15 juni 1997 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♊. Het was de 165e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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Date: 16 June 1997
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
Cable News Network revamps way it reviews outside activities of news employees in response to appearance of correspondent Jonathan Karl in print advertisement for Visa USA; Visa, at Karl's request, agrees to discontinue ad as soon as possible; CNN chairman Tom Johnson holds Karl's manager erred in allowing ad (S)
Date: 16 June 1997
By Andrew Jacobs
Andrew Jacobs
Business is booming for voice consultants who work with novice television newscasters as veteran print reporters are increasingly being tapped to fill air time; table; photo (M)
Date: 15 June 1997
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Max Frankel article deplores local television news programs' disproportionate stress on violent crime; drawing (M)
Date: 15 June 1997
By Robert Stone
Robert Stone
Robert Stone reviews book News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, account of cocaine trafficking in Colombia and crimes committed by drug lord Pablo Escobar to avoid extradition to US (M)
Date: 15 June 1997
By Tad Friend
Tad Friend
Tad Friend article on pundits employed by MSNBC to discuss news events; many are young and come from variety of fields, without news backgrounds; their emerging political perspective is libertarian, not partisan, reflecting concerns of Americans born between 1961 and 1981; pundits, including Laura Ingraham, Eric Alterman, Omar Wasow and Farai Chideya comment; photos (L)
Date: 16 June 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Seagate Technology Inc to invest over 148 million Irish pounds ($223 million) to set up factory, Ringskiddy, Ireland, to make data storage magnetic disks (S)
Date: 16 June 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Airbus Industrie to build two larger versions of its biggest jet, A340; says A340-600 will carry 378 passengers in three seating classes; says A340-500 will be its longest-range plane, able to fly 8,300 nautical miles; Airbus managing director Jean Pierson charges Boeing Co's proposed purchase of McDonnell Douglas Corp is effort to force Airbus out of business, news conference (M)
Date: 15 June 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 European Currency Plan Approaches a Crisis Point Plans for a single European currency have advanced further than most people thought possible, but now the euro is beginning to pull Europe apart. Rivalries and political realities are already causing a near meltdown, and bigger problems are looming. Within a month, the Germans may need to delay the euro, probably killing it, or to soften the strict standards that were supposed to provide confidence in the currency. 1 Pol Pot Reported in Flight Cambodia's former dictator, responsible for more than a million deaths, was reported to be on the run in a remote jungle, pursued by guerrillas he once led. He took flight after ordering the killing of a top lieutenant. all part of an apparently fatal split of his movement, the Khmer Rouge. 1 Who Will Dance in Hong Kong? With Hong Kong's return to China fast approaching, Asian and Western democracies are divided over how much to take part in the ceremony. American and British officials plan to attend the formal turnover, but to boycott the swearing-in of Hong Kong's new government. But Australia, Japan and others will show up. Reporter's Notebook. 6 Ugandan as a Regional Leader President Yoweri Museveni has started a movement that is reshaping much of Africa. He has resurrected Uganda from decades of dictatorship and economic decay, and is considered the patron of rebels like those who took over Congo. 3 Immigrants Unsettle Ireland The ebb of emigration has turned in Ireland, with results that disturb its nearly all-white population. Many immigrants are from Africa. 12 NATIONAL 14-22 Clinton Urges Americans To End Racial Barriers In a speech to graduates at the University of California at San Diego, President Clinton blamed the dismantling of affirmative action programs for causing ''resegregation'' on college campuses and challenged Americans to push beyond the civil rights laws of the 1960's and examine their attitudes toward each other. 1 Questions Remain on Bombing Despite an unequivocal verdict and a decision to sentence Timothy J. McVeigh to death, many questions linger despite the mass of evidence and the overwhelming case assembled against him. Did anyone help him assemble the materials for the huge bomb that took 168 lives? If there was an even broader conspiracy, who was involved? 1 Study On Gulf Illness Faulted A report by the General Accounting Office, scheduled for release later this month, is highly critical of an investigation by the Department of Defense and a special White House panel into the cause of illnesses reported by veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf war and has found ''substantial evidence'' linking nerve gas and other chemical weapons to the veterans' health problems. 18 Making Disputes Into Lessons When students at Martin Luther King High School/Middle School in Cleveland have a dispute, they ususally wind up at the Center for Conflict Resolution talking to some of their classmates who have been trained as mediators. The center of one of the oldest programs in the nation -- now expanding throughout the Cleveland system -- to encourage students to resolve their conflicts peacefully. 14 NEW YORK/REGION 25-30 Waiting for a Rent Deal, But Bracing for War With the status of millions of apartment dwellers in doubt and still no deal on extending rent laws, politicians and tenant organizers were bracing for the possible end to rent regulations at midnight tonight. 1 Initiative Against Persecution The City Council Speaker, Peter F. Vallone, has introduced a measure that would bar the city from doing business with companies that operate in countries that he says persecute Christians.If passed, the bill would make more than one-third of the world's business population off-limits to the city. 25 OBITUARIES 31 Weddings 36-39 Television 30
Date: 16 June 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Israeli High Court Backs Premier in Influence Case The Israeli Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Attorney General not to prosecute Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his Justice Minister in an influence-peddling case, thus lifting one burden from the embattled Government. But the threat of a major confrontation with American Jews over rules for conversion to Judaism, the increasingly tense impasse in the Palestinian talks and a new rebellion within his coalition have compelled Mr. Netanyahu to cancel a planned trip to the United States. A3 Colombian Hostages Freed A clandestine rebel movement freed some 70 Colombian soldiers and marines, after the Government agreed to cede temporary control of a huge swath of territory to the insurgents. The historic agreement involves military evacuation of an area the size of Connecticut. It ends an ordeal that had gone on for nearly a year. The military's rout at Las Delicias last August, where 60 of the soldiers were taken prisoner and about 30 others died, had become a barometer the disarray in a country paralyzed by an apparent lack of presidential authority. A8
Date: 15 June 1997
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Comment on international view of Africa as one chaotic, violent mass, even though some countries are making economic and political progress; photo; notes that at core of recent disasters are tyranny and corruption of leaders who refuse to allow democratization and treat national wealth as their own private patrimony: most troubled countries are almost all fantastically rich in minerals (S)