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Date: 21 December 1996
By STEPHEN KINZER
Istanbul's largely Muslim population has embraced Christmas as secular holiday; celebrates holiday season much as it is marked in West, with Santa Claus, gifts and decorated trees, but without scenes of Jesus in manger; photo (M)
Date: 21 December 1996
Fortis, the Belgian-Dutch bank and insurer, will pay 2.5 billion guilders ($1.43 billion) in cash for Mees Pierson NV from ABN-Amro Holdings NV (S)
Date: 21 December 1996
By JENNIFER PRESTON
New Jersey agrees to stop keeping healthy infants whose parents are unwilling or unable to care for them in hospital wards and to move them into foster homes or back with their families within seven days; so-called 'boarder babies' have been kept in hospitals for weeks and even months at a time (M)
Date: 21 December 1996
Kiernan Speight leaves Boston College for Hampton University, but his family remains determined to find out how the sophomore cornerback came to be wrongly accused in BC's gambling scandal (S)
Date: 21 December 1996
By BRUCE LAMBERT
Heating oil prices are up 20 cents to 30 cents a gallon in Northeast from last year to highest level since 1990-91 Gulf War; are expected to rise further during winter; costs of alternative heating fuels are also up; graph; photo (M)
Date: 21 December 1996
By DAVID E. SANGER
Wang Jun, who met Pres Clinton at White House social for Democratic fund-raisers in Feb, is well-known to Federal law-enforcement agents and others in Washington who monitor China; is chairman of Poly Technologies, company reportedly owned and run by China's Army, and focus at time of Federal undercover operation that later netted $4 million in arms headed for West Coast street gangs (M)
Date: 21 December 1996
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Gunman posing as United Parcel Service deliveryman and an accomplice invade brownstone apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side and shoot the occupants, killing Roy Ogden and wounding Roberto Andujar, in what police view as a robbery attempt gone awry (M)
Date: 21 December 1996
By ALEX YANNIS
New York Rangers stage a remarkable turnaround, losing only once in their last 11 games after winning 7 times in their first 24 games, but Coach Colin Campbell remains nervous about coming games against Montreal Canadiens and Florida Panthers (M)
Date: 21 December 1996
Judge Paul G Flynn grants bid by Susan McDougal that she be returned from Los Angeles County jail to Federal prison in Texas, where she was being held for contempt of court in Whitewater case; she faces trial on unrelated charges that she stole over $150,000 from Zubin Mehta and his wife while acting as their bookkeeper; photo (S)