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Date: 13 October 2002
By Nancy Haggerty
Nancy Haggerty
Article on abrupt closing by Cablevision of News Center 6 station, which had been serving more than 60,000 households in New York's Dutchess and Putnam counties for nearly 20 years; Cablevision fired 11 of 16 employees and reduced staff at News 12 Westchester as well; photo (M)
Date: 13 October 2002
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
Huge media coverage of sniper killings and public fear in Washington, DC, area discussed; photo (M)
Date: 13 October 2002
By Seth Kugel
Seth Kugel
Horace Mann Record, weekly New York City high school newspaper, is celebrating its 100th volume with star-studded panel discussion on freedom of the press; photos; drawing (M)
Date: 13 October 2002
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Journalists tour industrial plant in Al Furat, Iraq, identified by Pres Bush as one of sites of past nuclear programs being rebuilt by Pres Saddam Hussein and leave with few clues as to plant's real purpose; tour is marked by ambiguities and frustrations; Iraqi officers in charge flatly deny plant has anything to do with nuclear technology, but realities glimpsed by visitors left many with sense that they may have been less than candid; facility described; maps; photo (M)
Date: 12 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Maytag will close appliance plant in Galesburg, Ill, and eliminate 1,600 jobs, or about 8 percent of its work force (M)
Date: 12 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Monsanto reduces earnings forecasts because of reduced United States and Latin American sales (S)
Date: 12 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Aquila Inc, United States utility owner, completes sale of its 70 percent stake in New Zealand's largest electricity distributor, UnitedNetworks; Vector Ltd pays $503 million for Aquila's stake (M)
Date: 12 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Royal Caribbean Cruises, which wants to be bought by P&O Princess Cruises, raises its third-quarter and full-year earnings estimates because of cost cutting and sales increases (S)
Date: 12 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Roche Holding and its partner Trimeris win faster-than-usual Food and Drug Administration review of Fuzeon, first in new class of drugs that prevent HIV from infecting healthy cells (S)
Date: 12 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kmart asks bankruptcy court for approval to sell its BlueLight.com Internet access business, with 165,000 subscribers, to United Online for $8.4 million (M)
Date: 12 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
El Paso Corp agrees to sell its 14 percent interest in a natural gas pipeline and processor to its partners, Enbridge Inc and Fort Chicago Energy Partners; each partner will pay about $85 million (S)