NEW YORK BOOKSHELF/CRIME
Date: 17 June 2001
Excerpts from recent crime books set in New York City: Bad News by Donald E Westlake, Hollowpoint by Rob Reuland, Murder Me Now: An Olivia Brown Mystery by Annette Meyers and Corpse de Ballet: A Nine Muses Mystery: Terpsichore by Ellen Pall (M)
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Ideas & Trends: When Lies Kill; In China, the Right to Truth Meets Life and Death
Date: 17 June 2001
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
AIDS epidemic in China's Henan province, which local officials have tried to cover up and have done little to relieve, reveals how government controls on information and political choice jeopardize people's most basic welfare, to which Chinese leaders claim to give a priority; China's most widespread human rights violations afflict country's poor masses most of all, endangering their physical as well as political welfare, and official silence about such bitter truths undermines public faith in political system itself; photo (M)
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Europe Sees Bush's Trip Exceeding Expectations
Date: 18 June 2001
By Suzanne Daley
Suzanne Daley
Many experts and newspapers across Europe call Pres Bush's five-country excursion success, at least compared with what they had expected; his brand of good cheer, first names and small jokes charmed hosts; photo (M)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 17 June 2001
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 Putin Cautions Bush On Missile Defense Shield President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia cautioned President Bush about developing a missile defense shield without Moscow's consent, telling Mr. Bush that such an action could seriously strain relations between the two countries. 1 Exodus From Rural Mexico Swaths of central Mexico are gradually being abandoned as illegal crossings from Mexico to the United States become so difficult -- and even deadly, migration experts say -- that many migrants and their families choose to settle permanently in the United States. 1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 18 June 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Bush and Putin Now Seem To Have a Cordial Rivalry The rapport between President Bush and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, just one day after Mr. Bush said he wanted NATO to expand up to Russia's border, was a significant achievement for the Americans, a senior official who helped plan the Bush trip said. Critics on Capitol Hill said Mr. Bush was too willing to pronounce Mr. Putin trustworthy. A10 As the dust settled on President Bush's first official visit to Europe, many experts and newspapers on the Continent called his five-country excursion a success, at least compared to what they had expected. A10
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Bush and Putin Look Each Other in the Eye
Date: 17 June 2001
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
News analysis says that, whatever happens now, new era in America's relations has begun with George W Bush and Vladimir Putin looking each other in the eye; observes that seldom have two leaders so strikingly overcome limited expectations about their first meeting (M)
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Judith Moses, 61, Producer and an Advocate for Reporters' Rights
Date: 18 June 2001
By Susan Saulny
Susan Saulny
Judith Moses, television news producer and teacher, dies at age 61 (M)
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Discreet War Brews in Public Radio in Los Angeles
Date: 18 June 2001
By Neal Koch
Neal Koch
SANTA MONICA, June 17 — During the racial upheaval here in 1992, reporters rushing to file breaking news reports for National Public Radio had to wait in a corridor outside the bureau's lone recording studio for arts interviews to finish taping.
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Publisher Sues County Clerk Over Legal Ads
Date: 17 June 2001
By Elsa Brenner
Elsa Brenner
Yonkers (NY) newspaper publisher Ralph R Martinelli files suit against Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano for allegedly steering legal ads away from his newspapers after newspapers accused Spano of incompetence (M)
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Date: 17 June 2001
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