MediaTalk; A Test Story Morphs Into a Heady Rumor
Date: 30 June 2003
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
ABC News practices television coverage of host of potential tragedies in order to not be caught off guard by any breaking news; eavesdropping on one of these breaking-news drills leads to inaccurate rumor of Ronald Reagan's death (S)
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Iran Is Trying to Curb Porn and Politics on Web
Date: 29 June 2003
By Neil MacFarquhar
Neil MacFarquhar
Iran attempts to restrict Internet access, officially labeling as depraved some sites that mock Islamic Republic's puritanism, and host of other political, social and truly pornographic online destinations; limitations put on newspapers and other mass media lead people to look for news on Internet; line between what is acceptable and degenerate, legal and illegal, remains fluid, so crackdown has prompted cat-and-mouse game between conservative hierarchy and Iran's younger generation, which is growing ever more technically proficient in gaining access to Western Web sites; photo (M)
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Trichet Is Selected For Group of 10 Post
Date: 30 June 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Central bank governors from Group of 10 choose Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of Bank of France, as their chairman (S)
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Corrections
Date: 30 June 2003
Correction of June 16 article about negotiations toward Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip; television program on which Sen Richard G Lugar discussed matter was Fox News Sunday
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 29 June 2003
INTERNATIONAL 3-13, 16 Palestinians Urge Factions To Join Peace Initiative Palestinian leaders are working to persuade smaller factions to join Hamas and Islamic Jihad in a planned agreement to suspend violence against Israel. Separately, Israeli and Palestinian commanders are meeting to prepare for the transfer of control over parts of the Gaza Strip to the governing Palestinian Authority. 1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 30 June 2003
INTERNATIONAL A2-9 Israel Gives Up Control Over Parts of Gaza Strip Israeli troops returned part of Gaza to Palestinian control after the three leading Palestinian factions declared that they were suspending violence. Officially, Israel dismissed the cease-fire as a dodge to safeguard terrorists, but many Israelis hoped they might be entering a period of calm. A1
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Kelly Venardos, Peter Ward
Date: 29 June 2003
Kelly Lynn Venardos, a daughter of Karen Keegan Venardos and Lane Beall Venardos of Wailea, Hawaii, was married yesterday to Peter J. Ward, a son of Mary Sheehan Ward of Spring Lake Heights, N.J., and the late John F. Ward. The Rev. Peter Dumag performed the ceremony at St. Theresa Roman Catholic Church in Kihei, Hawaii. Ms. Venardos, 36, is keeping her name. She is a producer in New York for ''The Nightly News With Tom Brokaw'' on NBC. She graduated from Ithaca College. Her father retired as the executive producer and director of special events at CBS-TV in New York and is now a broadcast consultant. Her mother, a registered nurse, retired as the manager and director of nursing for the Rockland Homecare Team in Spring Valley, N.Y. She is now the board president of Women Helping Women, a nonprofit program for victims of domestic violence on the island of Maui.
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FOLLOWING UP
Date: 29 June 2003
By Joseph P. Fried
Joseph Fried
Scoop seats in New York City subways cars introduced in 1990's are not being replaced despite rider criticism that they are too narrow, but all new trains have flat benches; photo...Lemuel Smith, whose death sentence for 1983 strangling of Donna Payant, prison guard, was overturned by New York State's highest court in 1984, continues to serve his life sentence in isolation from other inmates at Elmira Correctional Facility; photo (M)
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Laos Jails 2 Journalists and American Aide
Date: 30 June 2003
By Seth Mydans
Seth Mydans
Three men were sentenced to 15-year prison terms today after they where arrested while reporting on an ethnic insurgency.
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Arab World Greets Truce With Guarded Optimism
Date: 30 June 2003
By John Kifner
John Kifner
The Arab world greeted the news with a wary optimism today, tempered by long frustration over the conflict.
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