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Date: 19 June 1998
By Michael T. Kaufman
Michael Kaufman
Melvin L Barnet, who was among several editors and reporters questioned by Congressional committee investigating Communist affiliations in news business in 1950's and who was dismissed by New York Times after invoking Fifth Amendment, dies at age 83 (M)
Date: 19 June 1998
By Saul Hansell
Saul Hansell
Walt Disney Co announces complex deal valued at about $900 million in which it will buy 43 percent of Infoseek, a service that helps guide users on World Wide Web; Disney and other companies are following trail blazed by America Online and Yahoo, which are rushing to construct gateways to the Internet, known as 'portals,' that are starting points for most computer searches; these services are most attractive to on-line advertisers; Disney's intention is to create new Internet service that combines Infoseek with its existing offerings, which include Web sites for ABC television, ABC News, ESPN sports network, Disney's movies and site of original Disney entertainment for children; Disney will receive 43 percent of Infoseek in return for $70 million in cash and relinquishing ownership of Starwave, a company that creates elaborate Web sites; chart shows largest companies that have access to Internet (M)
Date: 20 June 1998
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
World Cup opens huge rift in Italian society, between Italian feminists and those who call themselves post-feminists, over how women should be portayed in news media; argument was triggered by series of three advertising spots for World Cup coverage showing mug shots of Italian women, in parody of 'wanted' poster, listing unflattering traits and warning men to 'avoid her'; photo (M)
Date: 19 June 1998
By Robin Pogrebin
Robin Pogrebin
Boston Globe announces that Pamela Smith, 42-year-old columnist at paper, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, fabricated people and quotations in four of her columns this year, and newspaper has asked for her resignation; in one case, she made up nearly an entire column about woman dying of cancer; photo (M)
Date: 20 June 1998
By Carey Goldberg
Carey Goldberg
Patricia Smith, called one of Boston's most intriguing women just six months ago, is in disgrace, her brilliant journalism career perhaps over, after being caught fabricating quotes and characters in her Boston Globe columns; she was only black female columnist at major Boston newspaper, and many readers valued her columns championing blacks, Hispanic residents, poor, women, gay men and lesbians, AIDS patients and others; friend of Smith's says her poetic habits of mind may have contributed to her willingness to blur lines of truth; meanwhile, Prof Alan Dershowitz is questioning why Mike Barnicle, another Globe columnist whose credibility has been questioned, is not coming under same scrutiny Smith did; suggests double standard at Globe based on race, gender and ethnicity; photo (M)
Date: 20 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Valhi Inc., a holding company with stakes in chemical, waste management and metal parts companies, said yesterday that it had bought 43.8 percent of the Tremont Corporation from the parent of both companies for about $165 million, raising its ownership in the fourth-largest maker of white pigments. Valhi paid $56 a share for 2.9 million Tremont shares from the closely held Contran Corporation, which owns 93 percent of the Dallas-based Valhi. The purchase increases Valhi's stake in NL Industries, the fourth-largest maker of titanium dioxide, from 57 percent to 75 percent because of the Denver-based Tremont's stake in NL. The Texas billionaire Harold C. Simmons owns controlling stakes in Contran, Valhi, NL Industries and Tremont.
Date: 20 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The stock of Midland Walwyn Inc. rose yesterday for a fourth day on renewed speculation that the concern, Canada's last major independent brokerage firm, is close to accepting a takeover offer. Midland's stock rose $1.25 (Canadian), to $27.25, in Toronto trading. The stock has risen 19 percent in the last four days, giving the company a market value of about $1 billion (Canadian). Analysts said Merrill Lynch was the most likely buyer for Midland, which has 170 branches and 1,800 employees.
Date: 19 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vencor Inc, second-largest nursing home operator in US, will cut as many as 1,100 jobs to save more than $100 million a year as it gets ready for change in Medicare payments (S)
Date: 19 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Crane Co to acquire Sequentia Inc for $125 million (S)
Date: 20 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pfizer Inc says its schizophrenia drug Zeldox has failed to get marketing approval from Food and Drug Administration (S)