Bitterness and Posturing As Rivalries Resurface In Fight for CableNews
Date: 03 June 1996
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
The all-news channel that NBC, in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation, plans to start next month has become entangled in a dispute between cable operators and the broadcast network. Several senior cable operators are threatening to balk at NBC's plans to distribute the new all-news channel in place of its current America's Talking channel. NBC is responding in kind, saying that any cable system that refuses to carry the news channel in place of America's Talking will face an immediate lawsuit, and, more ominously, will no longer get any programming from the top-rated broadcast network. That includes the 1996 Olympic Games from Atlanta, which begin only four days after the scheduled start of MSNBC.
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All-American Defendant? Lawyer Works to Soften Image of BombingSuspect
Date: 02 June 1996
By James Brooke
James Brooke
Two days after the Oklahoma City bombing, Americans got their first, and perhaps most enduring, image of Timothy J. McVeigh: a crew-cut man in an orange prison jump suit, his hands and feet shackled, his face a taut mask. In recent weeks, television viewers have seen a new, softer image of Mr. McVeigh: relaxed, his hair longer, his clothing casual and his mood amiable as he exchanges pleasantries with his lead lawyer.
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Eccentric Editor Is Jailed Over Letter in Paper
Date: 03 June 1996
By Carey Goldberg
Carey Goldberg
There was the time Bruce Anderson published a satirical list of 107 people whom he described as potential satanic child molesters in Mendocino County. Or the hullabaloo Mr. Anderson raised when he fabricated an interview in which the area's Congressman called his constituents "know-nothing malcontents" who mainly cared about "where their next joint is coming from." The ruckus-raising editor of an alternative weekly newspaper in the small northern California town of Boonville, Mr. Anderson has tested the limits of the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech before.
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News Analysis;Telling Israeli Vote: More Fear Than Hope on Peace
Date: 02 June 1996
By Serge Schmemann
Serge Schmemann
Elections are always a time to draw conclusions about the state of a society, and the initial lessons of the Israeli vote did not look favorable either for the future of the Palestinian peace or the internal unity of Israel itself. The first and most crucial statement was that a majority of Israeli Jews viewed the process of granting the Palestinians a homeland in exchange for peace with more fear than hope. The Likud's candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu, successfully capitalized on that fear, and Prime Minister Shimon Peres failed to allay it.
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Newsroom Cynics, Listen Up
Date: 02 June 1996
By Martin F. Nolan
Martin Nolan
NEWS VALUES Ideas for an Information Age. By Jack Fuller. 251 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $22.95.
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Talks in Chechnya As 4 Killed by Mine
Date: 03 June 1996
AP
Four Russian soldiers were killed today when their armored personnel carrier hit a mine in Chechnya, and an international mediator met with Russia's military commander in the separatist republic to try to get negotiations back on track after fighting marred the first day of a cease-fire on Saturday. The mediator, Tim Guldimann, the leader of the Chechnya mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, met with the Russian commander, Gen. Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, the ITAR-Tass news agency said. It said that discussions centered on 26 Russian soldiers the rebels captured on Saturday in the Nozhai-Yurt region southeast of Grozny and on 10 Chechens taken prisoner by the Russians a day earlier in Shali.
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These Days, a Magazine to Satisfy Every Taste Bud
Date: 03 June 1996
By Stacy Lu
Stacy Lu
Sipping their gourmet coffee, chugging -- but of course savoring -- their boutique beers, spooning in their salsa, the consumers of the trendiest beverages and foods are the targets of a growing wave of magazines and newsletters. Cups magazine, for example, is distributed free in coffee bars and cafes nationwide; Barleycorn, in brew pubs and restaurants with speciality beers. They and dozens of other publications are covering not just the food fads but the life styles that follow them.
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Algeria-China Nuclear Tie
Date: 03 June 1996
Reuters
Algeria, which has a Chinese-made nuclear reactor, has signed a draft nuclear cooperation agreement with China, the official Algerian news agency A.P.S. reported today. The report said that the country's Minister of Universities and Scientific Research, Boubakeur Benbouzid, stressed the need to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, but it did not give details of the pact, which was signed Saturday in Algiers.
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