Retracting a Retraction, Self-Defense and Revelation
Date: 29 January 1998
By Janny Scott
Janny Scott
Dallas Morning News on Jan 27 retracts front-page article saying that Secret Service agent was prepared to testify that he had seen Pres Clinton and Monica S Lewinsky in 'compromising situation'; newspaper on Jan 28 retracts retraction, saying that one or more 'current or former Secret Service agents' had observed 'ambiguous incident' involving Clinton and Lewinsky (M)
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Some Journalists Have Met the Enemy, and It Is Them
Date: 30 January 1998
By Carey Goldberg
Carey Goldberg
Many journalists have criticized media's coverage of Pres Clinton's alleged affair with White House intern Monica S Lewinsky, but polls show that public is largely satisfied with quality of reporting on scandal; photo (M)
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C.I.A. Report Concludes Agency Knew Nothing of Drug Dealers' Ties to Rebels
Date: 30 January 1998
By Tim Weiner
Tim Weiner
Central Intelligence Agency releases first volume of internal investigation concluding that agency knew nothing about California cocaine dealers who claimed connections with rebels in Nicaragua backed by agency; report is effort to answer accusations made by San Jose Mercury News in Aug 1996 that drug-dealing Nicaraguan rebels and their supporters were responsible for introducing crack cocaine to black neighborhoods in California in 1980's (M)
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Many Turn Deaf Ear to Scandal
Date: 29 January 1998
By Dirk Johnson
Dirk Johnson
About 13,000 people welcome Pres Clinton to Champaign, Ill; most people defend Clinton and denounce news media for focusing on accusations that he had affair with Monica S Lewinsky (M)
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Creating a Forum to Rake the Media's Muck
Date: 29 January 1998
By David Firestone
David Firestone
Steven Brill discusses his planned monthly Content, which will not begin publication until June; sees new magazine as advent of media accountability; photo (M)
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Reuters Unit Is Investigated Over Theft of a Rival's Data
Date: 30 January 1998
By Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Reuters Analytics Inc commissioned computer specialists to steal confidential information from corporate computers of Bloomberg LP, major competitor; inquiry, under way for close to a year, has included undercover investigation of American subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC; Reuters is said to have obtained information from Bloomberg's operating code, which governs how company's data terminals work; case has emerged at time of increasingly heated competition in financial data industry; investigation is part of new Government effort to crack down on industrial espionage by foreign companies; photo (M)
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Observer; The Media in Trouble
Date: 30 January 1998
By Russell Baker
Russell Baker
Russell Baker Op-Ed column assails media for tasteless way it has covered Pres Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky (M)
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A Spokesman With Admittedly Nothing to Say
Date: 30 January 1998
By Melinda Henneberger
Melinda Henneberger
White House press sec Michael D McCurry refuses to answer questions about Pres Clinton's alleged affair with Monica S Lewinsky; his generally warm relations with press appear to be getting him through press secretary's worst nightmare; photo (M)
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World News Briefs; Royal Dutch/Shell Plans To Remove Oil Platform
Date: 30 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Royal Dutch/Shell Group announces plans to remove obsolete oil platform in Norway, ending years of environmental arguments that touched off boycott of world's biggest oil company (S)
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ARGONAUT SAYS IT IS CONSIDERING POSSIBLE MERGER
Date: 29 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Argonaut Group Inc hires Credit Suisse First Boston to examine possible merger (S)
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