The BBC Adds 24-Hour News in Britain
Date: 10 November 1997
British Broadcasting Corp starts 24-hour news channel in Britain, part of its effort to position itself for multimedia world of 21st century; BBC's all-news BBC World channel has been beamed via satellite to 144 countries since 1994; new domestic BBC News 24 service will allow it to take on CNN International and News Corp's Sky News on home ground; all-news concept rankles many people long associated with BBC who fear network's reputation for incisive, in-depth reporting will be eroded by need to fill airwaves 24 hours a day (M)
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A Fight For On-Air Supremacy
Date: 09 November 1997
By Jesse McKinley
Jesse McKinley
Article on latest escalation in New York's fierce news-helicopter wars at WCBS, WNBC and WABC; photos (L)
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Set to Build Dam, China Diverts Yangtze While Crowing About It
Date: 09 November 1997
By Seth Faison
Seth Faison
Army of Chinese workers and engineers divert Yangtze River from its natural course on Nov 8, clearing way for construction to begin on world's biggest dam; China's leaders turn engineering feat into major political event; Pres Jiang Zemin presides over ceremony at vast construction site; he declares project, known as Three Gorges Dam, to be sign of China's emergence as world power; New China News Agency hails dam as most significant achievement in engineering since Great Wall was built 2,000 years ago; map; photo (M)
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September Tool Orders Set High for Year So Far
Date: 10 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Domestic orders for machine tools rise 13.4 percent in September from month before, to $525.30 million, while orders from American companies for machine tools produced in this country and abroad rise to $710 million, as manufacturers purchase more tools than in any month this year; figures are from Assn for Manufacturing Technology and American Machine Tool Distributors' Assn (M)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 10 November 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-13 After Days of Deal-Making Trade Bill Is Still in Limbo Still short of votes after working through the weekend, President Clinton and his Republican allies decided early this morning to delay for a second time a House vote on expanded trade negotiating authority to the President. The decision potentially gave Mr. Clinton another few days to salvage legislation he has called crucial to the economic health of the country. But it was not clear how Mr. Clinton could round up the votes that had eluded him all weekend. A1 Clinton Urges Stand on Iraq President Clinton urged the United Nations to take ''very strong and unambiguous action'' to force Iraq to comply with international weapons inspections. The President also warned Iraq not to follow through on threats to attack American spy planes on United Nations missions. Iraq halted the inspection teams for a seventh day. The Security Council is to meet today to consider its response. A1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 09 November 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-8 House Continues Dealing On Clinton's Trade Power The wheeling and dealing on President Clinton's trade legislation began in earnest as the House of Representatives went into an unusual weekend session, trying to rewrite agriculture provisions to gain more votes. The measure would give the President the authority to negotiate trade pacts that Congress could vote up or down but could not amend. 1 Chinese Divert the Yangtze An army of workers and engineers in China diverted the Yangtze River from its natural course, clearing the way for construction to begin on the world's biggest dam. President Jiang Zemin attended the event, turning a feat of engineering into a major political celebration. 1 A Torturer's Tale As South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation commission continues its work, the brutality of the country's past is being itemized in the testimony of victims and apartheid functionaries, like Jeffrey Benzien, a paunchy police officer who acted as a professional torturer. 1 NATO's Anonymous Pitchman Javier Solana, NATO's most senior civilian official, commands little notice in the United States despite his emerging role as an important pitchman for why the world's biggest military alliance needs to get bigger. 3 Struggle for Spoils in Serbia Three top associates of President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and about a dozen of their lieutenants have been killed in recent months, apparently as part of a struggle within the ruling elite for control of state-run industries and vast black-market rings. 13 NATIONAL 16-36 United Way, Facing Fewer Donors, Gives Away Less Five years after its former national president was found to be converting charity money to his own use, United Way is in crisis, abandoned by 4.5 million people -- 20 percent of its donors. And most of its 17.7 million remaining donors give less through payroll deduction, United Way's bread and butter. 1 Church Dinner Turns Deadly Nearly 1,400 people crowded into the meeting hall at Our Lady of the Wayside Parish in Captico, Md., for the annual fall dinner of stuffed ham, turkey and fried oysters. But in the days that followed, many grew sick with nausea, cramps, dehydration and fever, classic symptoms of salmonella poisoning. Two elderly people died and more than 100 visited a hospital emergency room 16 Assault on the J.F.K. Mystique In his new book, ''The Dark Side of Camelot,'' the investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh portrays John F. Kennedy as an often immoral cad who accepted the aid of mobsters, was obsessed with killing Fidel Castro, and steered the United States deeper into the Vietnam war so as not to appear weak in his campaign for a second term. But historians question the plausibility of key accounts and the reliability of the 35-year-old memories of Mr. Hersh's sources. 26 Overbilling on Ambulances Federal investigators, having documented many instances of overbilling and false claims by ambulance operators, say that Medicare wastes hundreds of millions of dollars a year by paying for unnecessary ambulance services provided to elderly patients. 33 NEW YORK/REGION 37-41 Welfare and Drug Abuse On Nov. 1, New York State ordered that all people receiving or applying for welfare be interviewed to determine whether they abuse drugs or alcohol. Those found to have a problem will immediately be denied all cash benefits. The new rule has experts re-examining the relationship between drug abuse and welfare. 37 A Legal Cavalry The four little-known lawyers who represented Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who, prosecutors say, was tortured by New York City police officers in a Brooklyn station house, now find themselves sharing the case with three big-name colleagues, including perhaps the most famous lawyer in America today, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. 37 OBITUARIES 43 Cong. Vote 40 Weather 42
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BBC Hits U.K. Airwaves With All-News Channel
Date: 10 November 1997
By Tom Buerkle, International Herald Tribune
Tom Buerkle
The British Broadcasting Corp., seeking to position itself for the multimedia world of the 21st century, took a major step Sunday with the inauguration of a 24-hour news channel in Britain..For the BBC, which has been beaming its all-news BBC World cha
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Cellular Phone Towers Are Opposed in a Report
Date: 10 November 1997
Terrence D Moore, executive director of the New Jersey's Pinelands Commission, recommends that telephone companies not be allowed to build as many as 25 cellular telephone towers on state and federally protected pinelands (S)
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Slain Woman Is Found In Brooklyn Apartment
Date: 10 November 1997
A 22-year-old woman was found fatally shot yesterday morning in her basement apartment in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, the police said. The woman, who died from a gunshot into her mouth, was found nude, with her arms and legs bound to a chair, the police said. The authorities withheld the woman's name because they had yet to notify her relatives.
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Park Slope Cooperative Is Robbed by Gang of 5
Date: 09 November 1997
Five men armed with shotgun and knife steal $2,400 from food cooperative in Park Slope section of Brooklyn (S)
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