Media; The Internet news audience is young, male and hungry for facts. And it's checking in from work.
Date: 27 July 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Internet news sites are drawing small fraction of news consumers, but it is a fraction advertisers find desirable--younger men with college degrees and professional jobs; biggest difference between Internet and other news outlets is that Internet is read less at home and more at workplace, although home consumption of on-line news is also rising; chart (M)
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The World: New Rules, New Caution; Telling a Journalistic Coup From a Crime
Date: 26 July 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Reporters who violate laws when gathering news, either by stealing information or accepting pilfered information, are facing serious ethical challenge; businesses, feeling pressure of stepped-up financial reporting over past decade, are becoming bolder about attacking them--publicly and with lawsuits; many writers and editors, thrust into spotlight, are forced to articulate ethical distinctions that can be hard to defend; drawing (M)
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Overheard Between Floors
Date: 26 July 1998
Readers are asked to submit stories, tales or conversations heard in elevators; photo (S)
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Defying Bitter Past, Cambodians Vote Peacefully
Date: 27 July 1998
By Seth Mydans
Seth Mydans
Millions of Cambodians cast ballots peacefully in national election to decide future of strongman, Hun Sen, in first parliamentary election in five years; Hun's Cambodian People's Party, former Communist Party, has dominated campaign by its control of news media and levers of Government; with two-thirds of seats in 122-seat Parliament needed to form Government, , no single party of 39 in contention is expected to win outright; voting in village of Boeng Kaek described; photo; map (M)
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Donaldson Buys Big Stake
Date: 27 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc is expected to purchase majority stake in PM Realty Group (S)
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Broncos Sign Top Pick Nash
Date: 27 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Denver Broncos sign wide receiver Marcus Nash, their top selection in National Football League draft, to five-year contract worth at least $5.2 million (S)
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Hexcel to Buy Assets of Fiberglass Maker
Date: 27 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hexcel Corp, synthetic-materials maker, will buy most of assets of Clark-Schwebel Inc for $435 million in cash, adding fiberglass operations in United States, Japan and Germany; as precursor to deal, Clark-Schwebel, producer of fiverglass fabrics, has been acquired by Stamford C-S Aquisitions Corp for $488 million in cash from Vestar Capital Partners; Stamford C-S will keep $60 million of Clark-Schwebel property, plants and equipment and lease it to Hexcel (M)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 26 July 1998
INTERNATIONAL 3-17 U.N. Discourages Nursing By Mothers With H.I.V. The United Nations, trying to curtail the transmission from mothers to babies of the virus it calls ''a runaway epidemic'' in many developing countries, has issued recommendations intended to discourage women infected with the AIDS virus from breast-feeding. 1 U.S. Ends Serb Arrest Plan The United States has dropped secret plans to arrest the top two Bosnian Serbs accused of war crimes, senior Administration officials say, after spending more than two years and tens of millions of dollars preparing missions, training commandos and gathering intelligence. 1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 July 1998
INTERNATIONAL A2-9 Cambodia Holds Elections With Few Irregularities Millions of Cambodians cast ballots in a national election that will decide the future of the country's strongman, Hun Sen. Few irregularities were reported and only one incident of serious violence, in which 10 people were killed. The counting of the ballots is to begin today. A1 Phone Giants Announce Merger The AT&T Corporation and British Telecommunications P.L.C. announced a deal to merge most of their international operations into a jointly owned company that would have $10 billion in revenue, creating a powerful new player in the fast-growing market for global communications. A1 Japan Reassures U.S. The man in line to be Japan's next Prime Minister, Keizo Obuchi, told Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright that he would revive Japan's economy through large tax cuts and banking changes, senior Clinton Administration officials said. A9 Byzantine Ruin Discovered Turkish archeologists have apparently found ruins of the Great Palace from which Byzantine emperors ruled much of the known world nearly a thousand years ago. The core of the palace was built by Constantine the Great in Istanbul in A.D. 330. A3 Hussein May End Aid Program The ''oil for food'' program intended to soften the effects of economic sanctions on the Iraqi people is beginning to work so well that President Saddam Hussein might be tempted to try to end it, officials and diplomats say. If the program continues, Iraq will lose its strongest argument for ending the sanctions on humanitarian grounds. A2 Serbs Advance in Major Assault Yugoslav Army and paramilitary units, in their biggest offensive, have attacked rebel positions across the province of Kosovo, apparently trying to free major roads that have been under rebel control for months. Relief workers say tens of thousands of refugees may be in danger if the troops continue to advance. A3 Nigeria Elite Show Resolve The northern Muslim elite that has ruled Nigeria for two decades held a book publication party in a soccer stadium attended by several former heads of state and backed by the army's top brass. The party, a thinly veiled fund-raiser, amounted to the first act in the looming battle for political control of the country. A4 Havel Undergoes Surgery Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, underwent a surgery to restore his digestive tract after suffering a ruptured colon earlier this year. His doctor said the operation ''went quite well.'' (AP) Angola Massacre Site Is Mined Land mines have been freshly laid in an area of northeast Angola where at least 215 people were killed on Tuesday, hampering an investigation, United Nations officials said. (AP) NATIONAL A10-14 Compromises Considered In Clinton Subpoena Advisers to President Clinton, who does not want to be the first sitting President to appear before a grand jury, have warned that he would jeopardize support from Congressional Democrats if he fights a subpoena to testify in the Lewinsky investigation. Ideas for a possible unconventional compromise emerged, including having grand jurors bused to the White House or the President testifying via closed-circuit television. A1 Suspect's Family Speaks The family of Russell Eugene Weston Jr., the man charged in the fatal shootings of two guards at the Capitol, said they noticed slight changes in his behavior in the week before the killings. The day before the shooting, after an argument with his father over the death of 14 cats on the family property, Mr. Weston took off in his truck; he arrived in Washington some 30 hours later. A1 Angela M. Dickerson, the tourist wounded in gunfire at the Capitol on Friday, is recovering at home in Virginia but is guarding her privacy. Ms. Dickerson, the lead designer at an Ethan Allen furniture outlet, is not ready to talk about what happened, her design partner said. A13 The flag-draped caskets of the two Capitol Police officers killed will be on view in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday, an honor usually reserved for former Presidents and heroes of grand military campaigns. The tribute underscores the force's evolution from its days as a two-man constabulary to today's professional unit of 1,295. A13 G.M. Deal May Come Soon Negotiators from General Motors and the United Automobile Workers union worked late into the night last night to settle strikes at two G.M. parts factories, struggling over a few final details of the company's future investments in the factories. Several people involved in the talks said that a deal was fairly likely today. Most of the issues in the strikes have already been settled, U.A.W. officials said, including questions of health and safety. A10 Forum on Social Security The solution for securing the long-term viability of Social Security increasingly seems to involve taking advantage of the potentially robust returns available on Wall Street. That notion is likely to be vigorously debated in Albuquerque, N.M., today, when President Clinton plays host to a forum and town meeting on Social Security. A11 Man Injured in Shootout The man suspected of killing a newspaper executive with a shotgun was critically wounded in a shootout with police in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., the sheriff's department said. The man, Nathan Hanna, a 39-year-old carrier for The Evening News, was accused of shooting the circulation manager, Anthony Gillespie, twice on Thursday. Police have said the shooting was not work-related. (AP) NEW YORK B1-8 Officer Critically Wounded In Staten Island Shooting A New York City police officer was shot in the head and critically wounded as he sat in a marked police van on Staten Island, the authorities said. The police were pursuing at least one suspect in the area, which is dotted by housing projects. A1 Against All Odds Americans tapped their savings, choked sidewalks and interstate highways and blissfully endured hours in the summer sun as they lined up by the millions for a 1-in-80-million shot at a quarter-billion dollars, the biggest jackpot in the nation's history. People flocked across state lines to Connecticut, the District of Columbia and the 19 other states where Powerball tickets are sold, some buying thousands of tickets at a time. A1 Frustration in Times Square Denizens of Times Square said they were running out of patience over the continued closings of homes and businesses, but patience was the only counsel that city officials had to offer. The director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management said he hoped Broadway and Seventh Avenue would be open by morning rush hour today, but he could not be more specific. B3 City officials promised that the 20 or so pets left behind in apartments near the Conde Nast building would be retrieved by this morning. All the animals except two ferrets, which are illegal under the health code, will be returned to their owners today. One man, James Kibel, dodged the police on Saturday to rescue his cat, Go-Go. B3 Same Ideals, New Platform Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue, has switched from harassing doctors who perform abortions to asking a stream of voters, some friendly, some hostile, to vote for him for Congress. At a time when social conservatives are excoriating the Republican Party for selling out Christian conservatives, Mr. Terry is taking things a step further -- trying to fix from within a party that he says has failed true conservatives too many times. His campaign has few fans among Republican stalwarts. B1 ARTS E1-8 OBITUARIES A15 Rex Applegate A member of the O.S.S. who taught fellow intelligence officers how to kill an enemy quickly in combat during World War II, he was 84. A15 Roland (Tiny) Rowland The British business tycoon who was labeled ''the unacceptable face of capitalism'' in 1973 by Prime Minister Edward Heath but was hailed by Nelson Mandela as a friend of Africa was 80. A15 BUSINESS DAY D1-12 Computer Research Urged A Presidential advisory commission composed of some of the nation's leading computer scientists plans to deliver a report today to the White House that calls on the Government to finance research centers that will pursue broad-ranging computer research in the spirit of the early explorers of North America, to create ''expeditions to the 21st century.'' D3 Internet Bills Under Fire In a three-day period last week, Internet bills that had been languishing in Congress for months were quietly attached to a Senate appropriations bills, in most cases without debate. Although the bills must still pass the House and make it through a conference committee to become law, civil liberties groups are questioning whether senators gave responsible consideration to complicated issues that could have long-term effects on the global network. D5 Toy Industry Goes On Line Well ahead of the 1998 critical year-end selling season, toy companies are racing to become the Amazon.com of their industry, selling everything on line. D1 Privacy's Boundaries Gary Hustwit, the 33-year-old founder of Incommunicado Press, says he will publish a book of ''short stories'' this fall taken from the cellular and portable phone calls of everyday people. The conversations were secretly recorded with specially modified scanning equipment, raising questions of privacy and legality. D8 Business Digest D1 SPORTSMONDAY C1-14 Spectators Killed at Race Three spectators were killed and six were injured when a wheel and other debris flew off a race car and over the fence at Michigan Speedway during the U.S. 500, the most prestigious race of the Championship Auto Racing Teams. It was the first time in more than a decade that spectators were killed at a major auto race. C1 EDITORIAL A16-17 Editorials: Negotiating the subpoena crisis; a weak international court; campaign reform showdown; Ernest Tollerson on taxi safety. Column: William Safire. Bridge E6 Metro. Diary B2 Crossword E4 Weather C14
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Critic's Notebook; Listening For Ideology in the Commotion of TV News
Date: 27 July 1998
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
Critic's Notebook comment by Walter Goodman on argument over whether television news is objective or politically slanted; says figuring out where media are coming from or heading can be daunting; says television journalism may not be model of objectivity, but it is not model of conspiracy either; photo (M)
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