani says pedestrian barricades at midtown Manhattan corners will stay up until their effectiveness in improving traffic is evaluated (S)
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