12 november 2000 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♏. Het was de 316e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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Date: 13 November 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Bernard Shaw, anchorman for CNN since its beginnings in 1980, tearfully tells his audience that he will retire in late Feb; resignation comes as CNN prepares programming and stylistic improvements to boost declining market share; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2000
By B. Drummond Ayres Jr
Campaign of Vice Pres Al Gore consistently ran three months behind in billing news media for air and ground transportation, funneling bills through White House travel and press offices in standard procedure; Bush campaign, by contrast, billed daily by fax or debiting credit cards (S)
Date: 12 November 2000
By B. Drummond Ayres Jr
Repr Billy Tauzin, chairman of House Subcommittee on Telecommunications Trade and Consumer Protection, launches inquiry into flawed election night predictions by major networks, which he believes may have dampened turnout for Gov George W Bush (S)
Date: 13 November 2000
By Eric Lipton
Eric Lipton
Sen Charles E Schumer and House Democratic leader, Richard Gephardt, call for standardizing and modernizing nation's voting system; Schumer says he will introduce legislation to establish 'blueprint' for election procedures and help state and local governments pay for improvements to meet standards; Gephardt calls for closing polls nationwide at same time to avoid predictions by television networks as to which candidates are winning in some parts of country while people are still voting in others; suggests voting should be on Saturday and Sunday (M)
Date: 13 November 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Representatives of Gov George W Bush and Vice Pres Al Gore aggressively press cases on Sunday morning television talk shows over whether it is desirable to have hand recounts of disputed votes in four Florida counties in which Gore did well against Bush; photos (M)
Date: 13 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
IBM signs accord with NGK Spark Plug Co's NTK Technical Ceramics unit that together with IBM's own capacity additions will more than triple IBM's supply of ceramic substrate chip carriers by mid-2001; IBM's sales have been hurt by shortages of increasingly popular material used to package computer chips (M)
Date: 12 November 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-18 At Least 170 Skiers Die In Austria Tunnel Fire At least 170 people were killed above the Alpine village of Kaprun near Salzburg as the cable car they were taking to a glacier ski run stalled inside a mountain tunnel and burst into flames, the provincial governor said. Rescue workers said many bodies were so badly charred that it may take days to identify the victims. Six Americans, including a family of four with two children, were missing from a group of 23 skiers from an American military base in Germany, The Associated Press reported, but it was not clear whether they were among those who died. It was Austria's deadliest Alpine disaster. 1
Date: 13 November 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Another Difficult Week Looms for Weary Israelis When a hijacked Russian passenger plane landed in Israel, it heightened a prevalent feeling among Israelis that this tense period is bound to be defined by unpredictable and unsettling events. The incident temporarily diverted Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was en route to Washington for talks with President Clinton. Israel later learned that Yitzhak Rabin's widow, Leah Rabin, had died. A1
Date: 12 November 2000
Text by Joseph Keith Photographs By Eve Morgenstern
Text Keith
Photo essay of Benoit Barber Shop, just off Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue at Park Place, which has become informal social club for Haitian immigrant men (M)
Date: 13 November 2000
By Saul Hansell
Saul Hansell
Competitors say pending merger of America Online, which already dominates online access and advertising, with Time Warner will boost AOL's online audience only modestly; type of content Time Warner could place on AOL's Internet services does not seem to have much bearing on why users pick Internet service; people who read news and sports on broad-interest sites seem to prefer sites that offer multiple sources (M)