PEN Award to Maine Reporter Ignites Feud With Newspaper
Date: 11 May 1998
By Carey Goldberg
Carey Goldberg
$25,000 award that will be presented by PEN American Center to Terrilyn Simpson, small-town Maine journalist, for defending First Amendment, creates stir in her home state; many of her colleagues at Courier Publications charge organization with failing to check facts by alleging that she was blacklisted for writing about effects of pollution from Champion International Corp paper mill in Bucksport; executive editor Michael McGuire says newspaper invested thousands of dollars in Simpson's investigation, and that before article was published she quit for unknown reasons (M)
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The Nation: Judicial Privilege; The Right To Secrecy
Date: 10 May 1998
By Neil A. Lewis
Neil Lewis
Historians, political scientists and news media lament secrecy behind Federal District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's reported rejection of Pres Clinton's claim of executive privilegeto deflect grand jury subpoena from Kenneth W Starr; but many lawyers say it might be appropriate to seal all proceedings because of overwhelming need for grand jury secrecy; photo (M)
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Sumitomo Likely To Pay Big Fine
Date: 11 May 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Commodity Futures Trading Commission is expected to announce that Sumitomo Corp will pay record fine totaling $150 million to settle charges of illegal trading by its former chief copper trader, Yasuo Hamanaka (S)
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Baker Hughes Likely to Buy Western Atlas
Date: 11 May 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Baker Hughes reportedly is close to accord on buying Western Atlas Inc for about $5 billion in stock (M)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 10 May 1998
INTERNATIONAL 3-11 Dominican Republic Offers New Base in Drug Network Since the mid-1990's, drug barons from Colombia have established a strong foothold in the Dominican Republic, a country with weak law enforcement and established drug distribution networks. 1 The Next Philippine Leader If polls and pundits are correct, after an election Monday the man who will lead the Philippines is Vice President Joseph P. Estrada, a wildly popular former B-movie actor who admits to his love of women and drink, his lax work ethic and his befuddlement over basic economics. 8
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 May 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Netanyahu Wins Delay On Withdrawal Decision Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel won another two-week reprieve in the battle over the 13 percent withdrawal from the West Bank that the United States has set as the threshold for continuing peace negotiations with the Palestinians. A1 Flood Victims Buried in Italy Ninety-five carved wooden coffins were lined up in a soccer field for an outdoor funeral in Sarno, Italy, the worst hit of the five villages smothered in mud after torrential rains on Tuesday. A7
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Witness Tampering Seen In Bronx Flowerpot Case
Date: 10 May 1998
Detectives investigating incident in which flowerpot was thrown from window and hit two police officers in Bronx arrest Enrique Leon on charge of witness tampering, apparently trying to hinder their investigation (S)
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Hudson County Forming A Car-Theft Task Force
Date: 10 May 1998
Hudson County, NJ, is forming car-theft task force (S)
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Youth Shoots Paraplegic Over $5 Tip, Police Say
Date: 11 May 1998
Michael Barlett, paraplegic, tells Brooklyn detectives that he was shot by one of three teen-agers who helped him get into his wheelchair, rejected $5 tip he offered as too little and then robbed him of $100 (S)
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People
Date: 11 May 1998
By Sharon R. King
Sharon King
J Walter Thompson France names Guy Chauvel chairman and chief executive, succeeding Daniel Cole, who left; TV Guide names Dick Porter senior vice president and publisher, succeeding Robert Margolis; Worth magazine names Jim McCabe associate publisher-East, new post; names Rocco Smeriglio Midwest/West advertising director; Association of Independent Commercial Producers names Steve Caplan to new post of West managing director (S)
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