Reluare duminică, 12 septembrie 1999

Vietnamese Paper Angers Its Competitors

Date: 13 September 1999

By Christian Berthelsen

Christian Berthelsen

Vietnamese-language publishers in Silicon Valley are angry with The San Jose Mercury News for creating free Vietnamese-language weekly, which publishers say unfairly undermines their businesses; there are more than dozen Vietnamese newspapers in San Jose, Calif, and surrounding Santa Clara County, region with large Vietnamese population; these publications say they dread idea of competing for advertising revenues with newspaper owned by media giant Knight Ridder; photo (M)

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Media Talk; A Cartoonist's Drawing That Drew Questions

Date: 13 September 1999

By Felicity Barringer

Felicity Barringer

Reporters at The Indianapolis Star question involvement of Star's cartoonist, Gary Varvel, in political fund-raising event, for which Varvel had illustrated the invitation; Star's publisher, Dale Duncan, says it was inappropriate and Varvel himself saye he made 'stupid mistake'; cartoon (M)

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Russia, Not I.M.F. Squandered Money

Date: 13 September 1999

Letter from Michael McFaul wonders why recent news articles describe bribes from Swiss business people to Russian Government officials as instance of 'Russian corruption,' but not as 'Swiss corruption'; says news media should be careful not to promote stereotypes

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 13 September 1999

INTERNATIONAL A3-7 Indonesia Invites U.N. To Send Forces to Timor President B. J. Habibie of Indonesia capitulated to international pressure and invited the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to East Timor, conceding that Indonesian forces have been unable to control the violence there. A1 For many of the nearly 100,000 people who have fled or been forced out of East Timor, the nightmare has not ended. Militia men roam the refugee camps, harassing aid workers and journalists, searching for refugees who they believe voted for independence for East Timor. A1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 12 September 1999

INTERNATIONAL 3-16 Clinton and Chinese Leader Set Course on Trade President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin of China declared an end to frozen relations stemming from the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade months ago. They ordered their trade ministers to meet today in hopes of getting China into the World Trade Organization this year. 1

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Back-to-Back Break-Ins At Church Lead to Arrest

Date: 13 September 1999

Jose Maldonado is arrested inside St Mary's Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and charged with breaking into church twice in less than two days (S)

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QUOTATION OF THE DAY

Date: 13 September 1999

''They said, 'We have good news for you.' What's that? 'Nothing wrong with you but your head.' I said a lot of New Yorkers have known that for a long time.'' JOHN CARDINAL O'CONNOR, in recalling how his doctors broke the news that he had a brain tumor. [B1]

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Many Media Voices of a Few Merged Masters

Date: 12 September 1999

By Stephen Labaton

Stephen Labaton

IF the media and telecommunications giants have their way, decades' worth of Federal rules intended to guard the marketplace of ideas may soon fall, all in the name of the Internet. In the last few days, top executives from four of the information industries' largest corporations -- Viacom, CBS, AT&T and Mediaone Group -- have asked the Government to give them a break from tight restrictions intended to prevent cable and broadcast television from falling into too few hands.

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Barbara Conroy, Roger Yaseen

Date: 12 September 1999

Barbara Jean Conroy and Roger Leonard Yaseen are to be married this afternoon by Rabbi David M. Posner in the couple's apartment in New York. Mrs. Yaseen is a television news correspondent and producer, most recently at CBS News. At NBC, where she worked until 1997, she reported from the Persian Gulf and Bosnian wars and was a correspondent and a producer for documentaries, including ''The Romanian Revolution'' (1990) and ''Kids on Steroids: Well-Built Lies'' (1989).

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Jose Sanchez and Yvette Chiavaro

Date: 12 September 1999

Yvette Chiavaro and Jose Sanchez were married yesterday in Irvington, N.Y. William R. Crossby, a town justice of Tarrytown, N.Y., officiated at the Shadowbrook Estate. Mrs. Sanchez, 30, is a project assistant working on the Year 2000 computer problem in the Manhattan office of Reuters, the news wire service. She graduated from Pace University.

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