Justices Question the Presence of News Crews at Police Searches and Arrests
Date: 25 March 1999
By Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court Justices across ideological spectrum voice sharp misgivings about police practice of allowing reporters and photographers to accompany officers as they search homes for evidence and suspects; question before court was whether media 'ride-alongs' violate constitutional rights of people whose encounters with law-enforcement authorities turn into unwelcomed photo opportunities; cases before court, involving defendants in Montana and Maryland, discussed (M)
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Loud Knocks In the Night, And Orders To Get Out
Date: 26 March 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
About 50 Western journalists flee after Serbian Government orders all members of news media from NATO countries to leave; some take refuge in Skopje, Macedonia; some journalists and crews are roughed up; while atmosphere in Pristina, capital of Kosovo province, is reportedly more tense than elsewhere in country, other journalists also face harassment; two American reporters are held in Belgrade police station for 11 hours (M)
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Serbs Hold Foreign Reporters
Date: 25 March 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Serbian military authorities begin to crack down on foreign journalists who are reporting news of NATO air strikes from Yugoslavia; briefly detain Washington Post correspondent Peter Finn, shut down all television transmission complexes and threaten CNN crew in Pristina (M)
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War Minus Pictures Puts Crimp In Reports
Date: 25 March 1999
By Caryn James
Caryn James
Caryn James article on television coverage of NATO bombing of Serbia; says after Yugoslav authorities shut down site that Western news organizations had used to transmit their stories, viewers were tossed back to pre-satellite era of television; says reporters in Belgrade and Pristina talked on phone while television screen showed still photograph of that correspondent alongside map marked with his or her location (M)
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Birthday in a Shelter, With 'Fireworks'
Date: 26 March 1999
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Serbian anger at West, especially United States, is both media-fed and genuine; some Serbs are stupefied that bombs are falling and outraged that world is treating them 'like savages'; interview with Serb family that spends night in basement, hiding from bombs; photo (M)
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I.B.M. AND TELEFONICA OF SPAIN FORM A PARTNERSHIP
Date: 26 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International Business Machines Corp and Telefonica SA, Spain's biggest phone copmpany, form multibillion-dollar partnership to sell more services to Spanish-speaking telecommunications customers (S)
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INTERIM SERVICES IN $438 MILLION DEAL FOR NORRELL
Date: 26 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Interim Services Inc to buy Norrell Corp for $438 million in stock and assumption of $115 million in debt (S)
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COMDISCO PLANS TO QUIT MAINFRAME COMPUTER BUSINESS
Date: 25 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Comdisco Inc to sell its mainframe computer leasing and vendor leasing businesses; buys Prism Communications Services Inc; will tax pretax revamping charge of $150 million in fiscal second quarter ending Mar 31 (S)
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NEW CENTURY AND NORTHERN STATES PLAN MERGER
Date: 26 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
New Century Energies Inc and Northern States Power Co agree to $4.9 billion merger, creating company that would sell electricity and natural gas to 4.5 million customers in 12 states; New Century shareholders will own 54 percent of company; merger is expected to save company $1.1 billion in first 10 years (S)
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WARBURG PINCUS LEADS A $424 MILLION OFFER FOR KNOLL
Date: 25 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Knoll Inc management and Warburg Pincus Ventures LP offer to acquire 40 percent of company Warburg does not already own for $25 a share; Knoll says it is unlikely to dismiss any workers (S)
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