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Date: 18 April 1999
By Frank Bruni
Frank Bruni
Analysis of war for public opinion in Kosovo, waged by Belgrade and by Washington through taut control over information and assiduously managed dissemination of it; absence of American troops in battle zone, and of American reporters with them, means there is little opportunity to sift through competing and often contradictory accounts (M)
Date: 18 April 1999
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Reporter's Notebook describes efforts of Western print and television journalists to cover conflict in Kosovo, from Belgrade and elsewhere in Serbia; photos (M)
Date: 19 April 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Finance Ministers of the European Union nations agreed Saturday to close European financial markets on Dec. 31 to prevent potential computer problems from disrupting trading during the changeover to the year 2000. The Finance Ministers decided that financial contracts in euros ''shall neither, as on a public holiday, become due nor enforceable'' on New Year's Eve.
Date: 19 April 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
California Federal Bank said today that it would appeal a judge's award in its lawsuit against the Federal Government for a broken promise of special regulatory treatment. Judge Robert H. Hodges of the United States Court of Claims ruled Friday that California Federal was entitled to $23.3 million from the Government. The bank had sought more than $1.5 billion.
Date: 18 April 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-14 NATO Presses Air Raids Against Serb Ground Force NATO's air war against Yugoslavia continued with attacks against tanks in Kosovo, but could not prevent Serbian forces there from continuing to drive tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians out of the Serbian province. 1 The United States and Britain, responding to complaints from the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, have pledged to provide more information to prosecutors that may enable them to indict the top Yugoslav civilian and military leadership. 14
Date: 19 April 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 U.S. Seeks Blockade Of Yugoslavs' Oil The United States wants NATO to plan ways of blocking deliveries of oil to Yugoslavia by sea, which have continued even as allied warplanes bomb refineries and oil storage installations on land, allied officials said. But the Kosovo campaign is a war fought by committee, the 19-nation alliance, and the American request ran up against objections. A1 In listing its bombing targets in Yugoslavia, NATO has generally described them as installations that feed the war machine of President Slobodan Milosevic. What the alliance does not usually say is that some of the refineries and factories have also been chosen as targets because they are run by close cronies of the Yugoslav President. A1
Date: 19 April 1999
A corporate reshuffling in the top ranks of Knight Ridder's news division is bringing an old Washington hand back to head the newspaper chain's Washington bureau, while the executive editor of The San Jose Mercury News in California is taking over as Knight Ridder's vice president for news. The newspaper chain's new Washington editor, Clark Hoyt, shared a Pulitzer Prize for articles disclosing that Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, the man George McGovern, the Democratic nominee for President in 1972, initially selected as his running mate, had received electric shock treatments for depression. The disclosure prompted Mr. Eagleton to withdraw from the race.
Date: 18 April 1999
5-year-old boy is struck and killed by van as he crosses street near his home in Brooklyn (S)
Date: 19 April 1999
A man who stopped to help a driver whose car had crashed on the Cross Bronx Expressway was critically injured yesterday morning when a tractor-trailer truck crashed into his car, the police said. The injured man, Alberto Velasquez, 29, of East 165th Street in the Bronx, had pulled over to help the driver of a car that hit a wall near the Zerega Avenue exit at 7 A.M., said Officer Theresa Farello, a police spokeswoman. As he was helping the driver, the truck hit Mr. Velasquez's car and pushed it into the other automobile, Officer Farello said.
Date: 19 April 1999
A group of black police officers said yesterday that they agreed with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's criticism of the ''hateful'' rhetoric employed at several recent demonstrations against police brutality, but added that they hoped the same standards would apply to the police union and the Police Commissioner. Mayor Giuliani has deplored the signs held aloft at recent demonstrations comparing him to Hitler and comparing the Police Department to the Ku Klux Klan. Lieut. Eric Adams, a founding member of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement, said yesterday that he agreed that those signs were inappropriate, and should not have been used.