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Date: 14 December 2001
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
US television networks and all-news cable channels give blanket coverage to release of tape showing Osama bin Laden rejoicing at destruction of World Trade Center (S)
Date: 15 December 2001
By Elizabeth Becker
Elizabeth Becker
Bush administration moves to make newest Osama bin Laden videotape centerpiece of effort to convince Arab world, and larger Muslim one, that the terrorist does not deserve their allegiance; for administration's war propaganda machine, image of bin Laden seemingly boasting of his role in Sept 11 attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon presents convincing portrait of coward who betrays tenets of Islam by sending others on suicidal terrorist attacks; although administration at first hesitated in releasing tape, officials are now wasting no time capitalizing on it, sending copies to every American embassy along with commentary for governments and news organizations (M)
Date: 15 December 2001
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
Romano Prodi, president of European Commission, administrative arm of European Union, was recruited two years ago to breathe new life into $90-billion-a-year bureaucracy that had been riddled with mismanagement; now, as EU is set to convert to new currency and is reaching out to include as many as 10 more countries from Eastern Europe, Prodi is being snubbed by some national leaders, criticized by would-be allies and attacked in European press for not communicationg how Europe should unite itself further; efforts to reorganize decision-making within EU to cope with expansion have bogged down and attempts to agree on common rules on several fronts have either been blocked or slowed, and Prodi and commission have sometimes seemed like powerless bystanders; Jacques Delors, commission president in 1980's who remains towering figure, recently issued report warning that EU 'has been losing momentum' and is suffering from 'crisis of European identity'; although Delors did not name Prodi, report is at least implicit rebuke that Prodi has not rallied his troops; photo (M)
Date: 15 December 2001
By Celestine Bohlen
Celestine Bohlen
Anna Politkovskaya, who writes for Russian weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta, is one of few Russian journalists covering brutal conflict in Chechnya at time when government is actively discouraging any independent reporting on war; is in United States promoting her book A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya; photos (M)
Date: 15 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ITT Industries eliminates 3,400 jobs, or 9 percent of its work force, and closes five plants as demand for electronics from telecommunications and aerospace industries declines; does not foresee recovery until 2003 (S)
Date: 14 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stanley Furniture Co will lay off about 13 percent of its workers, or 400 individuals, and move more manufacturing to China to reduce costs (S)
Date: 15 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Three major US airlines file motion seeking that British Airways provide US regulators with more information as part of its application for permission to share sales and profits on some flights with American Airlines (S)
Date: 14 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bristol-Myers Squibb says that loss of exclusive rights to diabetes medication Glucophage will cause decline in 2002 profits, to between $2.25 and $2.35 a share (S)
Date: 15 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
NRG Energy postpones spending $900 million on electric generators in order to support its debt rating; Enron bankruptcy causes greater scrutiny of power companies' financial positions (S)
Date: 14 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Danaher Corp, maker of Sears Craftsman tools and testing equipment, will close 16 plants and eliminate about 1,100 jobs in 2002, to reduce expenses (S)
Date: 14 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wells Fargo & Co agrees to buy Tejas Bancshares, which operates six offices in Texas, for $82.5 million in stock (S)