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Date: 20 September 1999
Pew Research Center poll finds that distaste for press scrutiny into politicians' backgrounds has grown among people 50 and older and among those 30 to 49 by at least 10 percentage points since 1987; under-30 group is also growing more disenchanted with such reporting, but not as rapidly; some 53 percent of all adults consider press scrutiny valuable, compared with 59 percent in 1987 (S)
Date: 20 September 1999
By Warren Hoge
Warren Hoge
Four Britons are identified as suspected Communist agents, bringing to eight the number of people recently acused of being cold war informers and prompting calls on Government to clarify why there have been no prosecutions and whether British security has been undermined; Robin Pearson, postgraduate studies director at Hull University, is identified as informer for East Germany; Vic Allen, retired economics professor at Leeds University, is said to have passed information about Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament to East Germany; Dr Gwyneth Edwards, German-language lecturer at Loughborough University, is accused of having collaborated with East German secret police, the Stasi; Richard Clements, former editor of leftist weekly Tribune and adviser to former Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock, is identified as agent for former Soviet Union; last week, accusations were brought against former Labor members of Parliament Tom Briberg and Raymond Fletcher, former Scotland Yard officer John Symonds, and a suburban London woman, Melita Norwood; unmasking of supposed spies is receiving enormous attention in British press (M)
Date: 20 September 1999
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire column says Prime Min Mahathir Mohamad is crushing dissent in Malaysia, harassing opposition and trying to intimidate world press while wooing investment from United States; notes particularly the lack of Government or media reaction to jailing of Far Eastern Economic Review's Malaysian bureau chief, Murray Hiebert, for criticizing a judge; asks who will have temerity to ask embarassing questions of Mahathir while he is welcomed in US by business and foreign-policy establishment (M)
Date: 20 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dexia Belgium SA will pay as much as $6.3 billion in stock for Dexia France, creating Europe's largest municipal lender; is also in talks to for alliance with Societe Generale SA of France (S)
Date: 19 September 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-23 U.N. Workers Become Targets in Angry Lands United Nations workers struggling to save lives and lessen human misery around the globe are being killed, kidnapped, detained, raped, robbed, attacked and harassed as never before. Last year, for the first time, casualties among civilian relief workers exceeded those among military peacekeepers. 1 Military Ships Head for Timor The first nine ships of an international military force set sail from Darwin, Australia, with the task of trying to bring about peace to Indonesian province of East Timor. 12
Date: 20 September 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 First Peacekeepers Arrive in East Timor The first units of an international peacekeeping force landed in East Timor to quell a campaign of terror unleashed when residents voted for independence from Indonesia three weeks ago. In advance of the deployment, the mission's commander, Maj. Gen. Peter Cosgrove of Australia, visited Dili, the capital, to coordinate the effort. A1 Tokyo and Seoul Draw Closer The Governments of South Korea and Japan are drawing dramatically closer, bringing a new spirit of respect and reconciliation to one of Asia's most bitter relationships. Officials say South Korea and Japan have been driven together by a variety of factors, including a common threat from North Korea. A1
Date: 19 September 1999
By John Russell
John Russell
The painter as historian has not a good name. History-painting was drudgery as often as not, and all too often it showed. But the painter as newsman! That is someone quite different. It was the painter as newsman who gave us not ''history'' but our first unforgettable drafts of it. Whether or not the painter himself was present at the event, he makes us feel that we have been there. His eyes become our eyes, and our hearts beat with his. The seven images on these pages have only two things in common. All have shaped -- or, it may be, misshaped -- our understanding of history. And all are unforgettable. After we first see them, we are different people. There is the world before them, and the world after them.
Date: 19 September 1999
Morven, 18th-century mansion in Princeton, NJ, which was once home of Declaration of Independence and later official New Jersey governors' residence, is undergoing extensive restoration with help of matching funds from New Jersey Historic Trust; photos (M)
Date: 20 September 1999
Police arrest five persons in connection with burglary ring in Queens (S)
Date: 20 September 1999
Police detectives search for Yakov Bensimon, husband of Regina Bensimon, who was found beaten to death in her Brooklyn home (S)