A Mom-and-Pop Station's Big-City Aspiration; Upstate TV News Channel Is in Court for a Spot on New York Cable Lineup
Date: 26 April 1998
By Debra West
Debra West
Interview with Dick French Jr, owner of Regional News Network, 24-hour television news operation in Kingston, NY, who has sued to force Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems Corp to carry its signals from Hudson Valley region into 1.9 million homes in New York City and Long Island; network, which broadcast to 250,000 homes in upstate New York four years ago, has since expanded to reach 2.4 million households through cable systems in NJ, Fairfield County in Connecticut and Westchester and Rockland Counties in New York; photo (M)
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Tracking Whitewater Back to Arkansas
Date: 27 April 1998
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
Newscaster David Shuster has risen from Little Rock to national television covering Whitewater probe of Pres Clinton; continues to revel in details of story; Susan H McDougal, in Little Rock to testify before Whitewater grand jury, seems to personify sense of deja vu that increasingly haunts independent counsel Kenneth W Starr's probe; photo (M)
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Hedda Nussbaum Joins Newspaper in Harrison
Date: 26 April 1998
By Lynne Ames
Lynne Ames
Profile of Hedda Nussbaum, new editor in chief of Women's News, monthly newspaper based in Harrison, NY (M)
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Higher VW Bid for Rolls-Royce Is Seen
Date: 27 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
German newspapers report that Volkswagen AG will raise its bid for Rolls-Royce to as much as 1.7 billion marks ($950 million) now that BMW has surpassed its first offer; battle for Rolls-Royce reflects larger fight in German car industry, where BMW, VW and Daimler-Benz are all trying to expand to cover whole range of vehicles from low-priced city cars to top-luxury segment (M)
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Corrections
Date: 27 April 1998
Correction of Apr 26 article on Kingston, NY, television station that has become 24-hour regional news operation
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Bosnia Press Control
Date: 27 April 1998
Leonard R Sussman letter holds press-control agency created in Bosnia by United States and its allies is needed to end drive by local media to continue genocide and end fragile peace (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 26 April 1998
INTERNATIONAL 3-17 E Pluribus Euro: The Next Big Step Germany, France and nine other European countries are soon to surrender a central pillar of national sovereignty: control over their currencies. The first big step comes this week, when European leaders are to set the exchange rates at which currencies will be locked together. 1 Threat of Germ Weapons The Federal Government is taking a new look at the terrorist threat of germ weapons. And officials are disturbed to find that the United States is not prepared for a devastating new type of biological terror. 1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 April 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Russia Reportedly Offers India Help on Missiles Russian scientists have been helping India for the past three years to build a sea-launched ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, Clinton Administration officials say. The work seems to violate Russia's 1993 agreement with the United States to stop helping any country develop missile technology, and demonstrates Russia's inability to control exports of missile technology, suggesting a wider pattern of proliferation, officials say. A1
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College Party Weekend Culminates in Violence
Date: 27 April 1998
Annual party weekend at University of Connecticut culminates in violence in Storrs as students pelt police officers with rocks and beer bottles and set car on fire; police arrest 58 people over three nights (S)
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Jewish Historical Society Honors Beverly Sills
Date: 27 April 1998
American Jewish Historical Society presents its Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award to Beverly Sills for lifetime of achievement in arts and humanitarian causes (S)
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