For Capital Pundits, Money for Speeches Is Scarce This Year
Date: 28 November 1997
By JILL ABRAMSON
Jill ABRAMSON
Capital's media celebrities no longer rake in lucrative speaking fees on lecture circuit; trade associations and industry groups are not as inclined as they once were to dole out $10,000 and more for hour of punditry; Mark Shields, who has seen his lucrative bookings disappear, attributes dry spell to 'status quo' nature of 1996 election; David Gergen says dip is seasonal, since there are no major political races in 1997; agents who book so-called 'buckrakers' confirm trend; Jay Callahan of Keppler Associates says that same apathy about Washington that is felt by public has spread to trade associations and companies that used to feel need to hear speech by bona fide Washington insider; photo (M)
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Witness Links Winnie Mandela to Guards' Crimes
Date: 28 November 1997
By SUZANNE DALEY
Suzanne DALEY
Former anti-apartheid colleague of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's, Azhar Cachalia, tells South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Madikizela-Mandela was either aware of murderous assaults and other criminal activities her bodyguards engaged in during late 1980's or directed and actively took part in them; Cachalia, now Secretary for Safety and Security, says bodyguards, known as Mandela United Football Club, were Madikizela-Mandela's 'own personal vigilante gang,' and that numerous efforts were made by other anti-apartheid leaders to persuade her to disband them; says she even ignored appeals by her then-husband, Nelson Mandela, who was still in jail at time (M)
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Public Backs Tough Steps For a Treaty On Warming
Date: 28 November 1997
By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr
John CUSHMAN
New York Times Poll finds American people are far more willing than their Government to take early, unilateral steps to counter threat of global warming; they appear to be unimpressed by industry arguments that cutting United States' emissions of heat-trapping gases into atmosphere might cause undue economic harm; 65 percent of those polled say US, which releases more such greenhouse gases than any other country, should take steps now to cut its own emissions 'regardless of what other countries do'; delegates from 166 nations will assemble in Kyoto, Japan, to try to negotiate tougher, binding treaty on controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases; Clinton Administration has proposed binding treaty, but not until another 10 or 15 years have passed; chart (M)
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SUNY Conference Didn't Advance Education; No Frivolous Subject
Date: 28 November 1997
Letter from Prof Rosalind P Petchesky, keynote speaker at controversial women's studies conference at SUNY-New Paltz, says denouncing university's 'standards,' moral or otherwise, is one way to root out liberals, diminish tax dollars and limit access to public higher education (S)
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING ; From airlines to shoes to computer software, accounts worth millions are undergoing changes.
Date: 28 November 1997
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
Company marketers are busy making changes in their advertising agency assignments; Pan Am Corp, Travelers Corp and Nike Inc are among those companies moving their advertising accounts (M)
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Mexico Editor Hurt in Ambush; His Bodyguard and Gunman Die
Date: 28 November 1997
By SAM DILLON
Sam DILLON
Jesus Blancornelas, prize-winning Mexican newspaper editor who has crusaded against narcotics traffickers, is seriously wounded in Tijuana by gunmen who killed his bodyguard; one of gunmen is also killed; attack comes four months after gunmen in San Luis Rio Colorado killed Benjamin Flores Gonzalez, founder of another weekly that campaigned against drugs; mounting violence seen to reflect rising independence and assertiveness of Mexico's press, and increasingly brazen attitudes of country's network of organized crime (M)
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Barclays Is Ending Tokyo Stock Trading
Date: 28 November 1997
Barclays Bank's Japanese securities arm is shedding its equity sales and trading operation, eliminating about 100 jobs; Barclays spokeswoman says decision has nothing to do with financial crisis in Japan (S)
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Blustery Winds Kill One, Injure Some and Delay Dinners by the Thousands
Date: 28 November 1997
By KIRK JOHNSON
Kirk JOHNSON
High winds that whip entire Northeast are blamed in one death and at least five injuries; there are also delays at Newark International Airport and thousands of interrupted Thanksgiving Day cooking schedules because of power failures; one death occurs in Upper Freehold Township, NJ, where woman participating in fox hunt is struck by falling limb while riding her horse (M)
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America's Top Truck Is Turning 50
Date: 28 November 1997
By ROBYN MEREDITH
Robyn MEREDITH
Ford F-Series pickup truck will be half century old on Dec 3; Ford is noting milestone with 50th anniversary logo on each 1998 model F-Series; changes in F-Series from 1947 to present discussed; photos (L)
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