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5th of February 1998 News
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Ex-MTV Executive Loses Contract Case
Date: 05 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
MTV Networks, unit of Viacom Inc, wins its court bid to keep Richard Cronin, former MTV executive, from joining rival Fox Kids network until July; MTV sued Fox Kids, its parent, the News Corp, and Cronin last year; Cronin, who developed TV Land classics network for MTV's Nickelodeon, broke his contract to stay at MTV until June 30 when he agreed to become chief executive of Fox Kids and Family Channel in October; Justice Herman Cahn sides with MTV and orders Cronin to stay away from Fox until June 30 (S)
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Pointing to Series of Leaked News Accounts, the White House Aggressively Strikes Back
Date: 06 February 1998
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
White House, responding to damaging news accounts about Pres Clinton's relationship with Monica S Lewinsky, begins aggressive behind-the-scenes counterattack, accusing media of one-sided coverage based on leaked information from independent counsel Kenneth W Starr (M)
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Man in the News: Gregory Weldon Meeks; Master of the Political Balancing Act
Date: 05 February 1998
By Jonathan P. Hicks
Jonathan Hicks
Man in the News biographical profile of Gregory Weldon Meeks, victor in contentious, five-candidate campaign for House seat in Queens, NY, vacated by Rep Floyd Flake; photo (M)
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Internet Story Revives Questions on Standards
Date: 06 February 1998
By Janny Scott
Janny Scott
Wall Street Journal reports on its Web site that White House steward, Bayani Nelvis, has told Federal grand jury that he saw Pres Clinton and Monica S Lewinsky alone together in study next to Oval Office; Journal amends story after Joseph Small, lawyer for Nelvis, denies account, but not before it has been picked up by other news organizations (M)
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Judge Urged to Lift Order on Secrecy
Date: 05 February 1998
Lawyers for New York Times and several other news organizations challenge far-reaching secrecy order imposed by Judge Susan Webber Wright in Paula Corbin Jones's sexual harassment suit against Pres Clinton (S)
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American Lips Are Ordered Zipped Near U.S. Base in Italy
Date: 06 February 1998
By John Tagliabue
John Tagliabue
Dozens of people in Aviano, Italy, participate in nationally televised talk show devoted to accident in which US military jet cut cables of ski lift in Cavalese and killed 20 skiers; Armed Forces Television Network warns military and civilian personnel at air base outside Aviano not to discuss accident with reporters (M)
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Reuters Consultant Seen Taking Large Amounts of Data
Date: 06 February 1998
By Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald
Cyberspace Research Associates Inc, computer consultant, was reportedly monitored downloading hundreds of screens of proprietary Bloomberg LP data during one-day periods; Government is investigating whether Cyberspace Research was commissioned to steal the information from Bloomberg by Reuters Analytics, subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC; year-long probe is examining whether Bloomberg data were incorporated into products of Reuters, and whether officials used it to reconstruct analysis programs used by Bloomberg through process known as 'reverse engineering' (M)
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A Reporter Who Irritated South Africa Is Deported
Date: 06 February 1998
By Donald G. McNeil Jr
Donald McNeil
South Africa is deporting Newton Kanhema, Zimbabwean citizen and prominent reporter who has written many articles that angered Government officials; Kanhema is in US on fellowship, but his wife, Jean, has been told that she must leave South Africa by Feb 11 (M)
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Investigators in Reuters Case Met With Computer Consultant Months Ago
Date: 05 February 1998
By Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald
Executive with Cyberspace Research was confronted several months ago by Federal law enforcement officials investigating whether company was commissioned by subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC to steal information electronically from rival, Bloomberg LP; contact between Government and Cyberspace executive suggests that at least some people working with company could have been cooperating with Federal investigators of Reuters Analytics Inc, before it was disclosed last week; prosecutors have been investigating for as long as a year to determine whether Reuters took part in scheme to steal proprietary information maintained in Bloomberg's central computers; they are examining whether that information was later improperly incorporated into products like Reuters 3000, which as been widely viewed in financial data industry as product most likely to compete with Bloomberg terminal (L)
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COMPUTER HORIZONS BUYS PRINCETON SOFTECH
Date: 06 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Computer Horizons Corp says it purchased Princeton Softech Inc for $43 million in stock (S)
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