Live, in Belgrade, the Milosevic News
Date: 27 June 1999
By Blaine Harden
Blaine Harden
State-controlled television that Slobodan Milosevic has used so masterfullly for last decade is now portraying a tranquil Kosovo, promoting Serbian defeat as victory and focusing on reconstruction, leaving millions of Serbs in ignorance or confused denial; but as pace of misleading information accelerates, there are indications that credibility of Milosevic's programming is beginning to slide, particularly as it becomes more difficult for government to hide both its lack of money and the flood of refugees who have fled north from Kosovo; photo (Belgrade Journal) (M)
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ABC's Use of Hidden Cameras Is Ruled Invasion of Privacy
Date: 26 June 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
California Supreme Court rules that journalists' use of hidden cameras in workplace can be invasion of privacy, upholding verdict against ABC News over story about telephone psychics; opinion reverses 1997 appeals court ruling that had overturned $1.2 million jury verdict awarded to Mark Sanders, employee of company that sold telephone psychic readings; Sanders's conversations with ABC employee posing as co-worker were videotaped and broadcast in 1993 Prime Time Live report, purporting to show that psychics did not take their jobs seriously and were cheating gullible callers paying $3.95 a minute to get advice (S)
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U.S. Tries to Punish Aide Over U.N. Leaks
Date: 27 June 1999
By Philip Shenon
Philip Shenon
Linda S Shenwick, administrative and budget officer at United States Mission to United Nations, is accused of 'insubordination' and threatened with immediate transfer; State Department officials say Shenwick funneled damaging information to Congressional Republicans and reporters in effort to sabotage Clinton Administration effort to pay $1 billion in back dues to UN; her lawyer, Victoria Toensing, says Shenwick is classic whistle-blower who is being punished for exposing waste and fraud (M)
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From Years In Shadows To Spotlight Of the Media
Date: 27 June 1999
By Jere Longman
Jere Longman
Women's World Cup soccer tournament draws unprecedented media attention; television ratings have been unexceptional, but organizers expected them to grow as tournament builds; photo (M)
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Copper Hits a One-Month High On News of U.S. Mine Closings
Date: 26 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Copper for July delivery settles up 2.65 cents, to 69.00 cents a pound on the Comex unit of New York Stock Exchange on news that Broken Hill Proprietary, world's second-biggest producer, will close unprofitable United States mine in move aimed at shrinking global surplus; graph on copper prices (M)
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HUNTER DOUGLAS TO PURCHASE COMFORTEX
Date: 26 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hunter Douglas NV, Amsterdam, to buy Comfortex and make it separate unit of its North American division (S)
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GEORGIA-PACIFIC AND CHESAPEAKE TO COMBINE TISSUE UNITS
Date: 26 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Georgia-Pacific Group to combine its commercial-tissue business with Chesapeake Corp's Wisconsin Tissue and pay Chespeake $730 million for 90 percent stake in the partnership (S)
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ANSWERTHINK CONSULTING AGREES TO BUY THINK NEW IDEAS
Date: 26 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Answerthink Consulting Group decline 14 percent after company says it will buy Internet marketer Think New ideas Inc for $231.2 million in stock (S)
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IBP TO BUY THORN APPLE VALLEY FOR $112 MILLION
Date: 26 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thorn Apple Valley Inc, meatpacking firm that was forced to seek bankruptcy protection after recalling about 30 million pounds of possibly tainted meat, says IBP Inc has agreed to buy its slaughter-houses and other assets for $112 million (S)
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WHITEHALL TO BUY REAL ESTATE PARTERSHIPS FROM MCNEIL
Date: 26 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Whitehall Street Real Estate LP to buy 19 real estate partnerships from McNeil Real Estate Management Inc for $644 million in cash and assumption of mortgage debt; Whitehall is $2.3 billion fund managed by Goldman Sachs & Co (S)
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