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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My Guatemalan Nightmare
Date: 31 January 1998
By Carolyn Frazier
Carolyn Frazier
Carolyn Frazier Op-Ed article reports that US Embassy in Guatemala was of no help when her sister was severely wounded by gunmen while visiting country last June and that the attack did not make the news in US; suggests that if State Department and the press had made more of the attack and Guatemala's inability to protect tourists, St Mary's College might not have sent a group of students there and five of them might not have been raped (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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Reuters Unit Puts 3 Executives on Paid Leave
Date: 31 January 1998
By Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald
Three executives with American subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC are placed on paid leave by company following disclosure of investigation into possible theft of confidential information from corporate computers of competitor Bloomberg LP; Reuters hires Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, prominent Manhattan law firm, to conduct independent investigation for Reuters (S)
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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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Damascus Journal; Poking Fun Must Be Artfully Done
Date: 31 January 1998
By Douglas Jehl
Douglas Jehl
Interview with Ali Farzat, Syrian political cartoonist whose work routinely savages country's overzealous security forces and tryannical Government bureaucrats; he says he has learned to poke fun and criticize without being specific--in way that has made him most admired cartoonist in Arab world from country that lacks much of reputation for political humor; map; cartoon (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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MID-STATE BANK SET TO ADD BSM BANCORP
Date: 31 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mid-State Bank agrees to acquire BSM Bancorp for $90 million in stock (S)
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