Loud Knocks In the Night, And Orders To Get Out
Date: 26 March 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
About 50 Western journalists flee after Serbian Government orders all members of news media from NATO countries to leave; some take refuge in Skopje, Macedonia; some journalists and crews are roughed up; while atmosphere in Pristina, capital of Kosovo province, is reportedly more tense than elsewhere in country, other journalists also face harassment; two American reporters are held in Belgrade police station for 11 hours (M)
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U.S. Media Policy: Justify Air Assault But Skimp on Detail
Date: 27 March 1999
By Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt
Military is seen disclosing few details about bombing of Serbia; even as Pres Clinton's national security advisers flood television airways with interviews to justify NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia, American military has clammed up on many of most basic details of operation; Pentagon briefers have refused to discuss what pilots are trying to bomb, or whether they have destroyed particular targets; photo of Pentagon spokesman Kenneth H Bacon (M)
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Abroad at Home; Mr. Milosevic's Campaign of Terror
Date: 27 March 1999
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis Op-Ed column reports that Slobodan Milosevic's forces are spreading terror in Kosovo, burning and shelling villages, driving thousands of ethnic Albanians out of homes and carrying out dozens of assassinations; cites detailed evidence of atrocities, which have not fully registered in outside world because Serb leader has expelled Western journalists and cut off television links (M)
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Birthday in a Shelter, With 'Fireworks'
Date: 26 March 1999
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Serbian anger at West, especially United States, is both media-fed and genuine; some Serbs are stupefied that bombs are falling and outraged that world is treating them 'like savages'; interview with Serb family that spends night in basement, hiding from bombs; photo (M)
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I.B.M. AND TELEFONICA OF SPAIN FORM A PARTNERSHIP
Date: 26 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International Business Machines Corp and Telefonica SA, Spain's biggest phone copmpany, form multibillion-dollar partnership to sell more services to Spanish-speaking telecommunications customers (S)
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COSMETIC CENTER TO CLOSE 116 STORES
Date: 27 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cosmetic Center Inc says it will close 116 of its perfume and cosmetic stores, almost half total number, and dismiss 875 workers (S)
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CONVERGYS TO BECOME SOLE OWNER OF WIZTEC
Date: 27 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Convergys Corp offers to buy 30 percent of Wiztec Solutions Ltd it does not already own for about $54.9 million (S)
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RENT-A-CENTER WARNS OF POSSIBLE DEBT PROBLEMS
Date: 27 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rent-a-Center Inc says that it may have trouble meeting debt obligations after its acquisition of Thorn PLC's United States rental business; says that as of end of 1998 it owed about $805.7 million under debt agreements (S)
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INTERIM SERVICES IN $438 MILLION DEAL FOR NORRELL
Date: 26 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Interim Services Inc to buy Norrell Corp for $438 million in stock and assumption of $115 million in debt (S)
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NEW CENTURY AND NORTHERN STATES PLAN MERGER
Date: 26 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
New Century Energies Inc and Northern States Power Co agree to $4.9 billion merger, creating company that would sell electricity and natural gas to 4.5 million customers in 12 states; New Century shareholders will own 54 percent of company; merger is expected to save company $1.1 billion in first 10 years (S)
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