For First Time in War, E-Mail Plays a Vital Role
Date: 29 March 1999
By Neil MacFarquhar
Neil MacFarquhar
Conflict in Yugoslavia is first instance of warfare in which small but significant slice of population has Internet access, allowing creation of entire news network consisting of E-mail, chat rooms and bulletin boards; access is proving more reliable than uneven international telephone lines in communicating with concerned friends and relatives; is way for many who do not have satellite dishes to cope without depending on news from state-controlled media (M)
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Media Talk; TV Reporter Gets a Jump on His Beat
Date: 29 March 1999
By Andrew Jacobs
Andrew Jacobs
J D LaRock, recently hired education reporter for all-news cable channel NY1, spent last 18 months as press officer for New York City Board of Education; this raises question among some in news business about whether LaRock will pull his punches when covering his former employers (S)
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Roy M. Fisher, 80, Journalist and Teacher
Date: 29 March 1999
By Eric Pace
Eric Pace
Roy M Fisher, former editor of The Chicago Daily News and former dean of University of Missouri School of Journalism, dies at age 80 (S)
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Reaching for Some Answers, Americans Betray Trust and Mistrust
Date: 30 March 1999
By Susan Sachs
Susan Sachs
Even though many Americans accept Clinton Administration's portrayal of NATO's military strikes against Yugoslavia as clear-cut moral obligation, many remain skeptical; say more they see and hear about faraway conflict, less they feel they understand it; suspect public is not getting full story of goings-on in Yugoslavia, either from news media or politicians; photos (M)
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Heroes vs. Intruders (NATO) and Terrorists (Albanians)
Date: 29 March 1999
By Anthony Ramirez
Anthony Ramirez
Serbian Govt, which has drawn its television network into daily political life, is harnessing it in cause of Serbia's defense in face of NATO bombing; Serbian television says bombing is part of longstanding 'criminal conspiracy' in West; describes ethnic Albanians in Kosovo as terrorists (M)
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Belgrade Curtails Independent Press
Date: 29 March 1999
By James Brooke
James Brooke
Pres Slobodan Milosevic responds to NATO bombing of Kosovo by shutting down virtually all independent newspapers and silencing nation's most prominent independent radio station (S)
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Latin America Safer for Journalists
Date: 29 March 1999
By James Brooke
James Brooke
Violence against reporters declines in Latin America as dictatorships end and democracy spreads; advocates for press freedom attending meeting of Inter American Press Assn claim violence against reporters has shifted to rural areas, region's redoubt of authoritarianism; in Colombia, which in last decade has recorded highest number of killings of journalists in Americas, 8 of 12 reporters killed in 1998 were from small cities or rural areas; editor from Bogota claims guerrillas and paramilitaries are new agents of violence against journalists; exception is Cuba, where police agents have detained and interrogated reporters on 25 occasions since year began, and where six Cuban reporters are currently in jail; photo (M)
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Questioning Three Gorges Dam
Date: 29 March 1999
Editorial opposes construction of Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River in China; contends that project will destroy one of world's great scenic areas, inundate hundreds of archeological sites and force 1.3 million people to resettle elsewhere when dam's 400-mile reservoir floods towns and farmlands; maintains that in China, where even slight relaxation in suppression of debate can indicate softening of official policy, it is encouraging that some publications have cast increasingly critical eye on dam
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WELLPOINT WANTS TO BUY COLORADO HEALTH INSURER
Date: 30 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wellpoint Health Networks Inc is interested in buying Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service for more than $200 million (S)
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DANA AND GKN PLAN TO SWAP TRUCK-DRIVETRAIN PLANTS
Date: 30 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dana Corp, US maker of engine parts, and British parts producer GKN PLC to swap businesses that make drivetrain systems for all-wheel and four-wheel-drive vehicles; Dana will exchange unit that makes front-wheel parts for light trucks for GKN's business that makes rear-wheel systems for heavy trucks (S)
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