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Date: 21 February 2000
By Susan Stellin
Susan Stellin
Industry View column on recent extensive media coverage of problems affecting Internet, which overshadowed usual coverage on highflying Internet stock prices, has raised question of how long it will be before 'Internet update' becomes staple of daily media diet (M)
Date: 21 February 2000
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
Boom in German high-technology stocks and revolution in attitudes toward investing transforms Germany into battleground for new business publications; Pearson Group, publisher of Financial Times of London, will start German version of business daily; plans by other publications to enter German market discussed; photo (M)
Date: 21 February 2000
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Yugoslav government of Pres Slobodan Milosevic sharply intensifies attacks on democratic opposition and news media, calling them traitors and using a draconian press law to intimidate and impoverish independent publications; reinforces lawsuits against the press with open threats of possible violence (M)
Date: 22 February 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vivendi SA of France sells 21 power plants in US to Reliant Energy Inc for $21.1 billion and is in talks to sell more of its Sithe Energies Inc power unit; plants being sold are in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S)
Date: 22 February 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
EM.TV & Merchandising AG, German television program distributor, acquires Jim Henson Co, creator of The Muppets, for $680 million in cash and stock to expand into children's entertainment market in US (S)
Date: 21 February 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Initial Tallies Show Reformist Victory in Iran Early tallies indicated that reformers and moderates who are expected to back President Mohammad Khatami will have a significant, probably even dominant, place in the new Iranian Parliament. A1 Serbs Battle U.S. Troops Angry Serbs stoned, punched and kicked American troops in Mitrovica, a town in northern Kosovo, forcing them to beat a hasty retreat and cut short their part in a citywide search for weapons. A3
Date: 22 February 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 China Threatens Taiwan On Reunification Issue Beijing issued the bluntest warning yet that it would not wait indefinitely for Taiwan to reunite with the mainland, saying that if Taiwan, which is to hold presidential elections on March 18, indefinitely refused to pursue reunification, then China would ''adopt all drastic measures possible, including the use of force.'' A1 Gains for Iran Reformers An adviser to President Mohammad Khatami said reform candidates appeared to have won 73 percent of the parliamentary seats already decided and could control up to 90 percent after a runoff in April. A1
Date: 22 February 2000
METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK: Man Is Charged In Neighbor's Death**Police charge Shimon Sharach of Borough Park, Brooklyn, with criminally negligent homicide in death of Thomas DeSimone, 75-year-old neighbor who had heart attack during argument over parking spot (S)
Date: 21 February 2000
Kings Highway Democratic Club endorses Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani, Republican, for Senate, holding he is better qualified than Hillary Rodham Clinton; State Sen Carl Kruger and Councilman Michael C Nelson, Brooklyn Democrats, endorse Giuliani; State Democratic Committee holds many prominent Brooklyn Democrats back Clinton (S)
Date: 22 February 2000
Gov George E Pataki says he will change requirements for federal home heating-oil assistance program to allow more low-income New Yorkers to become eligible (S)