A Newspaper Publisher Circles the Competition
Date: 01 February 1999
By Andrea Adelson
Andrea Adelson
William Dean Singleton's Media News Group Inc has bought up string of small dailies in Southern California, in pincer-like move around dominant paper, Los Angeles Times; Media News's merged operations will have daily circulation of 830,000 statewide--63 percent in Los Angeles area; Media News competes with Los Angeles Times for readership and advertising sales, but they are cooperating on distribution of preprinted circulars; that arrangement is now subject of preliminary investigation by Justice Dept; inquiry is likely to focus on whether alliance amounts to price-fixing arrangement in which advertisers are without real alternatives; photo; map; chart (M)
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Lawrence Taylor's Final Riff
Date: 31 January 1999
By William C. Rhoden
William Rhoden
William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column on former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor's election to Pro Football Hall of Fame; discusses debate over whether Taylor, plagued by drug problems for years, deserves to be in Hall; contends that Taylor belongs there; says he transformed professional football 'way Charlie Parker transformed music'; criticizes news media for self-righteously judging Taylor's morals (M)
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Political Memo; Announcing Just Once No Longer Is Enough
Date: 01 February 1999
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
Political Memo column says trend toward multiple announcements by candidates for year 2000 Presidential hopefuls has reached point of absurdity as restless candidates struggle to draw press coverage and break through omnipresent impeachment coverage; Republicans are trying to compete with presumed dominance of Texas Gov George W Bush, who has not yet announced anything but has drawn more attention than perhaps all Republican contenders combined; recent announcements by Gary Bauer, prominent conservative, and US Repr Richard Kasich, noted; photos (M)
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Reporter Finds Russia Has Not Outlived Secrecy
Date: 31 January 1999
By Michael R. Gordon
Michael Gordon
Closed-door trial of Capt Grigory Pasko, charged with treason for reporting about dumping of military waste at sea, shows there are still limits on free speech in Russia, especially when military is concerned; follows arrest arrest of Aleksandr Nikitin, retired Navy officer who researched radioactive contamination caused by Russia's northern fleet; is being held in Vladivostok, far from Moscow's media glare; Pasko, career Navy officer, was working as reporter for Navy newspaper and freelancing for Japanese television network when arrested; map; photos (M)
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The Nation; Secrecy Is a Working Tool in the Hands of the Senate
Date: 31 January 1999
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Katharine Seelye
Senate vote to deliberate on impeachment proceedings behind closed doors discussed; photo; decision reflects hazards of governing in television age: politicians love the camera but cannot speak freely in front of it (M)
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Ex-Chairman Sued by Internet Company
Date: 01 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Michael Schulhof, dismissed as chairman of World Online International on Jan 11, is being sued by company and its majority shareholders; suit contends Schulhof and company he controlls, Ochill Investments NV, tried to steal business from World Online and that Schulhof used his World Online credit card to pay for visit from prostitute; suit also says he made inappropriate comments to company's investment bankers about sex clubs and prostitutes (S)
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Money Is at the Root of Trial's Partisanship; Controlling the Cameras
Date: 31 January 1999
Francis W Rodgers letter sees double standard in Senate proposal to videotape depositions of witnesses in Pres Clinton's impeachment trial, while holding their own deliberations behind closed doors (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 31 January 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-11 NATO to Act in Kosovo If Enemies Don't Meet NATO authorized military action against Serbia at any time if it does not agree to start talks next weekend in France with the ethnic Albanian leaders of Kosovo about autonomy for the province. 1
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January 24-30; Good News for the Lazy
Date: 31 January 1999
By Hubert B. Herring
Hubert
Tomorrow it's February. If traditional patterns hold, half the people who resolved on Jan. 1 to stick to an ambitious exercise regime will have relapsed into guilt-encrusted sloth. But must it be all or nothing? Not at all, says a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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National News Briefs; Sweatshop Protest Ends With Agreement at Duke
Date: 01 February 1999
21 Duke University students end sit-in at office of university president after agreeing with Duke's administration on plan to help insure that apparel bearing Duke's name is not made in sweatshops (S)
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