CNN Executive Stays on Top After a Year Of Upheavals
Date: 05 July 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
CNN/USA president Richard N Kaplan has survived year of both on-air and personal challenges, including Tailwind false reporting incident and departure of Moneyline anchor Lou Dobbs; Kaplan and CNN chairman Tom Johnson are planning revamp of Newsstand; photos; critics inside CNN say Kaplan still has not come up with overall plan to raise CNN's ratings during slower news periods (M)
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Fanciful Tale Wins Over Hardhearted City
Date: 05 July 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Comment on major hoax of New York media by Honduran youth, Edwin Daniel Sabillon, who won hearts and headlines with fabricated story of journeying to New York to find his father; photos (M)
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Compressed Data; 2 Officials at F.C.C. Say Merger Isn't Done
Date: 05 July 1999
By Seth Schiesel
Seth Schiesel
Two FCC commissioners, Gloria Tristani and Harold W Furchtgott-Roth, contradict media reports that FCC staff approval of SBC-Ameritech merger means deal will be approved by FCC (S)
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Arab TV Gets a New Slant: Newscasts Without Censorship
Date: 04 July 1999
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Al Jazeera, 30-month-old Arabic-language news channel based in Qatar, draws viewers in droves in 22 Arab countries by offering hard-hitting coverage of issues long ignored by state-run networks, including the lack of democracy, persecution of political dissidents and repression of women; broadcasts are free of bias or censorship, and ordinary Arabs can air their views on an array of freewheeling phone-in shows; videos of shows are eagerly traded in bazaars of countries like Iraq that ban satellite dishes; some specialists see its popularity as evidence that Islamic conservatism faces a challenge from a new generation yearning for societies that are more, not less, tolerant and democratic; Emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, is one of Arab world's most reform-minded leaders and has pledged $140 million to finance the channel for five years, after which it must achieve self-sufficiency; photo; map (M)
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401(k) Advice on Line
Date: 04 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Number of services have sprung up on Internet to offer investors advice about their 401(k) retirement plans (Mutual Funds Report) (S)0
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Talk of a Still Higher Bid for British Pubs
Date: 05 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Punch Taverns Group is prepared to increase $4.5-billion offer for British pubs of Allied Domecq; rival bidder, Whitbread, has sweetened its proposal (S)
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Piraeus Bank Bids $5.2 Billion To Acquire Ergo, a Greek Rival
Date: 05 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Piraeus Bank agrees to buy Ergo Bank for $5.2 billion; deal would thwart hostile bid by EFG Bank European Financial Group (S)
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Give Him a Break
Date: 04 July 1999
 
J P Shand letter says Times sportswriters should stop criticizing Latrell Sprewell (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 04 July 1999
 
 INTERNATIONAL  3-11    Serb Church Sends Mixed Signal on Milosevic  There seems to be a shift in the Serbian Orthodox Church from the traditional position of defending President Slobodan Milosevic to a stance advocating his removal. Anti-Milosevic politics are expected during services from at least one priest today. But the church continues to send mixed signals about what its priests should do in toppling a President indicted as a war criminal.  1
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Date: 05 July 1999
 
 INTERNATIONAL   A3-6    Talks on Kashmir Held in Washington  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan met in Washington with President Clinton for three hours of hastily arranged talks designed to defuse the conflict in Kashmir. Officials held out the prospect that Pakistani backed forces would withdraw from Indian-held Kashmir.   A1    Birth Rate Drops in Serbia  Population statistics, along with interviews with women and their doctors, suggest that Serbian women of child-bearing age are deciding in unprecedented numbers that Serbia under the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, is not a good place to raise children.   A1
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