กำลังเล่นซ้ำ วันอาทิตย์ที่ 1 เมษายน ค.ศ. 2001

Financial Crisis Is Taking a Heavy Toll on Turkey's Media

Date: 02 April 2001

By Douglas Frantz

Douglas Frantz

News media are industry hardest hit in Turkey by economic crisis, with some 3,000 of 12,000 media workers laid off in recent weeks; journalists and their advocates cite overexpansion by businesses that bought media outlets to curry favor with government and moves by media barons into other businesses; hold payrolls, especially big salaries of columnists, many of them former government officials, were pumped up by money from owners' other businesses; photo (M)

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Crime

Date: 01 April 2001

By Marilyn Stasio

Marilyn Stasio

Marilyn Stasio reviews following books: Bad News by Donald E Westlake; The Reaper by Peter Lovesey; The Orange Curtain by John Shannon; Cold Hands by Clare Curzon; and Beyond Belief by Roy Johansen (M)

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Ameritrade to Cut 170 Jobs

Date: 02 April 2001

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Ameritrade Holding Corp will cut 170 jobs, about 7.4 percent of work force, most at call centers in Omaha and Fort Worth (S)

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Allianz Says It Will Acquire Dresdner Bank for $20 Billion

Date: 02 April 2001

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Allianz will buy 80 percent of Dresdner Bank it does not own for about $20 billion in cash and stock; will sell its 13.5 percent stake in HypoVereinsbank to Munich Re and buy Munich Re's 40 percent stake in Allianz Leben in 2002 as part of plan; Munich Re says it will seek to raise its stake in Ergo Versicherungsgruppe to 95 percent from 63 percent and increase its HypoVereinsbank holding to just under 26 percent (M)

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Bidding Goes Higher For Spanish Utility

Date: 02 April 2001

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Energie Baden-Wurttemberg raises its bid for Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico to 3.9 billion euros ($3.4 billion); Energie, backed by Ferroatlantica, tops bid by RWE (S)

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 02 April 2001

INTERNATIONAL A3-8 U.S. Spy Plane Lands In China After Collision A Navy spy plane on a routine mission near the Chinese coast made an emergency landing in China after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet that was closely following it, officials said. The United States said that it was seeking the immediate return of the crew of 24, all said to be in good condition, and of the plane. A1 Because the plane, an EP-3E Aries II turboprop, is considered among the Navy's most sophisticated surveillance planes, American officials are demanding that the Chinese not board or search the aircraft without American permission. A1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 01 April 2001

INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Milosevic Surrenders, Ending Standoff in Serbia The former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, surrendered to Serbian authorities early today and was brought to Belgrade's Central Prison, the Serbian Interior Ministry said. Negotiations with Mr. Milosevic had continued all night, both with government officials and senior members of his own Socialist Party, said the party leader, Branislav Ivkovic. 1 The Serbian government's attempts yesterday to arrest Mr. Milosevic fell apart when his personal guards fought back with unexpected force, government ministers said. 8

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News Analysis: A Wider Debate About the Role of Milosevic

Date: 02 April 2001

By Steven Erlanger

Steven Erlanger

BELGRADE, Serbia, April 1 — The arrest of Slobodan Milosevic early today closes one cycle of Balkan history and opens, only now, the possibility of a considered debate in Serbia about his role in the wars that devastated the former Yugoslavia and horrified the world.

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After the Arrest: Wider Debate About the Role of Milosevic, and of Serbia

Date: 02 April 2001

By Steven Erlanger

Steven Erlanger

News analysis of arrest of former Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic; arrest closes one cycle of Balkan history and opens possibility of considered debate in Serbia about his role in wars that devastated former Yugoslavia and horrified world; photo (M)

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All Westchester, All the Time

Date: 01 April 2001

By Lea Lane Stern

Lea Stern

MATT and Mary'' may not be ''Matt and Katie,'' but Matt Sampson and Mary Calvi, co-hosts of ''Daytime Edition'' on News 12 Westchester, chat amicably, play sous-chef to star-chefs, and interview long-winded authors just like the national guys. But unlike most of them, they can pronounce Pocantico.

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