กำลังเล่นซ้ำ วันอาทิตย์ที่ 6 กันยายน ค.ศ. 1998

As the City Grows Safer, Crime Loosens Its Grip on the News

Date: 06 September 1998

By Alan Finder

Alan Finder

New York City newspapers and local television news programs are devoting less space and time to reporting crime news, as city has grown safer; trends discussed; pie chart illustrates percentage of news time devoted to crime on local television stations, based on study of news broadcasts in 1996-97 season, in NYC, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Eugene, Ore, Syracuse, Chicago and Austin (L)

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The Nation: Who's Mr. Clean?; Washington Nervously Awaits New Deliveries of Dirty Laundry

Date: 06 September 1998

By James Bennet

James Bennet

Political Washington, publicly prudish capital with history of smeared lipstick behind office doors, nervously awaits further revelations of sexual misconduct; some jittery politicians are admitting mistakes or pre-emptively declaring their marital virtue; Kenneth Starr's inquiry into Pres Clinton's life has burned down any remaining fences around private lives (M)

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Nonaligned Movement Meets, Out of the Spotlight

Date: 07 September 1998

By Donald G. McNeil Jr

Donald McNeil

Delegates from 113 nations of nonaligned movement have completed summit conference, Durban, South Africa; reporters were barred from meetings; American team, granted 'guest' status, reportedly lobbied in halls to temper communique on some issues (M)9

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A Newspaper and a Writer in a Philadelphia Story Full of Acrimony

Date: 07 September 1998

By Felicity Barringer

Felicity Barringer

Philadelphia Inquirer, newspaper accustomed to libel suits from outsiders, was surprised when Ralph Cipriano, reporter, filed defamation suit on August 7 after Robert Rosenthal, editor, publicly questioned the objectivity and value of Cipriano's reporting on the Archdiocese of Philadelphia; Rosenthal is quoted in Washington Post as saying 'There were things Ralph wrote that we didn't think were truthful'; representing Cipriano is James E Beasley Jr, malpractice lawyer who won $40 million in two previous jury verdicts against newspaper; Cipriano was recently dismissed after he refused to give his editors his notes related to reporting on the archdiocese; photos of Rosenthal and Cipriano (M)

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Manchester United Gets Murdoch Bid

Date: 07 September 1998

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

British Sky Broadcasting, Europe's second-largest satellite broadcaster, reportedly will buy England's Manchester United soccer club for as much as 961.6 million (S)

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 06 September 1998

INTERNATIONAL 3-16 U.S. Planned Covert Raid To Capture Saudi Militant United States intelligence officials drew up secret plans last spring for a covert raid to capture Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan after concluding they had ample evidence linking him to a series of anti-American terrorist attacks, senior United States Government officials said. 1 Economic Policy Stalemate The economic policy leaders of the United States and Japan met to discuss the heightened risk of global recession and a further spread of the turmoil that has engulfed Asia, Russia and now Latin America. But the meeting ended with no new plans, and an uneasy sense that Japan and the United States remain on different wavelengths about how quickly countries must act. 1

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Date: 07 September 1998

INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Warning of Chaos in Russia Unless Political Fights End Viktor S. Chernomyrdin warned on national television that Russia has entered a fiscal nosedive and that further political squabbling could lead to social chaos, on the night before Russia's Parliament was to vote again on whether to confirm him as the country's Prime Minister. A1 Floods Ravage Bangladesh More than 20 million homes in Bangladesh have been swamped by monsoon season flooding that has lasted almost two months, twice as long as other recorded floods. The waters have inundated more than half of the country, killed more than 520 people, shut down roads, damaged more than 4,000 schools and wiped out a big portion of the rice crop. A1

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In-House Competition From Web News Team

Date: 07 September 1998

By Matt Richtel

Matt Richtel

Cable channel E! Entertainment is in competition with its sister Web site E! Online (www.eonline.com); 55 full-time E! employees work on the Web site, 40 of whom are producing the content, such as updated news, gossip and Webcasts of movie premieres; site appears to be getting heavy traffic; Lee Masters, president and chief executive of E! Entertainment, says he did not intend E! site to compete with network so much as to complement it; says he intends for on-line site to have its own identity (M)

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Woman Raped on Train That Had No Conductor

Date: 07 September 1998

Woman, 21, is raped and robbed on G subway train in Brooklyn; transit authorities have been running weekend service on line without conductors since last March; incident occurs around midnight (S)

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2 Women and a Child Die in Bronx House Fire

Date: 07 September 1998

Two women and year-old son of one of them are killed in fire in wood-frame house in Bronx; arson suspected (S)

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