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20th of December 1994 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 20 december 1994
BBC Planning to Start A News Channel in U.S.
Date: 21 December 1994
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
The British Broadcasting Corporation will start an all-news cable channel in the United States early next year, the BBC and its American partner announced yesterday. Though executives of the channel say it will not be a direct competitor to Cable News Network, the BBC effort will be the first new 24-hour news channel available to American cable systems since the demise of Satellite News Channel in 1983.
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Street News, Sold by Poor, Falls on Hard Times Itself
Date: 21 December 1994
By James Barron
James Barron
It put a new line in the newspaper vendor's larynx-straining lexicon and a new kind of vendor on street corners and in subways: "It only costs a dollar to help feed a homeless person" became its "Extra, extra, read all about it." But now Street News, the debt-plagued newspaper sold by homeless people, may be crying "Stop the presses," not because it has a scoop but because it says it lacks the money to continue publishing. Its editor and associate publisher, Janet Wickenhaver, said Street News will fold early next year unless advertisers or underwriters come to the rescue.
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CNN Is Sentenced for Tapes And Makes Public Apology
Date: 20 December 1994
A Federal judge gave the Cable News Network a choice today: pay a hefty fine for broadcasting jailhouse telephone conversations of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega or publicly apologize and be fined far less. The network began broadcasting its message of regret on its 6 o'clock news tonihgt. The text was shown on the screen as a news anchor read it off camera. After 22 hours, CNN will pay the Federal Government $85,000 to cover legal fees incurred as it was being convicted of criminal contempt of court for using the tape recordings in violation of a Federal judge's order.
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Journalists Covering Bosnia Win Access to U.N. Aircraft
Date: 20 December 1994
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
During the conflict in Croatia and Bosnia, at least 44 journalists have been killed and others beaten, robbed and harassed. Many of those incidents occurred, according to a committee of American journalists, as reporters traveled overland to get to besieged Sarajevo while United Nations aircraft flew overhead with many of their seats empty. Yesterday, Kofi A. Annan, the United Nations Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, said the United Nations has now changed its longstanding policy that barred reporters from those planes. Under the new policy, reporters will be permitted in United Nations Protection Force planes in Bosnia on a "space available" basis, making their passage into many war zones safer.
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Russians Watch First War on Uncensored TV, to Yeltsin's Alarm
Date: 20 December 1994
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Wounded soldiers being interviewed in field hospitals. Bloody corpses being pulled from a shot-down helicopter. Russian officers refusing to advance. Baby-faced boys digging trenches in the snow. Women begging Russian soldiers not to kill their children or cursing the Russian President for trying to stamp out their independence. This is Russia's first opportunity to watch a real war as it happens on officially uncensored Russian television. Those are the images the public is seeing of the Russian offensive against separatists in Chechnya, and they are not making the Russian Government very happy.
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AMOCO TO INCREASE CAPITAL SPENDING BY 27%
Date: 21 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Amoco Corporation said yesterday that it would increase 1995 capital spending by 27 percent to support its strategy of expanding overseas. The company said it planned to spend $4.2 billion next year, up from nearly $3.3 billion this year. More than half of the spending will go to so-called upstream projects intended to develop sources of crude oil and natural gas.
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MERGER PLANNED BY AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY SUPPLIERS
Date: 21 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mascotech Inc. agreed yesterday to merge its Mascotech Controls unit with Bitron Inc. and Saturn Electronics and Engineering Inc. Terms of the agreement among the automotive-industry suppliers were not disclosed. Mascotech, based in Taylor, Mich., said last month that it was considering a restructuring. Saturn Electronics and Engineering will retain a majority stake in the company, which will operate under the Saturn name and be based in Rochester Hills, Mich. Mascotech and Bitron, which is based in Rocky Mount, N.C., are to keep stakes in the company, Mascotech said. The company will have 800 employees and 8 factories. Mascotech said the merger would create one of the largest minority-owned auto industry suppliers in the United States.
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CHASE SAYS IT EXPECTS LOWER TRADING REVENUE
Date: 21 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Chase Manhattan Corporation said yesterday that it expected its fourth-quarter trading revenue to be lower than in the third quarter. Falling stock and bond prices could affect the profits of all big banks, which over the last decade built trading operations to supplement traditional businesses like lending. Bankers Trust also cited trading revenue in its projections of lower earnings. Diane B. Glossman, a banking analyst at Salomon Brothers, said trading revenue at Chase Manhattan in the fourth quarter would probably fall to $110 million from $188 million in the third quarter. Chase trading revenue declines will be "partially offset" by gains from other businesses, a spokesman, John Anderson, said. Shares of Chase were unchanged at $35.
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SCOTT TO BUY BACK SHARES AND TRIM DEBT
Date: 21 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Scott Paper Company said yesterday that it would use proceeds from the sale of nonstrategic assets to buy back $300 million of the company's shares and to reduce corporate debt $1.3 billion early next year. The company said it had completed the sale of its S. D. Warren coated-paper subsidiary to Sappi Ltd. of South Africa for $1.6 billion. Last week, Scott completed the sale of its energy complex in Mobile, Ala., for $350 million. The deals are part of a larger program to realize $3 billion in after-tax proceeds from the sale of nonstrategic assets, the company said.
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KALEIDA LABS SHIPS SCRIPTX MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMS
Date: 20 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kaleida Labs Inc., owned by Apple Computer Inc. and the International Business Machines Corporation, began shipping its long-delayed ScriptX computer programming language yesterday. ScriptX lets video and computer graphics professionals merge video, sound, music and computer-based special effects into "multimedia" software. ScriptX has been delayed because Kaleida was juggling several other projects along with ScriptX. In May, displaying impatience with the delays, I.B.M. and Apple told Kaleida to cut 20 percent of its staff of 126 and focus on ScriptX.
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