President vs. Press
Date: 02 December 1996
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column urges Clinton White House to bring back regular, wide-open, televised news conference; says regular news conference imposes necessary policy discipline on President and his entire administration (M)
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All for a Cause
Date: 01 December 1996
Photos of benefit parties around New York City; photo of New York Times chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who got Committee to Protect Journalists award marking 25th anniversary of publishing of Pentagon Papers8
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Stocks Tumble in Japan
Date: 02 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stocks traded sharply lower here this afternoon after a quiet morning session. The Nikkei index of 225 issues fell 345.67 points, or 1.64 percent, to 20,674.69. On Friday, the Nikkei lost 15.18 points.
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Challenge to Bid for Funeral Home Operator Is Allowed to Proceed
Date: 02 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Loewen Group says that Texas court has dismissed lawsuit filed by Service Corp International that sought to stop antitrust challenge of its $3.2 billion hostile takeover bid for Loewen, second-largest operator of funeral homes in United States (S)
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On the T.W.A. Crash
Date: 01 December 1996
Letter from Mark E Abels, vice president, Trans World Airlines, prompted by Nov 24 article that said TWA had vested interest in perpetuating 'sabotage' theory when exploring cause for TWA crash; says it was news media, including New York Times, that perpetuated sabotage theory and continued to remark on it even as Federal agencies maintained that all theories remained under investigation (M)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 01 December 1996
International 3-20 BEHIND THE SAUDI VEIL A special C.I.A. task force has concluded that Saudi Arabia remains politically stable, but that the United States needs to find new ways to gather intelligence in one of the world's most closed societies. 1 In Washington, Prince Bandar is the voice of Saudi Arabia. 20 The American Defense Secretary met with the Saudi King. 20 THE MYSTERY OF CLUE'S INVENTOR A British law clerk who invented a popular board game died in such obscurity two years ago, it was learned last week, that not even Colonel Mustard or Miss Scarlet had a clue. 1 BRITAIN'S PROMINENT NONCITIZEN Mohamed al-Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of Harrod's and Punch, can claim to have once saved the pound sterling from virtual collapse -- but Britain will still not have him as a citizen. 3 DOMINICAN SETS NEW COURSE The new President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez, has embarked on a potentially hazardous course, taking on Congress and a corrupt bureaucracy. 15 YUGOSLAVIA'S NEW POWER BROKER Zoran Djindjic, a telegenic 44-year-old opposition leader, may emerge as the new political power broker in Yugoslavia, but he is considered as calculating as the man he could replace. 18 JUSTICE ARRIVES IN BOSNIA The day after the war crimes tribunal in The Hague handed down its first sentence, there was a feeling in some parts of Bosnia that for some of those killed in the war justice may have at last begun. 18 National 8-16, 20 NEW CHANCES ON CLEAN AIR The Clinton Administration's new proposal to tighten national air quality standards may offer an opportunity for some regions of the country that have struggled for years to bring their cities into compliance with the existing clean-air goals. 1 STORMY SENATE SESSION LOOMS It is unclear whether Trent Lott will succeed as a leader of the Senate, for the 105th Congress poses special problems that may not be easily managed by someone with his experience. 1 CALIFORNIA FIGHT FAR FROM OVER Despite declarations of victory on Election Day by supporters of California's anti-affirmative initiative turned out to be premature, with a court fight over the measure's constitutionality just getting under way. 1 NEW PRICE GAUGE URGED A Congressionally appointed panel is expected to recommend that the Government create a new price gauge that would more accurately reflect inflation. 11 VICTIMS' FAMILIES PRESS FOR TAPES Some family members of Valujet crash victims are pressing to hear the cockpit voice recording, saying that for them, part of grieving is wanting to know every detail, even those that others might find unbearable. 8 PRESERVING BOSTON'S JEWISH PAST Efforts are under way to preserve a relic from the period of Jewish immigration to Boston, between 1880 and 1920, when thousands of families poured into the city's North and West Ends. 8 SPOTLIGHT ON MARIJUANA PROGRAM The passage of voter initiatives in California and Arizona allowing the medical use of marijuana has caused renewed interest in a little-known Government program that supplies marijuana for medicinal purposes to eight people across the country. 11 PROFESSOR TURNS SLEUTH Benjamin Austin is a sleuth on the trail of offenders who may well have committed no crime. It is the crime they deny or minimize that offends him: the Holocaust. 16 FRICTION OVER NEW ARRIVALS Like many other communities across the New York region and the nation, Mount Kisco, an affluent suburban village in Westchester County has been struggling to adapt to an influx of Hispanic immigrants, many of them ill-educated day laborers from impoverished villages in Central America. And now, crackdowns on overcrowded housing in Mount Kisco are being criticized by some as a form of official harassment of immigrants. 20 Metropolitan 47-56 MAYOR REBUFFS FEARS ON TRASH Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said New York City would have little trouble finding places to accept its garbage if it is able to shut the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island by 2001, brushing aside fears that some states might bar the waste in a bit of anti-New York fervor. 47 FRICTION OVER NEW ARRIVALS Like many other communities across the New York region and the nation, Mount Kisco, an affluent suburban village in Westchester County, has been struggling to adapt to an influx of Hispanic immigrants, many of them ill-educated day laborers from impoverished villages in Central America. And now, crackdowns on overcrowded housing in Mount Kisco are being criticized by some as a form of official harassment of immigrants. 47 THE NEED FOR GIVING GROWS As representatives of social service agencies in New York City say pleas for help far outstrip their resources, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund begins its 85th annual appeal. 47 Obituaries 58
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News Summary
Date: 02 December 1996
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 MILOSEVIC AND THE MINERS The fate of President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, who has faced almost two weeks of street protests, may ultimately hinge on whether miners strike in a bleak region of the southeast. A1 ROMANIAN LEADER SWORN IN President Emil Constantinescu pledged a new start for his nation in a Romanian Orthodox inauguration that was a milestone for post-Communist Eastern Europe. A3 DEATH SQUAD CHARGE IN PERU A retired Peruvian general is being held in prison, after alleging in a television interview that an infamous military death squad had been reactivated and was responsible for a recent bombing. A5 AGREEMENT ON OKINAWA BASE The United States and Japan announced that an American military helicopter base in Okinawa would be transferred onto a huge offshore platform as a way to reduce the noise and danger on the island. A6 PITFALLS FOR AFRICA FORCE News analysis: Even a scaled-down international force to help refugees in Zaire is fraught with problems and could worsen the conflict there, aid workers say. A8 ZAIRE RECALLS ENVOY FROM FRANCE Zaire recalled its Ambassador to France after thousands of people rallied to demand that he be charged in the deaths of two schoolboys in a traffic accident. A8 PEACE PACT IN SIERRA LEONE The signing of a peace agreement this weekend ending a five-year civil war in Sierra Leone was the end product of skillful negotiations conducted by Africans themselves. A8 OFF THE STREETS IN ZAMBIA At a farm in Zambia, there is no caning of students, no stealing and no glue to sniff, only pigs, okra and the kindness that keeps children off the streets. A9 Mexico City Journal: Where life imitates art imitates life. A4 NATIONAL A10-12, B7-9 SMALLER DEFICIT SEEN The Republican leaders in Congress are reducing their estimate of the growth of the deficit, bringing them closer to the White House's figures, leaders of both parties say. A1 REWRITING COPYRIGHT LAW Experts from 160 countries plan to rewrite international copyright agreements -- which have been under technological siege -- for the first time in the era of the personal computer and the Internet. A1 STRONG WEEKEND SALES Shoppers, apparently feeling more flush than during last year's holiday season, hit the malls over the weekend with a vigor not seen in a few years, retailers said. A1 CULTURES CLASH IN NEBRASKA When an Iraqi refugee family in Lincoln. Neb., proudly announced the marriage of their two young daughters, local officials accused them of a crime. A10 REVIVAL FOR TRAIN STATIONS Kansas City's plan to renovate its historic Union Station is one of many across the nation to rescue graceful old train stations in what amounts to a second railroad boom, a century after the Golden Age of Railroads. A10 A HAZARD IN TIRES Rhode Island's biggest environmental hazard is not a faulty water treatment plant or reckless factory, but a pile of old tires in a Providence suburb. A12 MORE STUDENTS GO ABROAD A new survey has found that increasing numbers of American college students are studying overseas, and that more of them are venturing farther afield. B9 TRADING BLAME IN BALTIMORE Many Baltimore residents are wondering who is to blame for the loss of the Baltimore Orioles' popular radio announcer after an apparent contract dispute. B7 CHANGED POLITICAL FORCES An American Place: The Timken Company and the Timken family, both bulwarks of the community in Stark County, Ohio, provide a measure of how much the nation's political and economic values have changed with time. B8 METRO REPORT B1-6 THIEF OF TIMES SQUARE A hoard of stolen wallets and pocketbooks found by workers renovating the Apollo Theater on West 42d Street is perhaps nothing more than a tantalizing historical footnote. But as a reminder of a particular time and place -- a turning point in the social history of New York City's most famous crossroads -- the discovery provides a rich symbol of the long decline, and now the rapid renaissance, of Times Square. A1 GIULIANI'S WARCHEST Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's intentionally aggressive style of political fund raising for his re-election has produced an unusually high reliance on big givers, with an average campaign contribution of $1,122. That figure is the highest average contribution in the eight years since the city tightened restrictions on public campaign financing. A1 DEFENDING INMATES' LIVES Unlike traditional criminal defense, which looks for fractures in the prosecution's case, lawyers for New York State's Capital Defender Office, which oversees the representation of defendants who may face the death penalty, must also look beyond the nightmarish crime, to ferret out the nightmarish history of the criminal. A1 Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C11-16 Arts prizes multiply, and so do doubts. C11 Frank Langella on Noel Coward. C11 Music: ''Carmen.'' C12 Oscar Brown Jr. C13 Dance: The New York City Ballet in ''The Nutcracker.'' C12 Books: Critic's Notebook C11 For holiday giving. C16 Television: Critic's Notebook C14 ''The Prosecutors'' and ''Code Name: Wolverine.'' C14 Sports C1-9 Football: Eagles blank Giants. C1 O'Donnell injured again, and Jets lose again. C1 Columns: Anderson on Giants. C7 Moran on college football. C3 Golf: Couples wins Skins. C4 Obituaries B12 Tiny Tim, singer who flirted, chastely, with fame John Williamson, Nets star in the 1970's Editorials/Op-Ed A14-15 Editorials The city's temporary windfall. Mexico's disappearing reforms. Driving teen-agers from drugs. A warm holiday ritual. Letters Anthony Lewis: Which side are we on? Bob Herbert: Death at an early age. William Safire: President vs. press. Jane Smiley: Shakespeare in action. Chronicle B10 Bridge C14 Crossword C16
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A Blare of Bad News Amid the Subtle Messages
Date: 02 December 1996
By Jonathan Mirsky, International Herald Tribune
Jonathan Mirsky
It was a macabre moment when Jiang Zemin presented Bill Clinton here with what Beijing's spokesman described as an example of Chinese goodwill: a video and photograph album of a crashed World War II B-24 bomber, complete with remains, discovered in Guang
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Death Penalty Rejected in Park Slope Murder Case
Date: 01 December 1996
By Rachel L. Swarns
Rachel Swarns
Brooklyn Dist Atty Charles J Hynes decides not to seek death penalty for Luis Figueroa, charged with Feb murder of Park Slope news stand owner Sajjankumar Auluwahia (S)ï
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Three Days of the Concorde
Date: 01 December 1996
By Richard Weir
Richard Weir
Half-size replica of British Airways' Concorde, 102 feet long and weighing 12 tons, is placed atop Hansen's Times Square Brewery in New York after installers overcome several complications; photos (S);
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