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Date: 16 April 2001
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
United States Postal Service hires Van Wagner Communications to help sell advertising space on its mail trucks, Express Mail envelopes, other postal sites; Next Generation Network signs pact for ABC News to provide news headlines for flat-panel video screens it operates at over 7,000 sites (S)
Date: 16 April 2001
By Suzanne Daley
Suzanne Daley
Prime Min Lionel Jospin of France has been contending with train strikes, layoffs, warring factions within his party and even heavy rains and flooding; strain has caused him to have tantrum in which he personally castigates two reporters, adding to his problems; Jospin is expected to challenge Pres Jacques Chirac, his longtime rival, in election in 2002; Chirac has his own problems, as each week newspaper stories bring reminder of his possible links to corruption scandals; photo (M)
Date: 16 April 2001
Study by Don Middleberg and Prof Steve Ross finds journalists around nation are using Internet more than ever before for corresponding by e-mail, researching articles and finding story ideas, news sources and news releases; finds 98 percent say they check their e-mail at least daily, up from 73 percent a year ago (M)
Date: 15 April 2001
INTERNATIONAL 3-14 China Issues Warning On Arms Sales to Taiwan China is warning the United States that a sale of advanced weapons to Taiwan would endanger already strained relations. Beijing hopes that the imbroglio over the spy plane collision will make Washington more receptive to its concerns. 1 China angrily described as ''irresponsible'' the statements by senior American officials that a Chinese fighter jet caused the collision. Members of the crew gave their first public account of the collision at a news conference at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. 10
Date: 16 April 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Spy Plane Crew Members Describe Ordeal in China On their first full day back home at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington State, some members of the Navy spy plane crew detained in China gave the fullest account yet of their experiences, from the time their EP-3E surveillance plane was bumped by a Chinese fighter on April 1 to their release 11 days later. A9 Language Poses Security Peril Military, diplomatic and intelligence officials are warning of critical shortages in their ability to understand the languages of other nations, and so unravel their secrets. One of the reasons is that, with English increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca, the study of foreign languages has suffered. A1
Date: 15 April 2001
Photograph by Brenda Ann Kenneally Interviews Catherine st. Louis
Photograph Ann
Mark Peterson, Kathy Peterson and Dr. Michael A. Weiner, Children's Hospital of New York, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, March 21, 2001
Date: 15 April 2001
By Eric Lipton
Eric Lipton
The doors of City Hall were locked, the lights inside dimmed. Even the line of black sedans -- idling outside the City Hall gates, ready to whisk away poker-faced mayoral aides -- was missing. And this was just what Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president and Democratic candidate for mayor, wanted: a predictably placid Sunday morning that offered a dandy moment to make a bit of news.
Date: 16 April 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Timothy J McVeigh will be executed in Terre Haute, Ind, but ABC plans to send news anchor Charles Gibson to cover story from Oklahoma City, site of his crime, as way to put stress on survivors and victims of 1995 bombing, not McVeigh's message; will also have correspondents in Terre Haute; photo (M)
Date: 16 April 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
CNN's coup as only network to broadcast live images of American spy plane crew leaving Hainan Island, China, and again leaving plane in Guam helps revive spirits of CNN's staff; photo (M)
Date: 15 April 2001
By Floyd Norris
Floyd Norris
The economic news looked bad, with unemployment claims up and retail sales down. But on Wall Street, optimism returned. A widely followed semiconductor industry analyst, Jonathan Joseph of Salomon Smith Barney, turned bullish on the theory that the news was so bad that it had to get better. An index of such stocks leaped 23 percent during the week while the Nasdaq composite rose 14 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed just 3 percent, but it topped 10,000 for the first time in almost a month. Floyd Norris