Ideas & Trends; In Television News, an Epidemic of Pencil Envy
Date: 10 January 1999
By David Firestone
David Firestone
Nation's best-known television news anchors are crossing boundary between media to write books; they are seeking constancy of written word, lasting victory of printed page over videotape; Tom Brokaw of NBC says he is frustrated by abbreviated form he has on his program; his book, on World War II years, is on best-seller list; Peter Jennings of ABC also has book on best-seller list; Dan Rather of CBS has written or edited five books; older television journalists who got their start in print have never lost sense that it is first among equals as communications medium; this feeling does not exist among younger workers who come straight to video; photo (M)
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From Gabelli, An Energy Spinoff
Date: 10 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Board of Gabelli Equity Trust closed-end mutual fund approves plan to take as much as $80 million, or about 6 percent of funds assets, to form new Gabelli Energy Fund Inc closed-end fund (S)
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Fidelity Wants S.& L. Unit
Date: 10 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fidelity Investments will open Federal savings and loan association aimed at providing trust services to its 14.4 million mutual fund clients nationwide; parent FMR Corp becomes latest in long list of nonbanks and other commercial companies seeking to own such Federally chartered unit (S)
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No Fast Payments for Chinese Concern's Creditors
Date: 11 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chinese Government officials tell representatives of 150 international banks that liquidation of Guangdong International Trust and Investment Corp, or Gitic, will not begin for at least three months and that repayment of $4 billion will not occur anytime soon (S)
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Golf Fund Draws Criticism
Date: 10 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Some mutual funds managers criticize as gimmick Value Trend Links fund, which is operated by father-and-son team of Ross and Jeffrey Provence and invests in golf companies and sponsors of sports tournaments; fund will invest in companies with minimum market value of $50 million (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 10 January 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-11 Cambodia Begins to Speak Of the Killing Fields Cambodians, after years of repressing their anguish, seem to be embarking, spontaneously, on a long-delayed national conversation about their country's traumatic past. 1 War Crimes Suspect Shot A suspected Bosnian war criminal was slain by NATO troops near the Serb-held Bosnian town of Foca, NATO officials said. They identified him as Dragan Gagovic, the town's former police chief, who was wanted on charges of raping and torturing Muslim women. 4
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 January 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Iraq Seeks Reparations For Air-Strike Damage The Iraqi Government, after more than a month of rising defiance, postponed a vote in which its Parliament had appeared ready to take further steps along a collision course with its Western foes. Instead, Parliament adopted a resolution calling for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to pay reparations for the damage caused by last month's air strikes. A4 Clemency for Pollard Opposed United States military and intelligence officials, adamant that President Clinton refuse clemency requests for Jonathan J. Pollard, an American spy for Israel, say he did more damage to national security than the public has been told. A4
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Enough News To Keep 'Em Rolling
Date: 10 January 1999
By Seth Margolis
Seth Margolis
Article on Jon Stewart, who takes over as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show on Jan 11; Stewart comments; photo (M)
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Ejected Patrons Suspected In Killing Outside a Club
Date: 10 January 1999
Three men ejected from Bronx bar return in car and open fire, missing bouncer but killing bystander, Pablo Fersobe (S)
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One Woman in Hospital After Fire at Subway Stop
Date: 11 January 1999
Smoky trash fire on subway platform in Brooklyn forces evacuation of Metropolitan Avenue station on G line in mid afternoon and shuts down most of G and L lines for nearly an hour; one woman on platform is hospitalized, suffering from smoke inhalation (S)
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