Media Talk; Former Green Beret Sues Over CNN-Time Report
Date: 10 August 1998
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Keith Plancich, former Green Beret who was on so-called Operation Tailwind mission in 1970, sues Cable News Network and Time magazine, charging their joint June report on mission defamed him; he was not named in report, but his picture was used; CNN and Time have since retracted charge that mission used nerve gas to wipe out Laotian village suspected of harboring American defectors; photo (M)
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The Nation: When Too Much Isn't Enough; All Monica, All the Time: A Viewers' Guide
Date: 09 August 1998
By Jill Abramson
Jill Abramson
Nonstop television babble about Pres Clinton and Monica Lewinsky discussed; close-up photos of mouths of some notable talking heads (M)
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Apple Chooses Earthlink for iMac Service
Date: 10 August 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Apple Computer Inc choses Earthlink Network Inc as default Internet service provider for its new iMac home computers (S)
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Chicago Board Seeks To Add Contracts
Date: 10 August 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chicago Board of Trade plans to offer on-line futures contracts for every commodity traded by new Board of Trade of New York (S)
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Corrections
Date: 10 August 1998
August 8 article about Boston Globe's request for resignation of columnist Mike Barnicle misstated circumstances under which former Globe colleague, Patricia Smith, was hired; she was hired in 1990, and was not brought in by executive editor, Matthew V Storin
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Murdoch
Date: 09 August 1998
R S Potterton letter says July 19 profile of Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan allowed Lachlan to misrepresent the Murdochs' roots
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 09 August 1998
INTERNATIONAL 3-17 Investigations Begin At African Bombing Sites Israeli soldiers took over efforts to rescue people still trapped under tons of rubble from a terrorist attack on the United States Embassy in Nairobi, as American medical teams and F.B.I. agents arrived to investigate bomb attacks there and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. More than 140 people were killed in what appeared to be coordinated bombings against American targets. 1 President Clinton said that the United States would not buckle under to the threat of international terrorism as American personnel were arriving in East Africa to help victims and launch an investigation into the embassy bombings. 11
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 10 August 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 A Global Search for Clues In Twin Terrorist Bombings American intelligence officers and law-enforcement personnel from around the world streamed into Nairobi to search for clues in the bombing that killed at least 190 people and injured nearly 5,000 there. Officials said their investigation of the attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was likely to reach across Africa and the Arabian peninsula to Afghanistan, looking into terrorist networks with bases in at least four countries. A1 The families of victims from Friday's bombing turned to the grim tasks of burying their dead and rebuilding their lives, as the death toll continued to rise. A1
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For Victims' Kin, Sudden Bad News Comes From Afar
Date: 09 August 1998
By Jim Yardley
Jim Yardley
Kin of American victims of bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaar are faced with sudden bad news, some by phone, others by visits from military officers; American death toll is not yet clear, but State Dept identifies five of victims: Master Sergeant Sherry Lynn Olds, Sgt Kenneth Hobson, Molly Huckaby Hardy, Sgt Jesse N Aliganga and Arlene Kirk; photos (M)
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Man Snatches Jewels And Jumps Into River
Date: 10 August 1998
New York City Police boat joins in search for man who snatches girl's jewelry on 149th Street Bridge and jumps into Harlem River to escape; police are not sure if he managed to swim to freedom or had drowned (S)
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