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Date: 26 May 1997
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis Op-Ed column says jailing of leading Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab for criticising Palestinian Authority blights hopes for a viable Palestinian homeland and costs Yasir Arafat much-needed respect (M)
Date: 26 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hewlett-Packard Co distributes more than $176 million to almost 112,000 employees as part of profit-sharing plan (S)
Date: 26 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
DSC Communications Corp agrees to buy telecommunications division of Texas Instruments Inc for undisclosed amount of cash (S)
Date: 27 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corning Inc and Samsung Group announce plans to join with Asahi Glass Co to build $340 million television picture tube and computer monitor factory in Mexico; Corning will hold 12 percent, or about $40 million, stake in the project, while Samsung of Korea and Asahi of Japan will each spend about $150 million on the project (S)
Date: 26 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Striking auto workers at General Motors plant in Oklahoma City agree to end their seven-week walkout, although final vote on tentative accord is delayed for few more days (M)
Date: 27 May 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Prime Minister of France Says He Will Resign Alain Juppe said he would resign as Prime Minister of France even if the conservative coalition he leads wins in the second round of voting on Sunday. Mr. Juppe was widely seen as the reason that the governing coalition received fewer votes than the assorted parties of the left. A1 Conservative parties across Europe winced at the outcome of the French elections. The center-right party of Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany worried about elections in 1998. A9
Date: 26 May 1997
INTERNATIONAL 2-7 Conservatives in France Are Rebuffed in Elections President Jacques Chirac of France, a conservative, was rebuffed in his gamble to use legislative elections to gain a mandate for the deficit cutting that he said was needed to join a common European currency in 1999. Instead, the French voted heavily for the leftist opposition and protest parties, raising the chances that the Socialists could lead a majority in Parliament after runoff elections next Sunday. 1 A Stunning Result in Iran Near-final results announced after Iran's presidential election showed the dimensions of the upset victory by a moderate cleric, Mohammed Khatami, who won a surprising 69 percent of the vote. Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, his principal opponent, took just 25 percent. Never in 18 years of Islamic rule had Iranians so clearly rejected the will of the ruling Shiite Muslim clerics. 1
Date: 27 May 1997
Rep Charles E Schumer asks Federal authorities to block Cablevision from taking over Madison Square Garden, saying deal would mean higher cable television fees for sports fans (S)
Date: 27 May 1997
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman, in NYC column, contends that murder of Michael McMorrow in Central Park by two 15-year-olds, Daphne Abdela and Christopher Vasquez, has shocked many New Yorkers (M)
Date: 27 May 1997
By Serge Schmemann
Serge Schmemann
Bassem Eid, head of Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, accuses Palestinian security forces of extensive abuse and torture of its prisoners; issues report citing 42 cases in which prisoners reported being beaten, whipped, held in painful or cramped conditions or otherwise being abused by various security services of Palestinian Authority; says two prisoners were beaten to death in detention (M)