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Date: 24 November 1996
By Janet Allon
Janet Allon
Interview with Elinor R Tatum, associate publisher and chief operating officer of The Amsterdam News, Harlem-based black newspaper, who is also in line to succeed her father, Wilbert A Tatum, as editor in chief and publisher; she addresses charges that newspaper has fanned flames of racial division and anti-Semitism under her father's leadership; photo (M)
Date: 24 November 1996
New Business Information Wall at New York Public Library presents information on 21 television screens and 3 electronic display signs; Indiana-based Bruegger's Bagels opens its first New York outlet; Cineplex Odeon is turning a three-screen theater in Chelsea into a two-screen one, reversing the usual practice (M)
Date: 25 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nikkei index of 225 issues climbs 77.46 points to close at 21,293.57 (S)
Date: 25 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dime Bancorp's mortgage lending operations will move to Tampa, Fla, from Uniondale and Albion, NY (S)
Date: 25 November 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Computer Associates International will take a third-quarter charge of $598 million, or $1.60 a share, for its $1.19 billion acquisition of Cheyenne Software (S)
Date: 24 November 1996
Burling Lowrey letter discusses Walter Goodman's Nov 3 article on Jim Lehrer and program Newshour on PBS (S)
Date: 24 November 1996
International HIJACKED JET CRASHES An Ethiopian airliner that was hijacked with 175 people aboard crashed on a beach of the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean, killing more than 50 people. 1 SAVING LITHUANIAN JEWISH BOOKS Tens of thousands of rare Hebrew and Yiddish texts have been forgotten about in Lithuania, one of the largest and least accessible such collections in the world. 1 U.S. SHADOW ON GLOBAL TRADE The intense Asian interest in American domestic politics can be explained by the central role of the United States in setting or vetoing the rules of global trade. 1 President Clinton arrived for the Pacific summit meeting. 12 FRONT LINE AGAINST EBOLA Eighteen months after an Ebola outbreak killed at least 244 people, scientists have chosen a remote national park in the Ivory Coast as the front line in fighting the disease. 3 CORRUPTION LINGERS IN JAPAN As Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto tries to press ahead with his campaign for deregulation, his new Government is under attack because of corruption scandals. 12 The Unification Church is making inroads in Latin America. 14 National WASHINGTON GUESSING GAME With President Clinton out of the country, the parlor game du jour of the foreign policy establishment -- predicting who will become the nation's next Secretary of State -- is being played with feverish intensity back home. 1 ECONOMIC DATA FLAWED? A senior Clinton Administration official warns that the quality of the economic statistics produced by the Government has been eroding steadily, increasing doubts about how accurately they depict the nation's economic activity. 1 TOUGH TIMES FOR ARMY'S TEACHERS Drill sergeants, entrusted with absolute authority over young recruits who must obey their every command, are under new scrutiny because some have taken advantage of that power to sexually harass or assault their soldiers. 18 TRIAL DATE SET IN TOBACCO SUIT A Florida judge has set a trial date for next Sept. 8 in a statewide class action against leading tobacco companies, accusing them of causing illness. 35 MARIJUANA FARMS FLOURISH With the expansion of domestic growing of marijuana, and particularly the proliferation of indoor gardens, high-grade marijuana is more available now than ever before. 18 SELLING A CHEMICAL DEPOT SITE Among real estate salesmen who have worked to dismember the nearly 300 military installations that Washington has closed in the last decade, Charles Finley faces one of the toughest challenges: marketing space at a chemical depot in Colorado. 24 TV SHOW HELPS REVIVE BALTIMORE A revitalized Baltimore has attracted not only new residents, shops and restaurants but also the television production company for ''Homicide, Life on the Street,'' the critically acclaimed police drama. 22 BORDER DROWNINGS RAISE ALARMS At least four men were swept to their deaths off a Gulf of Mexico sandbar last week, and an immigration research group sees a connection between this latest fatal incident involving would-be immigrants and increased Federal border enforcement. 19 Metropolitan TRAIN DERAILS IN MEADOWLAND An Amtrak fast-mail train approaching New York with 108 passengers and crew members derailed as it crossed a Hackensack River swing bridge on a desolate New Jersey meadowland. After sideswiping an oncoming passenger train, six cars of the mail train plunged down a 30-foot embankment. No one was killed, but Amtrak said 32 people were injured and dozens of passengers were shaken and terrified. 1 TOURISTS FLOOD HARLEM CHURCHES A decade-long influx of foreign tourists visiting Harlem churches has swelled considerably over the last year, to the point where Harlem on a Sunday morning has been transformed into something of an ecclesiastical theme park. Charter buses roll in by the dozens. Tourists spill out by the thousands, pointing cameras at churchgoers like paparazzi swirling around celebrities at a movie premiere. 37 HIGH SCHOOLS FOUND TO GET LESS The superintendents who oversee New York City's elementary and middle schools have long complained that the city's high schools soaked up a disproportionate share of education dollars. So it came as a surprise when the most exhaustive accounting in the system's history concluded that the high schools actually get much less. 37
Date: 25 November 1996
International A3-9 CLINTON MEETS CHINESE LEADER President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin of China met and agreed to exchange state visits over the next two years, the first extended meetings since the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. A1 WEAKNESSES IN COMMON News analysis: The Chinese and American leaders have some things in common -- both have no mandate to chart a new course in foreign policy, and each has been criticized for responding to pressures rather than initiating policies. A6 A HIJACKING'S HORROR Passengers who survived the hijacking and crash of an Ethiopian Airline jet described lying on top of the pieces of the fuselage screaming for help as the plane rocked in a sea of dismembered bodies, wreckage, luggage and clothes. A1 REFERENDUM IN BELARUS Defying the West, East European nations and his own Parliament, President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus went ahead with a referendum on giving himself near-absolute power. A3 LEGEND OF GOLD-DIGGING 'ANTS' Solving a riddle as old as Herodotus, a team of explorers says it has pinpointed the land of legendary gold-digging ''ants'' in one of the most inaccessible regions of the Himalayas. A5 SERBIA ANNULS OPPOSITION GAINS President Slobodan Milosevic's governing Socialists annulled an opposition victory in elections in the capital after days of street protests warning against the move. A7 REFUGEES EMERGING FROM ZAIRE Ten days after the first Rwandan refugees returned from Zaire, others who have hid in remote wooded areas for nearly a month have begun to emerge, telling vivid tales of suffering. A8 Western nations agree to limit any mission for Africa to relief. A8 Jerusalem Journal: Christians without a country. A4 National A10-13, B6 NEW COST FOR POLLUTION The Environmental Protection Agency is recommending tighter air-pollution regulations to combat health problems, but the plan will cost business billions. A1 RETURN TO POPULISM Left-leaning citizens from 32 states gathered in Texas for what they called a convention of a 21st century populist alliance. A10 SCARCE EAGLE PARTS The National Eagle Repository, a government-run warehouse near Denver, distributes frozen eagles to Indians and educational institutions. A10 NEW TESTAMENT RE-EXAMINED The Jesus Seminar, a group of Biblical scholars meeting in New Orleans, will take up the question of whether the New Testament should be revised. A12 FIRST LADY PLANS FOR NEW TERM Hillary Rodham Clinton says she will focus on welfare issues in the President's second term, but both she and the White House have made it clear her role will be far less than on the health care plan. A12 GOING AFTER KEVORKIAN Raymond Voet, the prosecutor in Ionia, Mich., is going against the tide of local prosecutors, seeking charges against Dr. Jack Kevorkian. A12 UNCLEAR PATH AFTER AIR CRASH News analysis: Although investigators know what caused Valujet Flight 592 to burst into flames, they are unsure how to prevent the problems from recurring. B6 More bodies were found amid debris of a San Juan explosion. A10 Women with hysterectomies are said not to need pap smears. A12 Chances of finding survivors from a military crash dwindled. B6 Metro Report B1-4 SWEEPING CHANGES BY H.M.O.'S After signing up large numbers of doctors and establishing a seemingly unshakable position in the New York metropolitan region, health maintenance organizations are radically changing the way they pay physicians and have begun to reduce reimbursements. A1 CAUSE OF DERAILMENT FOUND Federal investigators said that an Amtrak train derailed on a swing bridge in New Jersey on Saturday because of a sequence of events that began with the breaking of a small steel plate holding two rails together, and ended with those rails piggybacked, one atop another, instead of end to end. A1 Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C11-16 MAJOR GIFTS TO 2 MUSEUMS Artworks valued at more than $150 million were bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art by Florene May Schoenborn. A1 Andre Malraux in the Pantheon. C11 Honoring a film maker with a strange life story. C11 Theater: ''Juan Darien.'' C11 Books: ''At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel.'' C16 Television: ''L.A. Champions.'' C14 ''Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice.'' C14 Sports C1-9 Basketball: Knicks lose to Sonics. C1 Columns: Rhoden on the Bills C1 Football: Giants shock Cowboys. C1 Bills pound Jets. C3 Tennis: Graf wins Chase Championships. C1 Sampras outlasts Becker. C7 Soccer: U.S. beats Trinidad and Tobago. C9 Obituaries B7 Editorials/Op-Ed A14-15 Editorials American drug aid goes south. McDonnell Douglas's troubles. Bolstering New Yorkers' rights. Letters Anthony Lewis: No blind eye. Bob Herbert: A great injustice. William Safire: Lebedtime story. John Keegan: What the Allies knew. Chronicle B6 Bridge C14 Crossword C12
Date: 24 November 1996
By Barry Meier
Barry Meier
Federal officials and seven major American airlines, after years of prodding by families of crash victims, have taken first steps toward speeding up notification after an accident (S)
Date: 24 November 1996
FYI 2 MAKING IT WORK 3 Who's inside the walking sandwich? NEW YORKERS & CO. 4 The Amsterdam News's heir. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD 16 Indians-only harvest festival; return of a Bronx native; model trains, writ large. SHOPPING AROUND 16 The cost of cold remedies. ETIQUETTE, ETC. 16 Doctor-patient dialogue. GOOD EATING 17 Worldly in SoHo; Filipino flair at Cendrillon; the Tuscan charm of Savore. MOVIE CLOCK 18 What's showing at the local movie houses, today through Thursday. SOAPBOX 19 A Penn Station holiday. And letters.