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Date: 17 August 2003
By Jason Zengerle
Jason Zengerle
Jason Zengerle article describes various missteps by CNN as network struggles to fill its 8:00 pm hour; network president Jim Walton made his mark by dropping Connie Chung's program and network plans to pit host Paula Zahn against ratings-leader Fox; show will feature harder news and top analysts; photos (L)
Date: 17 August 2003
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
News analysis on Lord Hutton's inquiry into death of British weapons expert Dr David Kelly, and overwhelming sense that verdict will mold history's view of whether Prime Min Tony Blair misled nation into going to war against Iraq; also very much at stake is prestige of famous BBC; its naming of Kelly as source of report suggesting government exaggerated Iraqi threat precipitated crisis and culminated in his suicide (M)
Date: 18 August 2003
By John Tierney and Robert F. Worth
John Tierney
Series of attacks raises new concerns that Iraqi insurgents who have been targeting American soldiers may be widening their strikes to include civilian targets and economic sabotage; in turbulent 12-hour period, pipeline supplying much of Baghdad's water is blown up, huge fire is set off along oil pipeline in northern Iraq, and mortar attack on prison in Abu Ghraib leaves six Iraqis dead and scores wounded; Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana is killed by American fire while filming outside prison; officials say motives for attack on prison are unknown but suggest that shelling, like the sabotage of pipelines, may be part of wider effort to destabilize Iraq and drive out Americans; officials estimate that it will take two weeks to repair pipeline and that its loss will cost Iraq $7 million per day; in southern Iraq, Danish soldier and two Iraqis are killed in firefight, first military casualty for the Danish; photo (M)
Date: 18 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SEC collects only $190 million of $480 million in fines it has levied from 1997 to 2002; most of shortfall stems from a few large cases, many of them still in litigation (S)
Date: 18 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Merrill Lynch confirms that Sergio Ermotti will step down as co-head of global equities markets at end of year (S)
Date: 17 August 2003
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 Israel Eases Demand On Holding Militants Israel has backed away from its demand that the men it regards as wanted terrorists be held in Palestinian prisons. Mohammad Dahlan, the Palestinian minister of security, has given assurances that he will monitor the wanted men and prevent them from mounting attacks. 1
Date: 18 August 2003
INTERNATIONAL A2-9 U.S. Sets Sea Exercises As a Signal to North Korea The Bush administration, while preparing for talks soon with North Korea, is also stepping up military pressure with plans for a joint naval exercise next month to train for interdicting arms and other materials at sea that are being transported to and from the North. One intention is to send a signal to North Korea to dismantle its weapons program. A1
Date: 17 August 2003
Weather stations in Atlantic City and Trenton, NJ, report fewer consecutive rainy days than station in Philadelphia, which reported 16 consecutive days of rain from July 27 through August 11 (S)
Date: 18 August 2003
By Eric Pfanner, International Herald Tribune
Eric Pfanner
Last week the economic news from Europe was grim, with reports showing that Germany, Italy and the Netherlands all fell into recession in the second quarter. Can France bolster the euro zone's growth prospects?.Probably not for now. Economists expect F
Date: 18 August 2003
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Journalists today demanded a military inquiry into the death of a Reuters cameraman shot by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.