The Executive Computer
Date: 08 May 1995
By Laurie Flynn
Laurie Flynn
FOR the last few years, one of the most eagerly awaited technologies has been the "intelligent agent" -- a software servant that would scurry through cyberspace on your behalf, answering E-mail, ordering groceries, scanning news services and collecting choice morsels of information for consumption at your leisure. Unfortunately, the full-service intelligent agent is still on the horizon, while the growth of electronic information is already exceeding anyone's ability to keep up with it.
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The Times Is Joining New On-Line Service
Date: 08 May 1995
The New York Times Company said yesterday that it was joining with eight other large newspaper companies to create a national on-line information service on the Internet's World Wide Web. The service, called New Century Network, will enable personal computer users to call up news articles and other information, including job advertisements, from participating newspapers. It is expected to be in operation later this year.
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Leslie Fay to Close Its Last U.S. Factory
Date: 08 May 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Leslie Fay Companies said last week that it would close its last United States factory, eliminating 600 jobs at a Wilkes-Barre, Pa., plant. The decision follows a mediator's ruling that the New York-based apparel company be relieved of an obligation in a labor contract to guarantee the jobs at the plant.
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Court Backs Settling Texas Banking Suit
Date: 08 May 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
First City Bancorp of Texas has crossed the last major hurdle to its reorganization following a court approval of a $330 million settlement of litigation with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The settlement, which creditors approved last month, is the cornerstone of First City's plan to emerge from Chapter 11 proceedings in bankruptcy court. United States Bankruptcy Judge Harold Abramson in Dallas approved the agreement late on Thursday.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 08 May 1995
International A3-10 CHIRAC WINS FRENCH PRESIDENCY Jacques Chirac, the 62-year-old conservative Mayor of Paris, was elected President of France on his third try with 52 percent of the vote. A1 Man in the News: Jacques Chirac, the comeback politician. A8 BRUTALITY IN CHECHNYA There is no longer much doubt about what happened in Samashki last month. More than 3,000 Russian soldiers set its houses aflame and opened fire on unarmed women, children and elderly people. A1 DISARRAY IN MOSCOW Much of the difficulty in resolving differences between Russia and the United States stems from the disorganization and confusion of a still-young Russian Government. A6 G.O.P. leaders warned Russia not to sell nuclear technology to Iran. A7 IN RECONQUERED CROATIA In one western Slavonia village seized last week by Croatian forces, there are signs of panicked flight and scores dead, but little evidence civilians were targeted. A3 At least eight died when Serbs shelled a Sarajevo suburb. A3 V-E DAY COMMEMORATED IN LONDON Leaders of 54 nations signed olive leaves in a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. A5 JERUSALEM COMPLICATIONS Israeli Government leaders responded coolly to new attempts in the United States Congress to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A9 CHECKMATE IN BEIJING Facing the most significant political crisis of his tenure, President Jiang Zemin appears to have curbed the powerful party organization that ran Beijing for seven years.A10 Name recognition is all in the Philippine election on Monday. A10 Berlin Journal: Synagogue's rededication was marred by arson. A4 National A11-17 MORE BUDGET PROMISES Speaker Newt Gingrich says future Medicare spending could be cut by one-seventh, over seven years, without significantly affecting anyone now enrolled. A1 A REPUBLICAN RETURNS HOME Jorge Mas Canosa, considered by many the most influential Cuban-American, was growing close to the Clinton Adminitration, but now with the shift in policy, he has realigned himself with the G.O.P. A1 A HARD LINE SOFTENS The vociferous opposition to the policy shift that will send Cuban refugees back to Cuba was expected, but there is an undercurrent of acceptance from those who feel the hard line has failed. A13 CRIES THAT WON'T STOP A rescue worker who spent days digging through the rubble of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City went home to Sacramento, Calif., but he carried with him recurrent nightmares of children crying. A16 A TOWN IS EMBARRASSED The upstate New York town of Pendleton was embarrassed by its former resident Timothy J. McVeigh, accused in the Oklahoma City bombing, but wants to show the world it isn't a place "where only villains live." A16 Gingrich threatens to oppose the bill to combat terrorism. A16 ORANGE COUNTY REBELLION As Orange County, in Southern California, tries to dig its way out of bankruptcy, many people in the affluent, conservative area have joined a rebellion they compare to the American Revolution. A14 AN OLD, EXTREMIST MESSAGE Long before the Oklahoma City bombing made the high-pitched rhetoric of paramilitary group familiar, the National Rifle Association has been using similar themes to oppose gun control. A17 DOLE SOUNDS CONCILIATORY Senator Bob Dole says he will meet with the Surgeon General nominee before fulfilling his threat to block a confirmation vote. A15 A CLOSE-UP LOOK AT POVERTY Madison, Wis., white, highly educated and relatively affluent, had championed the downtrodden. But after a recent influx of poor people from Chicago, officials are now talking about limits. A11 A TENSE WAIT FOR TUITION AID Throughout the country, lower- and middle-class parents are waiting for word about financial aid for their college-age children in a time of cutbacks and budget reductions. A15 Storms left 21 dead in Texas and Oklahoma. A11 Ron Kirk became the first black mayor of a big city in Texas. A11 Metro Digest B1 RETHINKING WELFARE IN NEW YORK For more than half a century, governors and mayors, Republicans and Democrats alike, built New York City's government into the nation's most expansive, sheltering municipality. But a growing chorus of experts have warned that New York might not be able to afford the government it had built. A1 Sports C1-10 THE THRILL OF RUGBY College women are discovering a sport formerly considered a male domain: rugby. Yesterday, in the national collegiate championship game, the Princeton women's team defeated Penn State. A1 Baseball: Hitchcock falters. C9 Mets' Jacome on the ropes. C9 Basketball: Knicks' improbable loss. C1 Even Pacers surprised.C7 Rockets oust Jazz. C7 Jordan errs, Bulls lose. C7 Boxing: De La Hoya's world. C5 Columns: On Pro Basketball. C1 Anderson on Devils.C2 Berkow on Reggie Miller. C6 On Baseball. C9 Hockey: Devils win shutout. C2 Rangers turn to Kovalev and Matteau. C3 Racing: The changing cast. C5 Cat's Cradle wins Acorn. C5 Yacht Racing: U.S. problems?C4 Obituaries B9 Hugh Ferguson McKean, artist and museum director. Dr. Dorothy V. Whipple, advocate of women in the medical profession. Business Digest D1 Arts/Entertainment C11-18 Robert Hass is named poet laureate. C11 Vladimir Malakhov of Ballet Theater. C11 Shirley MacLaine looks back. C11 Theater: A new "Phaedra." C13 Music: A Mahler festival.C11 Tish Hinojosa. C12 Haran on Lorenz Hart. C12 Dance: Three casts in Ballet Theater's "Bayadere." C14 Books: "Silicon Snake Oil." C15 Television: "Robin Cook's 'Virus.' " C16 "The Way West." C18 Editorials/Op-Ed A18-19 Editorials Victory remembered. An unwinnable welfare race. Affirming voting rights. Letters William Safire: Beware of "proactive." Anthony Lewis: Is there a backbone? Clive Menell: How Mandela wooed businessmen. Bridge C16 Chronicle B8 Crossword C15
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 07 May 1995
International 3-21 SANCTIONS URGED ON JAPAN President Clinton's advisers recommended that he impose sanctions against Japanese imports in retaliation for Tokyo's refusal to open the Japanese automotive market. 1 CLOSING THE BOOK ON WORLD WAR II The 50th anniversary of V-E Day this week is, by unspoken consensus, seen as the time for Europe to bury World War II; a psychiatrist might call it closure. 1
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Families Await News on Cuts in Education Aid
Date: 08 May 1995
By Lynda Richardson
Lynda Richardson
These are uncertain times for the family of David and Maureen Grau of St. Paul, Minn. As they await final word on financial aid for the colleges that three of their eight children attend, they worry what sacrifices will need to be made, and even which child might not go. The Graus know that some cuts in Government aid are likely. In the next several weeks, Congress will begin considering the strongest assault in recent years on the array of college loans, grants and work-study programs that many lower- and middle-class families have relied on since passage of the nation's first major Federal student aid program, the Higher Education Act of 1965.
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Man in the News; The Conservative 'Bulldozer': Jacques Rene Chirac
Date: 08 May 1995
By Craig R. Whitney
Craig Whitney
"The only battles lost in advance are battles not joined," Jacques Chirac often reminded friends during the roller-coaster campaign that won him the French Presidency today. Only five months ago, public opinion polls were saying that Mr. Chirac did not have a chance of winning on this, his third attempt. After the second try ended in failure seven years ago, his wife, Bernadette, despaired. "Maybe the problem is that the French just don't like my husband," she said.
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Sheila P. Mullan, Kenneth D. Barry
Date: 07 May 1995
Sheila Patricia Mullan, a reporter for the Market News Service, was married yesterday to Kenneth David Barry, a copy editor at Reuters, the news service. Both work in New York. The Rev. Jack Collins performed the Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York. The bride graduated from the University of Colorado. She is a daughter of Noel and May Mullan of Denver. The bride's father is an electrical engineer at the National Park Service in Lakewood, Colo.
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Saab Says Flaws Have Been Fixed
Date: 07 May 1995
ALTHOUGH owners and prospective purchasers of Saab 900 cars got a scare recently from news reports of quality problems, the company and auto reviewers say the troubles mostly involved early 1994 models and have been corrected. Saab executives acknowledge that some 900 models suffered from brake and heating system problems. In fact, Saab issued four recall notices in the last year, including two related to the seats and one for the brake shields on '94 models and another on a door bracket in late '94 and early '95 cars. Saab also issued a service bulletin to dealers about a heater problem with '94 models.
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