1991년 7월 25일 목요일 재생 중

CHRONICLE

Date: 25 July 1991

By Eric Pace

Eric Pace

The New York Post has hired WILLIAM NORWICH, a former society columnist for The Daily News, to succeed AILEEN MEHLE (SUZY, that is), as The Post's society columnist, PETER S. KALIKOW, the newspaper's publisher, said yesterday. Ms. Mehle, who is joining Fairchild Publications, publisher of Women's Wear Daily and W, will stop writing for The Post early in August. Mr. Norwich, 37 years old, said in a telephone interview yesterday that he is to begin with the Post on Sept. 4.

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Two Rape Cases: Justice on Trial; Punishing The Victim

Date: 26 July 1991

By Carolyn A. Butts

Carolyn Butts

Rape is the only crime where the victim stands accused. Defense lawyers make the most of this, and, unfortunately, television and many newspapers have become the courts' ally in trying the victim of sexual assault. "I'm not on trial," snapped the victim at the trial of three St. John's students, who were found not guilty this week. The defense lawyer had implied that because she knew one of the men, she consented to the gang-forced oral sex despite reports that she passed out several times and forgot her name. Witnesses said she appeared drunk or drugged.

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Essay; B.C.C.I.: Justice Delayed

Date: 25 July 1991

By William Safire

William Safire

The Underworld Bank scandal is oozing out all over. Conceived in Karachi, financed in Abu Dhabi, the conspiracy reached into the world's Western capitals and perhaps the U.N. under the protection of high-paid lobbyists and naive spooks. The B.C.C.I. scandal involves the laundering of drug money, the illicit financing of terrorism and of arms to Iraq, the easy purchase of respectability and the corruption of the world banking system.

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On Any Given Sunday, Possible Harassment

Date: 26 July 1991

By Robert Lipsyte

Robert Lipsyte

Tonight, with Zeke Mowatt on the Giants and Lisa Olson in Australia, the National Football League's exhibition (pun intended) season begins. Zeke and Lisa are both struggling for professional recognition and personal stability, but that's where the similarity ends. Don't forget that Zeke was the perpetrator and Lisa the victim of a disturbing incident that occurred 10 months ago in the New England Patriots' locker room, and is still widely discussed and largely unresolved. "We call it the Zeke Mowatt incident," said Michele Himmelberg, a founder and past president of the Association for Women in Sports Media (the acronym is pronounced "Awesome"), which discussed the issue at a convention this week in Newport Beach, Calif. "Somehow, it got turned into the Lisa Olson incident, as if she was the one who caused it."

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 26 July 1991

International A3-8 A new Communist Party charter that rejects some of the party's most hallowed principles, even the sanctity of Marxism-Leninism, was proposed by President Gorbachev, throwing his lot with reformers. Page A1

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 25 July 1991

International A3-17 The Soviet system of power sharing would be drastically decentralized under a treaty that President Gorbachev and the republics have agreed to in draft form. Page A1

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BRIEFS

Date: 26 July 1991

* L. M. Ericsson, Stockholm, a telecommunications company, said it had been awarded a significant share of British Telecommunications P.L.C.'s latest transmission equipment orders, with a potential value of up to $16.5 million. * Kobe Steel Ltd., a maker of aluminum products, and Aluminum Co. of America, Pittsburgh, said they would jointly try to market aluminum in Japan to the transportation industry. * McDonald & Co. Investments Inc., Cleveland, a holding company, and Gradison & Company Inc., Cincinnati, a securities company, will merge. * Morrison Knudsen Corporation, Boise, Idaho, was awarded a $90 million contract from BASF Group, Parsippany, N.J. * Raytheon Company, Lexington, Mass., an electronics company, won a $23.4 million contract to operate Pave Paws missile tracking radar sites at Cape Cod Air Force Station in Massachusetts and Beale Air Force Base in California. * U.S. Shoe Corp., Cincinnati, a shoe retailer, and Leslie Fay Companies, a clothing company, will end the licensing arrangement under which U.S. Shoe has produced and marketed Leslie Fay brand footwear since 1989.

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Northern Telecom

Date: 26 July 1991

Reuters

Northern Telecom Ltd. said it would supply $120 million Canadian ($104 million United States) worth of telephone equipment to Poland and plans to open a plant there by 1992. The Toronto-based telecommunications company also plans to set up a joint venture with a Polish company to manufacture, install and service equipment.

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General Dynamics

Date: 26 July 1991

Reuters

The General Dynamics Corporation. said it had leased a building in Falls Church, Va., about 10 miles west of Washington, as its new headquarters. The military supplier said it had signed a 10-year lease for about 87,000 square feet in the Fairview Park office development. It plans to complete its move from its suburban St. Louis headquarters, which it has occupied since 1971, in November.

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Tenneco Is Sued

Date: 25 July 1991

Tenneco Inc. said Abraham Kostick, who owns 100 Tenneco shares, filed a lawsuit against the company in Federal District Court in Houston, contending that Tenneco, based in Houston, gave misleading financial information. The suit accuses Tenneco's chairman, James L. Ketelsen, and other top executives of exaggerating revenues and inflating the company's stock price. Last week, another shareholeder filed a similar lawsuit.

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