Writer Who Was Jailed In Notes Dispute Is Freed
Date: 05 January 2002
By Ross E. Milloy
Ross Milloy
Vanessa Leggett, aspiring writer jailed for more than five months for refusing to hand over research to grand jury, is released from detention center in Houston when grand jury term expires; photo; prosecutors indicate they will again seek information about 1997 murder of Doris Angleton, wife of millionaire bookmaker Robert Angleton; he and brother were charged; Roger Angleton committed suicide, leaving confession; Robert Angleton was acquitted but is under investigation on tax evasion and money laundering charges (M)
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Hearing Set On Bid to Put Terror Trial On Television
Date: 05 January 2002
By Neil A. Lewis
Neil Lewis
Federal court will consider Court TV request to broadcast trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, charged in Sept 11 terrorist atatcks (S)
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In Memoriam: Lives Well Lived
Date: 06 January 2002
Article profiles people who died in 2001 whose lives changed Westchester County, NY, for better: affordable housing advocate David Bogdanoff, steam locomotive photographer O Winston Link, Scarsdale civic advocate Luella Slaner, Helene Hollis Schaefer, who graduated College of New Rochelle at age 89, earned masters degree at 90 and was awarded honorary doctorate at age 99, Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Jerome Sala; award-winning poet Jane A Flanders, square dance caller Slim Sterling, Holocaust survivor and Harrison hostess and fund-raiser Zahava Burack, Alexander High School music teacher and founder of Westchester County Summer Music Center Alexander Stonehill, lawyer Lawrence Dittelman, longtime newspaper society journalist and editor Helen Ganz Spiro, Scarsdale High School chorale director Lowell Alecson, dental professor and researcher Edward V Zegarelli, Yonkers police Lieutenant Lorenzo Paul, Ardsley Middle School principal Stephen P O'Connell, New Rochelle community advocate Jacquetta Cole, Westchester Community College Foundation board member Sophia Abeles and Temple Beth El rabbi Chaim Stern; photos (L)
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Leaving Behind More Than Memories
Date: 06 January 2002
Article profiles some people who died in 2001 whose lives have changed Connecticut for better: political matriarch Barbara Bailey, state poet laureate Leo Connellan, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra founder Victor Norman, Hartford Stage Company director Janet Suisman, former Norwalk Mayor Jennie Cave, World War I veteran Ernie Pratt, New London assistant city manager Keith Harrigan, retired Asylum Hill Congregational Church minister Rev Bernard Drew, Connecticut Transportation Department public information director Bill Keish, Morton House co-founder Athena Stavropoulos, Inner Sanctum radio show host Raymond Edward Johnson, civil rights freedom rider and retired Wesleyan University religion Prof Dave Swift, Connecticut Aviation and Ports Bureau chief Bob Juliano, retired state Army National Guard head John F Freund, Remington chairman and former New England Patriots owner Victor Kiam, former Peabody Museum and Smithsonian Institution secretary director Sidney Dillon Ripley 2nd, former New Britain Herald editor and publisher Judith Brown, former New Britain Police Chief Clifford Willis, state Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Glass and gynecologist and obstetrician Joseph Russo, philanthropist, civic activist and former Knox Foundation president Johanna Murphy, Wadsworth Atheneum benefactor Betty Roberts, auto dealership owner Stephen Barberino, Dr Curtiss Hickox, who helped victims of 1944 circus fire in Hartford, feminist and political activist Betty Spaulding and Siemon Co president Carl Siemon; photos (L)
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PPL PLANS TO CUT SPENDING ON NEW POWER PLANTS
Date: 05 January 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
PPL Corp plans to cut its spending on new power plants by $1.3 billion and reduce its earnings forecasts because of lower electricity prices; chief executive William F Hecht comments (S)
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STORE CHAIN WILL CLOSE THREE OF ITS LAZARUS STORES
Date: 05 January 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federated Department Stores will close three Lazarus stores in Indiana and Ohio, affecting 190 jobs (S)
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VERIZON WINS RHODE ISLAND PHONE SERVICE BID
Date: 05 January 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Verizon Communications Inc wins backing of Justice Department to sell long-distance service in Rhode Island, market worth more than $300 million annually (S)/
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World Business Briefing | Europe: Airlines Report Smaller Decline In Travel
Date: 05 January 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
British Airways says December passenger traffic fell 10 percent compared to 18 percent decline in November; KLM Royal Dutch Airlines says December passenger traffic showed decrease of 10 percent from year-earlier month, compared with decline of 18 percent in November; graph (S)
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World Business Briefing | Europe: England: Higher Interest Rate Possible
Date: 05 January 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
World Business Briefing: Eng
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 05 January 2002
INTERNATIONAL A3-5 Israel Seizes Arms Ship; Says Weapons Are Arafat's Israeli forces said they had seized a ship in the Red Sea carrying 50 tons of munitions for Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority. The announcement came as the Bush administration's envoy, Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, met with Mr. Arafat in hope of strengthening his declared cease-fire with Israel. Palestinian officials denied any link to the ship and dismissed the Israeli statement as propaganda. A1 The United States was involved in tracking the arms-laden ship but did not participate in its seizure, senior American officials said. They suggested that the arms might have been headed for Hezbollah, the anti-Israeli Lebanese Shiite group. A5
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